OSU Hoops: Road Wins Should Come

The Cowboys should eventually find traction on the road.

The Cowboys have lost three Big 12 games – three road games – and panic is starting to set in with some OSU fans.

Maybe a deep breath is in order.

Good teams rule their home floors in the Big 12.

That’s been true over time and it remains true now. Outside of Kansas, the league’s only elite program, Big 12 teams struggle to find quality road wins.

The league’s top six teams – KU, K-State, OU, Baylor, Iowa State and OSU – are 14-1 in conference games at home, with Kansas’ win at Kansas State Tuesday night the only breakthrough.

And that game is the only outlier among league road wins, with all the others coming at West Virginia, Texas Tech, TCU and Texas, a group that is 0-9 at home.

The Cowboys still have visits to all four of those forgiving locales.

If anything, OSU has simply found bad luck in its Big 12 scheduling, with trips to K-State, OU and Baylor up front. And Kansas is next.