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OSU winter media day notebook: Revamped Cowgirls need work

BY JOHN HELSLEY AND MATT PATTERSON, Staff Writers    Comments Comment on this article0
Published: November 3, 2009

The Oklahoma State women’s basketball team, featuring nine newcomers, gets its first real taste of competition Saturday with a scrimmage at TCU. After that, only a home exhibition with Washburn (Kan.) is left to prepare the Cowgirls for Arkansas-Little Rock in the Preseason WNIT.

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"I wish the rules allowed us to have about 10 exhibition games,” said Cowgirls coach Kurt Budke. "This team needs it right now.”

The scrimmage, according to NCAA rules, takes the place of an exhibition and must be played behind closed doors, with no fan or media access.

"TCU’s a veteran team,” Budke said, "an NCAA Tournament-level team. That will be good for this young team to experience.

"The exhibition game at home, in front of a crowd with the real lights on, they need that, too.”

NEW BLOOD
The new faces have created some liveliness in the Cowgirls’ basketball practices.

"From Day 1, the first day we lined up for sprints, the seniors were all jogging and they took off and beat us,” said Megan Byford, one of OSU’s four seniors.

Byford said she tried to warn the youngsters to pace themselves. But she appreciated the spark.

"They brought this whole other level,” Byford said. "They’ve pushed, and it’s been awesome.”

‘Z’ GETTING SOME BUZZ
There will be plenty of new faces on OSU’s wrestling roster this season, and one is Russian Alan Gelogaev otherwise known as "Z”. He trained under legendary Russian wrestler and coach Buvaisar Saitiev in Siberia for five years. But those credentials don’t mean he will automatically dominate. He’s still adjusting to collegiate wrestling.

"He grew up in an area of Russia that is the most dominant area in the world,” OSU coach John Smith said. "They’re tough people. Their experience is quite different from a 19-year-old American coming into school. He’s not a collegiate wrestler. He’s a freestyle wrestler. There will definitely be some time he’ll have to take and some hard experiences he’ll have to deal with.”

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