OU basketball 'back to chasing' at No. 8 Iowa State
OU head coach Porter Moser has said it once and said it a thousand times. The key to anything in the Big 12 is to not get too high or too low. No matter what.
For the most part this season with OU, it’s been handling the lows. Don’t let the lows make you go from a two-game skid to like a four-game skid.
But there might not be a bigger high for OU in recent memory than last Saturday. You have to celebrate the win. You have to embrace being a part of Bedlam history. But somehow, you have to move on.
There are only so many times you can watch Javian McCollum hit a miraculous 3-pointer as time expired in overtime for the 84-82 win in Stillwater.
No. 8 Iowa State isn’t going to care. It’s back to work.
“The guys were pretty excited, but we had a day off, and we really talked about that yesterday, about putting the foot on the gas pedal and being hungrier and not letting complacency and satisfaction slip in,” said Moser when asked by SoonerScoop. “I thought we had a great practice yesterday, but we were intentional in talking about it.
“But man, it was a much-needed, great win in a great environment against a team that was playing really well, in a rivalry game. So, there were so many things that the guys were feeling great about, and they should. They should. I don’t ever want to take joy out of winning, but Sunday and then Monday—we took Sunday off, and Monday was back to chasing. We got to prepare for Iowa State.”
Moser’s court storming solution? Elimination
Moser has never been one to denounce the court storm. Heck, OU did one last season beating then-No. 2 Alabama.
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But it’s just not the same. After what has occurred with Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and now Duke’s Kyle Filipowski, it’s just different.
“It’s got to stop,” Moser said. “You just see some of the — you see the entitlement of what people that storm the court can do. Poking at them… It’s just, there’s no room for it. It’s a sport that part of what makes the sport great is that it’s right on top of you. But there’s got to be a boundary now. There’s got to be a boundary. And I think you’ll see steps being taken now.
“You’re seeing it with some of the things that are said to these athletes. You’re in such close proximity. We’ve talked about it as coaches that some of the things that are said are crossing the line as well. I think there’s an entitlement that, unfortunately, it has to stop. There are boundaries. A player cannot feel unsafe going back to the locker room after a game. He just can’t, cannot feel unsafe trying to get back to the locker room.”
Moser said earlier in the season, he thought there should be some sort of solution to keep the tradition going. But too many recent examples have him seeing it in a different light when asked by The Tulsa World on Tuesday.
“As you know, a couple of months ago, I was like, how can we make this work? I think I’ve changed my tune,” Moser said. “I think we’re just going to have to eliminate them.”
