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‘Bone on Bone’: Lutz Challenging Cowboys Through Tough Practices to Find Defensive Grit

STILLWATER — Before the season started, this Cowboy basketball roster filled with new players often talked about how intense a Steve Lutz practice is. Now imagine what one of those practices is like after a loss to your rival in which defense was the major issue.

Lutz said his Oklahoma State squad practiced twice Monday. He said the first one lasted about an hour and a half before they got back together for another hour. Then the Cowboys practiced for “a couple hours” Tuesday before a community service engagement.

“We’ve always spent a lot of time in the film, but this is now bone on bone, man on man, who’s gonna stop the other person?