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Freshman Surge Coupled with Strong Recruiting Means Hoops Optimism in Stillwater

Can you feel it? That buzz tiptoeing around your brain isn’t Mike Gundy talking defensive end strategy at spring ball today. No, it’s Mike Boynton — miraculously? — nearly guiding a Big 12 basketball team to a conference win for every scholarship player he ended the season with. The Pokes finished 5-13 in the conference this year, but it was about the most optimistic way you could finish 5-13 in the Big 12.

Some caveats before we get to the good stuff:

• I know 5-13 is neither good nor acceptable.
• I know that part of the reason he had so few scholarship players is his own fault for recruiting or bringing in guys who couldn’t walk the straight and narrow.