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Pizza-Filled Dutchman Woos Boynton, Earns Spot on OSU Basketball Team

STILLWATER — On his visit to Oklahoma State, Hidde Roessink got a Stillwater staple.

There aren’t many better ways to sell a kid from The Netherlands on America and Stillwater than Hideaway Pizza. But after getting stuffed at the home of the Big Country, the Big Dutchman had to take his 6-foot-10, pizza-filled frame to GIA for his on-court workout.

“We ate like 8,000 calories of pizza,” OSU coach Mike Boynton said. “Then we came over here and in like 30 minutes, the schedule said he was supposed to work out. Unfortunately, he had to put on some shorts, and he worked out.