STILLWATER — About six minutes into his postgame news conference Friday night, Mike Boynton showed reporters a piece of paper he had printed out.
Boynton’s Oklahoma State basketball team had just beaten Central Oklahoma 76-68 in exhibition play, but the bigger story of the night was the fallout following the NCAA’s decision to uphold the program’s postseason ban. The paper Boynton brought was an article from the Richmond Times-Dispatch about how James Madison University athletic teams would be ineligible to compete for Colonial Athletic Association championships if JMU accepted an invitation to another conference.