Ay-Ziggy-Zoomba.com

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/preview?gameId=274000042

Pretty good preview. I've read bits and pieces of it before, and I'm sure some of you have probably seen it by now.

Coach Kurt Budke pointed to the team's struggles in recent years as to why Oklahoma State had an easy non-conference schedule, facing seven teams that finished the season with losing records.

"We had to build some confidence in this program," he said. "It's been down for so long, we had to get our players believing and our fans believing that we could get this done."

I found that bit pretty interesting. I had read that their previous team hadn't won a single conference game, but this was the first I'd heard about an easy OOC schedule.

I was fairly impressed with their record, but having seen the 'benefits' of an easy OOC schedule go sour before, this makes me even more confident about this game.