Oklahoma State Players and Coaches Could Try a New Sport on Trip to Spain

STILLWATER – This Saturday the Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team will leave bright and early for a n 11 day and 10 night trip to Spain where they will play three exhibition games with three professional teams from Sapin, a country where basketball is getting really good in a hurry. The games will be in Toledo, Valencia, and Barcelona. Head coach Mike Boynton told the media this week that the average age of the first team they play is 32-years-old. It will be good competition for an Oklahoma State team with nine new players, some key transfers like point guard Javon Small and shooter Jarius Hicklen, and freshmen like all around talent and top 100 recruit Eric Dailey Jr. and big man from Del City in McDonald’s All-American Brandon Garrison. 

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Trip logo for the Cowboys heading to Spain.

Now, the second day the Cowboys are in Spain they will be in Madrid, the first stop, and they will attend a bull ranch and skills demonstration; Gaucho barbeque. In past bowl games near the border I’ve known football teams to attend a similar event and they asked for volunteers. 

So, what do the Cowboys think?

“I’m not sure if I’m ready to get out with no bull yet,” veteran guard Bryce Thompson admitted, “I have to watch them do it a couple of times and then maybe one of them (teammates) could try it and I’ll watch them.”

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Bryce Thompson drives to the basket for a score off a feed from Javon Small as the Pokes practice for the Spain trip.

“I will definitely do it,” John-Michael Wright said boldly and emphatically. “I’m grabbing a red cape and I’m acting like I know what I’m doing like I’ve been training my whole life for this.”

“That bull would be for real,” Thompson said to Wright.

The biggest of the Cowboys in freshman seven-footer Brandon Garrison is now weighing 258-pounds. 

“I don’t think I can do that,” Garrison said. 

What about the coach, Mike Boynton seems to always live life at the full. Will he get a few lessons and go down and show his players just how brave and how much valor he has?

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Mike Boynton (orange shirt) watches practice.

“Would I,” Boynton repeated the question and then delivered the answer, “No, why would I do that? First of all, I’m old now and not all that fast and I would imagine that is pretty painful.”

If you get caught.

“if, how do you not get caught,” Boynton continued, “Who is faster than the bull. That is crazy.”

I mentioned they could put an untrained bull out there.

“We need the most trained bull ever,” Boynton added.

I think the head coach is going as a spectator only. Looks like John-Michaal Wright is the only potential volunteer.