It would be a just reward for a team that could have quit with an 0-8 Big 12 Conference record but did not. The Cowboys were a mess on the court at OU Feb. 1, the day they sank to 0-8, but they were engaged and spirited on the bench. Credit the players for that. Credit their coach.
Mike Boynton (pictured) has had a difficult year. After such a promising November and December, he struggled with both who and how to play as his team collapsed in January.
He stood his ground, though, and seems to have figured some things out. That’s a coach’s job, of course, as he would tell you himself. But it isn’t a given that it happens.
OSU making the NIT would be a sign that it happened.