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Redhawks fall in Cameron Dollar's coaching debut
James Anderson scored 22 points and had 15 rebounds, and Marshall Moses added 17 points and 11 rebounds as Oklahoma State beat Seattle University 86-64 in a Las Vegas Invitational early-round game.
STILLWATER, Okla. — Travis Ford delivered his pregame speech, trying to fire up his Oklahoma State players for their season opener on Saturday. Then came the shocking news: The officials weren't at the arena.
"They're running out there and all of a sudden they run and tell us, 'We're an hour and a half to two hours from game time.' I'm like, 'We're ready to play right now. We're ready to roll,' " Ford said.
When the delay was over and the game started — 1 hour, 40 minutes late — the Cowboys proved it.
James Anderson scored 22 points and had 15 rebounds, and Marshall Moses added 17 points and 11 rebounds as Oklahoma State beat Seattle University 86-64 in a Las Vegas Invitational early-round game.
Oklahoma State blamed the mix-up on tournament organizers, claiming that officials were told the game's starting time was 7 p.m. CST. The tipoff was scheduled 5 ½ hours earlier.
Even after the officials arrived, the delays weren't finished. Cameron Dollar, the former Washington Huskies assistant making his head-coaching debut for Seattle U., took his team to a nearby Quizno's for a pregame sandwich run, and the Redhawks weren't at the arena when OSU went through its layup lines.
Dollar said he had been told the game would start at 1:30 p.m., then at 2. Finally, at 2:30, he decided to stop waiting.
"We told them to call us when the refs show up," Dollar said.
Oklahoma State (1-0) scored the game's first seven points, extended its lead with a 13-2 run midway through the first half and led by double digits the rest of the way.
Charles Garcia scored 18 and Aaron Broussard added 12 points as Seattle U. shot 31 percent.
"We would have been probably shellshocked regardless of whether it started on time or started 10 hours from now," Dollar said. "This is the first time being in this type of environment for pretty much all of my guys."
Seattle made a late 17-0 push to cut its deficit to 61-51, but that's as close as it got.
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