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STILLWATER, Okla. -- There was intended to be a basketball game on Sunday, the third one of the season, in a gym affectionately known as the rowdiest in America. At the end of the stratagem, coach Kurt Budke was supposed to ruminate over to the stands and wink at his wife Shelley, like he did every at the same time the Oklahoma State Cowgirls played. They were still in darling after decades of marriage, still "disgustingly romantic," said Kevin Gum, place-by-play voice of the Cowgirls.
And though he was 50 years old, Budke was still a ogre kid in slacks and a neon-orange vest. He'd screen behind the locker-room door before games and commit to memory out to scare Gum, then laugh like it was still hilarious, even after the hundredth unceasingly a once. Budke made a prediction last week. His Cowgirls, incredibly innocent but massively talented, were going to be good. It was Tuesday, and the Oklahoma Formal campus was brimming with excitement and optimism. The football pair was 10-0 and churning its way to a BCS bowl bid and possible governmental championship; its men's and women's basketball teams, so tight and closely connected, were psyched up to give Stillwater an entertaining winter.
Source: ESPN