when they're adults. so start talking before they start drinking. tonight the big 12 pac-10 hapac-10 hardwood series heats up. oklahoma state junior james anderson is the big 12's leading scorer, and second year coach travis ford is the first to aknowledge as anderson goes so goes oklahoma stay. >> this is a team. no question he's the guy we're going to rely on a lot to score points and be the leader on and off the court and teach these younger players. there's no better example i want more than james. >> stanford will address the young team and their chances of victory ride on the shoulders on the 6'7" senior landry fields. offense aside, defense is the key to the coach. >> guys have a chance now to grow and understand what we want from them, so i expect to see us make a jump defensively he. >> the big 12's oklahoma state cowboys battle the pac-10 stanford cardinal. college basketball action is now. welcome to the san francisco bay area on a cool, crisp night for at continuation of the hardwood series presented by toro tires. tonight the oklahoma state cowboys make a house call on the hometown stanford cardinal. and hello again, i'm barry tom kins. a pleasure to hook with marcus johnson. stanford looking for a little respect. >> they've had ownership papers on the pac-10, but stanford is playing against a good, quality basketball team. stanford is picked to finish 10th in the conference. they play well. >> no question about it. it seems like four years ago we saw this big, tall, 6'5" gawky and skrawnk yid, landry. >> i think barry he's one of the top five point forwards in the entire country because he can step out and knock down a jump with range. he does a great job pushing it up the floor. he's a stat stealer, rebounds, steals, blocks. had a great game against kentucky. he makes things happen, landry fields. >> a complete player, and when you talk about a complete player, that was exactly the way oklahoma state coach talked about james anderson. >> he's a tremendously gifted player, great athleticism. he can also step out and knock down a three-point shot with consistency. the thing i he like about him, when the opposition's best offensive player gets on a run, he says to the coach i want to guard him. he's said it several times during his career. it's a great two hich way match-up of two of the best ball forwards in the country, james anderson and landry fields. >> it will be a great basketball game tonight. we have two teams really looking to make a statement. oklahoma state 8-1, but that one loss come in the only road game. stanford played a tough game against kentucky and almost won it and lost in overtime and beat virginia. two teams on the rise looking to make a statement. ed big 12 pac-10 hardwood series is presented by -- and we welcome you back to the campus of stanford university in stanford, california. the big 12 pac-10 hardwood series continues. the oklahoma state cowboys and the hometown stanford cardinal. cowboys coming in here 8 up and 1 down. the one loss on a road game at tulsa. ray penn is a talented freshman at the point and james anderson about whom we spoke. travis ford, has mentor, rick at that tino has learned more from him than anybody else. brings a 31-13 record to oklahoma state. speaks for itself. >> barry: he can shoot the lights out when he was a player, and his team can also. stanford picked last in the pac-10 conference. andrew zimman is a transfer. and johnny is getting a boost out of this basketball team. >> marques: he's doing a terrific job for stanford last season, got up in the college basketball invitational semis. it's a process. dick davey to his right, so that's always night. always comforting. >> barry: a couple of guys with smiles on them. he's changed a lot as a coach and learned a lot in his first year. had an outstanding recruiting class coming in, and this team so far, as we said, overachieving. >> marques: he's a regional mvp back in '93 for kentucky. pretty good guards sitting on the sides for both teams. >> barry: we're going agt foul called on obi muonelo. >> marques: they'll be physical with fields. let's see how tough you are. >> barry: green with a good look, and he sticks it. >> marques: trevor green is from kentucky. that doesn't apply to me. i'm from texas. it's a tough match-up. >> barry: he managed to control it. marshall moses kind of a lemon in the last game. >> marques: the whole testing thing is interest. oklahoma state is going to test them with stanford. >> barry: anderson taking the basket and reach-in foul. >> marques: he gets into the body of landry fields. he's the top offensive player from each team going at it. that's just great man-to-man defense. oklahoma state, a lot of times teams back off on that denial about two or three seeds to protect against penetration. oklahoma state wants to make contact. full on contact with that offensive player at all times. >> i think it will be a great match-up to watch all night long, fields and anderson. i suspect they'll both get theirs. >> marques: you're right. it's going to be how else it steps up. they have to contribute offensively and keaton page, what kind of page does he have to keep the basketball. >> barry: pressure by the cowboys. mann will bring it across. >> marques: a loot of size for stanford in the backcourt. a little miscommunication. turnover to mann. >> barry: second turnover for the cardinal. >> marques: snapping about 11 turnovers a game. oklahoma state slightly more than 11. >> barry: here's anderson work on fields. second chance put up and misses by moses. and finally going to get a final on oklahoma state. >> marques: marshall moses is an undecided center at 6'6", but he's come on and had a terrific game in last time out. double-double for the big guy. but, you know, he's a guy that talked about last year coming in as a sophomore and how he was touted as immature and wasn't getting time he wanted and he had to talk with the coach to get pumped up. >> barry: long three, contested three, moses with a rebound. a quick outlet in front, and coming back with it is anderson. page misses a trade, and landry fields with a rebound. >> marques: he can go and get rebounds. got to love a small forward who is not afraid to get in 13 rebounds against kentucky, averaging 8 rebounds a game. you have 7-footers that don't get you that many rebounds. >> barry: here's anderson, one on three, and a kick off the pace. >> marques: risky to both teams right now. playing a little bit too fast, trying to do too much in the feeling out process in these early stages of this game. >> barry: here's fields. fields puts it on the floor and drives on moses, now a kick-out for green. 1 for 3 for green. >> marques: he gets the basketball out of his hands. he tries to become a ball handler facilitator in a role he's not accustomed to. >> barry: 0 for 5 in the field early on. >> marques: they're showing early on. about 46% for the season. >> barry: stanford playing a second game after a break from finals. go home and chase down that ball, try to drop it down, but it's knocked out of bounds for the cowboys. roger franklin coming into the line-up now. travis ford with the first substitution with the game. he's kind of energizer bunny. >> marques: i like him. i watched him yesterday. like tony allen without the offense of a tony allen. plays tough defense. >> barry: fields that time got moses in the air. it comes down. second. >> marques: landry fields is matched up against anderson staying out of foul trouble. he's averaging that against the first foul this season, just 14 minutes are left in the game. >> barry: one step too many. call for a foul. >> marques: nice job by fields. all of a sudden anderson has to check it out. he has to switch out on landry fields. he's not accustomed to playing that defense out on the perimeter. there we go again. two defenders running at the point guard for stanford, getting the ball out of his hands. >> barry: zimmermann, it was your conversation with him that made the difference. >> barry: he's from wisconsin. about 40 miles away from milwaukee. you would know that town. in the meantime at the other end, first bucket for the cowboys. moses for the second foul. he's out of the game now. >> marques: i talked about the big backcourt for stanford was green and mann. both guys are about 6'4", 6'5". conversely, he's about 5'9" but he's tough from houston, texas. he doesn't back down from anybody. a ve >> barry: fourth team foul for the cowboys. couldn't hang onto it. gulley to the basket. well-defended by green, got a hand on it, but count the basket coming back and won by matt pilgrim. >> marques: nice job running the floor by matt pilgrim, transfer by hampton university by way the kentucky. did a nice job running the floor. there are certain guys you play with when they're going through a speed for a lay-up, it's like an automatic two points if you run hard enough and play it off the backcourt. >> barry: pilgrim converts a three-point play, and cowboys take the lead. >> marques: great pressure in the backcourt. a lot of physicality of different names to that. there are two defenders to it. he's not allowing mann to catch the basketball. great defense for oklahoma state. >> barry: this man is posting up, and it's off the glass. rebound knocked out of bounds by the cowboys. stanford will maintain possession. oklahoma state on a 7-0 run. they lead it 9-6, 15:52 remaining to the plaid he in the first half. honey... the credit fairy... doesn't exist. what? it's make-believe. nobody left anything under your pillow. if there's no credit fairy then who will make our credit score go up? we will. by doing things like paying our bills on time. announcer: there's no magic to improving your credit. but there's help and it's free. go to creditfairy.org what? >> barry: oklahoma state on a 7-0 run. johnny, of course, playing at duke for coach k, and no question where his influences are. >> marques: very similar styles coaching the game, man-to-man pressure, not a lot of full court traffic but not a lot of traffic but wanting to read and react and play instinctive basketball. we see that with johnny dawkins. >> barry: you were talking about how much that pressure defensively oklahoma state is putting on is bothering stanford. mann has three turnovers in in game. >> marques: fred gulley, two little quick guards up in there. they're double-teaming in the backcourt. >> barry: landry fields following. tough shot knocks it down. >> marques: that's the grown man shot. you have a smaller defender like fred gulley defending gulley at 6' 6'2". that is a major mistake. you underestimated me, sir. drives on zimmermann off the window. >> marques: rebounding is a problem for stanford this year. they've been out-rebounded two or three rebounds a game. oklahoma state is crashing the boards with four rebounders. every shot at this. >> barry: green guarded by the smaller page. got a little too much of -- >> marques: that's how travis ford teaches his small guards to play defense when they're going against a 6'4" shooting guard like jeremy green. get up into his body and get into his body first playing physical and tough. he doesn't mind that foul. he's in the ear of the official hoping that the official will back off and let the team play. this is a familiar style of defense. >> barry: a traveling call against mann. sixth stanford turnover. very uncharacteristic. >> marques: he wasn't penciled in this year. they would cause some problems. the transfer comes in. the senior shooter extraordinare. he has to hold down the point guard shot and withstand the full court pressure that oklahoma state is throwing at them. >> barry: there's gulley bringing the ball across. driving on trotter. pilgrim had seven. >> marques: matt pilgrim started out and he had a look at kentucky. kentucky didn't play that on a transfer year, and that situation changed. he moved on to oklahoma state and petitioned it and got this year so he didn't have to sit out again. he's good. he's good. >> barry: got a man in the air and puts it on the floor with travis. >> marques: oklahoma state is causing major problem. that athleticism and quickness beating stanford to the shot. zimmermann is a catch-and-shoot guy. there's the catch and shoot, and there's the contest. he does something a little bit characteristic of him trying to go off the dribble. >> barry: cowboys with the ball on an 11-2 run and lead it by 5. drives on trotter. zimmermann stepping in taking the charge. >> marques: you have the new rule. you can't wear the rim as a halo. you have to be away from the rim, but the defenders for stanford did a nice job clearing himself from the rim, picking up the body and charge. >> barry: shiller worked on by page. >> marques: good defense for page. all up in his body. >> barry: a spin move on anderson. what a beauty. >> marques: that's what stanford needs to do offensively. it's obvious you're having hard time creating shots for oklahoma state. landry fields will do that. he has a great first step and he can create his own shot. >> barry: it won't go, loose ball on the rebound. gulley fights forward with trotter, and we're going to held ball in possession there for oklahoma state. >> marques: here's landry fields. nice job cutting him off by james anderson. when you have the skills to read and react as an offensively player, you don't mind being cut off because you have options. >> barry: the improvement in landry fields is really mind-boggling in the last year. >> marques: he talked about confidence. i thought he would have a breakout season last year. he got caught in the mission with the seniors, so he didn't get a lot of shots. averaged 13 a game. nice move. roger franklin, the freshman from duncanville, texas. there's that full court pressure. no you have to make a play. let's see what trotter has. to the basket and rejected by pilgrim. that's what you want. pilgrim is laying in the wings. >> barry: one on three, and a kickout for gulley. the three-point shot won't go. a push in the game. >> marques: you put guys in a position they're not accustomed to. that's not a bad decision by trotter, but you get the ball out of the ball handler's hands, and they have to make -- they have to bring landry fields more into the backcourt and allow him to be a guy to push it up the floor. it's a much surer offensesive option. the double-team can pass the basketball. >> barry: 17th foul on oklahoma state. that means stanford will be in a shooting situation for the remaining 15:11 for this half. >> marques: about 40 miles north of milwaukee. it's right on the lake. which lake is that? lake michigan. that big lake, that real big lake. there's a lot of lakes in michigan. i didn't know. he started out at santa clara and was recruited by dick davey. never played for dick davey, but was there. they had the coaching change. kerry took over. a bunch of guys transferred, and he was one of them. he felt a lot more comfortable around big davey. stanford losing zone. all right a 1-2-2 and landry fields at the point man because of his length. they kind of bother the passers out top on this zone. get a deflection that leads to a steal. >> barry: anderson steps up and knocks down a three. >> marques: he's concentrating on the defense and not forcing a lot of shots, kind of allowing the game to come to him. landry fields is the playmaker, the point forward on the floor, gets the ball out of shiller's hands. >> barry: landry is drawing a lot of attention and still knocking it out of the baseline. >> marques: he's knocking down shots and jumping over defenders. >> barry: he's 4 for 4 in the game. >> marques: green with a rebound. nice job. a little too aggressive, but green turned his head. he went in there and almost got the steal. there's anderson looking for the ball against the zone. he gets it to him. nice job of picking up shiller. and then at the other end this is like under extreme defensive duress. just two orange-shirted cow boyce in the area but doesn't bother landry fields with great elevation on the jump shot. >> barry: i don't think he's had a contested shot. >> marques: you almost feel better when you have a defender around you to contest the shot, because you elevate to jump out of the defensive bother. >> barry: stanford can go bigger here. they brill in elliott bullock at 6'11". zimmermann will sit. green and the rebound to anderson. >> marques: he's done a nice job this season of shuffling these guys here. they thought they were going to have josh owens. >> barry: anderson again. >> marques: because of health reasons, owens hasn't been able to contribute. stop-gap measures rotated nicely for them. >> barry: at 6'11" and he won't go. the rebound to pilgrim took out that pass. >> marques: they encourage them to shoot it. the defense is spread out. they're confident they can knock that shot down. the coach has given them the go ahead. >> barry: we get a foul called once again against the cowboys. we'll take a time-out, 18-13, oklahoma state. 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