The Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team represents Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition. The Cowboys currently compete in the Big 12 Conference. Since 1938, the team has played its home games in Gallagher-Iba Arena. On April 16, 2008, Travis Ford was hired as the men's basketball head coach at Oklahoma State, replacing the outgoing Sean Sutton.
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Oklahoma State University began varsity intercollegiate competition in men's basketball in 1908. The Cowboys rank 35th in total victories among all NCAA Division I college basketball programs, with an all-time win-loss record of 1452-1018 (.588). The Cowboys have made 22 total appearances in the NCAA Tournament with 37-21 overall record, reaching the NCAA Final Four six times in 1945, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1995 and 2004 and the NCAA Regional Finals (Elite Eight) eleven times. Oklahoma State won the NCAA Championship in 1945 and 1946. The Cowboys rank ninth in all-time Final Four appearances and seventh in total NCAA Championships. After being an assistant for the Cowboys in 1958-59, Eddie Sutton returned to Oklahoma State in 1990 to coach, and in the years leading up to his hiring, the team had only made postseason play three times since joining the Big Eight Conference in 1957.
On April 16, 2008, Travis Ford was hired as the eighteenth men's basketball head coach at Oklahoma State, and resigned from the same position with the UMass Minutemen to take the position. He has a Division One coaching record of 123–115. Ford has also coached at Eastern Kentucky and Campbellsville University. As a player, he was coached by Rick Pitino at the University of Kentucky.