Oral Roberts vs Shox -- Win One for the Gipper

[ShockBand]

Unless they absolutely need to play for place in their league standings, they could always "accidentally" turn the sprinklers on overnight and get a beautiful, sunny day "rainout" on the last day...

[WSUwatcher]

Rain

Or, ShockBand, maybe they'll just get lucky and finally get some timely rain. It rains more in Tulsa than it does here, and storms are not exactly unheard of in NE Oklahoma at this time of year.

So I'm with Marty: what are the odds that of 25 possible home games (21 so far, four this weekend) in Tulsa in the spring, none will be washed out? And even if those all survive, what about their 32 scheduled road games? If they've lost 23 games in total the last three years as their coach said, I don't blame them at all for overbooking. It's either that, or accept some games with Rogers State or other Oklahoma and Arkansas equivalents of Tabor -- not exactly ideal when you're already playing a Summit League schedule -- or hope that WSU happens to lose a game at the same time as they do, and that they and the Shocks have a mutually convenient open date available for makeup.

If we think WSU is disadvantaged by playing in the Valley, imagine what ORU fans must think about playing in the Summit. Talk about a bummer.

[Shocker85]

ORU deserves that 2 game penalty for overscheduling in the first place. They'll be incredibly lucky if one of their four games this weekend is rained out.

That's a crappy attitude. The ORU program showed some real class honoring their committment to play Tuesday's game, despite the probable penalty next year. Unfortunately for them, they are in a dog-fight in their league race and losing a game to weather could cost them.

--'85.