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Blake Griffin: Leader of the Pack
Published: 1/30/2009 5:38 PM
Last Modified: 1/30/2009 5:38 PM

Blake Griffin outrebounded the Oklahoma State basketball team by himself.
If you are a Cowboy fan, you can take solace in this: At least it was college basketball's player of the year who accomplished the feat.
The season, of course, isn't over, but the race for player of the year is, barring an injury or the mother of all slumps.
The Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal Gazette is polling media folks around the country in regard to who might be the player of the year and Griffin is far and away the frontrunner.
Griffin was listed first on 39 of 50 ballots and no other player got more than six first-place votes.
Davidson's Stephen Curry is second, followed by Notre Dame's Luke Harangody, Wake Forest's Jeff Teague and North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough.
Griffin presented match-up problems for guard-heavy OSU. As Griffin goes about the business of wrapping up player of the year honors, the Cowboys will try to go about the business of saving their season when they play a Saturday game at Texas A&M.
Travis Ford said something interesting before leaving for College Station. He wonders if players hurt as bad as he does after a loss. And, if so, does losing eat at them so much that they decide to do something about it?
Stay tuned.





Reader Comments 3 Total
sportswriter (4 years ago)
Griffin could very well become the SECOND player from an Oklahoma university to be the FIRST overall player taken in the NBA draft. The FIRST, of course, was Charlie Paulk of Northeastern State in Tahlequah. In fact Charley was the Milwaukee Bucks' first pick as a new franchise in the NBA. Charlie then became a vicim of the Vietnam War; within weeks after being drafted by the Bucks, the Redmen center was drafted by Uncle Sam, who took priority over the Bucks......I remember it well, since I was covering the Redmen fulltime for the Tulsa World. By the way, Coach Jack Dobbins' Northeastern Redmen had a second player drafted that same year - forward Richard Dumas.
jimmie tramel (4 years ago)
hey sports writer. send me an e-mail at jimmie.tramel@tulsaworld.com. I want to know more about this.
Clausen2Tate (4 years ago)
Being a ND fan it would be nice to see my boy Harangody get it but Blake is just the real deal. I've watched a lot of OU games this year just to see him play and the kid doesn't dissapoint. great player.
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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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