The Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team represents Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition. (All women's teams at the school are known as Cowgirls.) 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.

Oklahoma State University (then Oklahoma A&M College) 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 (37-21 overall record), reaching the NCAA Final Four six times (1945, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1995, 2004) and the NCAA Regional Finals (Elite Eight) eleven times. Oklahoma State won the NCAA Championship in 1945 and 1946. The Cowboys rank ninth (tied with four other programs) in all-time Final Four appearances and seventh (tied with seven others) in total NCAA Championships.

Henry Iba came to Oklahoma A&M College in 1934 and remained for 36 years. He retired after the 1969-70 season. For most of his tenure at A&M/OSU, he doubled as athletic director.Iba's teams were methodical, ball-controlling units that featured weaving patterns and low scoring games. Iba's "swinging gate" defense (a man-to-man with team flow) was applauded by many, and is still effective in today's game. He was known as "the Iron Duke of Defense".

Iba's Aggies became the first to win consecutive NCAA titles (1945 and 1946). His 1945-46 NCAA champions were led by Bob Kurland, the game's first seven-foot player. They beat NYU in the 1945 finals and North Carolina in the 1946 finals. He was voted coach of the year in both seasons. His 1945 champions also defeated National Invitation Tournament champion, DePaul, and 6' 9" center George Mikan in a classic Red Cross Benefit game. Iba's 1949 and 1951 teams also reached the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament.Oklahoma State teams won 655 games, 14 Missouri Valley Championships, and one Big Eight Championship, in 36 seasons with Iba as head men's basketball coach.

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