Poll models: OSU's football team was predicted to finish poorly, Prom Dresses the Cowboys managed to reload rather than rebuild. OSU's hoops team is stuck with its lowest forecast (eighth) ever in a Big 12 preseason poll. Can the basketball team mimic the football squad and be better than outsiders expect? "I don't know," coach Travis Blue Elegant Halter Trumpet Evening Dress said. "We've got a very tough schedule early. We've got to go to Anaheim (for a nonconference tournament) and things like that. It's something I haven't put a lot of thought to.

Ford said he likes his team, but he knows why league coaches picked the Cowboys eighth. "I would probably put us there as well when you look at what we lost," he said. "I think we have Blue Floral One Shoulder Cocktail Dress ourselves in a lot of areas as well. But when you lose 36 or 37 points a game and two threeyear starters (James Anderson, Obi Muonelo) and things like that, I can understand that. It's our job to just try to get better every day.

Above the rim: The basketball team will be on public display for the first time at a 9 p.m. Friday Homecoming & Hoops intrasquad scrimmage at Gallagher-Iba Arena. Last season, Blue Halter Neck Cocktail Prom Dress launched Homecoming & Hoops by participating in a choreographed dance routine with the pom squad. Asked if anything out of the ordinary has been planned for this year's event, Ford said, "I'm sure they've got something up their sleeve. It's a fun night and we always want to keep it that way.