OSU to hold Tribute to ‘The Ten’ at Texas game Tonight

Oklahoma State will honor the ten men lost ten years ago during a special halftime ceremony at tonight’s OSU vs. Texas game.

Thursday, May 26th 2011, 12:10 pm

By: News On 6

OSU to hold Tribute to ‘The Ten’ at Texas game Tonight

Originally Published: Jan 26, 2011 12:25 PM CDT

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Layna Dewell
Oklahoma Sports Staff Writer

STILLWATER, Oklahoma— Wednesday night Oklahoma State University will honor the ten men lost in a plane crash ten years ago during halftime of the OSU vs. Texas men’s basketball game.

Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the tragic plane crash that took the lives of ten members of the OSU basketball team and staff.

During halftime of tonight’s game, former head coach Eddie Sutton along with former players Andre Williams, Desmond Mason and Doug Gottlieb will be present to take part in special memorial ceremony to honor the lives of the ten men.

The OSU ticket office has announced special ticket prices for the remainder of the season including Wednesday’s game against Texas. General admission tickets start at $20 for the tonight’s game and more info about student and employee ticket prices can be found here.

Student-athletes, athletic staff, coaches and student workers who were part of the 2000-2001 team or whose years in Stillwater overlapped that team have been invited back for the memorial ceremony.

Fans in attendance of the game will receive a unique commemorative T-shirt honoring those lost that will only be available at the game. During the game, proceeds from the annual “Remember The 10” run will be donated to OSU Counseling Services.

Tonight, the Cowboys look to extend their perfect 9-0 home game record so far this season. OSU has won 13 straight games inside Gallagher-Iba Arena and Oklahoma State enters tonight’s game at 14-5 overall and 2-3 in Big 12 play.

Meanwhile, Texas enters Wednesday’s matchup off of a big win Saturday over the Kansas Jayhawks 74-63. The Longhorns snapped Kansas’ 69 game home winning streak so much is at stake tonight for both teams. Texas is 16-3 overall this season, 4-0 in Big 12 play and ranked in the top-10 nationally.

On January 27, 2001 the OSU basketball team was returning from a game in Boulder Colorado when one plane crashed. The twin-engine Beech King Air 200 went down about 30 miles east of Denver during a light snow. It was one of three small aircraft carrying members of the Oklahoma State University basketball team and staff.

The men lost in the crash were Denver Mills, Nate Fleming, Dan Lawson, Jared Weiberg, Pat Noyes, Bill Teegins, Will Hancock, Brian Luinstra, Kendall Durfey and Bjorn Fahlstrom.

We will never forget the lives of those lost on that snowy night in Colorado.