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Oral Roberts Barred Fired Coach From Recruiting Players With Tattoos, Subjected Recruits To "Faith Exam"<em></em><em></em>When Oral Roberts University hired Scott Sutton in 1999, he was just 28 years old, the youngest D1 head basketball coach in the country. He inherited a team that had achieved moderate success in the past (once making an Elite Eight) and steadily molded them into a perennial Summit League favorite, ...

Oral Roberts Builds School Spirit With Bald Eagle Flying Into WindowAt some sort of welcome-back-to-campus event yesterday, Oral Roberts University paid tribute to its mascot by bringing in a real, live Bald Eagle. The eagle got a little disoriented. Did we mention the chapel has enormous glass walls?...

Oral Roberts Wins Game On Ridiculous Banked-In Heave At The Buzzer There was a great finish—and just about as good of a call to go along with it—in the Oral Roberts-Arkansas Little Rock game last night. Damen Bell-Hunter, the big man for Oral Roberts, intercepted Little Rock's last-second Laettner lob attempt and banked in a half-court shot at the buzzer to win, ...

NCAA Pants Party: Pittsburgh Vs. Oral Roberts

Pittsburgh Panthers (26-9) vs. Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (24-8) When: Thursday, 2:30 p.m. Where: Denver...

Oral Roberts Golden Eagles

1. Three In A Row. It's the third consecutive tournament appearance for the Golden Eagles, and their seed seems to grow each year. Two years ago, they were a No. 16 seed, and one major national basketball analyst predicted them to beat No. 1 seed Memphis. (Didn't happen.) In 1973, the team reached t...

Jawz The Jaguar Vs. Eli The Eagle: This Isn't Over!

What started off as a friendly dance-off between a jaguar and an eagle — which you see so often in the wild — turned grim and frightening on Wednesday during a break in this Summit League Championship basketball game. IUPUI's mascot, Jawz the Jaguar, grapples with Oral Roberts' Eli the Eagle, and i...

NCAA Pants Party: Washington State Vs. Oral Roberts

Washington State Cougars (25-7) vs. Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (23-10) When: Thursday, 2:40 p.m. Where: Sacramento...

Oral Roberts Golden Eagles

1. So, Then, Why The Hell Are You At Oral Roberts? The Golden Eagles, in the tournament for the second year in a row, are defined by their star player, Caleb Green. He's a 6-8 forward who has won the Mid-Continent player of the year award three years in a row, which I guarantee will never happen aga...