
high-IQ walk-on guard who earned his keep the hard way
In the 2015-16 season, Ford Stuen was a senior guard at Oklahoma State who played sparingly but brought veteran polish, team-first reliability, and strong academics to the Cowboys. He appeared in four games, earned First-Team Academic All-Big 12 honors, and finished his OSU career with 27 appearances and a 46.2% field-goal mark. The bigger story: he was a coach’s nephew, a walk-on who stuck, and the kind of glue guy programs value for work ethic, maturity, and toughness more than box-score fireworks. If you need depth, culture, and zero-drama buy-in, he fits.