La Salle’s second trip to Middle America in little more than a week resulted in Monday night’s 77-62 loss to Oklahoma State in Oklahoma City. But with the winter storm that hit the East Coast on Saturday, the Explorers had all kinds of problems getting out of Philly. From Tuesday’s Daily News:

They were scheduled to leave Philadelphia International Airport at 7:45 a.m. Sunday and arrive in Oklahoma City at 12:40 p.m. (Central). The original flight through Houston, with a connection on to Oklahoma City, was canceled while La Salle was playing Bucknell at Gola Arena on Saturday afternoon.

The team was then booked on a 6:10 p.m. flight Sunday to Dallas. Then, it was going to bus to Oklahoma City, a little more than 200 miles. The team boarded the flight around 7:45, cruised around jetways for an hour or so and took off at 9 p.m.

The plane arrived in Dallas at midnight Eastern, 11 p.m. Central. After getting its bags and boarding the bus, the team made the only rational food stop, Whataburger, a favorite of coach John Giannini when he was an assistant at North Texas while going for his master’s in physical education with a specialization in sports psychology.

The team arrived at its Oklahoma City hotel at 4:45 Eastern, approximately 16 hours before the tipoff of its game…

It didn’t get much better from there, as La Salle’s lack of a true point guard was again made glaringly obvious. But Kimmani Barrett scored his 1,000th point, and Rodney Green had four assists, which means he and Lionel Simmons are the only Explorers ever to have 1,500 points, 500 rebounds and 300 assists. So there’s that.

La Salle (7-4) hosts Cornell at the Gola on Tuesday.

Link: La Salle has tough trip, tough time against OSU [Daily News]