Two OSU men's basketball players, six staff members, a pilot and co-pilot died in a plane crash on Jan. 27, 2001. The plane was on its way home from a game against the University of Colorado when it went down in a snowstorm about 20 miles south of Denver. Cowboy basketball players Nate Fleming and Dan Lawson perished in the crash, along with sports information employee Will Hancock, director of basketball operations Pat Noyes, trainer Brian Luinstra, student manager Jared Weiberg, broadcast engineer Kendall Durfey, broadcaster Bill Teegins, pilot Denver Mills and co-pilot Bjorn Fahlstrom.
