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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Texas Tech Raids OU Saturday at 3
January 18, 2008 | Men's Basketball
| OU (12-5, 0-2) vs. Texas Tech (10-6, 1-1) | |
| Date & Tip Time | Saturday, Jan. 19 at 3 p.m. CST |
| Location | Norman, Okla. | Lloyd Noble Center |
| Tickets | OU Athletics Ticket Office |
| TV | ESPN Plus (KOCB 34/Cox 11 in OKC; KJRH 2/Cox 9 in Tulsa); ESPN Full Court |
| Radio | Sooner Radio Network KOKC AM-1520 in Oklahoma City KTBZ AM-1430 in Tulsa Sirius 107 |
| Webcast | None |
| Live Stats | SoonerSports.com / GameTracker |
| Game Info | Gameday Central | Game Notes (PDF) |
GAME PREVIEW
Oklahoma (12-5, 0-2) looks to break a two-game losing skid when it plays host to Texas Tech (10-6, 1-1) on Saturday at 3 p.m. CST inside Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners, who are slotted No. 33 in this week's AP poll, have lost to Kansas State and No. 3 Kansas in their two Big 12 games. Texas Tech followed its league-opening loss at Oklahoma State with a 15-point home win over No. 10/9 Texas A&M on Wednesday. OU is 8-2 at home this year while the Red Raiders are 1-4 in road games.
Saturday's contest will air on the Sooner Radio Network (KOKC 1520-AM in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430-AM in Tulsa; Sirius channel 107) with Bob Barry Sr. and Mike Houck announcing. The game will be televised regionally by ESPN Plus (KOCB 34/Cox 11 in Oklahoma City; KJRH 2/Cox 9 in Tulsa) and ESPN Full Court with Dave Armstrong and Stacey King calling the action.
TICKET INFORMATION
• Tickets for Saturday's game are available for as little as $10. They may be purchased online at SoonerSports.com or at the OU Athletics Ticket Office (800-456-4668). Lloyd Noble Center ticket windows will open Saturday at 1 p.m.
• Family packs are available for Saturday's game (must be purchased prior to gameday). For $10, fans get a game ticket, a hot dog, a soft drink and a coupon for a free T-shirt. A minimum purchase of four tickets is required.
• Tickets for OU students are $10 at the door.
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OU TO HONOR STACEY KING
Stacey King, Oklahoma's No. 5 all-time scorer, will be at Lloyd Noble Center to see his No. 33 jersey honored at halftime of Saturday's game. King, who will serve as the game's TV color analyst for ESPN Plus, starred for the Sooners from the 1985-86 through 1988-89 seasons. The left-handed center from Lawton, Okla., helped OU to the 1988 national championship game as a junior and was named Big Eight Player of the Year as a senior.
Playing under head coach Billy Tubbs, King finished his career by averaging 17.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.0 blocked shots over his 114 games. As a senior, he averaged 26.0 points, 10.1 boards and 2.3 rejections. He is also OU's postseason leader in games played (12), points (246), scoring average (20.5) and rebounds (93). King was the No. 6 overall pick in the 1989 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls and went on to win three world championships with the franchise.
King will join Wayman Tisdale, Alvan Adams and Mookie Blaylock as former Sooners to have their jerseys honored.
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KANSAS RECAP
• Playing without leading scorer and rebounder Blake Griffin for the game's final 35 minutes (he sprained the MCL in his left knee at the 15:04 mark of the first half), Oklahoma lost its second straight game on Monday at No. 3 Kansas (85-55).
• Kansas staked itself to a 14-2 lead and was up 40-20 at halftime.
• OU's Longar Longar scored a game-high 21 points on 9-for-18 field goal shooting and was 3-for-4 at the free throw line.
• Starting guard Tony Crocker picked up three early fouls and played just four first-half minutes. He scored all 10 of his points in the game's final 10:22 and played just 18 minutes on the night (he averaged 31.2 minutes per game entering the contest).
• With the injury to his brother, junior forward Taylor Griffin played a season-high 34 minutes and finished with eight points, eight rebounds and two assists. He was 4-for-4 from the foul line.
• Kansas entered the game forcing 19.6 turnovers per outing, but Oklahoma committed just 11 on the evening.
• Guard Austin Johnson was held to two points on 1-for-4 shooting, his lowest output since the season's second game.
OKLAHOMA UPDATE
• Oklahoma has scored at least 80 points eight times this season after doing it four times all of last year. The Sooners have surpassed the 80-point mark in six of the last 10 games and are averaging 75.5 over those 10 outings.
• OU is averaging 73.9 points per game. Only once in the last five years has it averaged that many points per contest for a whole season (75.2 in 2004-05 when it shared the Big 12 regular season title).
• The Sooners are shooting .763 from the free throw line in Big 12 play, second best in the conference.
• Oklahoma is shooting .507 from the field in its 10 home games. Its three top scorers (and five of its top seven) all top .500. Opponents are shooting just .390 from the field and .277 from 3-point range at Lloyd Noble Center.
• After getting outrebounded just three times in its first 13 games, OU has been outboarded in three of the last four outings (against Rice by two, Mount St. Mary's by one and Kansas by nine).
• Each of OU's first 15 opponents shot under .500 from the field, but Kansas State (.564) and Kansas (.534) shot a combined .549.
• OU posted 12 regular season non-conference wins, tied for its most since the 1994-95 season.
• Capel announced Jan. 10 that sophomore forward Keith Clark is academically ineligible and will not be enrolled at OU for the spring semester. Clark averaged 5.4 points and 2.0 rebounds in his 14 games (15.3 minutes per contest).
INDIVIDUAL PLAYER UPDATES
• Freshman Blake Griffin will miss up to four weeks of action after sustaining a medial collateral ligament sprain in his left knee five minutes into Monday's game at Kansas. Griffin, who is the team's leading scorer and rebounder on the year, had averaged 23.7 points and 10.0 rebounds over the three games prior to Monday. He is the reigning Big 12 Rookie of the Week.
• Despite not scoring and grabbing just one rebound in his five minutes against the Jayhawks, Griffin ranks 11th in the Big 12 in scoring (14.5 ppg), third in rebounding (8.6 rpg) and third in double-doubles (six). He also ranks fourth in the league in field goal percentage (.593) and leads OU with his 22 steals.
• Before Monday, Griffin had scored in double figures in nine straight outings and in 14 of 16 games overall. He had shot at least .500 from the field in 13 of 16 contests, including in five of the last six.
• Griffin was named the Dec. 31 Big 12 Player of the Week after registering 18 points and a career-high 16 rebounds in OU's 88-82 double-overtime win at West Virginia.
• Senior center Longar Longar has scored in double figures in eight of the last nine games (he finished with six points off the bench Jan. 5 against Rice playing with a shoulder sprain). Over those nine games, Longar is averaging 16.2 points and shooting .574 from the field and .760 from the free throw line.
• Longar has scored at least 16 points in seven of the last nine games.
• Longar has registered three games of at least 20 points this year, two of them in the last five outings. He scored 22 at West Virginia Dec. 29 (all after halftime) and 21 on Monday at Kansas.
• In eight of the last nine games, Longar has scored more points after halftime than in the first 20 minutes. He is averaging 5.2 points in the first half of those nine contests and 11.0 after the break. Over the last nine games, Longar is shooting a gaudy .711 from the field after intermission (32-for-45).
• Sophomore guard Tony Crocker, OU's best 3-point shooter at .477 (31-for-65), is just 3-for-11 over the last four games. He has made at least three treys in a game six times and is 23-for-35 (.657) in those contests.
• Crocker, who scored a career-high 26 points at TCU on Dec. 2 (he netted 20 points in the first half with the help of 6-for-7 3-point shooting), ranks third on the team in scoring and rebounding (11.4 and 4.6 averages) and first in assists (2.9).
• Junior guard Austin Johnson is averaging 10.2 points over the last 11 outings while making 17 3-pointers. On the season, Johnson is averaging 8.5 points and sports a 2.3 assist-to-turnover ratio.
• Johnson tied a career high with nine assists Dec. 29 at West Virginia and set a career high with six steals Jan. 5 against Rice (he had 10 steals on the year entering the Rice game).
• After averaging 4.5 points in OU's first six games, senior guard David Godbold is averaging 8.3 over the last 11. His 15 points last Saturday against Kansas State were his second most this season (he scored 18 in the double-overtime win at West Virginia).
• Godbold is 7-for-14 from 3-point range over the last three games.
• Taylor Griffin played a season-high 34 minutes off the bench Monday at Kansas (played the entire second half) and finished with eight points and a season-high-tying eight rebounds.
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PREVIEWING TEXAS TECH
• Texas Tech enters Saturday's game with a 10-6 overall record and a 1-1 Big 12 mark. A winner of four of its last five, Tech is 8-1 at home and 1-4 in road games.
• The Red Raiders opened Big 12 play last Saturday with a 74-55 loss at Oklahoma State in which they shot .367 from the field, went 1-for-8 from 3-point range and committed 19 turnovers. They rebounded for a convincing 68-53 home victory over No. 10/9 Texas A&M on Wednesday (Tech shot .444 from the field, went 20-for-25 from the free throw line and forced 20 turnovers).
• One of the Big 12's better shooting teams, Tech owns season percentages of .480 from the field (ranks fourth), .393 from 3-point range (ranks third) and .695 from the foul line (ranks fifth). Conversely, the Red Raiders rank last in rebounding margin (-0.7 per game), 11th in assist-to-turnover ratio (0.86) and last in blocked shots (2.3 bpg) and 3-point field goals per game (5.1).
• Senior guard Martin Zeno leads Tech and ranks fifth in the Big 12 with his 16.3 points per outing. He is also averaging team highs in rebounds (4.7) and assists (3.2). Zeno is shooting .532 from the field on the year and .739 from the foul line. A double-digit scorer in 14 of 16 games, he has attempted 115 free throws on the year (74 more than the closest teammate).
• Junior guard Alan Voskuil is averaging 12.4 points, 3.8 rebounds, 1.6 assists and a team-high 2.0 steals while leading the Big 12 in 3-point percentage (.532). He is 34-for-59 from 3-point range and 51 percent of his field goals have been treys.
• Another guard, freshman John Roberson, is averaging 11.6 points, 2.5 boards and 3.1 assists. After averaging 21.7 points over the three games immediately prior to league play, he is averaging 3.5 in the team's two conference outings.
• No other Red Raider is averaging more than 6.7 points or 3.4 rebounds per contest.
• Bob Knight is in his seventh season as Texas Tech's head coach and owns a 136-80 (.630) record there. He is in his 42nd year overall and owns a 900-369 (.709) career mark.
SERIES WITH THE RED RAIDERS
Oklahoma holds a 25-16 all-time record against Texas Tech and is 15-5 in Norman. Since the formation of the Big 12 Conference, OU leads the series 16-8 and owns an 8-3 advantage in Norman. Coach Capel is 1-1 against the Red Raiders as OU's head coach. The Sooners are 9-5 against Tech since Bob Knight became the Red Raiders' head coach prior to the 2001-02 season.
LAST YEAR AGAINST TEXAS TECH
Oklahoma and Texas Tech split their two regular season meetings last year, with the home team winning each time. In the Jan. 6 Big 12 opener in Lubbock, the Sooners endured one of their worst shooting performances of the season in a 68-54 defeat. OU shot just .345 from the field, .200 from 3-point range (3-for-15) and .579 from the free throw line (11-for-19). Tech, which was 23-for-27 from the foul line (.852), was paced by Martin Zeno's 17 points and six rebounds. Jarrius Jackson added 14 points and was followed by Jon Plefka's 12 and Charlie Burgess' 11. Former Sooner Bobby Maze led OU with a career-high 17 points while Nater Carter added 13 off the bench. None of Oklahoma's starters scored in double figures (they were 6-for-26 from the field).
On Feb. 9 in Norman, the Sooners overcame a career-high 31-point effort from Jackson in a 75-61 victory. Carter (24 points), Longar Longar (19 points) and Michael Neal (18 points) were OU's catalysts, combining for all but 14 of the team's points. Carter was 11-for-12 from the free throw line, Longar pulled down a game-high 14 rebounds and the Sooners finished the contest on 20-2 run after trailing 59-55. Longar's double-double was his first ever in Big 12 play. Tech's Jackson went scoreless over the game's final eight minutes.
OU'S BIG 12 HISTORY
Oklahoma boasts a 117-61 (.657) record in Big 12 Conference regular season games, third best in the league (Kansas is 147-31 while Texas is 123-54). No other team has won more than 108 conference contests. The Sooners earned a regular season league title in 2005 and also won Big 12 Tournament crowns in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
BETTER ON THE ROAD
Junior Austin Johnson performed considerably better in home games than road contests during his first two years as a Sooner. That trend has reversed itself this season. In OU's four road games this year, Johnson is averaging 10.3 points, 3.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists while shooting .571 from the field and .600 from 3-point range (9-for-15). In 10 home games, the combo guard is averaging 7.9 points, 2.4 boards and 2.6 assists while shooting .356 from the floor and .216 from long range (8-for-37). Johnson has made more than one trey at home just once this season (two against Arkansas).
DOMINATING THE LONE STAR STATE
OU has had more than its share of success against Big 12 Conference teams from Texas. The Sooners own a 126-48 all-time record against Baylor (31-5), Texas (45-24), Texas A&M (25-3) and Texas Tech (25-16). Since the inception of the Big 12, OU is 22-0 against Baylor, 16-10 versus Texas, 20-3 against Texas A&M and 16-8 versus Texas Tech.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Last year, Oklahoma's strength under first-year head coach Jeff Capel was its defense. The Sooners held opponents to 59.6 points a game (the lowest average in 29 years) and to .406 field goal shooting (the second lowest figure over the past 46 seasons). With the offense much improved this year, the defense has remained solid...
• OU is surrendering just 63.2 points per game (62.2 in regulation) and is allowing opponents to shoot .398 from the field and .306 from 3-point land (the school record is .292). The last time the Sooners held opponents to a worse field goal mark for an entire season was 47 years ago (.377 in 1960-61).
• Fifteen of OU's 17 opponents have shot under .500 from the field, 14 have shot under .460 and eight have finished with a mark less than .400. Gardner-Webb, which won at Kentucky by 16 points when it shot .531 from the field, was held to a .279 performance against OU in New York on Nov. 16 while Rice shot .291 on Jan. 5.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WINNING AND LOSING
The following notes compare Oklahoma's stats in its 12 wins and five losses this year...
• In its 12 wins, OU is outrebounding its opponents by 6.5 a game. In its five losses, it is getting outboarded by 3.6.
• OU is shooting .505 from the field and .409 from 3-point range in its wins. In its losses, it is shooting .395 and .270, respectively.
• OU's assist-to-turnover ratio in its victories is +1.3 (202 assists and 160 turnovers). The ratio in losses is 0.7 (47 and 71).
• Tony Crocker is averaging 13.3 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists while shooting .540 in the Sooners' wins. In losses, those numbers fall to 7.0 points, 3.6 boards, 1.8 assists and .316 (12-for-38), respectively. Crocker is also shooting .571 from 3-point range in OU's victories (28-for-49), but just .188 in defeats (3-for-16).
HOME IS WHERE THE "W" IS
Lloyd Noble Center has been overly kind to the Sooners, as they have won 51 of the last 59 games and 106 of the last 119 in the building. OU is 418-71 (.855) at Lloyd Noble since it opened for the 1975-76 campaign. The Sooners have posted home winning streaks of 51 games (1987-90) and 37 games (2001-03). The 37-game streak is a Big 12 Conference record (the league's first year was in 1996-97).
"SOONER HOOPS WITH JEFF CAPEL" NOW AIRING
Hosted by Bob Carpenter, the 2007-08 version of the "Sooner Hoops with Jeff Capel" television show began airing on Dec. 6. The 30-minute program, which is taped at OU's SoonerVision studio, will be seen across the state and on regional and national stations this year. In Oklahoma City, the show will air on Cox Cable Channel 7 on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m., on KWTV Channel 9 on Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. and on KAUT Channel 43 on Sundays at 8:30 p.m. In Tulsa, it will be shown on Cox Cable Channel 7 on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and KQCW Channel 19 on Saturdays at 3:30 p.m.
"Sooner Hoops with Jeff Capel" will also air this year in the Enid, Guymon, Lawton, Ponca City and Woodward markets inside the state of Oklahoma, as well as in Sherman, Texas, and Kansas City, Mo. It will be carried regionally by FSN Southwest and nationally by CSTV (beginning Jan. 12) and Fox College Sports. Check local listings for air dates and stations.
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