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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Sooners at Red Hot Baylor Saturday
January 25, 2008 | Men's Basketball
| OU (13-5, 1-2) at Baylor (16-2, 4-0) | |
| Date & Tip Time | Saturday, Jan. 26 at 3 p.m. CST |
| Location | Waco, Texas | Ferrell 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 161 |
| Webcast | None |
| Live Stats | SoonerSports.com / GameTracker |
| Game Info | Gameday Central | Game Notes (PDF) |
GAME PREVIEW
Playing against its sixth ranked opponent of the season, Oklahoma (13-5, 1-2) travels to Waco, Texas, to take on No. 25 Baylor (16-2, 4-0) on Saturday at 3 p.m. CST inside the Ferrell Center. The Sooners, who are slotted No. 39 in this week's AP poll, are coming off a 63-61 home win over Texas Tech last Saturday in which they played without leading scorer and rebounder Blake Griffin. Baylor is ranked this week (No. 25 in the AP poll) for the first time in 39 years. It has won five straight games, including a 116-110 five-overtime contest at No. 18/16 Texas A&M on Wednesday.
Saturday's game will air on the Sooner Radio Network (KOKC 1520-AM in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430-AM in Tulsa) with Bob Barry Sr. and Mike Houck announcing, and on Sirius channel 161 (Baylor's announcers). The contest 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 Bob Carpenter and Stephen Howard calling the action.
"NOTE" WORTHY
• Oklahoma is 31-5 all-time against Baylor and 14-2 in road games. OU has won the last 26 meetings, including the last 14 in Waco.
• Baylor's last win against the Sooners came on Dec. 6, 1977, in Norman (75-67).
• OU is 75-21 (.781) against Big 12 teams from Texas since the league was formed.
• Baylor becomes the sixth ranked team Oklahoma has faced this season.
• Longar Longar has scored in double figures in nine of the last 10 games and has recorded at least 16 points in eight of those 10 contests. He is averaging 18.3 points and 6.7 rebounds in the team's three Big 12 games.
• The Sooners are holding opponents to a .400 season field goal mark. The last time opponents shot worse for an entire campaign was 47 years ago (.377 in 1960-61).
• Through games of Sunday, the Big 12 leads all conferences in both field goal percentage (.472) and field goal percentage defense (.402).
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TEXAS TECH RECAP
• Playing without leading scorer and rebounder Blake Griffin (out with a sprained MCL in his left knee), Oklahoma rallied from a seven-point deficit (45-38) with 9:48 remaining to post a 63-61 home victory over the Red Raiders last Saturday.
• Taylor Griffin scored 13 of his career-high-tying 16 points in the second half, including 11 in the final 8:43. He also grabbed a season-high 12 rebounds for his first double-double of the year.
• Longar Longar also scored 16 points while adding nine rebounds and three blocked shots in 35 minutes of action.
• Tony Crocker was 3-for-4 from 3-point range and scored 15 points while David Godbold added 11 points and seven boards.
• The Sooners won for just the second time under second-year head coach Jeff Capel when trailing at halftime (26-23).
• After getting outrebounded in three of their previous four games, the Sooners outrebounded Tech 40-27 and held a 13-2 advantage on the offensive glass. OU scored 12 second-chance points to the Red Raiders' none.
• OU won despite Texas Tech owning higher shooting percentages from the field, 3-point range and free throw line.
• At halftime, Stacey King became the fourth former Sooner to have his jersey honored. The center, who played from 1986-89 and was the Big Eight Player of the Year and a consensus first-team All-American as a senior, wore No. 33.
OKLAHOMA UPDATE
• OU snapped a two-game losing streak with its home win over Texas Tech on Saturday and now stands 1-2 in the Big 12 (alone in seventh place). It had won five straight entering league play, including games against Arkansas, Gonzaga and West Virginia.
• Through games of Thursday, Oklahoma sports the Big 12's fourth best RPI according to www.CollegeRPI.com. The Sooners (No. 31) trail only Kansas (No. 3), Texas (No. 15) and Baylor (No. 22).
• Oklahoma has scored at least 80 points eight times this season after doing it four times all of last year.
• OU is averaging twice as many offensive rebounds than its opponents in Big 12 play. The Sooners average 12.7 offensive boards per league outing to their foes' 6.3 per contest.
• In Big 12 play, OU opponents are shooting .513 from the field, .442 from 3-point range and .839 from the free throw line.
• OU is 2-2 in road games this year with wins at TCU and then-No. 23 West Virginia, and losses at then-No. 22 USC and then-No. 3 Kansas. In those four road games, Austin Johnson (9-for-15), Tony Crocker (9-for-16) and David Godbold (6-for-16) are a combined 24-for-47 (.510) from 3-point range. Johnson boasts a 4.3 assist-to-turnover ratio on the road (17 assists, four turnovers).
• Either Blake (five times) or Taylor Griffin (three times) has led OU in rebounding in each of the last eight contests.
• OU posted 12 regular season non-conference wins, tied for its most since the 1994-95 season.
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INDIVIDUAL PLAYER UPDATES
• Freshman Blake Griffin is out of action for multiple weeks after sustaining a medial collateral ligament sprain in his left knee five minutes into the Jan. 14 game at Kansas. Griffin, who is the team's leading scorer (14.5) and rebounder (8.6) on the year, had averaged 23.7 points and 10.0 rebounds over the three games prior to the Kansas outing.
• Despite not scoring and grabbing just one rebound in his five minutes against the Jayhawks, Griffin ranks 10th in the Big 12 in scoring (14.5 ppg), third in rebounding (8.6 rpg) and third in double-doubles (six). He also ranks second in the league in field goal percentage (.593) and still leads OU with his 22 steals.
• 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. He also earned Big 12 Rookie of the Week honors on Jan. 14.
• Senior center Longar Longar has scored in double figures in nine of the last 10 games (he finished with six points off the bench Jan. 5 against Rice playing with a shoulder sprain). Over those 10 games, Longar is averaging 16.2 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.6 blocked shots while shooting .560 from the field and .714 from the free throw line.
• Longar has scored at least 16 points in eight of the last 10 games.
• Longar has registered three games of at least 20 points this year, two of them in the last six outings. He scored 22 at West Virginia Dec. 29 (all after halftime) and 21 on Jan. 14 at Kansas.
• Seeing a major increase in minutes due to the injury suffered by his brother, junior forward Taylor Griffin is averaging 12.0 points and 10.0 rebounds while shooting .833 (10-for-12) from the free throw line over the last two games. Prior to the last two outings, he was averaging 5.4 points and 3.2 boards while shooting .667 (20-for-30) from the foul line.
• Taylor Griffin tied a career high with 16 points Saturday against Texas A&M and grabbed a season-high 12 rebounds.
• Sophomore guard Tony Crocker, OU's best 3-point shooter at .493 (34-for-69), has made at least three treys in a game seven times and is 26-for-39 (.667) 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 (11.6 and 4.6 averages) and first in assists (2.8).
• After scoring at least nine points in eight straight games (averaged 12.1 during the span), junior guard Austin Johnson is averaging 3.8 points over the last four outings. He is 5-for-23 (.217) from the field and 1-for-10 (.100) from 3-point range over those four contests.
• 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 8.5 over the last 12. Over three Big 12 games, Godbold is averaging a quiet 10.7 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists and a team-high 1.7 steals.
• Godbold is 8-for-19 from 3-point range (.421) over the last four games.
PREVIEWING BAYLOR
• Baylor enters Saturday's game with a 16-2 overall record and a 4-0 Big 12 mark (tied for first place with Kansas). A winner of five straight, BU is 9-1 at home with its only loss in Waco coming to Washington State, 67-64, on Nov. 30. It is ranked No. 25 in this week's AP poll, the program's first national ranking in 39 years.
• The Bears are coming off a quintuple-overtime win at No. 18/16 Texas A&M on Wednesday, the longest game in Big 12 history. They won despite shooting .361 from the field and .206 from 3-point range (7-for-34) for the contest. Baylor trailed by as many as 14 in the first half and led by as many as nine with 5:00 left in the second half. The score was tied at 64 at the end of regulation.
• Baylor has already won more games this year (16) than in any complete season since the 2000-01 campaign (19 victories).
• Junior guard Curtis Jerrells scored a career-high 36 points at Texas A&M on Wednesday (he was 20-for-24 at the foul line) and is one of five Bears to average double figures in points. He leads the team with his 14.3 points and 3.6 assists per contest .
• Junior forward Kevin Rogers averages 12.3 points and a team-high 7.4 rebounds per game while shooting .517 from the field and .804 from the free throw line. He notched his second straight double-double on Wednesday with 19 points and 18 boards.
• Another junior, guard Henry Dugat is averaging 12.0 points, 3.9 rebounds and a team-high 1.4 steals per outing. He has made 27 3-pointers and is shooting .375 from beyond the arc.
• Freshman guard LaceDarius Dunn comes off the bench to average 12.0 points and 4.5 rebounds a game. He has made a team-high 41 treys and is shooting a team-best .451 from long range. He was 7-for-8 on 3-pointers against Brown on Jan. 8.
• Senior guard Aaron Bruce averages 11.3 points and 2.2 assists per game while shooting .420 from 3-point distance (34 makes).
• Scott Drew is in his fifth season as Baylor's head coach and owns a 52-71 (.423) record there. He is in his sixth year overall and owns a 72-82 (.468) career mark (he posted a 20-11 record in 2002-03 as the head coach at Valparaiso).
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SERIES WITH THE BEARS
Oklahoma owns a 31-5 series advantage against Baylor and has won the last 26 meetings. The Sooners possess a 14-2 series lead in games played in Waco and have won 14 straight there. The last Baylor win against OU came on Dec. 6, 1977, in Norman (75-67). OU is 22-0 against the Bears since the inception of the Big 12 Conference and has won its 11 series road games during the span by an average of 9.9 points.
MORE SERIES NOTES
• Oklahoma and Baylor first met during the 1916-17 season in Norman with the Sooners prevailing 42-28. The next meeting didn't occur until the 1945-46 campaign.
• OU split its first 10 games against the Bears but has won 26 in a row since.
• The Sooners posted consecutive one-point wins in Waco in 1998 (61-60) and 1999 (59-58). Two of the last four meetings at the Ferrell Center have been decided by four points (65-61 in 2005 and 68-64 last year).
• OU's school record for field goal percentage in a game (.661) came against Baylor in Norman on Feb. 26, 2005 (a 103-60 win).
LAST YEAR AGAINST BAYLOR
Oklahoma swept Baylor last season, winning 91-51 at home on Jan. 20 and 68-64 in Waco on Feb. 10. In the meeting in Norman, Baylor staked itself to a 10-2 lead before OU finished the first half on a 43-17 run. The Sooners shot .576 for the game, their second best performance of the year, and held the Bears to a .309 figure (.233 over the game's final 31 minutes). OU, which owned a 42-30 rebounding advantage, was led by Nate Carter's 22 points and nine rebounds (he was 10-for-10 from the free throw line). Longar Longar added 10 points and nine boards in 23 minutes off the bench. Curtis Jerrells and Aaron Bruce paced Baylor with 15 and 12 points, respectively. No Bear had more than five rebounds.
In the rematch three weeks later, Carter again scored 22 points and Longar notched a double-double with 12 points (all in the second half) and 12 boards in the four-point triumph. The victory served as OU's only road win of the season. The Sooners, who held a 28-27 halftime lead before falling behind 39-32 early in the second half, shot .521 for the game and held Baylor to a .390 performance. Jerrells registered a game-high 23 points and seven rebounds for the Bears while Kevin Rogers finished with 20 points and seven boards.
OU'S BIG 12 HISTORY
Oklahoma boasts a 118-61 (.657) record in Big 12 Conference regular season games, third best in the league (Kansas is 148-31 while Texas is 126-54). 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.
ROAD SCHOLAR
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 7.4 points, 2.4 boards and 2.4 assists while shooting .342 from the floor and .205 from long range (8-for-39). 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 127-48 all-time record against Baylor (31-5), Texas (45-24), Texas A&M (25-3) and Texas Tech (26-16). Since the inception of the Big 12, OU is 22-0 against Baylor, 16-10 versus Texas, 20-3 against Texas A&M and 17-8 versus Texas Tech for a combined 75-21 record (.781).
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WINNING AND LOSING
The following notes compare Oklahoma's stats in its 13 wins and five losses this year...
• In its 13 wins, OU is outrebounding its opponents by 7.0 a game. In its five losses, it is getting outboarded by 3.6.
• OU is shooting .497 from the field and .401 from 3-point range in its wins. In losses, it is shooting .395 and .270, respectively.
• OU's assist-to-turnover ratio in its victories is +1.2 (202 assists and 160 turnovers). The ratio in losses is 0.7 (47 and 71).
• Tony Crocker is averaging 13.4 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.2 assists while shooting .550 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 .585 from 3-point range in OU's victories (31-for-53), but just .188 in defeats (3-for-16).
"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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