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Men's Basketball
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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Sooners Go For Sweep of Raiders
February 15, 2008 | Men's Basketball
| OU (16-8, 4-5) at Texas Tech (13-10, 4-5) | |
| Date & Tip Time | Saturday, Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. CST |
| Location | Lubbock, Texas | United Spirit Arena |
| Tickets | OU Athletics Ticket Office |
| TV | ESPN Plus KOCB Ch. 34/Cox 11 in Oklahoma City KJRH Ch. 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 (Texas Tech announcers) |
| Webcast | None |
| Live Stats | SoonerSports.com / GameTracker |
| Game Info | Gameday Central | Game Notes (PDF) |
GAME PREVIEW
After snapping a three-game losing streak with a 76-64 home win over Iowa State on Wednesday, Oklahoma (16-8, 4-5) tries for a regular season sweep of Texas Tech (13-10, 4-5) on Saturday at 3 p.m. CST in Lubbock. The Sooners, who hold a No. 42 RPI rating (through games of Wednesday) according to CollegeRPI.com, are 3-4 in true road games this year. Two of those road victories came against ranked opponents at the time (West Virginia and Baylor). Texas Tech is a perfect 11-0 at United Spirit Arena and has outscored its opponents there by an average of 15.3 points per game. The Red Raiders are coming off an 84-75 home win over then-first-place Kansas State 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 Satellite 107 (Texas Tech's announcers). It will be televised regionally by ESPN Plus (KOCB Ch. 34/Cox 11 in OKC; KJRH Ch. 2/Cox 9 in Tulsa; ESPN Full Court) with Bob Carpenter and Paul Splittorff calling the action.
"NOTE" WORTHY
• Oklahoma is 26-16 all-time against Texas Tech and 8-10 in games played in Lubbock. The Sooners have won nine of the last 13 overall meetings, including three of the last five at United Spirit Arena.
• Blake Griffin is averaging 17.4 points, 9.0 rebounds and 2.7 assists in Big 12 play while shooting .579 from the field (not including the Jan. 14 Kansas game when he played only five minutes before leaving with a knee injury).
• After shooting at least .500 from the field in nine of its first 16 games, OU has done it just once in the last eight games.
• In its eight losses, Oklahoma is shooting .268 from 3-point range. It is shooting .396 from long distance in its wins.
• OU's eight Big 12 opponents are shooting a remarkable .841 from the free throw line against the Sooners (143-for-170).
• OU has recorded 26 consecutive winning seasons, more than any other Big 12 program.
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WEDNESDAY'S IOWA STATE RECAP
• Solid 3-point (7-for-17) and free throw (25-for-29) shooting, a 39-30 rebounding advantage and the return of senior center Longar Longar from injury helped lift Oklahoma to a 76-64 home win over Iowa State on Wednesday. OU also held the Cyclones to a .397 field goal mark.
• Tony Crocker scored 22 points (tying his second-highest career total) on only five field goal makes. He was 10-for-10 from the free throw line and matched a career high with nine rebounds.
• Austin Johnson registered 13 points (all in the first half) after totaling 10 points over the previous three games. He added six rebounds (his most in 15 games) and three assists without committing a turnover.
• Cade Davis made a career-high three 3-pointers on three attempts and finished with a career-high 11 points.
• Tony Neysmith, who didn't play in any of OU's three previous games, made his first career start and had a career-high four points.
• Longar contributed six points, five rebounds, two assists and a blocked shot in his first action since Feb. 2.
• The Sooners' 25 free throw makes tied as their most of the season. OU's previous three opponents had combined to make 21 more free throws than Oklahoma attempted.
• The Sooners scored 38 points in each half while the Cylones recorded 32 in each half.
• OU's seven 3-pointers were its second most in the last 11 games. The Sooners were 10-for-50 over the previous two outings.
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TEAM UPDATE
• The Sooners (4-5) stand in a sixth-place tie with Texas Tech in the Big 12 race, a game out of fifth place (Baylor is 5-4) and a game in front of Nebraska (3-6). OU's next outing after Saturday is a Tuesday home contest against Baylor (7 p.m. CST).
• As of Monday, ESPN.com projects OU as a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament while CollegeRPI.com has it as a No. 10 seed.
• After they shot a combined .289 from the field and .273 from behind the 3-point arc during the team's three-game losing streak, Oklahoma's guards rebounded against Iowa State on Wednesday to shoot .483 from the floor and .412 from long range.
• OU is shooting .489 from the field and .396 from 3-point range in its wins but just .390 and .268, respectively, in its losses.
• Oklahoma has won three true road games this year (two versus ranked opponents) after winning just one road contest last year (Baylor). Prior to this season, the last time OU won a true road game over a ranked foe was during the 2000-01 campaign.
• Oklahoma has scored more than 70 points 13 times this season after doing it eight times all of last year.
• OU's nine Big 12 opponents have shot an incredible .841 from the free throw line against the Sooners (143-for-170).
• Either Blake Griffin (seven times) or Taylor Griffin (six times) has led OU in rebounding in 13 of the last 14 contests.
FRONTCOURT UPDATE
• Senior center Longar Longar missed two games due to a broken bone in his lower right leg but returned to play 27 minutes Wednesday against Iowa State. The team's second-leading scorer and rebounder on the year with his 12.9 and 5.8 respective averages, he registered six points and five boards against the Cylones. Longar is shooting .514 from the field on the season and has scored at least nine points in 12 of his last 14 outings. Longar also leads the squad with his 26 blocked shots.
• OU's leading scorer (14.9) and rebounder (8.5) on the year, Blake Griffin has scored in double figures in 14 of his last 15 games (not including the Jan. 14 Kansas contest when he left five minutes into the game with a sprained MCL in his left knee) and has netted at least 15 points in nine of his last 11 outings.
• Three of Griffin's seven double-doubles have come against ranked opponents. He had 15 points and 14 rebounds in a win over Gonzaga, 18 points and 16 boards in a win at West Virginia and 17 points and 15 rebounds in a victory at Baylor. Griffin also registered 19 points and nine boards against No. 12 Texas on Feb. 6.
• Despite not scoring and grabbing just one rebound in his five minutes against Kansas, Griffin ranks 10th in the Big 12 in scoring (14.9 ppg), fourth in rebounding (8.5 rpg) and third in double-doubles (seven). He also leads the league in field goal percentage (.580) and paces OU with his 26 steals (tied with Austin Johnson).
• The last OU freshman to average as many points as Griffin for an entire season was Jeff Webster (18.3) in 1990-91 and the last OU frosh to average as many rebounds was Wayman Tisdale (10.3) in 1982-83.
• Seeing a major increase in minutes the last few weeks, junior forward Taylor Griffin is averaging 10.0 points and 7.4 rebounds while shooting .788 (26-for-33) from the free throw line over the last eight games. Prior to those eight outings, he was averaging 5.4 points and 3.2 boards while shooting .667 (20-for-30) from the foul line on the year.
• Starting in place of his injured younger brother on Jan. 19 against Texas Tech, Taylor Griffin tied a then-career high with 16 points and grabbed a then-season-high 12 rebounds. On Jan. 28 against Oklahoma State, he was 7-for-8 from the field and scored a career-high 20 points and pulled down a game-high six boards. On Feb. 6 against Texas, he netted 12 points and grabbed a career-high 15 boards as he started in place of an injured Longar.
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BACKCOURT UPDATE
• Sophomore Tony Crocker, OU's best 3-point shooter at .444 (44-for-99), has made at least three treys in a game nine times and is 32-for-53 (.604) in those contests. He has already made nine more 3-pointers this year than he did all of last season (35) when he shot a team-high .357 from behind the arc. He has scored 271 points this year after scoring 268 last season.
• Crocker scored 22 points against Iowa State on Wednesday after totaling 22 the previous three games. He was 10-for-10 from the free throw line versus the Cyclones and tied a career high with nine rebounds.
• 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 (11.3 ppg) and fourth in rebounding (4.4 rpg).
• Junior Austin Johnson broke a three-game stretch over which he shot .176 from the floor and averaged 3.3 points by scoring 13 against Iowa State (all in the first half). He added six rebounds and three assists without committing a turnover. It was only Johnson's third double-digit scoring effort in the last 10 outings.
• OU's chief ball-handler, Johnson leads the team with his 2.5 assists per contest and boasts a 2.1 assist-to-turnover ratio.
• Senior guard David Godbold came off the bench Wednesday for the first time in 14 games and was held scoreless in his 18 minutes (he attempted two shots). He had averaged 11.0 points over the previous eight games. On Feb. 2, Godbold turned in a career-high 22-point outing at Texas A&M in which he was 6-for-10 from 3-point range.
• Godbold shot .233 from long range in OU's first 14 games (10-for-43) but is shooting .373 over the last 10 (19-for-51).
• In nine Big 12 games, Godbold is averaging 9.8 points and 5.3 rebounds, and has made a team-high 17 treys.
• Freshman Cade Davis snapped a 2-for-19 slump from 3-point range with a 3-for-3 effort on Wednesday. His 11 points in the game were a career high. Davis is averaging 3.7 points in his 12.8 minutes per contest and is 18-for-18 from the free throw line.
• Fellow freshman Tony Neysmith earned his first career start on Wednesday and scored four points in eight minutes. Neysmith had played just one minute in Big 12 games entering the day and had scored four points all season.
• Junior Omar Leary is averaging 4.6 points in 17.7 minutes per game. He started eight of the team's first 10 contests but has come off the bench in each of the last 14. He has two points over the last five games.
PREVIEWING TEXAS TECH
• Texas Tech enters Saturday's game with a 13-10 overall record and a 4-5 Big 12 mark. It is 11-0 inside United Spirit Arena and 2-10 outside of it. The Red Raiders are 1-2 under head coach Pat Knight.
• Texas Tech snapped a two-game losing streak with an 84-75 home win over then-first-place Kansas State on Wednesday. The Red Raiders were outrebounded 38-30 on the night, but committed five less turnovers and shot .509 from the field while holding the Wildcats to a .443 figure. They also outscored K-State by eight from the free throw line (25 makes to 17).
• One of the Big 12's better shooting teams, Tech ranks third in the league in field goal percentage (.465), 3-point field goal percentage (.381) and free throw percentage (.715). Conversely, the Red Raiders rank 10th in rebounding margin (-2.3 per game), 11th in assist-to-turnover ratio (0.85) and last in blocked shots (2.6 bpg) and 3-point field goals per game (4.9).
• Senior guard Martin Zeno leads Tech and ranks seventh in the Big 12 with his 16.0 points per outing. He is also averaging a team-high 4.5 rebounds and ranks second in assists (2.7). Zeno is shooting .472 from the field on the year (.402 in Big 12 play) and .750 from the foul line. Zeno has attempted more than twice as many free throws (168) than the closest teammate.
• Coming off a career-high 30-point game against Kansas State, junior guard Alan Voskuil is averaging 12.9 points, 4.0 rebounds, 1.3 assists and a team-high 1.5 steals while leading the Big 12 in 3-point percentage (.544). He is 49-for-90 from 3-point range and 52 percent of his field goals have been treys.
• Another guard, freshman John Roberson, is averaging 12.4 points, 2.7 boards and a team-high 3.5 assists. Also a 3-point threat, Roberson is shooting .411 from beyond the arc and makes 1.7 treys per contest.
• Freshman forward Mike Singletary contributes 8.2 points and 3.3 rebounds in 16.8 minutes per outing. In league games, Singletary is averaging 10.5 points and 4.3 boards in 20.9 minutes a contest.
SERIES WITH THE RED RAIDERS
• Oklahoma owns a 26-16 all-time record against Texas Tech but has a losing record (8-10) in games played in Lubbock.
• The Sooners have won nine of the last 13 overall meetings, including three of the last five at United Spirit Arena.
• OU is 17-8 against Texas Tech since the inception of the Big 12 (that includes a 2-0 record in the league tournament).
EARLIER THIS YEAR AGAINST TEXAS TECH
In the season's first meeting between the teams on Jan. 19 in Norman, Oklahoma played without leading scorer and rebounder Blake Griffin and overcame a seven-point deficit midway through the second half to post a 63-61 victory. With 16 points each, Taylor Griffin and Longar Longar paced four Sooners in double figures in scoring. Taylor Griffin pulled down 12 boards while Longar grabbed nine. Tony Crocker was 3-for-4 from 3-point range and finished with 15 points while David Godbold added 11 points and seven rebounds. OU won despite shooting .410 from the field, .294 from 3-point range (5-for-17) and .571 from the free throw line (8-for-14). Texas Tech shot .426, .500 (5-for-10) and .889 (16-for-18), respectively. Both teams committed 13 turnovers, but OU commanded a 40-27 rebounding advantage (the Sooners scored 12 second-chance points to the Red Raiders' none). Martin Zeno led Tech with 17 points while John Roberson and Alan Voskuil both netted 14.
MORE ON BLAKE GRIFFIN
• The last Sooner, regardless of class, to average as many rebounds as Blake Griffin is averaging this year (8.5) was then-senior and now-Denver Nugget Eduardo Najera in 1999-2000 (9.2 rpg).
• Griffin holds OU's top three scoring performances this season. He netted 27 against Kansas State (Jan. 12), 26 versus Mount St. Mary's (Jan. 7) and 25 at Colorado (last Saturday). He also holds six of OU's top seven rebounding marks this year.
• Griffin is just 18 points shy of matching Nate Carter's team high of 360 points last season. Carter played in 31 games as a senior last year while Griffin has played in just 23 this season.
• A testament to his overall ability, Griffin has 18 assists over the past six games for a 3.0 average (Austin Johnson is the next closest Sooner with 15 assists over the same period). Griffin has 10 handouts over the last three games.
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 128-50 (.719) all-time record against Baylor (32-5), Texas (45-25), Texas A&M (25-4) and Texas Tech (26-16). Since the inception of the Big 12, OU is 23-0 against Baylor, 16-12 versus Texas, 20-4 against Texas A&M and 17-8 versus Texas Tech for a combined 76-24 record (.760).
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 seven road games this year, Johnson is averaging 9.4 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.6 assists while shooting .484 from 3-point range (15-for-31). In 14 home games, the combo guard is averaging 7.4 points, 2.8 boards and 2.4 assists while shooting .222 from long range (12-for-54). Johnson has made more than one trey at home just three times this season (two each against Arkansas, Oklahoma State and Iowa State), but has made at least two in five of the team's seven road contests.
"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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