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University of Oklahoma Athletics
OU Looks for Another 'W' on Tuesday
February 18, 2008 | Men's Basketball
| OU (17-8, 5-5) vs. Baylor (17-7, 5-5) | |
| Date & Tip Time | Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. CST |
| Location | Norman, Okla. | Lloyd Noble Center |
| 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 161 |
| Webcast | None |
| Live Stats | SoonerSports.com / GameTracker |
| Game Info | Gameday Central | Game Notes (PDF) |
GAME PREVIEW
Oklahoma (17-8 overall, 5-5 Big 12) has rebounded from a three-game losing streak and will go for its third straight win on Tuesday when it hosts Baylor (17-7, 5-5) at 7 p.m. CST. The teams are tied for fifth place in the Big 12 race. The Sooners, who hold a No. 32 RPI rating (through games of Sunday) according to CollegeRPI.com, are 11-3 at home this year (3-2 in league play). Baylor stands at No. 42 in the RPI despite losing three straight games and five of its last six. The Bears are 4-3 in road games on the year (2-3 in conference action).
Tuesday's game will air on the Sooner Radio Network (KOKC 1520-AM in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430-AM in Tulsa; Sirius 161) with Bob Barry Sr. and Mike Houck announcing. 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.
TICKET INFORMATION
• Tickets for Tuesday'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 Tuedsay at 5 p.m.
• Family packs are available for Tuesday's game. 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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SATURDAY'S TEXAS TECH RECAP
• David Godbold's 28-footer with 1.4 seconds remaining gave Oklahoma a 66-64 win at Texas Tech. It was the Red Raiders' first loss of the year in Lubbock (they were 11-0 entering the game).
• Austin Johnson scored a career-high 20 points with the help of a career-high six 3-pointers (on 11 attempts). Johnson also assisted on Godbold's game-winning trey.
• Blake Griffin was held to nine points (his second lowest total in the last 15 games) but pulled down a career-high 17 rebounds.
• In his second game back after missing two contests with a broken bone in his leg, senior center Longar Longar came off the bench to supply 10 points on 5-for-8 shooting. He played 26 minutes.
• Oklahoma played from behind most of the game and trailed by seven points with 12:26 to go.
• The road win was OU's fourth of the season after winning just one road contest last year (Baylor). The Sooners also won for the fourth time this season when trailing at the half (they were 0-13 last season).
• The Sooners won for the first time of the Jeff Capel era when its opponent shot at least .500 from the field (Tech shot .500).
• The victory was OU's second this year over Texas Tech by two points. The Sooners have won 10 of the last 14 meetings.
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TEAM UPDATE
• Oklahoma (5-5) stands in a fifth-place tie with Baylor in the Big 12 race, a game behind fourth-place Texas A&M (6-4) and a game in front of seventh-place Texas Tech (4-6). After Tuesday's Baylor contest, OU closes the regular season with games at Texas (8-2), at Nebraska (3-7), at home against Texas A&M, at Oklahoma State (4-7) and at home against Missouri (4-7).
• As of Monday, CollegeRPI.com projects OU as a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament while ESPN.com has it as a No. 9 seed.
• In its 13 home games, OU is shooting .479 from the field and has shot .500 or better eight times. Its top four scorers at home all shoot better than .500 (Blake Griffin is shooting .644 and is followed by Taylor Griffin at .545, Longar Longar at .530 and Tony Crocker at .529). Foes are shooting just .392 from the field and .313 from 3-point range in Norman.
• Heading into Monday, Oklahoma's six remaining opponents have a combined Big 12 record of 30-32 (.484).
• OU's 10 Big 12 opponents have shot a salty .821 from the free throw line against the Sooners (156-for-190).
• Either Blake Griffin (eight times) or Taylor Griffin (six times) has led OU in rebounding in 14 of the last 15 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 and 26 more at Texas Tech on Saturday. 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 Cyclones and 10 points and two boards against the Red Raiders. Longar is shooting .518 from the field on the season and has scored at least nine points in 13 of his last 15 outings. Longar also leads the squad with his 26 blocked shots.
• In his eight full Big 12 games, freshman Blake Griffin is averaging 16.4 points, 10.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists. OU's leading scorer (14.6) and rebounder (8.9) on the year, he has scored in double figures in 14 of his last 16 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 12 outings.
• Despite not scoring and grabbing just one rebound in his five minutes against Kansas, Griffin ranks 10th in the Big 12 in scoring (14.6 ppg), fourth in rebounding (8.9 rpg) and fourth in double-doubles (seven). He also leads the league in field goal percentage (.567).
• 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 9.8 points and 7.0 rebounds while shooting .788 (26-for-33) from the free throw line over the last nine games. Prior to those nine 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
• 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) and a career-high 20 at Texas Tech last week. Against the Red Raiders, Johnson made a career-high six 3-pointers on 11 attempts. He is now averaging 8.6 points and ranks second on the team with his 37 treys.
• OU's chief ball-handler, Johnson is tied for the team lead with his 2.4 assists per game and boasts a 2.0 assist-to-turnover ratio.
• Sophomore Tony Crocker, OU's best 3-point shooter at .441 (45-for-102), has made at least three treys in a game nine times and is 32-for-53 (.604) in those contests. He has already made 10 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 280 points this year after scoring 268 last season.
• Crocker scored 22 points against Iowa State last 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 ranks third on the team in scoring (11.2 ppg) and fourth in rebounding (4.4 rpg).
• Senior guard David Godbold came off the bench twice last week after starting the previous 14 games. He was held scoreless in 18 minutes against Iowa State before netting eight points at Texas Tech, including a game-winning 28-footer with 1.4 seconds left. 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 3-point range in OU's first 14 games (10-for-43) but is shooting .375 over the last 10 (21-for-56). In 10 Big 12 games, he is averaging 9.6 points and 5.3 rebounds, and has made a team-high 19 treys.
• Freshman Cade Davis snapped a 2-for-19 slump from 3-point range with a 3-for-3 effort last Wednesday against Iowa State (his 11 points were a career high). Davis is averaging 3.5 points in his 12.3 minutes per game and is 18-for-18 from the foul line.
• Fellow freshman Tony Neysmith earned his first two career starts last week and totaled six points in 17 minutes. Neysmith had played just one minute in Big 12 games entering last week and had scored four points all season.
• Junior Omar Leary is averaging 4.4 points in 17.2 minutes per game. He started eight of the team's first 10 contests but has come off the bench in each of the last 15. He has two points over the last six games.
PREVIEWING BAYLOR
• Baylor enters Tuesday's game with a 17-7 overall record and a 5-5 Big 12 mark (tied for fifth place with OU). After getting ranked in the AP poll for the first time since 1969, the Bears have lost five of their last six games, including their last three.
• The Bears are coming off an 82-77 home defeat to No. 11 Texas on Saturday, a game in which they never led. Baylor, which trailed by one with 33 seconds left but was outscored 5-1 afterwards, shot .397 from the field and went 8-for-31 from 3-point range (.258).
• Baylor has already won more games this year (17) than in any complete season since the 2000-01 campaign (19 victories).
• Junior guard Curtis Jerrells is one of four Bears who average double figures in points. He leads the team with his 14.8 points and 3.5 assists per contest. In Big 12 play, Jerrells is averaging 16.3 points and has attempted a team-high 47 free throws. He scored 30 points three games ago at Kansas.
• Freshman guard LaceDarius Dunn comes off the bench to average 13.3 points and 4.0 rebounds a game. He has made a team-high 56 treys and is shooting a team-best .415 from long range and .843 from the free throw line. Over the last three outings, Dunn is averaging 22.7 points and is 11-for-28 from 3-point distance.
• Junior forward Kevin Rogers averages 12.0 points and a team-high 8.0 rebounds while shooting .507 from the field and .794 from the free throw line. He had 12 points and 14 rebounds Saturday against Texas and has eight double-doubles on the year.
• Junior guard Henry Dugat is averaging 11.8 points, 4.0 rebounds and a team-high 1.4 steals per outing. He has made 33 3-pointers and is shooting .363 from beyond the arc. Dugat netted 19 points Saturday against Texas.
• Senior guard Aaron Bruce averages 9.8 points and 2.1 assists per game while shooting .382 from 3-point distance (39 makes). He is 1-for-his-last-15 from 3-point range and has been held to single digits in points in each of the last five games (averaging 4.2).
• Scott Drew is in his fifth season as Baylor's head coach and owns a 53-76 (.411) record there. He is in his sixth year overall and owns a 73-87 (.456) career mark (he posted a 20-11 record in 2002-03 as the head coach at Valparaiso).
SERIES WITH THE BEARS
Oklahoma owns a 32-5 series advantage against Baylor and has won the last 27 meetings. The Sooners possess a 15-2 series lead in games played in Norman and have won 15 straight there. The last Baylor win against OU came on Dec. 6, 1977, in Norman (75-67). OU is 23-0 against the Bears since the inception of the Big 12 Conference and has won its 11 series home games during the span by an average of 26.9 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 27 in a row since.
• 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).
EARLIER THIS YEAR AGAINST BAYLOR
• Twelve days after sustaining a sprained MCL in his left knee (he was expected to be out for nearly four weeks), freshman Blake Griffin registered team highs of 17 points and 15 rebounds while handing out three assists in 22 minutes of action off the bench as Oklahoma posted a 77-71 win at No. 25 Baylor on Jan. 26.
• The Sooners led by nine at halftime and extended their advantage to 16 points twice in the second half. Baylor went on a 27-12 run to take its only second-half lead (71-70 with 1:57 left) before Griffin scored on OU's next possession.
• Four Sooners in addition to Griffin scored in double figures. Austin Johnson netted 15 points, Longar Longar 13, Tony Crocker 11 and David Godbold 10. Longar also finished with five boards, a career-high four assists and two blocked shots while Godbold contributed eight boards and three assists.
• The Sooners held Baylor to .377 field goal shooting, the Bears' second worst performance of the season.
• Oklahoma posted a 50-42 rebounding advantage and its 50 boards tied a season high. Six of the seven Sooners who saw action grabbed at least five caroms.
• The win was OU's 27th straight against Baylor and 14th straight in Waco.
• The crowd of 10,393 was the third largest in Baylor history.
GRIFFIN GETTING TO THE LINE
Freshman forward Blake Griffin has seemed to develop quite a knack for getting to the foul line over his last nine outings. Through OU's first 13 games, Griffin attempted 50 free throws (3.8 per contest) with a single-game high of six. Over the last 10 games, however, Griffin has attempted 99 free throws (9.9 per contest). Included were games of 18 attempts against Mount St. Mary's, 13 versus Kansas State and 15 against Oklahoma State.
MORE ON OU'S FRESHMAN PHENOM
• The last Sooner, regardless of class, to average as many rebounds as Blake Griffin is averaging this year (8.9) 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 seven of OU's top eight rebounding marks this year.
• Griffin is just nine 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 24 this season.
• A testament to his overall ability, Griffin has a team-high 18 assists over the past seven games (Austin Johnson is the next closest Sooner with 16 assists over the same period).
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 129-50 (.721) all-time record against Baylor (32-5), Texas (45-25), Texas A&M (25-4) and Texas Tech (27-16). Since the inception of the Big 12, OU is 23-0 against Baylor, 16-12 versus Texas, 20-4 against Texas A&M and 18-8 versus Texas Tech for a combined 77-24 record (.762).
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 eight road games this year, Johnson is averaging 10.8 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.3 assists while shooting .500 from 3-point range (21-for-42). 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 six of the team's eight road contests (he canned a career-high six at Texas Tech on Saturday).
"SOONER HOOPS WITH JEFF CAPEL" NOW AIRING
Hosted by Bob Carpenter, the 2007-08 version of the "Sooner Hoops with Jeff Capel" television show is airing across the state and on regional and national stations this year. In Oklahoma City, the show airs 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 is being 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" is also airing 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 is being carried regionally by FSN Southwest and nationally by CSTV and Fox College Sports. Check local listings for air dates and stations. "Sooner Hoops with Jeff Capel" is archived in All-Access, the premium site on SoonerSports.com.
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