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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Sooners Aiming for Bedlam Sweep
March 04, 2008 | Men's Basketball
| OU (19-10, 7-7) at Oklahoma State (16-12, 7-7) | |
| Date & Tip Time | Wednesday, March 5 at 7:05 p.m. CST |
| Location | Norman, Okla. | Gallagher-Iba Arena |
| Tickets | OU Athletics Ticket Office |
| TV | ESPN Plus KOCB Channel 34/Cox 11 in Oklahoma City KJRH Channel 2/Cox 9 in Tulsa |
| Radio | Sooner Radio Network KOKC AM-1520 in Oklahoma City KMOD FM-97.5 in Tulsa Sirius 126 |
| Webcast | None |
| Live Stats | www.okstate.com |
| Game Info | Gameday Central | Game Notes (PDF) |
GAME PREVIEW
After a record-setting defensive performance against Texas A&M on Saturday, Oklahoma (19-10 overall, 7-7 Big 12) hits the road for a Bedlam contest against Oklahoma State (16-12, 7-7) Wednesday at 7 p.m. CST in Stillwater. The Sooners, who hold a No. 28 CollegeRPI.com rating (the third best in the Big 12) through games of Monday and stand in a three-way fifth-place tie in the league standings, are 4-6 in road games (2-5 in the Big 12).
Oklahoma State has won six of its last seven games (including five straight) after starting Big 12 play with a 1-6 record. The Cowboys are 13-2 at home this year (5-2 in the Big 12).
Wednesday's contest, part of The Bedlam Series presented by Oklahoma Ford Dealers, will air on the Sooner Radio Network (KOKC 1520-AM in Oklahoma City; KMOD 97.5-FM in Tulsa; Sirius channel 126) with Bob Barry Sr. and Mike Houck calling the action. The game will be televised regionally by ESPN Plus (KOCB Channel 34/Cox 11 in Oklahoma City; KJRH Channel 2/Cox 9 in Tulsa) with Bob Carpenter and Paul Splittorff announcing.
"NOTE" WORTHY
• Oklahoma is 122-89 all-time against OSU but trails 58-40 in Stillwater. OU has won five of the last seven games overall in the series.
• With one more victory, OU will notch 20 wins for the 10th time in the last 11 seasons.
• Through games of Monday, Oklahoma boasts the nation's No. 8 strength of schedule (according to CollegeRPI.com).
• Oklahoma has clinched its 27th consecutive winning season (longest streak in the Big 12).
• Blake Griffin sustained a partial tear of the medial meniscus in his right knee on Saturday against Texas A&M and underwent arthroscopic surgery on Sunday. He is expected to return sometime during the postseason.
• In its 19 wins, Oklahoma is shooting .403 from 3-point range. In its 10 losses, it is shooting .269 from long range.
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SATURDAY'S TEXAS A&M RECAP
• OU beat Texas A&M 64-37 at home on Saturday and set numerous records in the process. Included was an NCAA record (since the advent of the shot clock in 1986) for longest scoring drought by an opponent. The Sooners held the Aggies scoreless for a 16:12 span (the final 12:51 of the first half and first 3:21 of the second).
• During its scoring drought, Texas A&M missed 20 field goal attempts.
• Texas A&M's 10 first-half points were the fewest ever scored by a Big 12 team in a half of a conference game. Its 37 total points tied as the fewest in a conference contest.
• The Sooners held Texas A&M to .255 field goal shooting (13-for-51), the lowest opponent figure since Arkansas-Pine Bluff shot .205 on Dec. 2, 2003 (a span of 149 games).
• OU, which set season lows for 3-point field goal makes (two) and attempts (six), shot .480 from the field. It was the team's best shooting game since posting a .500 figure against Oklahoma State on Jan. 28.
• Longar Longar scored a game-high 14 points off the bench while also pulling down a game-high-tying eight rebounds.
• The Sooners posted a 42-28 rebounding advantage. Texas A&M entered the game ranked second in the Big 12 with its +8.5 average rebounding margin. No Aggie finished with more than three boards.
• Texas A&M finished with one assist and 18 turnovers.
• OU reserve forward Beau Gerber played the game's final three minutes and scored his first two points of the season.
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TEAM UPDATE
• With its Saturday win, Oklahoma now stands in a three-way, fifth-place Big 12 tie with Oklahoma State and Texas A&M at 7-7. The Sooners, Cowboys and Aggies trail Baylor and Kansas State (both 8-6) by one game and lead Texas Tech (7-8) by a half game.
• OU has clinched the tie-breaker with each Big 12 South team it could potentially tie in the final league standings (Baylor, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M and Texas Tech). The Sooners own the first tie-breaker (head-to-head competition) with Baylor and Texas Tech due to regular season sweeps. OU also owns the second tie-breaker (record within own division) with each of those four teams. It will finish with at least six wins against Big 12 South teams while no other team can finish with more than five.
• As of Monday, CollegeRPI.com projects Oklahoma as a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament while ESPN.com's "Bracketology" has it as a No. 9 seed.
• The Sooners are attempting to earn an NCAA Tournament bid for the 25th time in school history and for the 12th time in the last 14 years. A postseason berth of any kind would be OU's 26th in the last 27 seasons (no team in the country has more postseason appearances over the last 26 years than Oklahoma's 25).
• Oklahoma has won four 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.
• After shooting .500 or better from the field in nine of its first 16 games, OU has done it once in the last 13 outings.
• OU is shooting .486 from the field and .403 from 3-point range in its wins but just .375 and .269 in its losses.
• Either Blake Griffin (12 times) or Taylor Griffin (six times) has led OU in rebounding in 18 of the last 19 contests.
• OU's 14 Big 12 opponents have shot a remarkable .807 from the foul line against the Sooners (205-for-254).
FRONTCOURT UPDATE
• Freshman forward Blake Griffin sustained a partially torn medial meniscus in his right knee with 15:15 remaining in the first half of Saturday's 64-37 win over Texas A&M. Griffin underwent arthroscopic surgery on Sunday morning and is expected to return to game action sometime during the Big 12 Championship (March 13-16). Griffin also injured his left knee this season (sprained medial collateral ligament) five minutes into OU's game at Kansas on Jan. 14 (he missed the rest of that contest as well as the team's next game against Texas Tech).
• In his 12 full Big 12 games, Griffin is averaging 17.2 points, 10.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists. OU's leading scorer (15.2) and rebounder (9.3) on the year, he has scored in double figures in 18 of his last 20 games (not including the Kansas contest).
• The last OU true freshman to average as many points and rebounds as Griffin for an entire season was Wayman Tisdale (24.5 and 10.3) in 1982-83. Tisdale earned first-team All-America honors as a freshman.
• Senior center Longar Longar missed two games due to a broken bone in his lower right leg but has returned to average 24.3 minutes off the bench over his six games since (he is averaging 7.5 points and 4.3 rebounds while shooting .375 from the field in those six outings).
• The team's second-leading scorer, rebounder and shot-blocker on the year with his 11.9, 5.5 and 1.0 respective averages, Longar scored a game-high 14 points and grabbed a game-high-tying eight boards Saturday against Texas A&M. He is shooting .500 from the field on the year and averages 4.4 free throw attempts per outing.
• Seeing a major increase in minutes the last month and a half, junior forward Taylor Griffin averaged 9.5 points and 6.3 rebounds over a 10-game stretch (starting on Jan. 14) before averaging 2.0 points and 6.0 boards over the last three outings (he was held scoreless Feb. 23 at Texas and Feb. 27 at Nebraska). Griffin has started 11 of the last 12 games (averaging 27.0 minutes).
• 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 .431 (53-for-123), has made at least three treys in a game 10 times and is 37-for-60 (.617) in those contests. He has already made 18 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 already scored 56 more points this year than he did as a freshman.
• Since averaging 7.3 points during OU's three-game losing streak earlier this month, Crocker is averaging 12.5 over the last six contests. Included was a 22-point effort against Iowa State (Feb. 13) and a 20-point game versus Baylor (Feb. 19). Against the Bears, Crocker scored the game's final seven points in the last 21 seconds of overtime. His four-point play with 7.3 seconds left was the game-winner.
• After averaging 3.3 points over a three-game stretch to start February, junior Austin Johnson is averaging 11.8 points over the last six contests. A .361 3-point field goal shooter on the year, he is shooting .441 (15-for-34) over those last six outings.
• Johnson has had a very productive last few weeks. He scored 13 points Feb. 13 against Iowa State, a career-high 20 at Texas Tech Feb. 16 (he made a career-high six 3-pointers), 19 against Baylor Feb. 19 and 13 on Saturday versus Texas A&M. He is now averaging 8.7 points per game on the year and ranks second on the team with his 44 treys.
• A starter in the team's first eight league games, senior David Godbold has come off the bench in five of the last six outings. Godbold is averaging 7.9 points and 4.9 rebounds in 32.4 minutes per Big 12 game (second most minutes on team).
• Godbold turned in a career-high 22-point outing at Texas A&M on Feb. 2, a game in which he was 6-for-10 from 3-point range. In seven contests since that 22-point effort and a 12-point outing the next game against Texas, Godbold is averaging 4.3 points and has failed to reach double figures.
• Freshman Cade Davis made his third start of the year (and first since the season's second game) on Saturday against Texas A&M. He registered six points and three rebounds in a career-high 32 minutes. Davis, who scored a career-high 11 points against Iowa State on Feb. 13 when he was 3-for-3 from 3-point distance, scored 10 more last Wednesday at Nebraska on 4-for-7 field goal shooting. He is averaging 3.8 points in 12.7 minutes per contest on the year (8.0 points in 24.0 minutes over the last two games).
• Davis is 20-for-20 from the free throw line this year (16-for-16 at home).
• Freshman Tony Neysmith earned his first four career starts over the last three weeks (he came off the bench the last two games) and totaled six points in 25 minutes in those starts. He has scored 10 points on the season.
• Junior Omar Leary is averaging 4.2 points in 16.8 minutes per game. He started eight of the team's first 10 contests but has come off the bench in each of the last 19. A .400 shooter from 3-point range (24-for-60), he has 12 points over the last 10 games.
PREVIEWING OKLAHOMA STATE
• Oklahoma State enters Wednesday's game with a 16-12 overall record and a 7-7 Big 12 mark (tied for fifth place with OU, Texas A&M and Texas Tech). After starting 1-6 in league play, the Cowboys have won six of their last seven (including their last five).
• During its five-game winning streak, OSU is outscoring its opponents 73.0 to 66.6 and has posted excellent shooting percentages (.471 from the field, .489 from 3-point range and .765 from the free throw line). Also over the last five games, the Cowboys have made more free throws (91) than their opponents have attempted (80).
• OSU ranks 11th in the Big 12 in field goal percentage (.437), fifth in 3-point field goal percentage (.357) and second in free throw percentage (.729). It also ranks third in the league with its 8.5 steals per outing.
• Freshman guard James Anderson is averaging a team-high 13.9 points per game (11.1 in Big 12 play). A McDonald's All-American last year, Anderson has made a team-high 60 3-pointers and is shooting .387 from behind the arc.
• Junior guard Byron Eaton is averaging 11.7 points, 3.3 assists and 2.1 steals per game while shooting .413 from 3-point range (31-for-75) and .815 from the free throw line (128-for-157). Over the last five outings, Eaton is averaging 20.6 points and 5.0 assists while shooting .553 from the field, .750 from long range (12-for-16) and .813 from the foul line (39-for-48).
• Junior guard Terrel Harris averages 10.4 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game while shooting .840 from the free throw line. Harris, who has scored five or fewer points in three of the last four outings, is shooting .254 from long range (26-for-91).
• Senior forward Marcus Dove contributes 9.9 points per game and leads the Cowboys with his 5.4 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per outing. Dove, last year's Big 12 Co-Defensive Player of the Year, is averaging 16.0 points over the last two games. He recorded his lone double-double of the season two games ago at Missouri with 15 points and 10 boards.
• Sophomore guard Obi Muonelo averages 9.8 points and 3.4 rebounds per game while making 47 treys on the year (shooting .362 from long range). Muonelo ranks second on the squad in league play by averaging 11.6 points (shooting .403 from deep).
SERIES WITH THE COWBOYS
Oklahoma holds a 122-89 (.578) series lead against Oklahoma State, but trails 58-40 in games played in Stillwater. Since the inception of the Big 12 Conference (1996-97 was the first season of league competition), OU is 12-12 against the Cowboys (3-8 at Gallagher-Iba Arena.) The Sooners have won five of the last seven overall meetings.
MORE SERIES NOTES
• Oklahoma and Oklahoma State (then Oklahoma A&M) first met during the 1907-08 season, with the Sooners prevailing 37-19 in Stillwater and 41-9 in Norman. The programs have played continuously since the 1927-28 season.
• This marks the first time since 1997-98 where neither OU nor OSU has been ranked in either regular season meeting.
• OU's three wins in Stillwater since the inception of the Big 12 came in 1999 (72-65), 2000 (59-56) and 2006 (73-65).
JAN. 28 AGAINST OKLAHOMA STATE
• Oklahoma won for the fifth time in its last seven games against Oklahoma State by posting a 64-61 win in Norman. OU overcame a 32-27 halftime deficit and outscored OSU 37-29 in the second half to win its third straight game.
• OU gave up just two points over the first six minutes of the second half and opened on a 13-2 run to go ahead 40-34.
• The Sooners squandered a 56-49 lead and watched OSU tie the score at 57 with 1:37 remaining. Blake Griffin's offensive rebound and three-point play with 52 seconds left put OU back up for good.
• The Sooners began the game just 17-for-30 (.567) from the free throw line but made their final six attempts. Griffin made his last five charity attempts after starting 4-for-10.
• Taylor Griffin scored a career-high 20 points on 7-for-8 field goal shooting and 6-for-8 free throw shooting, and pulled down a game-high six rebounds in 28 minutes of action. Blake Griffin finished with 15 points, four boards and three assists (all to Taylor in the first half).
• All six of OU's offensive rebounds came in the second half. It converted on every second-chance opportunity (15 points).
• Both teams committed 12 turnovers. However, the Sooners outscored the Cowboys 17-3 in the points-off-turnovers category.
• Oklahoma State was 17-for-17 from the free throw line. OSU sophomore guard Obi Muonelo scored a career-high 25 points.
"SOONER HOOPS WITH JEFF CAPEL"
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. "Sooner Hoops with Jeff Capel" is archived in All-Access, the premium site on SoonerSports.com
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