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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Wednesday, February 10
Norman
7:00 PM
University of Oklahoma
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Baylor
Sooners Trap Baylor in OT, 62-60
February 10, 2010 | Women's Basketball
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- Amanda Thompson had 19 points and a career-high 19 rebounds and Nyeshia Stevenson banked in a runner in the lane with 14.5 seconds left in overtime to lift No. 12 Oklahoma to a 62-60 win over 11th-ranked Baylor on Wednesday night.
Freshman Brittney Griner notched her second straight triple-double with 17 points, 12 rebounds and 11 blocks but the Bears (17-6, 4-5 Big 12) managed only one basket in overtime to leave the door open.
Danielle Robinson had 19 points, including the tying jumper with 2:21 left in overtime, and Stevenson finished with 12 points for the Sooners (17-6, 7-3).
What started out as a snoozer as neither team could make a basket with regularity ended up being an electrifying back-and-forth contest down the stretch.
Griner capped a string of eight straight Baylor points to give the Bears their first lead of the second half at 45-44 with 6:56 to play, and that started a stretch in which the lead changed hands nine times in 4 minutes.
Robinson and Griner, Baylor's 6-foot-8 sensation, exchanged baskets before Thompson hit a 3-pointer for the Sooners. Jordan Madden answered with a 3 of her own at the other end, pumping her fist in the air in celebration. But Thompson hit another 3-pointer on Oklahoma's next possession -- marking the first time she'd made three 3-pointers in her career -- before Griner's three-point play put Baylor ahead 55-54 with 3:13 left.
Abi Olajuwon put Oklahoma back on top with a three-point play off a putback with 1:38 left, but Kelli Griffin sank a foul-line jumper with 42 seconds remaining to send it into overtime tied at 57.
Madden hit another 3-pointer to put Baylor up 60-58 with 3:31 left in overtime but that ended up being the Bears' only basket after regulation. Griffin missed a shot from the right side of the lane as the final seconds ran off the clock.
She finished with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
After the teams exchanged handshakes, Sooners coach Sherri Coale bear-hugged Stevenson at halfcourt.
The victory brought an end to an odd trend in which the season series between the teams had been swept every season since Big 12 play started in 1996. Oklahoma had swept Baylor eight times and been swept five times.
This time, the Sooners were able to avenge a loss in Waco last month.
Both teams got off to miserable starts from the field, going a combined 7 for 42 (16 percent). Baylor entered with the nation's second-best shooting mark at 49.2 percent but was only 6 for 32 in the first half while being held to its lowest scoring total ever for a half during Big 12 play. The Bears had been limited to 16 points in the first half of games against Texas A&M and Colorado in 2004.
Oklahoma capitalized on the absence of Griner, who holds the Big 12 season mark for blocks only two-thirds of the way through her freshman years, to score the last 10 points of the first half and claim a 27-15 advantage. After Griner went to the bench with two fouls -- the second picked up when she made contact with Joanna McFarland near midcourt well behind the play -- the Sooners made their next five baskets, all in the paint.
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey stood on the sidelines with her arms crossed as the Bears' deficit continued to grow.
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