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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Men's Hoops Back in Action Wednesday at Colorado
February 16, 2010 | Men's Basketball
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| Tony Crocker |
| Oklahoma (13-11, 4-6) at Colorado (11-13, 2-8) | |
| Date & Tip Time | Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. CST |
| Location | Boulder, Colo. | Coors Events/Conference Center |
| Tickets | OU Athletics Ticket Office |
| TV |
ESPNU |
| Radio | Sooner Radio Network KOKC AM 1520 in Oklahoma City KTBZ AM 1430 in Tulsa |
| Webcast | ESPN360.com |
| Live Stats | SoonerSports.com GameTracker |
| Game Info | Game Notes (PDF) |
GAME PREVIEW
Oklahoma (13-11 overall, 4-6 Big 12) will go for its first conference road win of the year when it plays at Colorado (11-13, 2-8) Wednesday at 8 p.m. CST. The Sooners, who are 1-6 in true road contests this season (0-5 in Big 12 play), haven't won away from home since Dec. 12 at Utah. The Buffaloes have lost four straight games and seven of the last eight after a 1-1 league start. They are 10-3 at home on the year. Wednesday's game will air on the Sooner Radio Network with Bob Barry Sr. and Mike Houck calling the action. It will be televised by ESPNU with Carter Blackburn and LaPhonso Ellis announcing.
NOTEWORTHY
• Oklahoma holds an 87-48 series lead against Colorado but trails 31-26 in Boulder. The Sooners have lost three straight and four of the last five at CU.
• In its seven true road games this year (1-6 record), OU is averaging 65.1 points and is shooting .379 (opponents are averaging 78.0 points and shooting .472).
• OU ranks first in the Big 12 and 12th nationally with its 8.5 3-point makes per game. The school record for average 3-pointers per contest in a season is also 8.5 in 1998-99. Five Sooners have made at least 25 treys (no other Big 12 school has more than three players with at least 25 makes each).
• Oklahoma is the only team in the Big 12 with five players who each average double figures in scoring.
• OU ranks second in the Big 12 and 30th nationally with its .738 free throw mark. Colorado ranks fifth in the country with its .761 mark.
• Over the last seven games, Tommy Mason-Griffin is averaging 22.4 points and 4.1 assists. He is 26-for-53 (.491) from 3-point range during the stretch.
• Mason-Griffin has made at least one 3-pointer in 23 of 24 games, and at least two treys in all 10 Big 12 outings. He leads the league in 3-point field goal percentage (.452) and ranks fourth in assists (4.6 apg) and fourth in treys per game (2.4).
• In OU's 10 league games, Mason-Griffin is shooting .486 from 3-point range (34-for-70). The rest of the team is shooting .271 (45-for-166).
• Mason-Griffin has led OU in scoring in five of the last seven games after not doing it in any of the first 17 outings.
• Junior guard Cade Davis is averaging 16.8 points and 3.8 rebounds over the last five outings. He is 17-for-40 (.425) from behind the arc during the stretch and has made at least three treys in five of the last seven games.
• Senior forward Ryan Wright is averaging 5.5 points and 5.7 rebounds in Big 12 play after averaging 3.2 points and 3.7 boards in non-conference action. Over the last eight games, he is averaging 6.4 points (.606 field goal percentage) and 6.8 rebounds. He has started five of the last six contests and 10 on the year.
• Senior guard Tony Crocker, who has started his last 89 games, has recorded his only seven career double-doubles over his last 17 outings.
• Last Tuesday, Crocker became just the second Sooner to ever record 1,000 points, 500 boards and 150 3-pointers in a career (Ryan Minor is the other).
• Sophomore guard Willie Warren, who has missed three of OU's last six games (sprained ankle and mononucleosis), is averaging 13.5 points over his last 11 contests (4.3 free throw attempts per contest) after averaging 19.6 points over his first nine (7.9 free throw attempts per game).
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PREVIEWING COLORADO
Colorado, 11-13 on the year and 2-8 in Big 12 play, enters Wednesday's game in a tie with Iowa State for 10th place in the conference race. The Buffaloes, who are 10-3 at home (2-3 in league games), have lost seven of their last eight games (including their last four) after starting the year 10-6. In Big 12 play, CU ranks eighth in scoring offense (70.4 ppg), 11th in scoring defense (76.6 ppg), seventh in field goal percentage (.436), seventh in 3-point field goal percentage (.358) and fourth in free throw percentage (.729).
Junior guard Cory Higgins leads three Buffaloes who average double figures in points. Higgins ranks fifth in the Big 12 with his 18.1 scoring average and adds 3.8 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 2.0 steals per contest. He is shooting .481 from the field and .839 from the foul line (averages 6.5 attempts per outing). Freshman Alec Burks leads all Big 12 newcomers and ranks eighth among all players with his 16.8 points per game. Burks, who is shooting a league-high .520 from the field, also pulls down a team-high 4.8 rebounds per contest. Junior forward Marcus Relphorde averages 10.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. Relphorde did not play Saturday at Kansas State (knee injury).
Jeff Bzdelik is 32-55 (.368) in his third year as Colorado's head coach. He's in his eighth year as a college head coach and is 107-102 (.512).
OU-COLORADO SERIES HISTORY
Oklahoma owns an 87-48 series advantage against Colorado and holds a 12-4 advantage since the Big 12 was formed. The Buffaloes own a 31-26 edge in Boulder and have won three straight there and four of the last five (OU had won 13 of 15 there between 1983 and 1998). Jeff Capel is 3-1 against Colorado as OU's head coach (lost 72-58 in 2008 in only meeting at Coors Events Center).
LAST YEAR AGAINST THE BUFFALOES
• After leading 65-51 with 6:50 remaining, the Sooners watched Colorado get to within three twice in the waning moments of their 77-72 home win last year on Feb. 7. OU's only deficits of the game were 10-9 and 18-17.
• Oklahoma, which shot .571 from the field on the day, posted a .727 first-half figure but led just 38-33 at the break. It used a 14-6 run over a five-minute second-half span to stretch a 51-45 lead to 65-51.
• Blake Griffin recorded his sixth straight double-double with game highs of 26 points and 12 rebounds. He made his first nine field goal attempts and finished 11-for-14. Four of his baskets were dunks.
• Tony Crocker poured in 24 points (his third highest career total at the time) with the help of a career-high seven 3-pointers (on 11 attempts). His outburst broke a three-game string of single-digit scoring (had averaged 5.3 ppg).
• Willie Warren netted just five points on 2-for-7 shooting but finished with a game-high six assists.
• After getting outrebounded by 14 by Texas A&M the game before, OU posted a 33-20 advantage on the glass against Colorado.
• The win was Oklahoma's 23rd straight and 35th in the last 36 meetings against the Buffaloes in Norman.
• Cory Higgins paced Colorado with 20 points while Austin Dufault and Dwight Thorne added 13 each.
SATURDAY'S OKLAHOMA STATE RECAP
• OU jumped out to a 21-15 lead midway through the first half at Oklahoma State but failed to maintain the momentum and lost 97-76.
• The Cowboys outscored OU 33-17 over the final 11 minutes of the first half and made their first 10 field goal attempts (and 13 of their first 14) of the second half. OSU shot .541 from the field on the day, .500 from 3-point range (14-for-28) and .850 from the foul line (17-for-20).
• OU made a season-high-tying 14 treys on 31 attempts (.452).
• Tommy Mason-Griffin scored 21 second-half points en route to a 30-point day (his second highest career total). He was 5-for-10 from 3-point range and handed out a team-high five assists.
• Cade Davis hit five 3-pointers (one shy of his career high) on eight attempts and finished with 19 points.
• Tony Crocker was 3-for-7 from 3-point distance and finished with 16 points and a team-high three steals.
• Mason-Griffin, Davis and Crocker combined for 65 points while the rest of the squad teamed for 11 points.
• Willie Warren (sick) and Tiny Gallon (suspended) did not play. They combined for 28 points and 23 boards in the first Bedlam meeting.
MASON-GRIFFIN ON A ROLL
• Over the last nine games, freshman point guard Tommy Mason-Griffin is averaging 19.9 points, 3.7 rebounds and 4.1 assists in 39.4 minutes a contest. He is shooting .485 from 3-point range (32-for-66) in those outings.
• Mason-Griffin has led OU in scoring in five of the last seven games (averaging 22.4 over the seven contests). He did not pace the team in scoring in any of its first 17 games (averaged 10.2 points in those 17).
• The 5-11, 203-pounder leads the Big 12 (all games) in 3-point percentage (.452) and ranks fourth in assists (4.6 apg) and fourth in 3-pointers per game (2.4). In Big 12 play, he ranks first in 3-pointers per contest (3.4) and second in 3-point percentage (.486).
• Mason-Griffin leads OU and all Big 12 newcomers with his 18.5 scoring average in conference play.
• With six regular season games remaining, Mason-Griffin already ranks third on OU's all-time freshman list in 3-point makes (57) and sixth in assists (110). No Oklahoma freshman has ever shot better from 3-point range for a season than Mason-Griffin's current .448 mark or has averaged more than his current 34.8 minutes per outing.
PICK YOUR POISON
Five different Sooners have each made at least 25 treys through the team's first 24 games. No other Big 12 team has more than three players with at least 25 3-point makes each heading into the week. Tommy Mason-Griffin leads OU with 57 makes (2.4 per game) and is followed by Cade Davis with 44 (1.8 per outing), Tony Crocker with 35 (1.5 per game), Steven Pledger with 30 (1.3 per contest) and Willie Warren with 27 (1.4 per game). OU ranks first in the Big 12 and 12th nationally with its 8.5 treys per outing (the school record is also 8.5 in 1998-99).
GUARDS SHOULDERING THE LOAD
Five of OU's top six scorers, including its top three, are guards. The Sooners' backcourt has accounted for 1,354 of the team's 1,772 points, or 76 percent. Willie Warren leads the guard charge by averaging 16.2 points per outing and is followed by Tommy Mason Griffin (13.8), Tony Crocker (12.0), Cade Davis (10.0) and Steven Pledger (6.4). All five of those players have surpassed the 20-point mark at least twice this year (Warren has done it seven times, Mason-Griffin six times, Crocker and Davis three times each and Pledger twice). Mason-Griffin (three times), Crocker and Davis have all scored at least 20 points in a half this season. Last year, guards accounted for 52 percent of OU's points.
YOUTH MOVEMENT
The freshman foursome of Tommy Mason-Griffin (13.8 ppg), Tiny Gallon (10.4), Steven Pledger (6.4) and Andrew Fitzgerald (3.6)has combined to score 784 of the team's 1,772 points this year, or 44 percent. Mason-Griffin leads the Big 12 with his .452 3-point field goal percentage and ranks fourth with his 4.6 assists per game. Gallon, who is shooting .542 from the field, ranks seventh in the Big 12 in rebounds per game (8.0) and eighth with six double-doubles (he missed out on another by one rebound). Pledger has knocked down 31 treys and has two games of more than 20 points. Fitzgerald has made five starts and is averaging 3.6 points on .510 field goal shooting.
CROCKER CLIMBING THE CHARTS
Senior guard Tony Crocker entered the year ranked 34th in school history in points (1,008) and seventh in 3-point makes (158). With a strong start to the season, the 6-6 San Antonio, Texas, product has vaulted to the No. 17 spot in points (1,284) and the No. 4 spot in 3-pointers (193). Crocker, who has started his last 89 games, needs 54 points to tie Mookie Blaylock (1988-89) for 16th place in scoring. At his current pace of 12.0 points per game, Crocker would finish the regular season ranked 15th on the Sooners' all-time scoring chart. Crocker's next target on the career 3-point makes list is Tim Heskett (1997-01). He needs 22 makes to tie Heskett for third on that list.
Crocker also has a chance to make a run at the top spot on OU's games played list. He entered the year with 102 career appearances and would finish the regular season with 131 if he plays in every remaining game. Depending on the Sooners' postseason fortunes, Crocker could challenge the record of 137 career games played by Darryl “Choo” Kennedy (1984-87).
Last Tuesday, Crocker became just the second Sooner (and first of the Big 12 era) to register at least 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 150 3-pointers in a career. Forward Ryan Minor (1993-96) racked up 1,946 points, 767 rebounds and 170 treys.
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