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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Sooners Prepped for Big 12 Bedlam Matchup
March 09, 2010 | Men's Basketball
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| Cade Davis |
| Oklahoma (13-17, 4-12) vs. Oklahoma State (21-9, 9-7) | |
| Date & Tip Time | Wednesday, March 10 at 6 p.m. CST |
| Location | Kansas City, Mo. | Sprint Center |
| Tickets | Sold Out |
| TV |
Big 12 Network |
| Radio | Sooner Radio Network KOKC AM 1520 in Oklahoma City KTBZ AM 1430 in Tulsa |
| Webcast | ESPN360.com |
| Live Stats | Big12Sports.com |
| Game Info | Game Notes (PDF) |
WEDNESDAY'S GAME BASICS
Oklahoma (13-17 overall, 4-12 Big 12) plays a first-round Big 12 Championship game Wednesday at 6 p.m. CT when it faces Oklahoma State (21-9, 9-7) inside Kansas City's Sprint Center. The 10th-seeded Sooners, who have lost eight straight games, own a 19-10 Big 12 Championship record and are 14-6 in the event in Kansas City. Oklahoma State has won five of its last seven games and is the tournament's No. 7 seed. Wednesday's game will air on the Sooner Radio Network with Bob Barry Sr. and Mike Houck calling the action. It will be televised regionally by the Big 12 Network with Dave Armstrong and Reid Gettys announcing.
OKLAHOMA AND THE BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP
• Oklahoma sports a 19-10 (.655) Big 12 Championship record, the league's second best mark (Kansas is 25-7). Including the Big Eight Tournament (1977 through 1996), OU is 42-26 (.618) in conference postseason tourney play.
• OU has won three Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship titles (2001, 2002, 2003).
• This marks just the fourth time in 14 Big 12 Championships that Oklahoma has not earned a first-round bye. OU has won at least one game in 10 of the previous 13 years.
• The Sooners have played in five of the 12 Big 12 title games.
• Only Kansas (25 wins and six titles) has more total tournament wins and championships than OU (19 victories and three crowns).
• The Sooners won the 2001 and 2002 Big 12 Championships in Kansas City (Kemper Arena).
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A WEDNESDAY OKLAHOMA WIN WOULD...
• Propel the Sooners into a Thursday second-round contest against No. 2 seed Kansas State at 6 p.m. CT.
• Give the Sooners at least one victory in the Big 12 Championship for the 11th time in 14 league tournaments.
• Be OU's first against Oklahoma State in three tries in Big 12 Championship play.
• Be the Sooners' seventh win in their last nine meetings against Oklahoma State and their 10th in the last 14 meetings.
• Improve OU's Big 12 Championship record to 20-10 (.667). Including the Big Eight Tournament, the Sooners would push their postseason conference tournament mark to 43-26 (.623).
• Up the Sooners' record at the Sprint Center to 4-1.
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NOTEWORTHY
• Oklahoma is 126-91 all-time against Oklahoma State and is 16-14 against the Cowboys since the formation of the Big 12. OSU, however, has won both meetings in Big 12 Championship play (1999 and 2009 by a combined four points).
• OU has won six of its last eight games against OSU and nine of its last 13.
• The Sooners are 3-1 at Kansas City's Sprint Center. They went 1-1 in the 2008 Big 12 Championship and beat Morgan State and Michigan in last year's NCAA Tournament first and second rounds.
• In OU's last eight games (all losses), opponents are averaging 79.5 points while shooting .511 from the field and .475 from 3-point range. Each of the last seven opponents have shot .500 or better from the field and five of the last eight have shot .500 or better from behind the arc.
• The Sooners used nine different starting lineups in their 16 conference games.
• OU is the only Big 12 team with five players who each average double figures in scoring.
• Four of Oklahoma's top seven scorers are freshmen. Those four have accounted for 47 percent of the team's points, the highest percentage of any Big 12 team.
• OU's leading scorer on the year (16.3 ppg), sophomore Willie Warren had season-ending arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle last Wednesday. Warren also averaged 4.1 assists and 3.3 rebounds a contest.
• Over the last 13 games, freshman point guard Tommy Mason-Griffin is averaging 18.7 points, 4.9 assists and 2.9 3-point makes.
• Mason-Griffin has made at least one 3-pointer in 28 of 30 games. He averaged 3.4 treys in OU's first 12 league games but is 5-for-21 over the last four outings.
• In OU's 16 league contests, Mason-Griffin shot .430 from 3-point range (46-for-107). The rest of the team shot .287 (73-for-254).
• Mason-Griffin did not lead OU in scoring in any of its first 17 games. He has done it nine times in the last 13 outings.
• Mason-Griffin has played at least 37 minutes in 14 of the last 15 games (35 in the other during the stretch). He has logged 40 or more minutes eight times in those 15 outings (including three of the last four games).
• Junior guard Cade Davis is averaging 13.3 points and 4.5 rebounds over the last 11 outings. He is 31-for-78 (.397) from behind the arc during the stretch and has made at least three treys in seven of the last 13 games.
• Senior guard Tony Crocker, who has started his last 95 games, has recorded his only seven career double-doubles this year. Crocker leads all Big 12 guards in rebounding (6.2 rpg) and double-doubles (no other league guard has more than four double-doubles this year).
MASON-GRIFFIN NAMED THIRD-TEAM ALL-BIG 12
Point guard Tommy Mason-Griffin earned third-team All-Big 12 honors and was named to the league's all-rookie team on Sunday. Despite the fact he was the only league freshman named to the first-, second- or third-team all-conference squads, he was not named Big 12 Freshman of the Year (that honor went to Colorado's Alec Burks). In Big 12 play, the 5-11, 203-pounder from Houston, Texas, led all league newcomers in assists (4.6 apg), 3-point percentage (.430) and 3-pointers per game (2.9). He also ranked second among conference newcomers in scoring (16.9) and free throw percentage (.831). Here are more notes:
• Mason-Griffin has already set OU freshman records for assists (145) and 3-pointers (69) in a season. He also ranks first in school freshman history in minutes per game (35.6) and is in a virtual tie with Terry Evans (1990) for the best freshman 3-point field goal mark at .423.
• Mason-Griffin has led OU in scoring in nine of the last 13 games. Over those 13 outings, he is averaging 18.7 points and 4.9 assists while shooting .422 from 3-point range (38 makes) and .855 from the free throw line (47 makes) in an average of 38.9 minutes.
• Mason-Griffin ranks fourth in the Big 12 (all games) in assists (4.8), fifth in 3-point percentage (.423) and fifth in treys per game (2.3).
WARREN EARNS HONORABLE MENTION ALL-LEAGUE ACCLAIM
Sophomore guard Willie Warren, who underwent season-ending arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle March 3, was one of nine players who picked up honorable mention All-Big 12 acclaim. Warren averaged a team-high 16.3 points per game on the year and added 3.3 rebounds and 4.1 assists an outing. The 6-4, 203-pounder from Fort Worth, Texas, who missed half of the conference season due to injury or illness, scored at least 20 points seven times in his 21 games on the year. Last season's unanimous choice as Big 12 Freshman of the Year, Warren has made 34 more free throws this season than the next closest teammate (despite missing nine total games).
OU-OKLAHOMA STATE SERIES HISTORY
Oklahoma owns a 126-91 series advantage against Oklahoma State and has won six of the last eight meetings and nine of the last 13. Since the start of the Big 12 in 1996-97, OU is 16-14 against the Cowboys. The Sooners are 0-2 against OSU in the Big 12 Championship, with a 60-57 loss in Kansas City in 1999 and a 71-70 defeat in Oklahoma City last year. Jeff Capel is 6-3 against Oklahoma State as OU's head coach. This is just the second time in the 14-year history of the Big 12 that OU finished with a worse league record than the Cowboys.
PREVIEWING OKLAHOMA STATE
Oklahoma State enters Wednesday's contest with a 21-9 overall record after posting a 9-7 Big 12 mark. The Cowboys have won five of their last seven games and are coming off a 74-55 win over Nebraska on Saturday, a game in which they led 38-19 at halftime. In Big 12 play, OSU ranked fifth in the Big 12 in scoring offense (74.2), sixth in scoring defense (72.1), fifth in field goal percentage (.447), sixth in 3-point field goal percentage (.374) and third in free throw percentage (.732).
Big 12 Player of the Year James Anderson leads three Cowboys who average double figures in points. The junior guard is scoring a Big 12-high 22.9 points per contest and adds 6.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists. In two games against OU, he averaged 24.5 points and 4.0 rebounds. Senior guard Obi Muonelo is averaging 13.4 points and 5.2 rebounds per game and is shooting a Big 12-high .429 (73-for-170) from 3-point range. Sophomore guard Keiton Page averages 10.2 points a contest and has canned 63 treys on the year (shooting .358 from long range). Junior forward Marshall Moses adds 9.0 points and 8.6 boards a game while junior Matt Pilgrim averages 8.1 points and 6.9 rebounds.
Travis Ford is 44-21 (.677) in his second year as OSU's head coach. He's in his 13th year as a college head coach and is 234-195 (.545).
JAN. 11 RECAP: OKLAHOMA 62, OKLAHOMA STATE 57
• Oklahoma won for the sixth time in its last seven games against OSU, but it took overtime to get the 62-57 victory on Jan. 11 in Norman.
• OU trailed 42-34 with 13 minutes left in the second half before using a 13-0 run to take a 47-42 lead with 6:30 to go. Down by five with 30 seconds left, the Cowboys hit a 3 with 18 seconds remaining and a follow-up 2-pointer with 3.7 seconds to go to force overtime.
• OSU scored the first two points of overtime (4:35 left) but managed just one point the rest of the way.
• Tiny Gallon scored 13 points and grabbed an OU-season-high 18 rebounds in a then-career-high 35 minutes of action.
• Tommy Mason-Griffin hit a 25-foot 3-pointer with three minutes left in overtime that put the Sooners up for good. He was 4-for-7 from 3-point range (the rest of the team was 2-for-15) and finished with 14 points, three assists and no turnovers in 43 minutes.
• Willie Warren countered his seven turnovers with 15 points, seven assists (second most of his career) and five boards.
• The Sooners held Oklahoma State to a .275 field goal mark (lowest by an OU opponent in 58 games) and a .200 (5-for-25) 3-point mark.
• OU won despite shooting just .379 from the field, .273 (6-for-22) from 3-point range and .522 (12-for-23) from the free throw line. It went 1-for-6 from the foul line in the second half (missed three free throws in the final 1:48).
FEB. 13 RECAP: OKLAHOMA STATE 97, OKLAHOMA 76
• OU jumped out to a 21-15 lead midway through the first half Feb. 13 at OSU 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.
PICK YOUR POISON
Five different Sooners have each made at least 30 treys through 30 games. Texas, with four, is the only other Big 12 team with more than three players with at least 30 3-point makes each heading into the postseason. Tommy Mason-Griffin leads Oklahoma with 69 makes (2.3 per game) and is followed by Cade Davis with 58 (1.9 per outing), Tony Crocker with 39 (1.3 per game), Steven Pledger with 38 (1.3 per contest) and Willie Warren with 30 (1.4 per game). The Sooners rank second in the Big 12 with their 8.1 treys per outing (the school record is 8.5 in 1998-99).
YOUTH MOVEMENT
The freshman foursome of Tommy Mason-Griffin (13.8 ppg), Tiny Gallon (10.6), Steven Pledger (5.7) and Andrew Fitzgerald (4.8) has combined to score 1,009 of the team's 2,168 points this year, or 47 percent. The percentage of scoring output by OU's freshmen is higher than that of any other Big 12 team. Freshmen account for 39 percent of Nebraska's points, 39 percent of Texas', 27 percent of Colorado's, 25 percent of Kansas', 14 percent of Kansas State's, 14 percent of Texas A&M's, 14 percent of Oklahoma State's, 11 percent of Missouri's, 10 percent of Baylor's, five percent of Iowa State's and two percent of Texas Tech's.
In addition to his scoring, Mason-Griffin ranks fourth in the Big 12 with his 4.8 assists per game and fifth with his .423 3-point field goal percentage. Gallon, who is shooting a team-high .544 from the field, ranks seventh in the Big 12 in rebounds per game (8.0) and sixth with seven double-doubles (he missed out on two others by one rebound each). Pledger has knocked down 38 treys and has two games of more than 20 points. Fitzgerald has made 10 starts and is shooting .511 from the field.
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