University of Oklahoma Athletics
OU-Baylor Game Notes
January 18, 2014 | Men's Basketball
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Postgame Notes
No. 25 Oklahoma 66, at No. 12 Baylor 64
Jan. 18, 2014
• Oklahoma won for the second time in three Big 12 road games with its 66-64 win at No. 12/13 Baylor on Saturday. The 25th-ranked Sooners improved to 14-4 overall and 3-2 in conference play. Baylor fell to 13-4 and 1-3.
• The win was OU's first on the road against a team ranked in the top 12 or higher of the AP poll since Feb. 17, 1993 (80-77 at No. 6 Kansas).
• OU's triumph snapped Baylor's 13-game home winning streak, the second longest in school history. Baylor had won 18 of its previous 21 games overall, with two of the three losses coming on the road to top-10 teams.
• The loss for Baylor was just its second in the last 33 games when leading at the half (the Sooners trailed 30-24 at intermission today).
• Down eight points (32-24) after Baylor's opening possession of the second half, OU used a 16-0 run to go up eight (42-34) with 14:30 to go. Baylor regained the lead with 9 minutes left and the game went back and forth until OU took the lead for good with 4 minutes remaining (58-57).
• The Sooners were up by seven with 21 seconds left before Baylor sophomore center Isaiah Austin hit back-to-back 3-pointers (he was 1-for-7 on the season from long range entering the game). Baylor had a chance to tie on its final possession but its would-be overtime-forcing make was after the buzzer.
• OU sophomore Buddy Hield scored a game-high 19 points, all after halftime. He was 7-for-11 from the field and 4-for-8 from behind the arc in the second half. Hield also pulled down eight rebounds, tied for his second highest total of the year. He leads all Big 12 players with his 19 treys in league action (five games).
• After going 1-for-16 from the field the previous 1 1/2 games, senior forward Cameron Clark was 5-for-9 today and finished with 14 points and four rebounds.
• Freshman point guard Jordan Woodard tallied 10 points and eight assists (tied for second most of his career) while committing just two turnovers in his 32 minutes. He entered the game leading the Big 12 in free throw makes and attempts and was 5-for-7 today.
• Sophomore forward Ryan Spangler grabbed a game-high-tying nine rebounds and added seven points, two assists and two blocked shots. He was 2-for-3 from the field, continuing his streak of shooting at least 50 percent from the field (every game this year).
• OU returns home to host TCU on Wednesday at 8 p.m. CT (televised by ESPNU).
