Red River Upset

Wednesday, January 14

Norman

7:00 PM

University of Oklahoma

Texas

January 14, 2015 | Women's Basketball

By: Athletics Communications

4/5 Texas

Oklahoma

Box Score

Stat Comparison
Category	Texas	OU
Points	59	70
FGM-A	17-65	18-52
FG%	26.2	34.6
3 FGM-A	4-23	5-18
3 FG%	17.4	27.8
FTM-A	21-27	29-36
FT%	77.8	80.6
Rebounds	48	42
Assists	8	8
Turnovers	18	15
Blocks	3	3
Steals	11	8

Individual Leaders
Category	Texas	OU
Points	Enemkpali - 21	Manning - 14
Rebounds	Enemkpali - 16	Little - 10
Assists	Two Players - 2	Three Players - 2
Steals	Sanders - 5	Little - 3
Blocks	Enemkpali - 3	Three Players - 1

Player of the Game
Maddie Manning//RSo.//G Manning contributed a career-high 14 points after making 12 of her 14 free throw attempts. She had several key makes from the line late in the ballgame to help seal the OU victory.

NORMAN (AP) -- Usually, an unranked team gets excited about a win over the No. 4 team in the nation.

For Oklahoma, things just returned to normal.

Maddie Manning scored a career-high 14 points and Peyton Little added 13 points and a career-best 10 rebounds to help the Sooners upset No. 4 Texas 70-59 on Wednesday night.

Coach Sherri Coale said the win was important, but she didn't overemphasize it, and neither did her team.

Oklahoma's long-term success -- 15 straight NCAA tournament appearances, six regular-season Big 12 titles and four conference tournament titles -- make such victories the expectation.

Coale said her team improved early in the season, despite a 5-5 start, and the growing pains put the Sooners in position to beat the Longhorns.

"I feel like we won this game because of what we did in November and December," Coale said. "We just had to do hard stuff. We had to get broken into pieces to build ourselves into what we want to be. We've got a long way to go guys and a lot of improvement to make, but I'm really proud of our girls."

The Sooners (10-5, 4-0) won their fifth straight and moved into a tie with Baylor atop the conference standings.

Texas (13-2, 2-2) was coming off its first loss of the season, a 59-57 setback at Iowa State on Saturday. The Longhorns followed that effort by shooting a season-low 26 percent from the field.

Texas, which entered shooting just 29 percent from 3-point range, made just 4 of 23 3-pointers. Nneka Enemkpali dominated inside with 21 points on 6-for-11 shooting and 16 rebounds, but her teammates made just 11 of 54 field goals and failed to get the ball to her consistently.

The much bigger Longhorns were outscored 24-22 in the paint. Texas coach Karen Aston said she was concerned about her team's shot selection and said its ball movement was poor.

"I thought we took some really ill-advised shots," Aston said. "Rather frustrating, because we would call some things to try to get the ball inside and they just ... you can't take every open shot."

Texas led by eight with four minutes left in the first half before Oklahoma rallied. The Sooners finally took a 27-26 lead on a free throw by Little 1:21 before halftime. The Sooners led 31-28 at the break, despite Enemkpali's 13 points and 11 rebounds.

"I think this is the second game in a row that I've really felt like our team let a game slip away in the first half," Aston said. "We had ample opportunity to take advantage of their foul trouble, and we had a lead and we just didn't value the possessions very well down the stretch in the first half."

A 3-point play by Little pushed Oklahoma's lead to 36-28 less than two minutes into the second half, and Gioya Carter's 3-pointer pushed the Sooners' lead to double digits for the first time.

Texas rallied, and a 3-pointer by Celina Rodrigo cut Oklahoma's lead to 44-42. Oklahoma's Gabbi Ortiz responded with a 3-pointer, and Oklahoma maintained control the rest of the way.