No. 17/24 OU Set for First Road Contest

BRADLEY

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November 22 | 2 p.m. | Peoria, Ill.

SUNDAY'S GAME BASICS

No. 17/24 Oklahoma hits the road for the first time this season to take on Bradley Sunday at 2 p.m. CT inside the Renaissance Coliseum in Peoria, Ill. OU is 2-1 this season and rebounded after its first loss of the year by defeating BYU, 73-47, Thursday night at the Lloyd Noble Center. Bradley enters the contest with a 1-1 record following a 66-53 loss at Bowling Green last Sunday.

ON THE AIR

Sunday's contest will air on the Sooner Radio Network with Brian Brinkley calling the action. The game will be streamed live on ESPN3 with Spencer Siegel and Leah Kassing announcing.

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW

Peyton Little scored a season-high 21 points vs. BYU Thursday. The redshirt junior leads OU with 18.3 points per game this season.

• Sunday's matchup marks Oklahoma's first trip to Bradley and just the second meeting between the schools. The Sooners won last year's game in Norman, 104-55. OU is 23-13 all-time against current members of the Missouri Valley Conference.

• Oklahoma's Peyton Little ranks fourth in the Big 12 in 3-pointers made per game (3.0), fifth in scoring (18.2 ppg), sixth in minutes played per game (30.7) and 12th in steals (6). The redshirt junior has scored in double figures 13 times in her last 18 games dating back to last season. Little, who has 26 double-digit scoring games at OU, scored a season-high 21 points in the Sooners' 73-47 win over BYU Thursday.

• Junior redshirt guard Maddie Manning's hot start in the first quarter of Thursday's game with BYU sparked the Sooners' offense against BYU. Manning scored 13 points, the most of any player in one quarter this season, on 5 of 6 shooting in the opening 10 minutes. She also leads OU with 11 assists (3.7 per game) this season.

• Redshirt senior forward Kaylon Williams is OU's second leading scorer (12.0 ppg) and leads the club in rebounds per game (7.7). Williams, who picked up her first double-double of the season against North Texas (11 points/12 rebounds), now has nine career double-doubles - the most of any active player on OU's roster. She has scored in double figures nine times in the last 10 games for the Sooners dating back to the 2014-15 season.

• Through three games, OU is holding opponents to an average of 52.0 points per game. Foes are shooting just .543 from the free throw line and the Sooners are out-rebounding opponents by a margin of 5.7 rebounds per contest.

GAME THREE RECAP: BYU

• Oklahoma jumped out a 29-16 lead over BYU after the first quarter Thursday night en route to a 73-47 victory over the Cougars. OU's 29 points and .688 field goal percentage were season-highs for the Sooners in a quarter this season. OU's defense closed both halves on a strong note, holding BYU to eight points and seven points in the second and fourth quarters, respectively. The Cougars finished with a season-low .393 field goal percentage on 15 of 47 shooting.

• Redshirt junior Maddie Manning scored 13 of her 15 points in the opening quarter. She also dished a career-high five assists and led the Sooners with seven rebounds.

• Peyton Little led four Sooners in double figures by scoring a season-high 21 points, her third straight game leading the Sooners in scoring. Manning finished with a season-high 15 points, while Kaylon Williams and Derica Wyatt scored 12 and 10 points, respectively. Wyatt also set a career-high with four steals.

PREVIEWING BRADLEY

• Located in Peoria, Ill., Bradley is a school of 5,700 students that competes in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Braves finished 6-24 last season (5-13/8th MVC) and return four starters from last year's squad. Bradley also returns 65 percent of its scoring and over 75 percent of its rebounding from a year ago.

• Whitney Tinjum leads the Braves averaging 13.5 points per game and 7.0 rebounds per game this season. Tinjum picked up a double-double finishing with 21 points and 10 rebound in Bradley's season opener at Detroit on Nov. 13. Freshman guard Gabby Green is averaging 12.0 points per game in her first collegiate season.

• Michael Brooks is in his fourth season at Bradley and owns a 29-63 record. Prior to taking over the program before the 2011-12 season, he served as the co-head coach at Central Methodist University during the 2010-11 season. He was an assistant at Bradley from 2011-12 and the director of operations in 2009-10.

LAST YEAR VS. BRADLEY

Kaylon Williams scored a game-high 16 points in OU's 104-55 victory over Bradley last season in Norman.

• 13 players scored for the Sooners as Oklahoma defeated Bradley, 104-55, in the first-ever matchup between the two schools last season at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman.

• The win marked the first time since the 1991-92 season that OU scored 100 points or more in back-to-back contests. The Sooners shot a sizzling 58.9 percent as OU held Bradley to just 16 of 61 (.262) shooting from the field.

• Forward Kaylon Williams finished with a team-high 16 points, while Peyton Little scored 15 and McKenna Treece chipped in 11 points off the bench. Gioya Carter filled the stat sheet with nine points, a career-high six assists and three rebounds in just 14 minutes of action.

QUICK HITS

• Junior guard Derica Wyatt scored 16 points versus Winthrop, the second-most points by the junior in her career at OU. Wyatt's career-high came against UT-Arlington in 2013, finishing with 23 points and seven 3-pointers off the bench. The Brentwood, Tenn., native played a career-high 28 minutes against North Texas on Monday night.

• Redshirt junior Maddie Manning played a career-high 28 minutes against North Texas Monday. Manning made her first start since the 2012 season (at Hawai'i), starting OU's home opener against Winthrop on Nov. 13. The Ankeny, Iowa, native finished with a career-high four steals in the season-opening win over Winthrop.

• Oklahoma began the year ranked No. 17 in the AP and No. 18 in the USA Today Coaches top 25 preseason polls. OU has appeared in the top 25 of both preseason polls to begin the year 15 times in the last 16 seasons.

• The Sooners return the majority of their production in every statistical category for 2015-16. That includes 81 percent of the team's points and rebounds, along with 85 percent of its assists, 81 percent of its blocks and 78 percent of its steals. OU also brings back 80 percent of its made 3-point field goals and its free throw production. 11 letterwinners return from last season's squad that combined to play 5,377 minutes a year ago.

• Oklahoma returns four of its top five scorers from last season along with four starters. Gabbi Ortiz started all 33 games as a freshman. Kaylon Williams started 32 games while Peyton Little started 31. Williams led the Big 12 last season and ranked fourth in the nation with a .596 field goal percentage, Ortiz ranked eighth in the league with 3.5 assists per game and Little was seventh in the 3-point field goal percentage (.344) and ninth in scoring (12.6 ppg).

UP NEXT

The Sooners head to the Bahamas for the three-day (Nov. 26-28) Junkanoo Jam over Thanksgiving break. OU opens play Thursday against Utah at 3:15 p.m. CT and will wrap up the event on Saturday night at 7 p.m. CT against Boston College.

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