OU at Kansas Sunday

Oklahoma

Kansas

Sunday, Feb. 2 / 12 p.m. CT / Lawrence, Kan.

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NORMAN - OU heads to Lawrence, Kan., for its third road contest in four games as the Sooners take on the Jayhawks Sunday. The game will tip at 12 p.m. CT inside Allen Fieldhouse as Oklahoma looks to get back on the winning track after four straight losses.

ON THE AIR

The 12 p.m. matchup will air on the Sooner Radio Network (107.7 FM The Franchise in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430 AM in Tulsa; Tune In Radio App) with Brian Brinkley announcing.

The game will be broadcast on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ with Ron Thulin and Monica McNutt on the call.

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW

• OU heads to Kansas for its third road contest in four games as the Sooners take on the Jayhawks Sunday. The game will tip at 12 p.m. CT inside Allen Fieldhouse as Oklahoma looks to get back on the winning track after three straight losses.

• OU leads the all-time series with Kansas 40-31 and is 8-2 in the last 10 meetings. KU holds the advantage in Lawrence by a 17-15 margin. OU has won four of the last five meetings in Lawrence, with its lone road loss in the last 10 meetings an 88-79 defeat on Jan. 30, 2019.

• The nation's leading 3-point shooter Taylor Robertson has moved into third place on OU's single-season record list as she has hit 100 this season. Robertson made 105 treys as a freshman last season, placing her second on the all-time list. The Kansas product is currently averaging 5.00 3s per game and is well on pace to shatter the program single-season record of 115 set by Aaryn Ellenberg in 2012-13.

• Junior forward Mandy Simpson has stepped up her inside game as a rebounder. At the beginning of December, the junior averaged 4.0 rebounds per game; at the beginning of January, Simpson had boosted her average to 5.7. Headed into Tuesday's contest, Simpson is averaging 6.4 rebounds per game on the season and 8.6 during Big 12 play.

• Head coach Sherri Coale will look for her 500th career victory as the Sooners head to Kansas. Coale is 499-274 in her 24th year at the helm for OU. Coale was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.

GAME 20 RECAP

The Oklahoma women's basketball team fell to Texas 70-56 Tuesday night inside Lloyd Noble Center. The Longhorns out-shot OU 44.9% to 36.2% from the field. Texas' Lashan Higgs led all players with 19 points and Madi Williams had a team-high 16 for the Sooners. Two more OU players scored in double figures as Taylor Robertson and Liz Scott scored 11 each.

11 points was a career high for Scott, who also saw a career-high 17 minutes of play. Scott's buckets all came in the second half with eight of her points coming during the fourth quarter.

Mandy Simpson pulled down 10 boards for her fifth double-digit rebounding performance of the season. Simpson was bucket shy of a double-double as she scored eight points and added two assists.
Williams had seven rebounds and four assists on the night.

BOARDS COME DOWN, STATS TREND UP

Since December, junior forward Mandy Simpson has stepped up her game inside as a rebounder. At the beginning of December, the junior averaged 4.0 rebounds per game; at the beginning of January, Simpson had boosted her average to 5.7.

Headed into Sunday's contest, Simpson is averaging 6.6 rebounds per game this season and has pulled down at least five boards in each of the last five contests, including a career-high 12 against Baylor on Jan. 4 and 11 each at Oklahoma State (Jan. 8) and West Virginia (Jan. 15).

Simpson did it all at Texas Tech (Jan. 22), pulling down nine boards to go with a career-high 19 points on 7-for-9 shooting and adding six assists. Simpson is averaging 8.75 rebounds per game in Big 12 play and ranks sixth among players in the league in that category.

T-ROB TREY TRACKER

Sophomore Taylor Robertson is the NCAA's active career leader in 3-point field goal percentage, shooting 45.7% (205-for-449), halfway through her second season of college basketball. She is also the active career leader in treys per game with a 4.10 average; the next closest player, Rachel Childress of UAB, has averaged 3.32 per game. Robertson is the youngest member of both 10-player lists; the nine other players on each are juniors and seniors.

Robertson is the national leader in made 3s with 100 this season. The sophomore is shooting 44.6% (100-for-224) from deep.

Robertson moved into third on OU's single season made 3-pointers record list with 100 on the year. As a freshman in 2018-19, Robertson poured in 105 3-pointers to rank second on that list. Should Robertson continue to average a nation-leading 5.00 treys per game, she is on pace to shatter her own record as well as leader Aaryn Ellenberg's mark of 115 in a season (2012-13).

With an average 5.00 3s per game this season, the McPherson, Kan., product also leads the country in that category and leads by a mile; Childress of UAB is also the next closest player and she is averaging 3.80 per game. Robertson is averaging the most 3s per game of any player in men's or women's Division I basketball; Dru Kuxhausen (McNeese) is the men's 3s per game leader and is averaging 4.38.

Robertson leads the Big 12 in 3-pointers this season (100), 53 more than the next closest player: TCU's Jaycee Bradley has hit 47 this season.
As a team, OU has made a league-high 169 3-pointers this season; Robertson accounts for more than half of those.

Of Robertson's 403 total points this season, 300 have come from behind the 3-point line. 69 have come from the charity stripe where she is 69-for-78 (88.5%); just 34 of Robertson's points all season have not been 3s or free throws. The sophomore ranks second in the Big 12 in total points (403) and points per game (20.15)

Additionally, Robertson's nine made 3s at Wichita State tie for the third most in a single game in women's Division I basketball this season and are one shy of the men's 2019-20 Division I single game record of 10.

UP NEXT

OU returns to Lloyd Noble Center on Wednesday, Feb. 5 to host West Virginia at 7 p.m. CT.

ON THE AIR

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW

GAME 20 RECAP

BOARDS COME DOWN, STATS TREND UP

T-ROB TREY TRACKER

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Mandy Simpson

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