OU Set for Bedlam Big 12 Quarterfinal

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State

Friday, March 12, 2021 / 8:30 p.m. CT / Municipal Auditorium / Kansas City, Mo.

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NORMAN – The Oklahoma women's basketball team welcomes Kansas State Sunday for the regular season finale. The game will tip at 3 p.m. CT inside Lloyd Noble Center.

ON THE AIR

Friday's game will be available on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ with Brenda VanLengen and Chuckie Kempf on the call.

The contest will air on the Sooner Radio Network (KOKC 1420 AM in Oklahoma City; KREF 99.3 FM/1400 AM in Norman; TuneIn radio App) with Brian Brinkley calling the action.

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW

The Oklahoma women's basketball team heads to Kansas City, Mo., as the No. 6 seed for the 2021 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship inside Municipal Auditorium. The Sooners are 12-10 all-time inside Municipal Auditorium, where the tournament was last held in 2012.
OU owns a 25-19 all-time record in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship and has won four Big 12 tournament titles (2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007).
No. 6 seed OU will face in-state rival and No. 3 seed Oklahoma State in the quarterfinals on Friday at 8:30 p.m. CT. Oklahoma State swept the 2020-21 series for the first time since 2018.
The Sooners are 5-5 all-time against the Cowgirls during the postseason. The teams have not met at the Big 12 Championship since 2016 in Oklahoma City, when OU prevailed 61-45 in the quarterfinals. The teams were slated to meet in the 2020 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship first round before the tournament was canceled due to concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic.
Playing the majority of the season with just seven players – including four games with only six available - OU concluded the regular season at 12-11 overall and 9-9 against the Big 12. The Sooners won six of their last eight contests to end the year, with a 72-71 upset at No. 19/21 West Virginia on Feb. 13 and back-to-back road wins over TCU (76-60 on Feb. 24) and Texas (68-63 in overtime on Feb. 27).

OU AGAINST THE BIG 12

The Sooners finished the regular season at 9-9 against the Big 12 and sixth in the league standings. OU went 4-5 against the league at home and 5-5 against the road.

OU completed season sweeps of Kansas State and Texas Tech while splitting the series with Kansas, TCU, Texas, Iowa State and West Virginia. The Sooners were swept by just Baylor and Oklahoma State.

The Sooners came up strong in crunch time in league games; of OU's nine conference victories this season, six have come by six points or fewer – OU's 16-point win at TCU (Feb. 24) was good for the team's largest margin of victory in a Big 12 game in 2020-21.

TRIO EARNS ALL-BIG 12 HONORS

Three Oklahoma players were named to All-Big 12 teams Wednesday. Junior guard/forward Madi Williams was a unanimous First Team All-Big 12 selection; junior guard Taylor Robertson was named to the second team for the second season; and freshman guard Nevaeh Tot was tabbed to the league's All-Freshman team.The honors were voted on by the league's head coaches, who are not allowed to vote for their own players.

Williams becomes the first OU player to earn first team All-Big12 honors since Vionise Pierre-Louise in 2018. The junior finished theregular season averaging 19.9 points per game to rank sixth among Big 12 players and 30th nationally. Her 49.5% (163-for-329) field goal percentage places her fifth among Big 12 players, first among the league's guards and 14th among all guards nationally.

Second-team selection Robertson has played the most minutes of any Big 12 player this season, averaging 38.0 per game. She has played 15 40-minute games this season and averaged 15.7 points per game. The McPherson, Kan., native has once again led the conference and the nation in 3-point shooting. She has nailed 80 3-pointers this season to rank first in the Big 12 and sixth in the nation. Her 47.7% (80-for-185) 3FG% ranks second among Big 12 players. Robertson has averaged 3.62 treys per game to lead the Big 12 comfortably (the next closest player has averaged 2.71 per game) and rank fifth nationally.

Robertson is the NCAA active career leader in 3s per game (3.89), ranks third in total 3-point field goals (311) and second in career 3-point field goal percentage (44.0%).

Freshman honoree Tot has made an immediate impact for the Sooners, starting 19 games and playing an average 31.4 minutes per contest. Tot has averaged 6.8 points per game and 3.3 rebounds. Most notably, Tot has averaged 4.3 assists per game, totaling 100 on the year to place fifth on OU's freshman assists list. Her 4.3 APG places her fifth among Big 12 players, second among Big 12 freshman and eighth among all freshmen nationally.

UP NEXT

Should OU advance with a win Friday, the Sooners will play in Saturday's 3 p.m. semifinal. OU's opponent would be the winner of Game 5 between No. 2 seed West Virginia and an opponent to be determined by tonight's first round game between No. 7 Texas Tech and No.10 Kansas State.

ON THE AIR

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW

OU AGAINST THE BIG 12

TRIO EARNS ALL-BIG 12 HONORS

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Nevaeh Tot

Madi Williams

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