Sooners Hit Road for Matchup with Kansas

(23/25) Oklahoma (12-2, 1-1 Big 12)

Kansas (9-1, 0-0 Big 12)

Jan. 8, 2022 / 4:00 p.m. CT / Allen Fieldhouse / Lawrence, Kan.

NORMAN – Oklahoma puts its six-game road winning streak on the line this Saturday, Jan. 8, when it heads to Lawrence for a Big 12 matchup with Kansas at 4 p.m. The Sooners 12-2 start is the program's best since the 2006-07 team opened the year 17-1. OU ascended into the AP Top 25 on Jan.

The game will be broadcast on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and will air on the Sooner Radio Network on KOKC 1520 AM and KREF 99.3 FM/1400 AM with Taylor Maples on the call.

THE STARTING FIVE

The Sooners dropped a top-25 bout the last time out, falling 81-71 to No. 12 Iowa State in Norman on Wednesday, Jan 5. Madi Williams scored 26 points and added nine rebounds in the loss. The defeat snapped a nine-game winning streak, the school's longest since the 2008-09 Final Four team won 20 consecutive games.
Oklahoma was one of nine teams nationally to secure more than one Quad I victory in non-conference play as the Sooners own wins over No. 21 Utah and No. 22 BYU. The Sooners add a Quad II win as South Dakota sits 39th in the NET. OU maintains an unblemished 9-0 record against teams outside of the NET's top 50 and its only loss comes via a 5-point neutral-site defeat to No. 17 Oregon.
Under head coach Jennie Baranczyk, the Sooners high-powered offense is one of the best in the nation. OU's 88.4 points per game rank second nationally and first in the league as the attack is powered by 20.4 assists per game, the third-most in the country. Taylor Robertson (18.7 PPG) and Madi Williams (18.3) make Oklahoma the only team in the Big 12 to place two scorers inside the nation's top 50. The Sooners sit fifth in the country with 140 3-pointers made in 2021-22 as Taylor Robertson leads Division I players in shooting from deep.
For the first time since the first week of the 2017-18 season, the Oklahoma women's basketball team has returned into the AP Top 25, debuting at No. 23 this week following a 12-1 start. The Sooners were ranked 25th in the WBCA Coaches Poll. OU remains squarely in the conversation for a berth in the NCAA Tournament as its ranked 36th in the latest NET Rankings.
Two Sooners will have a chance at history on Saturday as Taylor Robertson sits just eight made 3-pointers away from tying Laurie Koehn's Big 12 record 392 career 3-pointers, while Madi Williams needs just nine points to become the 12th 1,500-point scorer in Oklahoma history.

SERIES HISTORY

The Sooners return to the road for the 76th all-time meeting with the Kansas Jayhawks. Oklahoma leads the series 42-33 and is 28-6 since the turn of the century. The Sooners have won seven of the last 10 meetings in Lawrence, but fell to the Jayhawks 74-64 in last year's meeting at historic Allen Fieldhouse. Currently, OU owns a one-game winning streak after knocking off KU in Norman, 84-81, on Jan. 27, 2021.

UP NEXT

The No. 23 Sooners host No. 14 Baylor at the Lloyd Noble Center on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 6 p.m. The contest will be aired on Bally Sports Oklahoma and broadcast nationally on Sirius XM's Big 12 channel and also on the Sooner Radio Network.