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Sooners Beat Florida, Advance to SEC Quarterfinal
March 05, 2026 | Women's Basketball
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Raegan Beers had 18 points and seven rebounds, Aaliyah Chavez added 17 points and No. 7 Oklahoma used a dominant third quarter to rout Florida 82-64 on Thursday and advance to the Southeastern Conference Tournament quarterfinals.
Zya Vann scored 14 points and Brooklyn Stewart chipped in with 12 for the Sooners (24-6), who have won seven straight.
Liv McGill had 28 points on 13-of-17 shooting from the foul line to lead Florida (18-15), which defeated Mississippi State 86-68 in the first round.
Oklahoma will face No. 6 LSU in the quarterfinals on Friday at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena.
Despite their top-10 ranking, the Sooners need to win four games in four days to capture their first SEC title after finishing fifth in the conference and failing to claim a double bye in a loaded conference that features five teams ranked in the top seven in the country.
But the Sooners, who forced 24 turnovers and held Florida to 36% shooting from the field, are off to a good start.
Oklahoma was clinging to a 40-38 lead at halftime after Beers sat out the entire second quarter with foul trouble.
She returned in the third quarter and the Sooners immediately began to pull away, opening the half with a 14-2 run. Oklahoma outscored Florida 27-7 in the pivotal third with Vann providing a spark with eight points.
Oklahoma pushed the lead to 25 in the fourth with Beers drawing wide smiles and cheers from her teammates when the center, who typically does her damage in the paint, stepped out and drained a 3-pointer from the top of the key. Beers surpassed 2,000 points for her career in the win.
Oklahoma will face No. 6 LSU on 1:30 p.m. CT on ESPN.
POSTGAME NOTES
• No. 7 Oklahoma (24-6, 11-5) advanced to the SEC Tournament quarterfinal by defeating 12th-seeded Florida, 82-64, on Thursday at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C. The Sooners, seeded fifth, will take on fourth-seeded No. 6 LSU in Friday's quarterfinal at approximately 1:30 p.m. CT on ESPN.
• Oklahoma's All-SEC center Raegan Beers, who made her 100th career start on Thursday, made history in the win, becoming the third Sooner and only active Division I player to eclipse 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career. She joined Courtney Paris (2,731 points, 2,032 rebounds) and Molly McGuire (2,147 points, 1,071 rebounds) in the elusive club. Beers now has 2,003 points and 1,207 rebounds in her illustrious career that spanned two seasons at Oregon State and two at Oklahoma.
• Under fifth-year head coach Jennie Baranczyk, Oklahoma is 5-0 in the opening games of conference tournaments. The Sooners are now 11-8 in postseason games over the last five years.
• The Sooners and Gators battled in a back-and-forth first half that saw OU take a 40-36 lead into the break. Aaliyah Chavez had 13 points in the first half to lead OU. A strong third quarter saw Oklahoma open the frame on a 14-4 run to build a double-digit lead that it wouldn't surrender. Baranczyk's team outpaced Florida 27-7 in the quarter and eventually build the advantage to 28 points midway through the fourth. A late Gators' run cut into the deficit but the Sooners held on for the 18-point win.
• The win over the unranked Gators was Oklahoma's 29th straight win against unranked opponents. The Sooners are now 18-0 against teams outside of the AP Top 25 in 2025-26 and their last loss to a unranked foe came at (RV) Mississippi State on Jan. 9, 2025. The win was a Quad 2 win for OU, who has not lost a Quad 2-4 game since the women's quadrant system was adopted before last season (37 straight wins).
• Beers made 7 of her 10 shots, scoring 18 points while pulling in seven rebounds. The center played just five minutes in the first half, but had half of her 18 points in the first 20 minutes. She has scored in double figures in 25 of her last 27 games but saw her streak of double-doubles end at three.
• Freshman Aaliyah Chavez, who was the only freshman named to an All-SEC team this week, finished with 17 points, four rebounds and three assists. She's scored in double figures in 24 straight games and made all four of her free throws, extending her SEC record for consecutive makes at the line to 57, two shy of the OU record held by Taylor Robertson.
• Zya Vann scored all 14 of her points in the second half, as the guard sparked OU's strong quarter. She added four steals, three rebounds and two assists in the win. The Edmond, Okla., product has 11 steals over her last four games and 69 on the season.
• Brooklyn Stewart added 12 points, five rebounds, three assists and a block off the bench. Sahara Williams recorded a balanced effort with a team-high seven assists, six points and five rebounds.
• The Sooners tallied 12 steals en route to 24 Gator turnovers that led to 23 points off turnovers. Vann's four steals matched Caya Smith's four to lead the team. Thursday marked the fourth time this season that multiple Sooners tallied four takeaways in a game.
• Oklahoma faces No. 6 LSU on Friday at approximately 1:30 p.m. CT on ESPN. The Tigers handed the Sooners their largest loss of the season on Jan. 18, defeating OU 91-72 in Norman.
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