Oklahoma looks like its for real | ESPN

[OUHoops]

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebask...-its-for-real-after-blowout-of-no-9-villanova

 

[DenverSooner]

good article. Thank you for sharing.

I got a laugh out of the comments. Someone says that OU last year was average. Litterally wrote 24 wins and playing in the Sweet 16 was average.

There are oaver 300 D-I teams. More than 300 teams did not perform better than OU last year, 8 did. Yet that guy calls it average. We are silly society.

 

[Laxtothemax12]

good article. Thank you for sharing.

I got a laugh out of the comments. Someone says that OU last year was average. Litterally wrote 24 wins and playing in the Sweet 16 was average.

There are oaver 300 D-I teams. More than 300 teams did not perform better than OU last year, 8 did. Yet that guy calls it average. We are silly society.

Yeah saw that too. Literally like 3 minutes away from playing in the ELITE 8 :ez-roll:

 

[geeoh]

This is something I've noticed, and not just with backwoods morons in the comments section: The national basketball media was oddly silent last night. Jon Rothstein tweeted out a little, generic blurb. Same with Myron Metcalf. C.L. Brown, author of the above article, gave the most glowing review of our performance. Gary Parrish of CBS Sports literally wrote an article about how Villanova can't shoot 3's, yet still decided to anyway. Jeff Borzello of ESPN was live-tweeting the game when it was close and then fell silent after that.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and I don't really care if this team doesn't get respect nationally. Heck, I kind of prefer it that way, because we know that sort of disrespect can fuel the fire for this team. However, I can't help but feel that if it had been Kansas/Mich St/Duke/UNC/Etc. dismantling Villanova the way OU just did the national writers would be falling over themselves to provide commentary on it at the very least.

I guess when the updated rankings come out next week we'll truly get a sense of how this win was perceived nationally.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

In a separate article, C.L. Brown (ESPN Staff Writer) did predict an OU win before the Villanova game.

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebask.../weekday-predictions-sooners-win-top-10-clash

No. 6 Oklahoma vs. No. 8 Villanova (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii), 7 p.m., FoxSports 1, Monday:

The game marks just the third meeting of top-10 teams (Kentucky-Duke and Maryland-North Carolina were the others) this season. Nova hasn’t played in a close game yet. The Wildcats’ average margin of victory is 23 points. The Sooners figure to be a tad more competitive with a veteran squad led by Buddy Hield and his 21.4 points per game. Oklahoma could enjoy a huge rebounding edge; the team has a plus-nine rebounding margin while Villanova has been outrebounded by its opponents.

Prediction: Oklahoma 80, Villanova 76