WEDNESDAY'S GAME BASICS
For the third time in the past six games, Oklahoma (7-9, 1-4 Big 12) will face a top 10 opponent. The Sooners travel to Morgantown for a Wednesday night meeting with No. 7/8 West Virginia (15-2, 4-1 Big 12). Oklahoma is coming off of an 84-75 win over Texas Tech on Saturday in which Jordan Woodard (27 points) and Rashard Odomes (24 points) combined to score 51. The outing was Woodard’s fifth 20-point game of the season. The senior guard, who has started 116 games for the Sooners, is third in the Big 12 scoring race with 17.5 points per game. Oklahoma is 7-4 this season with Woodard in the starting lineup.
ON THE AIR
Wednesday’s contest tips off at 6 p.m. CT and air on the Sooner Radio Network (KRXO 107.7 FM “The Franchise” in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430 AM in Tulsa) with Toby Rowland and Kevin Henry announcing. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2 with Mark Neely and Fran Fraschilla calling the action.
FIVE THINGS TO KNOW
• Sophomore guard Rashard Odomes has been one of the largest contributors to the Sooners' scoring efforts in conference play, averaging 11.4 points against Big 12 foes. Odomes has scored in double figures in three-straight games, including a career-high 24 points on Jan. 14 against Texas Tech. On the season, Odomes is scoring 10.5 points per game while shooting exactly 50 percent from the field.
• The Sooners have used eight different starting lineups this season - the most lineups used in one season under Kruger. Oklahoma defeated Texas Tech in its most recent contest under the debut lineup of Jordan Woodard, Kameron McGusty, Rashard Odomes, Dante Buford and Khadeem Lattin.
• With 597 career wins as a head coach, Lon Kruger is three victories away from becoming the 33rd coach to win 600 NCAA Division I basketball games. Kruger owns the 10th most DI wins among active head coaches. One of the few coaches ahead of him, West Virginia's Bob Huggins, has won 806 career games (734 at Division I level).
• OU continues to show its depth in conference play by averaging 26.0 points off the bench in conference play - the second-most bench scoring in the Big 12. The Sooners are one of only three Big 12 squads to average over 20 bench points in league games as the conference averages 17.3 per contest.
• Oklahoma's four scholarship freshmen combine to average 23.6 points per game in Big 12 competition. Guard Kameron McGusty leads the newcomers with 12.6 points per game. He has scored nine points of more in every Big 12 contest and has put together four-straight games of double-digit scoring. He is expected to start his third game in a row on Wednesday.
SERIES HISTORY
• Oklahoma leads the all-time series, 8-4, and is 2-2 against WVU in Morgantown.
• The Sooners swept the regular season series against WVU last year, winning 70-68 in Norman and 76-62 in Morgantown. The Mountaineers ended OU’s Big 12 Championship run by winning 69-67 in the semifinals in Kansas City.
