*******OU (4-2) vs. Missouri (4-3) Gameday Thread*******

[OUHoops]

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QUICK PREVIEW
Oklahoma (4-2) plays its first home game in 12 days when its hosts former conference rival Missouri (4-3) on Friday at 8:30 p.m. CT in an SEC/Big 12 Challenge game at Lloyd Noble Center. The No. 22/20 Sooners are coming off a second-place finish at last week's eight-team Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas. Missouri has won its last two games (most recently a 65-61 home win over Southeast Missouri State on Tuesday) after a 2-3 start.

ON THE AIR
Friday's contest will air on the Sooner Radio Network (KRXO 107.7 FM "The Franchise" in Oklahoma City; KAKC 1300 AM in Tulsa; Sirius 93; XM 199) with Toby Rowland and Mike Houck calling the action. The game will be televised by ESPNU with Dave Armstrong and Miles Simon announcing.

PREVIEWING MISSOURI
Coming off a 65-61 home win over Southeast Missouri State on Tuesday, Missouri enters Friday's game with a 4-3 record. The Tigers, who lost their three leading scorers from last year's 23-12 team in Jabari Brown (19.9 ppg), Jordan Clarkson (17.5) and Earnest Ross (14.0), are averaging 64.0 points a game on .423 field goal, .369 3-point and .649 free throw shooting. They are giving up 64.1 points a contest and holding opponents to .405 field goal and .315 3-point shooting percentages.

Missouri's leading scorer at 13.9 points per game, freshman guard Montaque Gill-Caesar was a consensus top 50 recruit in the class of 2015 before reclassifying to 2014. The 6-6 Vaughan, Ontario, product has made a team-high 13 3-pointers (shooting .382 from deep) and also averages 4.3 rebounds a game. Sophomore forward Johnathan Williams is averaging 10.4 points and a team-high 5.3 boards a contest, and is coming off an 18-point, 11-rebound outing against Southeast Missouri State. Sophomore guard Wes Clark contributes 9.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and a team-high 3.7 assists an outing.

Kim Anderson is in his first season as Missouri's head coach. He spent the last 12 seasons at NCAA Division II Central Missouri, posting a 274-95 (.743) record there and advancing to three Final Fours. Last year he guided the Mules to a 30-5 record and a national title. As a Missouri assistant coach under Norm Stewart from the 1982-83 through 1984-85 and 1991-92 through 1998-99 seasons, Anderson's MU teams posted a 10-14 record against OU.

OU-MISSOURI SERIES HISTORY
Oklahoma owns a 112-97 all-time lead against Missouri and is 64-22 versus the Tigers in Norman. In 16 years of Big 12 play together, OU posted a 13-11 head-to-head record. The Sooners won nine of the first 11 meetings but MU won nine of the last 13, including each of the last three. In the most recent meeting on Feb. 6, 2012, Steven Pledger's potential game-tying 3-pointer at the buzzer rimmed out in a 71-68 victory for fourth-ranked Mizzou (Lon Kruger's first year as OU head coach).

 

[BigTime]

Leggo. Beat those Tigers.

 

[ChongoChingi]

Hoping to see the Sooners put together a good game tonight. I think we will see a more cohesive offense tonight. If they can play tough defense (like we have seen them do recently) we can run them right out of the gym.

 

[Price is Right]

Was Mizzou ranked in the preseason? I thought I remembered seeing them in there but surely it was the women?

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Get. The. Ball. Down. Low.

 

[Navy2004]

Will the LNC be packed

 

[Laxtothemax12]

****ing womens soccer will be running over their time...which means I have to sit here and wait 15 minutes for that game to end

 

[BigTime]

Game only on ESPN 3 until women's soccer is done....

 

[Escape Goat]

This is ridiculous.

 

[Laxtothemax12]

It's not even showing up on my watch espn..

 

[BigTime]

Reports are that crowd is pretty good. I bet that means 7k. It's a start I guess. Hope the crowd gives the team some energy!

 

[zeptrey]

Error code 311 wth....

 

[BigTime]

Emig said its "terrific" so maybe there is over 8k which would be great!

 

[opsooner]

It's not even showing up on my watch espn..

Can't find it either

 

[sheepdogs1]

Tick tock......

 

[zeptrey]

FinAlly

 

[sheepdogs1]

There goes the possible tie oh darn.

 

[opsooner]

They finally put it up on ESPN3 right as the darn soccer game is ending

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Nothing has changed. Offense looks horrendous first 5 minutes

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Still a lot of empty seats I see on TV. Would we need to be ranked 1 for people to show up to every game?