OU @ O-State

[Sooner04]

I'll start the gameday thread in hopes of improving our performance. Our season went off the rails in Stillwater last year, so here's getting back on the narrow way in Stillwater THIS season.

Boomer Sooner!

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[TulsaWorld]

Preview from Eric Bailey...

Celebrating on a Big 12 opponent’s home court hasn’t been a familiar sight for Oklahoma in recent seasons.

The Sooners have lost 19 of 21 road games against league foes heading into their game at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Oklahoma State.

Why has it been so difficult to win road games in the conference?

“The teams are better, to start with,” OU coach Lon Kruger said Monday. “The Big 12 is the best league in the country. We are realizing that. We had some good nonconference road wins. We have to compete to get the same result in conference play.”

Oklahoma’s only league road wins during this recent stretch have come in dramatic fashion. The first was in the 2016-17 campaign at West Virginia, an 89-87 overtime decision settled when Jordan Woodard made a layup with 2.2 seconds left. Last season, Trae Young hit two free throws with 7.9 seconds remaining in a 90-89 triumph at TCU.

But outside of that, it has been tough sledding for the Sooners when they wear non-white jerseys. This season, they’ve absorbed close losses at Kansas (70-63), Texas Tech (66-59) and Texas (75-72).

Since this is Bedlam, we also have an OSU preview from beat writer Mark Cooper if you are interested.

 

[OUSKINS]

“Must win” gets tossed around too liberally, so I’ll say this is a “must win” IF the Sooners want to remain in very comfortable control of their season. If they lose tonight, they aren’t done by any means and they’d still probably be “in” if the Dance started today, so in that sense it is not a “must.” But I do think it’s a must if we want to still feel good about the direction of the season and feel comfortable with our standing. No doubt winning on the road in conference is tough, but you can’t lose them ALL and be taken seriously. 19 out of 21 is a little silly.

 

[sperry]

This is a depleted poke team that essentially has 3 players. If we can't beat them, just start packing for the NIT.

 

[opsooner]

There are other opportunities for road wins but if we don’t get this one it is really doing to hurt and I am not overly confident.


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[Darwin]

This is a must win in spite of it being on the road. It may not be easy because this is stoolwaters last chance for anything meaningful. I would gladly take last Saturdays effort again.

 

[Max Power]

This is a must win because if we cant beat this osu team, with not even enough bodies to play 5 on 5 in practice, who left on our schedule can we beat?

 

[scrybe]

This is a must win in spite of it being on the road. It may not be easy because this is stoolwaters last chance for anything meaningful. I would gladly take last Saturdays effort again.

Agree. I thought our effort at Austin was solid. But that offensive lapse in the first half when the horns outscored us something like 11-13 to zip is what killed us. We simply can't afford to let teams go on such extended runs – even bad teams like OSU.

 

[Ghost of Gar Heard]

Pretty close to a must-win.

 

[Sooner04]

I think it's a must-win for our psyche. I think the season goes down the ****ter with a loss tonight. We need to feast (4-0) against the two worst teams in the league (Aggies and Mounties) because our offensive struggles will make most every game nip and tuck.

 

[sdcloud9]

2-5 in the league would be too tough a mountain to climb.

It's pretty much a must win.

 

[MsProudSooner]

Our first goal is to make sure Bienemy is well hydrated!

Has OSU had a game since they became so short handed?

 

[SuperHoops]

They lost by 13 in Ames on Saturday. Played a 7 man rotation with walk-on guy playing 4 minutes, actually played better in the 2nd half.

 

[MichaelM]

The next four games (@OSU, Vanderbilt, Baylor, @WVU) are the easiest stretch remaining. Need to win at least three of them to stay on track for a good tournament seed.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

The Sooners have lost 19 of 21 road games against league foes heading into their game at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Oklahoma State.

Wow. I did not realize it was that bad. It needs to change tonight.

 

[vbdad]

It’s a must win! They are bad and we need to figure out how to win. Of all their suspensions they only lost one guy who played much. However they were bad with him so they aren’t better and have zero depth.
This might be a game that Freeman can help. He gets rushed against Big 12 defenses but the aggies are so thin they might rest on him.

 

[Soonerinkc]

as with everyone else...yes I'd agree a must win.

Yes, the next 4 games are the easiest we'll have. I'd like to think we could go 4-0. That would only get us to 5-4 in league.

I'm thinking under .500 in league is more in line with what happens.

Boomer~

 

[inoref]

IMO, its a game that we should and need to win. If we shoot good and hit FT's we should win..but this team can and has played pretty poorly at times

 

[tycat947]

O-Stank will play their best game of the year and Boyton can get them ready to play. Didn’t they beat the squawks twice last year??? I’m not sure we are mentally mature enough. Can’t stand losing to these jackals!

 

[WichitaSooner]

Wow. I did not realize it was that bad. It needs to change tonight.

And crazy to think one of those wins required a miracle in Morgantown in our 20-loss season, and the other took a great finish by Trae in Fort Worth. Of course, we also have blown several late leads in that time.