**********OU-TCU Game Thread**********

[OUHoops]

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QUICK PREVIEW
In a three-way tie for third place in the Big 12, No. 25 Oklahoma (14-4, 3-2) returns home following a two-game road swing to host TCU (9-8, 0-5) on Wednesday at 8 p.m. CT at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners, who have beaten two top-12 teams in their last three outings, are coming off a 66-64 win at No. 12 Baylor on Saturday. TCU, which is 3-2 in true road games (0-2 in Big 12), is coming off a 60-49 home loss to Texas Tech on Saturday.

ON THE AIR
Wednesday’s contest will air on the Sooner Radio Network (KRXO 107.7 FM "The Franchise" in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430 AM in Tulsa) with Toby Rowland and Mike Houck calling the action. The game will be televised by ESPN with Clay Matvick and Darrin Horn announcing.

PREVIEWING TCU
Second-year Big 12 member TCU won nine of its final 10 pre-conference games but has started Big 12 play 0-5. The Horned Frogs have fallen at home to West Virginia, Kansas State and Texas Tech in league action, and have lost at Baylor and Oklahoma State. On the season, they rank last in the Big 12 in scoring offense (65.9 ppg), field goal percentage (.412) and 3-point field goal percentage defense (.313), but rank fourth in scoring defense (68.1 ppg) and third in free throw percentage (.721).

Junior guard Kyan Anderson is averaging team highs of 14.6 points, 4.6 assists and 1.5 steals while shooting .475 from the field and .353 from 3-point range (18 makes). A starter in 71 consecutive games, he averaged 24.3 points in TCU’s final three pre-conference games but has been held to a 10.2 average in Big 12 action (shooting .349). Junior forward and Oklahoma City product Amric Fields, a high school teammate and friend of OU’s Tyler Neal, averages 13.7 points and 5.6 rebounds a contest. Freshman forward Brandon Parrish contributes 10.2 points a game and has made a team-high 24 3-pointers (shooting team-best .369 from deep).

Trent Johnson is in his second year as TCU’s head coach and owns a 20-29 record. He is in his 15th year overall (also coached at Nevada, Stanford and LSU) and owns a 246-214 mark.

 

[mattham4]

Game is on ESPNU, not ESPN

 

[sheepdogs1]

And 15.5 is the point spread.

 

[AltSooner33]

Hope we take care of business tonight and control this game from beginning to end. Don't let them hang around until the end and make it scary.

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Hope we take care of business tonight and control this game from beginning to end. Don't let them hang around until the end and make it scary.

Or dismantle them like last year and get an injury. Hoping for an easy win and injury-free game (on both sides).

 

[opsooner]

Or dismantle them like last year and get an injury. Hoping for an easy win and injury-free game (on both sides).

Another problem with that dismantling was when we took the return trip to Ft Worth and decided we did not need to even play basketball to win.

 

[AdaSooner]

Another problem with that dismantling was when we took the return trip to Ft Worth and decided we did not need to even play basketball to win.

That's what I'm afraid of. I think OU will win fairly easily tonight. But if our players go into Ft. Worth expecting another easy win, the trip back to Norman may not be a happy one. I have said more than once that there is no such thing as an easy win on the road in the Big 12 this year, and that includes TCU.

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Some of the ranked mid-major schools are getting a handful on the road, #13 Umass, #5 Wichita St, and #19 Saint Louis

 

[Options]

What a pitiful crowd. Local people should be ashamed. I live 5 hours away

 

[opsooner]

8-4 OU at under 16.

 

[Laxtothemax12]

What a pitiful crowd. Local people should be ashamed. I live 5 hours away

Was just about to say that. First home game as a ranked team in over 4 years and this...

 

[CoachTalk]

Dh Bennett with a great post move!
Boomer with a great looking stroke! Smooth

 

[opsooner]

17-14 OU at under 12

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Dh Bennett with a great post move!
Boomer with a great looking stroke! Smooth

Yeah, hopefully he can play a solid 20-24 minutes tonight

 

[pnkranger]

Yeah, hopefully he can play a solid 20-24 minutes tonight

Why? Just to get spangler some rest?

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Why? Just to get spangler some rest?

That, and I would like to get him some more minutes because it'll get him more comfortable playing more minutes. We are going to need a little more post-depth come March and the end of the season.

 

[pnkranger]

That, and I would like to get him some more minutes because it'll get him more comfortable playing more minutes. We are going to need a little more post-depth come March and the end of the season.

good...thought there was an injury or something.

 

[CoachTalk]

Clark back to back treys!

 

[CoachTalk]

Why? Just to get spangler some rest?

Get DJ mins! I really think he can be real solid for us this half of the year.

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Well, let's just let TCU hang around all game...