*****OU-Texas A&M CC Pregame Notes/Game Thread*****

[OUHoops]

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QUICK PREVIEW
Oklahoma (6-1) completes a three-game home stand when it hosts Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (3-6) on Thursday at 2 p.m. CT inside Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners, who rank 11th nationally by averaging 88.7 points a game, are averaging 94.3 points in their four home games. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi has lost its last four games after a 3-2 start.

FREE ADMISSION
All fans will be admitted free of charge (doors open at 12:30 p.m. for everyone). However, season ticket holders and other fans who purchased tickets for the game in advance will have first right to occupy their reserved seat locations. For those without tickets, all seats not occupied by the season ticket holder or by fans who purchased tickets in advance will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

CONCESSION STAND SPECIALS
Lloyd Noble Center concession stands will offer popcorn and sodas for $1 each for this game.

PREVIEWING TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI
Southland Conference member Texas A&M-Corpus Christi won three of its first five games this season but has dropped its last four and enters Thursday’s contest with a 3-6 record. The Islanders, who finished 6-23 last season, have picked up home wins this year against Huston-Tillotson (79-45), IPFW (72-71) and Texas-Pan American (72-61). Three of their losses have come by four or fewer points, all at home (lost by two to Tennessee Tech, by two to Rice and by four to Central Michigan).

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi is led by junior point guard John Jordan, who averages team highs of 15.4 points, 4.3 assists and 1.9 steals while also ranking second with his 5.1 rebounds a contest. He has attempted 64 free throws, almost twice as many as the Islander with the second-most attempts, and is shooting .452 from the field. Freshman forward Jeff Beverly averages 11.0 points and 3.6 boards per game and boasts shooting percentages of .508 from the field, .462 from 3-point range (6-for-13) and .794 from the foul line. He is coming off a 20-point effort (in 28 minutes) in an 11-point loss to Houston. Junior guard Hameed Ali contributes 9.8 points and 2.1 assists an outing and tied for the team lead with 10 treys (shooting .370 from deep).

Former longtime Rice mentor Willis Wilson is in his third year as Texas A&M-Corpus Christi’s head coach and is 15-53 there. Wilson served as Rice’s head coach for 16 years (1992-93 through 2007-08 seasons) and compiled a 219-246 record. In between, he served the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons as an assistant coach at Memphis.

 

[NickZepp]

10-6 after the first media time out.

 

[BozemanSooner]

is there not a radio broadcast? can't find it on the normal stations. better yet an online tv link

 

[skyvue]

Anyone know of a radio station that's carrying the game? KOKC doesn't seem to be.

 

[BozemanSooner]

I don't think there is one. Usually Bartlesville has the game. sucks

 

[skyvue]

If they're going to change the time of the game like this, then at the very least they should offer a free audio stream of the game at soonersports.com.

 

[Soonerman]

If they're going to change the time of the game like this, then at the very least they should offer a free audio stream of the game at soonersports.com.

They probably figured the free admission to the game was kind enough.

 

[pnkranger]

These refs want to get home quick...they are letting this game get rough.

 

[quick release]

Unfortunately 95% of people are either at work or at school. Tough to swing that.

 

[quick release]

OU leads 42 to 24 at the half...

 

[AltSooner33]

Don't know how we looked the rest of the half, but I got to catch about the last 2:30 of the half and that was some ugly basketball.

 

[JBaker]

Well, it looks like we're playing at 2 o'clock on a Thursday so far.

Hornbeak picked up 3 fouls in the first half, but the good news is we're up by 18.
A&M-CC kinda looks like they're playing not to get blown out. Using the whole shot clock almost every possession.

 

[sheepdog]

Don't know how we looked the rest of the half, but I got to catch about the last 2:30 of the half and that was some ugly basketball.

There's been a liberal amount of substituting going on. Woodard has played well. Neal needs to shoot the ball when he's more in control and not flying through the air like a Flying Wallenda. Bennet playing well in his time on the court. Team needs to do a better job when getting the ball down low as there have been a number of occasions where it leads to a turnover or no score.

 

[skyvue]

They probably figured the free admission to the game was kind enough.

Doesn't do us out-of-staters (and, I'm guessing, plenty of local fans) much good. So we go from getting to watch it on TV tonight to not even being able to listen to the audio online (unless we're paid members at soonersports).

 

[AdaSooner]

Balanced scoring in the first half, with 8 different Sooners getting in the scoring column:


http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400498290

 

[cfin5256]

Wow. Nice play between Buddy and Cam.

 

[JBaker]

Yuck to the start of this half.

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Wow. Nice play between Buddy and Cam.

What happened?

 

[cfin5256]

What happened?

Fast break lob from Buddy to Cam. Cam finished it with a one handed slam.

 

[PeteHoops]

If you aren't able to watch on TV you've missed Tubbs use the words "dude" and "dog (in reference to a person)" and make a joke about Jessica spying on our bench. Top notch stuff...