OU-West Virginia Box Score/Notes/Quotes/Photos

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Stats: http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2012-2013/osc11.html

Photos: http://www.soonersports.com/view.gal?id=130266

 

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Quotes: http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-baskbl/archive/112512aaa.html

Head Coach Lon Kruger ||||||||||||||||||||
On team's overall performance:
"It was a great weekend for us. It was a couple of good wins and you always like that, but even more importantly I thought we learned a lot, especially from the first two ball games. We played clearly our best today against a very good West Virginia ball club so we'll take a lot from this and recognize what we've got to continue to work on and hopefully just keep getting better."

On playing West Virginia in Big 12 conference play:
"It's a terrific ball club, and Bob (Huggins) does such a good job. The game today could have gone either way and I imagine the next two will be similar in terms of being very hard-fought and very tough."

On tournament experience:
"It's a great setting. ESPN does a great job with all its tournaments and to have it at Disney World and the opportunities that that affords, all the families and players enjoy it."

Junior F Amath M'Baye ||||||||||||||||||||
On his offensive performance:
"I felt amazing, and it's even better bouncing back from a couple of games where I felt I didn't do my job. My teammates did an amazing job keeping me in the game and helping me keep my head up. My coaches did a great job of telling me to stay the course and keep working. Everybody helped me out a lot and it's really a team effort."

On ending tournament with a win against West Virginia:
"It's the difference between being 2 and 1 or 1 and 2. It's big, especially against an opponenet that we're going to see in the Big 12. We're probably going to play them two or three times, and having that little edge on them is something that feels good, especially knowing the Big 12 first. It's good to know that we've beat them before so we can beat them again. It's better that they come in the Big 12 knowing what to expect."

 

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Re: OU-West Virginia Box Score

Notes: http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-baskbl/archive/112512aac.html

Oklahoma Team Notes
Oklahoma claimed third place in the eight-team Old Spice Classic with a 77-70 win over West Virginia. OU is 2-1 all-time against WVU.

The Sooners shot a season-high .474 from the field while holding the Mountaineers to a .362 mark.

OU started the game 8-for-14 from the free throw line but made its last 11 attempts to finish 19-for-25 for a season-high .760 figure.

The game was just the second in Big 12 Conference history between league squads in regular season non-conference play. Texas beat Nebraska in a November 1996 non-league game in Austin (83-81 in overtime), during the first year of the conference.

Outside of Amath M'Baye and Jelon Hornbeak, five other Sooners scored between 6 and 9 points. OU's bench supplied 28 points (all five reserves scored).

OU got the win despite committing a season-high 27 fouls. West Virginia went 24-for-34 from the free throw line.

One game after getting outrebounded 51-24 by Gonzaga, Oklahoma posted a 39-38 rebounding edge against West Virginia. The Mountaineers entered the game outrebounding their opponents by 5.7 per game.

Oklahoma Individual Notes
Junior F Amath M'Baye
M'Baye scored a season-high 19 points on 5-for-6 field goal and 9-for-13 free throw shooting. He added a team-high-tying 6 rebounds in a season-high 32 minutes of play.

Freshman F Je'lon Hornbeak
Hornbeak was 5-for-9 from the field and 2-for-3 from 3-point range en route to a career-high 14-point effort. He averaged 4.0 points in the three games prior to today (was scoreless Friday against Gonzaga).

Senior G Sam Grooms
Grooms played 24 minutes off the bench and handed out a game-high 4 assists without committing a turnover. He has 15 assists and just 3 turnovers on the year (5.0 ratio).

 

[cfin5256]

Re: OU-West Virginia Box Score

OU got the win despite committing a season-high 27 fouls

I was just thinking that last year this would have killed us. It's great to have some depth finally.

 

[AdaSooner]

Re: OU-West Virginia Box Score

I was just thinking that last year this would have killed us. It's great to have some depth finally.

No doubt about it, depth was the difference today. No way we could have survived the onslaught of fouls last year.