SoonerinNC
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A recent publication indicated that the Sooners were in the hunt late in the game in 10 big 12 conference games that they lost.
I went in to the play by play information and found 8 of them and charted them along with the Cincinnati loss in those crucial minutes that turned potential wins to losses.
The time span represents approximately 55-65 total minutes. In that time span:
The Sooners scored 93 points and shot 34% from the field vs 42.3% in Big 12 play/
They hit 5 of 28 threes (17.9% vs 30.7% in conference play).
They shot 64.9% from the free throw line vs 72.8% in conference play.
They had 23 turnovers vs 6 assists and only 3 steals.
They had 25 offensive boards and 23 defensive boards.
The most significant things to me, however, are:
1) Only 3 points (trey by Franklin when the Tech game reached blowout status) from the bench (Neal, Blair, Washington, Franklin) which shot 1 of 9 from the field and missed their only freeshot.
2) Each team seemed to have 90-100 possessions. With only 23 defensive boards and 3 steals it means that the opposition scored on something like 60 of their possessions. While our scoring was somewhat below average, we just simply couldn't get the stops when they counted. And our lack of three point shooting while the opponents were raining treys really hurt.
With the low number of assists it is clear that we were having difficulty getting good shots and playing essentially one on one basketball.
I didn't calculate the number of points scored by the opposition but I would guess that they probably nearly doubled our point total.
I did not include games like Kansas where we led at the half and then got blown out of the game early in the second half.
I will post individual information later as this is already too long.
I went in to the play by play information and found 8 of them and charted them along with the Cincinnati loss in those crucial minutes that turned potential wins to losses.
The time span represents approximately 55-65 total minutes. In that time span:
The Sooners scored 93 points and shot 34% from the field vs 42.3% in Big 12 play/
They hit 5 of 28 threes (17.9% vs 30.7% in conference play).
They shot 64.9% from the free throw line vs 72.8% in conference play.
They had 23 turnovers vs 6 assists and only 3 steals.
They had 25 offensive boards and 23 defensive boards.
The most significant things to me, however, are:
1) Only 3 points (trey by Franklin when the Tech game reached blowout status) from the bench (Neal, Blair, Washington, Franklin) which shot 1 of 9 from the field and missed their only freeshot.
2) Each team seemed to have 90-100 possessions. With only 23 defensive boards and 3 steals it means that the opposition scored on something like 60 of their possessions. While our scoring was somewhat below average, we just simply couldn't get the stops when they counted. And our lack of three point shooting while the opponents were raining treys really hurt.
With the low number of assists it is clear that we were having difficulty getting good shots and playing essentially one on one basketball.
I didn't calculate the number of points scored by the opposition but I would guess that they probably nearly doubled our point total.
I did not include games like Kansas where we led at the half and then got blown out of the game early in the second half.
I will post individual information later as this is already too long.
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