Men's Basketball: Showdown Game with Cincy @ LNC Tonight @ 7 PM!
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:38 am
At 7-9 in conference play and 19-10 overall, the Oklahoma Sooners need to step up tonight and their hold home court against the Cincinnati Bearcats who are 6-10 in conference and 17-12 overall. With a win tonight, the Sooners can move into a tie for no worse than 8th in the conference and have a shot at finishing at .500 (9-9) in conference play with a win over Texas this weekend in Austin. Texas lost last night to Baylor 93-85. A win tonight also gives the Sooners the 20th win for the season.
The Big 12 conference contest will air on the Sooner Sports Radio Network (KRXO 107.7 FM The Franchise in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430 AM in Tulsa; Varsity Radio App) with Toby Rowland and Kevin Henry announcing and be broadcast by ESPN+ with Mark Neely (PxP) and Fran Fraschilla (analyst) on the call.
Cincinnati is 2-5 in their last 7 conference games. Their wins were at UCF and at home over Kansas State. Oklahoma is 3-4 over their last 7 games. The three wins for the Sooners were at home and and the four losses were divided with two on the road and two in the home. The two home losses were to Kansas and Houston.
The Sooners defeated the Bearcats in Cincy earlier in the season (5th game of the conference season) 69-65. For Oklahoma, McCollum scored 16, Oweh scored 14 and Hugley scored 11 with Malone almost reaching double digits with 9. OU outrebounded Cincy 42 to 36. In that game, Godwin got into foul trouble early and only played 11 minutes, with Hugley playing 24 minutes in the game.
This time, Godwin will have to stay out of foul trouble as Hugley is out with a leg issue and is said to be day-to-day on his comeback this season. It wil be interesting to see which Sooners can step up and replace the scoring of Hugley and Oweh from Game 1. Maybe Oweh finds his game again coming off the bench as he has not started the last two games. Moore, Uzan, Soares, Godwin and Darthard have been playing well lately with McCollum finding enough room to score in double-digits.
The Sooners shoot the ball a bit better than does Cincinnati and it will be important for the Sooners to do just that tonight to be able to win. Cincy probably rebounds better than does OU, but based upon the first game, OU can outplay the Bearcats on the boards to pick up an advantage. Oklahoma only had 8 assists in the first game on 24 made buckets. Hopefully, tonight the Sooners can share the ball a bit more and pick up more assists. Of course the Sooners need to take care of the ball as is always required.
Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the important game tonight for the Sooners.
https://soonersports.com/news/2024/3/4/ ... on-tuesday
A win tonight could really mean a great deal for the Sooners tonight. Good luck to the Sooners in every way.
Boomer Sooner!
The Big 12 conference contest will air on the Sooner Sports Radio Network (KRXO 107.7 FM The Franchise in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430 AM in Tulsa; Varsity Radio App) with Toby Rowland and Kevin Henry announcing and be broadcast by ESPN+ with Mark Neely (PxP) and Fran Fraschilla (analyst) on the call.
Cincinnati is 2-5 in their last 7 conference games. Their wins were at UCF and at home over Kansas State. Oklahoma is 3-4 over their last 7 games. The three wins for the Sooners were at home and and the four losses were divided with two on the road and two in the home. The two home losses were to Kansas and Houston.
The Sooners defeated the Bearcats in Cincy earlier in the season (5th game of the conference season) 69-65. For Oklahoma, McCollum scored 16, Oweh scored 14 and Hugley scored 11 with Malone almost reaching double digits with 9. OU outrebounded Cincy 42 to 36. In that game, Godwin got into foul trouble early and only played 11 minutes, with Hugley playing 24 minutes in the game.
This time, Godwin will have to stay out of foul trouble as Hugley is out with a leg issue and is said to be day-to-day on his comeback this season. It wil be interesting to see which Sooners can step up and replace the scoring of Hugley and Oweh from Game 1. Maybe Oweh finds his game again coming off the bench as he has not started the last two games. Moore, Uzan, Soares, Godwin and Darthard have been playing well lately with McCollum finding enough room to score in double-digits.
The Sooners shoot the ball a bit better than does Cincinnati and it will be important for the Sooners to do just that tonight to be able to win. Cincy probably rebounds better than does OU, but based upon the first game, OU can outplay the Bearcats on the boards to pick up an advantage. Oklahoma only had 8 assists in the first game on 24 made buckets. Hopefully, tonight the Sooners can share the ball a bit more and pick up more assists. Of course the Sooners need to take care of the ball as is always required.
Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the important game tonight for the Sooners.
https://soonersports.com/news/2024/3/4/ ... on-tuesday
A win tonight could really mean a great deal for the Sooners tonight. Good luck to the Sooners in every way.
Boomer Sooner!