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Oklahoma Sooner Basketball Game Six Open Thread: #22 USC

Tip Time: 10:02 p.m. CST
Location: Los Angeles, CA./Galen Center
TV: FSN
Radio: 1520 AM (OKC), 97.5 FM (Tulsa)

Tonight begins what could possibly be the roughest stretch of the season. Over the course of the next month the Sooners will play #22 USC, TCU, Tulsa, Stephen F. Austin, Arkansas, #19 Gonzaga and West Virginia. Needless to say this is a make or break stretch for Oklahoma's basketball season even before conference play begins. A win tonight over the Trojans would go a long way in getting this stretch started.

The Trojans, like the Sooners, are led by a super freshman. Guard OJ Mayo, who shared McDonald's High School All-American honors with Oklahoma's Blake Griffin, is averaging 21.8 points to go along with 4.8 rebounds and 3.3 assists a game and is stroking .422 from three point range. Guard Daniel Hackett is averaging 12.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and a team-high 5.8 assists per game and is shooting .611 from the field and .667 from long three.  Forward Taj Gibson averages 11.8 points and team highs of 9.3 rebounds and 2.5 blocked shots per game.  Guard Dwight Lewis is averaging 10.7 points and 2.2 rebounds a game.  Forward Kasey Cunningham is averaging 3.5 points and 3.0 rebounds per game.

USC's athleticism will provide a challenge for Oklahoma but the Sooners have already experienced the same kind of challenge when they played Memphis. Another thing that may help OU is that the Trojans are facing a tough stretch on their own. After tonight's game they'll play #4 Kansas and then at #3 Memphis. Is there a chance the Trojans will look past OU a little?

Oklahoma Projected Starters
F  23  Blake Griffin     6-10 243  Fr.  15.0 ppg, 9.2 rpg
C 30 Longar Longar   6-11  234 Sr. 12.0 ppg, 7.5 rpg
G 5  Tony Crocker     6-6   193  So. 11.3 ppg, 4.0 rpg
G 11 Omar Leary      5-10  163 Jr.     8.2 ppg, 1.7 rpg
G 20 Austin Johnson  6-3   165 Jr.     5.8 ppg, 2.2 rpg, 2.3 apg

USC Projected Starters
F  22 Taj Gibson              6-9 225 So. 11.7 ppg, 9.3 rpg, 1.3 apg
F  43 Kasey Cunningham 6-7 225 Fr.  3.5 ppg, 3.0 rpg
G 13 Daniel Hackett        6-6 200 So. 12.8 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 5.8 apg
G 21 Dwight Lewis          6-5 215 So. 10.7 ppg, 2.2 rpg
G 32 OJ Mayo                 6-5 200 Fr.  21.8 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 3.3 apg

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Longar
Doesn't need to take those kind of shots.

by ccmachine on Nov 29, 2007 10:05 PM CST   0 recs

1-4
free throws for Longar

by ccmachine on Nov 29, 2007 10:15 PM CST   0 recs

Oh my goodness
Blake is going to hear about that for a while

by ccmachine on Nov 29, 2007 10:34 PM CST   0 recs

5 point lead by USC
OU has to answer now

by ccmachine on Nov 29, 2007 10:35 PM CST   0 recs

Holy Cow
How did Longar not get fouled? Make up call on Godbold.

by ccmachine on Nov 29, 2007 10:38 PM CST   0 recs

AJ end the drought
Sooners still trailing by 9.

by ccmachine on Nov 29, 2007 10:46 PM CST   0 recs

Sooners hold Mayo to 1 first half basket
but still trail by 11. 5 missed free throws, and ice cold 25% shooting from the floor.

As long as the offensive game plan is for Longar to shoot 15 foot jumpers and no one else can buy a basket or even a free throw the Sooners are doomed.

On the other hand if OU comes out in the 2nd half and makes just half their shots then we have a game.

by ccmachine on Nov 29, 2007 10:57 PM CST   0 recs

Nice little run here by the Sooners
They could cut it to four after the break

by ccmachine on Nov 29, 2007 11:17 PM CST   0 recs

3 point game
Shots are finally falling

by ccmachine on Nov 29, 2007 11:23 PM CST   0 recs

Looks like more of the same against ranked teams
Good hustle, sloppy play, poor shooting and wondering what if as the Sooners do just enough to not get run off the floor.

by ccmachine on Nov 29, 2007 11:51 PM CST   0 recs

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