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Kansas Jayhawks 109 - Oklahoma Sooners 106 | Game Notes - Everyone Is Talking About Buddy Hield

Oklahoma's triple overtime thriller at Kansas was so epic that you may have missed out on these nuggets of info from the game.

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• Oklahoma and Kansas played each other in the first battle of No. 1 teams from the same conference since 2007 (Oklahoma is ranked No. 1 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, Kansas is No. 1 in the AP Poll).

• Monday's win was the Jayhawks' 32nd straight home victory and their 15th straight home win over OU.

• The loss for Oklahoma snapped its 12-game winning streak. It was tied with the 2008-09 squad as the Sooners' best start in 28 years (the 1987-88 team began 14-0).

• OU finished 16 for 33 from 3-point range on the night, tying a season high for makes and marking the eighth game already this season the Sooners have made at least 10 shots from beyond the 3-point line.

• The game marked OU's first triple-overtime contest since a 117-100 win at home vs. Nebraska in the 1995-96 season.

• OU scored at least 80 points for the seventh straight game and for the 11th time in 13 overall outings this year.

• This week marks the first time in the 20-year history of the Big 12 for the league to boast No. 1 teams in the two major polls the same week.

• Monday's game marked the first No. 1 vs. No. 2 AP matchup between teams from the same conference since the 2009-10 season (also Big 12).

• Senior guard Buddy Hield registered his seventh straight game of at least 20 points with a career-high 46, tied for the sixth-highest total in school history and the most by an OU player since Brent Price had a Lloyd Noble Center-record 56 against Loyola Marymount in the 1990-91 season.

• Hield's 46 points tied as the most by a Division I player this year. His performance marked just the 19th time in the last 20 years a player finished with at least 45 points and at least 5 assists.

• Buddy made a career-high eight 3-pointers on 15 attempts. He finished 13 for 23 from the field and 12 for 14 from the free throw line while adding 8 rebounds and 7 assists.

• Hield also played a school-record 54 minutes (previous record was 51 by Ryan Minor vs. Nebraska in 1996).

• With his 46 points scored, Hield (now with 1,708 career points) passed Alvan Adams (1,707) into eighth place on OU's all-time scoring list.

• Sophomore guard Jordan Woodard had two points through the game's first 17 minutes but finished with 27, one shy of his career high.

• Senior forward Ryan Spangler played 51 minutes and finished with 14 points (6-for-11 shooting) and a career-high 18 rebounds.

• Sophomore Khadeem Lattin finished with a career-high 14 rebounds and a career-high-tying 6 blocked shots. He added 10 points for his first career double-double.