Sports in Perspective
It’s not easy to win on the road, especially when you play in a conference like the Big 12. Oklahoma will testify to that. The Sooners were just 1-18 in true road games since the departure of #1 pick and eventual NBA superstar Blake Griffin. Saturday though, they were looking at probably their best opportunity to [...]
After the unforeseen departure of Calvin Newell just five games into the season, the Sooners struggled to fill the void left behind from his 13 points per contest off the bench. Sure, you had the occasional 18 point outing from Tyler Neal, or 20 point night form Carl Blair, but those were rare, no one [...]
If you enjoy a fast-paced, high-scoring game in which teams are trading buckets until the final buzzer, then you probably wouldn’t have found Tuesday evening’s contest between the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Tech Red Raiders very interesting. Oklahoma shot just 39% from the field and a dismal 9% from beyond the arc. Their opponents didn’t do [...]
There are many parallelisms between this and last year’s start to the conference season. Last year after a 0-3 start in league play, the Sooners responded with a three game win streak. Today, the Sooners also came in 0-3, and again, put a cessation to the dismal conference start, with what has potential to be [...]
It was a game that could make or break the Oklahoma Sooners basketball season. After a hot start, the Sooners had hit a rough patch, dropping three out of their last four games. Needless to say, the Sooners confidence level was in need of a lift. The opportunity was laying right in front of them, [...]
The tale of two halves would be a fitting storyline for the game between the Oklahoma Sooners and Kansas Jayhawks Saturday afternoon at the Lloyd Noble Center. Because the momentum took a dramatic shift from one half to the next. The first half led fans to believe it would be an evenly matched game. Both [...]
It was certainly no the way the Sooners envisioned starting off conference play. Though the Sooners are improved, no denying it, it may be a year or two more before they can compete with the top tier Big 12 teams once again. A 87-49 beating on the road to seventh ranked Missouri should be testimony [...]
There are many things that could be credited to the Oklahoma Sooners hot 10-2 start to the season. Maybe it’s the improvement we’ve seen out of 3rd-year guard Steven Pledger who is coming into conference play as the Big 12’s 2nd leading scorer. Perhaps it has something to do with the addition of a true [...]
Just two days after from a last second road loss, the Oklahoma Sooners traveled back to Norman for their final non-conference game against the Northwestern State Demons. There were questions as to how the team would respond, so closely removed from the heartbreak of theCincinnatiloss, would they come out sluggish? Instead, the Sooners answered with [...]
The Sooners led 49-37 with just over five minutes left to play, all that was needed was to flip the switch over to cruise control, the game seemed almost finished, the outcome, inevitable. Unfortunately the switch must have been reversed late, because something unpredictable happened in the final minutes of the game in downtown Cincinnati [...]