Sooners Get Late Tip-In From Lattin To Beat West Virginia

“Everyone was guarding their man”, Phillip said. The team arrived inside the locker room just before 6 p.m. (5 p.m. CT) for a game that was scheduled to begin in a little over an hour.

The Mountaineers were right again and then wronged at the finish. Lattin saved the day, however, and tipped in a missed Woodard shot to propel Oklahoma to victory.

“It’s the buildings and trees and river that caused us to play poorly”, KU coach Bill Self said sarcastically when asked if there’s something about Morgantown that gives KU fits.

“The leadership of this group – the senior group and Jordan – know what happens today is OK, but it’s nothing compared to what we have to keep doing to get better to keep challenging and the opposition that lies ahead”, Kruger said.

Holmes leads the Mountaineers and ranks second in the Big 12 with 17.1 points per game. That was the last time a team beat top-two teams in succession in the regular season.

The ending scene at the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W.Va. this past Tuesday night was West Virginia fans storming the court with John Denver’s Country Roads playing in the background after the Mountaineers upset the No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks, 74-63. The Sooners experienced a scare and a taste of what that might be like in the second half of their game on Tuesday at Oklahoma State.

In West Virginia’s loss to Virginia this season, the Cavaliers shot 62.8 percent from the field, 37.5 percent from three-point range and 65 percent from the free throw line.

The Sooners responded with a 9-0 run to take a four point advantage.

The last time it occurred came in the 2008 Final Four, when Kansas defeated No. 1 North Carolina and No. 2 Memphis to win the national championship, according to STATS.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) – Khadeem Lattin made the most of his second chance, and now the Oklahoma Sooners could be on the verge of a No. 1 ranking. “It was my time at that moment to tip it in”. In the Sooners’ three games against top-25 teams this year, they have shot 43.4 percent from the field, 46.7 percent from behind the three-point arc and 77.8 from the charity stripe. As bad as the ball-handling was, they beat us in all the competitive plays. Shot 48 percent in the first half…. Woodard had 13 points. Ryan Spangler added 10 points and grabbed 14 rebounds. Both he and Marshall Plumlee drew their fourth fouls in the second half. WVU has forced 14 or more turnovers in every game this season. The Mountaineers and Sooners along with Kansas and Baylor are now tied atop the Big 12 standings.

His 26.6 points per game is second in the country (to Howard’s James Daniel), while his 69.0% true shooting percentage leads the Big 12. West Virginia vs Oklahoma live stream free. The Tigers are the ACC’s per-possession leader in reaching the free throw line and sending opponents to the charity stripe. “You can’t shoot 50 percent from the free throw line, and you can’t turn it over the way we turned it over”.

The player carrying the load for WVU was none other than Jaysean Paige who scored a game high 18 points off the bench. Perry Ellis was his usual reliable self, totalling 21 points and seven rebounds. Paige made two free throws to put the Mountaineers up 42-41, and Daxter Miles, Jr. scored on the inbounds pass to make it a three-point lead for West Virginia. Forward Elijah Macon made a layup cutting Oklahoma’s lead to five points.

“Devin Williams is… probably a first team all-league guy if he can play”, Huggins said.

Buford hadn’t played more than 10 minutes in a game since December 23 but when he came into the game with just less than 12 minutes remaining in the first half, he didn’t leave.