We okay Ou on Saturday. If you can go to the game, do it. The team deserves your support
Ou comes in at 6-3 and ranked #57 in KemPom at the time do this post. They got destroyed by Gonzaga, lost to Nebraska at a neutral site, got destroyed by an Arizona State in Phoenix. They’ve beat Wake Forest (who also beat Northwestern) and Marquette (by one in a game Marquette was up most of the game). They’re playing a 9 man rotation with their core 4 of Nigel Pack, Xavier Brown, Derrion Reid, and Tae Davis all averaging around 30 minutes a game. Based on stats prior to the Arizona State game, it’s hard to find something the goons do well as a team. Given, they’re good at not fouling, they rank 64th nationally in that metric, and that could be a factor since we generate a lot of points from the line. And they really don’t turn the ball over, they rank15th nationally there, and we rely on turnovers creating transition. Other than that, they only rank in the top 100 in free throw and 2pt% shooting. They are really bad at most everything else. This is where I pull most of my stats from, look at their team rank in all categories, it’s surprisingly bad across the board, and again, that was before getting pimp slapped by the Sun Devils.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/oklahoma/men/2026.html
Nigel Pack leads them with 18 points a game and he’s having a hell of a year. He’s at 50% from 3 and 90% from the line. He’s a +9 in BpM and is actually a slight positive on defense. The other three top Ou guys average are kind 12 points a game.
I hate Ou, so I really don’t want to put too much more time into researching them. They have talent. If Pack gets hot, that’s a problem. But again, I know we have more depth and we’ve been more consistent and better than them to start the year. It’s another victory for the Pokes.
