Oklahoma Basketball: 2015-16 Sooners’ Season in the Numbers

There was much to like about the 2015-16 men’s Oklahoma basketball season, not the least of which was Lon Kruger winning his 100th game as the Sooners’ head coach.

March 26, 2016; Anaheim, CA, USA; Oklahoma Sooners guard Jordan Woodard (10) moves to the basket against Oregon Ducks forward Dwayne Benjamin (0) and forward Jordan Bell (1) during the first half of the West regional final of the NCAA Tournament at Honda Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports

In his fifth full season as head coach, Kruger’s Sooners won 29 games, the sixth most in OU men’s basketball history. In 30 seasons as a college head coach, Kruger has collected 592 career wins.

Only eight other active head coaches have won 550 or more games, and the OU head coach is No. 1 on that list, now just eight shy of becoming the 93rd coach in college basketball history to win as many as 600 games.

Much has been written this season about the incredible play of Sooner superstar and two-time All-American Buddy Hield (who on Sunday added the Naismith Trophy as the Player of the Year in college basketball to the hardware he has collected in his four years at Oklahoma) and OU’s exciting journey to the Final Four in the 2016 NCAA Basketball Championship.

The Sooners finished at No. 4 in the final USA Today Coaches Poll – up three spots from their previous ranking in the coaches’ poll -trailing No. 1 Villanova, North Carolina and Kansas.

Here are a host of other relevant numbers that serve to summarize the basketball season just ended for the Oklahoma Sooners:

1 – National ranking of the Sooners in the Associated Press Top 25 for three consecutive weeks in January (Jan. 18, Jan. 25 and Feb. 1).

10 – Number of teams in the AP Top-25 that Oklahoma defeated this season, a school record.

12 – Games this season in which Buddy Hield scored 30-or-more points.

12 – Consecutive games won by Oklahoma to start the 2015-16 season.

24 – Number of games (out of 37 total) in which Oklahoma made 10-or-more three-point field goals in a game, a school record.

Apr 2, 2016; Houston, TX, USA; Oklahoma Sooners forward Ryan Spangler (00) drives to the basket against Villanova Wildcats forward Darryl Reynolds (45) and forward Daniel Ochefu (23) during the second half in the 2016 NCAA Men

42 – Three-point field-goal percentage by the Sooners as a team this season, second best in NCAA Division I .

46 – Season-high points scored by Buddy Hield in a 109-106 triple-overtime loss at Kansas on Jan. 4.

106 – Consecutive games started by Buddy Hield, Isaiah Cousins, Ryan Spangler and Jordan Woodard over three seasons.

334 – Rebounds this season by Ryan Spangler, eighth most in a single season in OU basketball history. Spangler is fourth all-time at OU in the rebounding category (behind Wayman Tisdale, Darryl Kennedy and Alvan Adams.

349 – Career three-point field goals by Buddy Hield, third most in Big 12 history. That also set a new career record at Oklahoma.

2,291 – Career points for Buddy Hield, 925 of which came in this year in his final season at Oklahoma. With nine points in the Sooners’ Final Four loss to Villanova, Hield passed former Baylor player LaceDarius Dunn as the Big 12 career scoring leader.