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Oklahoma basketball: Numbers to know from a drought-breaker

By Chip Rouse

KANSAS CITY, MO - MARCH 07: Head coach Lon Kruger of the Oklahoma Sooners fist bumps Kristian Doolittle #21 during the first round of the Big 12 Basketball Tournament against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at the Sprint Center on March 7, 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, MO - MARCH 07: Head coach Lon Kruger of the Oklahoma Sooners fist bumps Kristian Doolittle #21 during the first round of the Big 12 Basketball Tournament against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at the Sprint Center on March 7, 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) /
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It has been 24 days since the men’s Oklahoma basketball last defeated a Big 12 opponent and exactly three weeks since the Sooners last won a basketball team.

The Sooners defeated TCU 71-62, completing a season sweep of the Horned Frogs and snapping a five-game conference losing streak. A month ago OU was 13-3 overall and 2-2 in the Big 12. The win over TCU was just the Sooners’ fourth conference win.

Oklahoma overcame an early eight-point deficit and took over the lead late in the first half at TCU on Saturday. The Sooners (16-10, 4-9) took a two-point lead, 32-30, into the locker room at halftime, only the second time in their last six games they have held a lead at the half, and they lost all of the previous five.

For just the second time in Big 12 play this season, OU led for the entire second half, stretching the two-point halftime margin to nine points in the first three minutes of the second stanza.

Head coach Lon Kruger had the Sooners giving the Horned Frogs multiple defensive looks, and the TCU offense had difficulty adjusting and running its offensive sets. The Frogs also had trouble scoring, which ultimately proved to be their downfall against a struggling Oklahoma squad coming into the game.

By winning for just the third time in the last 10 games, Oklahoma avoided experiencing a six-game losing streak for the second consecutive season. The Sooners have won their last four games against the Horned Frogs.

Here are some more compelling numbers to know from a big OU road win over TCU:

4 — OU’s four Big 12 wins have come against two teams. The Sooners swept their regular season series this season against both Oklahoma State and TCU.

8-2 — Oklahoma’s series record against TCU in games played in Ft. Worth.

9 of 32 — TCU put the ball up 32 times from behind the three-point line, making just nine (28.1 percent).

15 — TCU outrebounded OU 35-33 for the game, but 15 of those 35 boards were on the offensive glass. The Sooner pulled down just five offensive rebounds.

16-8  — Scoring run by Oklahoma over an eight-minute stretch in the first half that gave the Sooners their first lead in the game.

21 — Game-high point total by OU junior Kristian Doolittle, his second 20-point performance of the season. Doolittle added 10 rebounds to record a double-double.

43.8 — Oklahoma’s three-point field-goal percentage for the game (7 of 16).

50 — The Sooners were in rhythm offensively, shooting 50 percent for the game while holding TCU to 35.4 percent from the field.

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