The Oklahoma basketball men more than made up for a deplorable shooting night earlier in the week against Kansas, wearing out the bottom of the basket in a 20-point home win over TCU on Saturday.
Junior forward Brady Manek had a career game scoring a game-high 31 points and nine rebounds as the Sooners rebounded from two consecutive losses for an 83-63 win over TCU. Manek connected on 10 of 15 shots, including seven of nine from three-point range.
In addition to Manek, Austin Reaves added 14 points, including one three-pointer. His made three-point shot was his first in four games.
The Sooners (12-5, 3-2) held the Big 12’s second-leading scorer, TCU’s Desmond Bane, to just 12 points. Bane was just 5 of 14 shooting and was two of nine from behind the three-point arc. Coming into the game, Bane was shooting 47 percent from long range.
The third best three-point-shooting team in the conference coming into the game, TCU missed their first 10 three-ball tries and were just 1 of 16 from that distance in the opening half.
Here are dozen more notable numbers that tell the story of this game:
2-0 — TCU’s only lead in the game on an opening field goal by Desmond Bane.
4 — Each team had four players score in double figures.
10 — Oklahoma scored 10 points off of eight TCU turnovers.
17-7 — TCU’s advantage in second-chance points.
20 — OU’s 20 assists in the game was its most since January of 2018, when the Sooners were credited with 24 against Oklahoma State.
22.2 — TCU’s three-point percentage in the game on 8 out of 36.
24 — OU’s biggest lead in the game, 64-40 at the 10:03 mark in the second ha25 — TCU received 25 points from players off the bench (OU’s reserves contributed 14).
34-32 — Oklahoma’s rebounding advantage over the Horned Frogs. That has happened few times this season.
37.7 — TCU’s field-goal percentage in the game (23 of 61).
61.4 — Oklahoma’s second-half shooting percentage. The Sooners shot 53.7 percent for the game (over 20 percent better than in their loss to Kansas earlier in the week).
1,000 — Brady Manek’s final two points in the game enabled him to reach 1,000 points for his Sooner career, the 46th OU player to do so.