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Oklahoma basketball: Sooner hoops awards for a season that ended as March Sadness

By Chip Rouse

AUSTIN, TEXAS - JANUARY 08: Austin Reaves #12, Kur Kuath #52, Jamal Bieniemy #24 and Victor Iwuakor #0 of the Oklahoma Sooners walk on the court during the game with the Texas Longhorns at The Frank Erwin Center on January 08, 2020 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Chris Covatta/Getty Images)
AUSTIN, TEXAS - JANUARY 08: Austin Reaves #12, Kur Kuath #52, Jamal Bieniemy #24 and Victor Iwuakor #0 of the Oklahoma Sooners walk on the court during the game with the Texas Longhorns at The Frank Erwin Center on January 08, 2020 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Chris Covatta/Getty Images) /
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MORGANTOWN, WV – FEBRUARY 29: Austin Reaves #12 of the Oklahoma Sooners lays one in against the West Virginia Mountaineers at the WVU Coliseum on February 29, 2020 in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)
MORGANTOWN, WV – FEBRUARY 29: Austin Reaves #12 of the Oklahoma Sooners lays one in against the West Virginia Mountaineers at the WVU Coliseum on February 29, 2020 in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images) /

Best Clutch Performance

Until the final game of the season, this award would have been up for grabs, with several OU players having come through at critical times throughout the course of the season.

Then came March 7, on the final Saturday in the regular season. Austin Reaves’ 41-point performance in a game on the road at TCU that the Sooners had to win not only was the game of his life, but easily the biggest clutch performance of the season by a Sooner player.

With Oklahoma trailing by as many as 19 points in the game, Reaves led a dramatic Sooner second-half comeback, scoring 15 of his 41 points in the final five minutes, including the game-winning bucket with 0.4 second left on the game clock that gave OU its first lead in the game and a 78-76 victory.

Reaves literally put the Sooners on his back in this game, connecting on 12 of 23 shots from the field (52 percent) and 15 of 16 at the free-throw line. He scored 52 percent of Oklahoma’s total points in the game. Only one other Sooner reached double digits (Kristian Doolittle with 15 points).

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