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Oklahoma basketball: First-quarter flurry sends Sooners to 29-point win over Robert Morris

By Chip Rouse

Oklahoma's Liz Scott (34) reaches for the ball beside IUPUI's Natalie Andersen (24) during a women's basketball game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and IUPUI in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., Saturday, March 19, 2022. Oklahoma won 78-72.Women S Ncaa Tournament
Oklahoma's Liz Scott (34) reaches for the ball beside IUPUI's Natalie Andersen (24) during a women's basketball game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and IUPUI in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., Saturday, March 19, 2022. Oklahoma won 78-72.Women S Ncaa Tournament /
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The 23rd-ranked Oklahoma basketball women race to a 20-point advantage in the opening 10 minutes and added to that over the next two quarters in cruising to a 94-65 victory at home over Robert Morris on Sunday.

Senior Liz Scott led the way for the Lady Sooners hitting seven of eight field goals for a game-high 16 points. OU led 33-13 at the end of the first quarter and built up a 41-point advantage six minutes into the third quarter.

Four Sooner starters scored in double figures and the Oklahoma reserves contributed 38 points as OU won its fifth straight game and eighth of the season with one loss. Madi Williams, the team’s leading scorer on the season, had 15 points, and Taylor Robertson and Ana Llanusa scored 11 and 10, respectively.

A season-high six Oklahoma players reached double figures scoring as OU exceeded 90 for the fourth time this season.

Robert Morris led in this game by two points for a total of 14 seconds and was held to 34-percent shooting for the game.

The OU women are off until next Sunday when they will host Southern at the Lloyd Noble Center.

Three takeaways that help summarize the game:

  • As much as anything, Oklahoma won this game with a commanding rebounding advantage. The Sooners pulled down 59 rebounds in the game to only 32 by Robert Morris, and 19 of OU boards were of the offensive variety, which led to 27 second-chance points.
  • Thirty-one of the Sooners’ 94 points were scored on fast breaks. Robert Morris was limited to four fast-break points.
  • Oklahoma made six of its 10 three-pointers in the game in the opening quarter and a season-high eight Sooners scored in the first 10 minutes.
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