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Oklahoma basketball: Takeaways from a 39-point Sooner romp over Texas State

By Chip Rouse

Fans watch fill the arena during the men's Bedlam college basketball game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the Oklahoma State Cowboys at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., Wednesday, Feb.1, 2023. OSU beat 71-61.
Fans watch fill the arena during the men's Bedlam college basketball game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the Oklahoma State Cowboys at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., Wednesday, Feb.1, 2023. OSU beat 71-61. /
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Three Oklahoma basketball transfers combined for 41 points and the Sooners led wire-to-wire in a dominating 93-54 home win over Texas State on Tuesday night at Lloyd Noble Center.

Junior guard Javian McCollum dropped 15 points and senior Le’Tre Darthard added 14 off the bench as Porter Moser’s 2023-24 Sooner squad improved to 3-0 on the season. McCollum, a transfer from Siena, hit 6 of 10 shots, while Darthard, who played the last three seasons at Utah Valley, was five for nine from the floor, including two of five from three-point range.

Another Sooner newcomer, forward John Hugely IV was a perfect four-for-four shooting for 12 points and also pulled down a team-high seven rebounds.

As a team, the OU men shot 55.2 percent for the game and 7 of 21 (33 percent) from behind the three-point arc.

The Oklahoma offense is averaging 88.0 points in three games. That’s 25 points better than at this same time last season. The Sooner defense is also playing extremely well, giving up just 52.0 points a game.

Oklahoma wraps up the current homestand with a game Friday night when the Sooners will host the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (1-2).

Three prime takeaways from the OU win over Texas State:

  • OU’s win over Texas State was the 601st in the history of Lloyd Noble Center, opened in 1975. The Sooners 82.7 winning percentage (601-125) at the LNC is second best in the Big 12. Kansas has won 87,8 percent (847-117) of its home games at Allen Fieldhouse.
  • The Sooners scored 48 of their 93 total points against Texas State in the paint area.
  • Oklahoma reserves scored 44 points off the bench. In three games, the Sooner reserves have scored a total of 106 points, an average of 35 points a game.
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