A strong start gave way to a discouraging night in Oklahoma’s SEC opener.
After constructing a good very first quarter lead, the No. 9-ranked Sooners turned the ball over 27 times and struck just 2 3-pointers in an 80-73 defeat to No. 5 Texas.
Jennie Baranczyk’s group will need to put that loss behind them rapidly, as Sunday brings another leading 15 clash.
Oklahoma (12-2, 0-1 SEC) heads to Knoxville to handle the No. 15-ranked Tennessee Lady Volunteers (13-0, 1-0) at 2 p.m. (ESPN).
Recuperating will be the name of the video game all year in conference play as everybody’s schedule is cluttered with ranked matches, however Baranczyk hopes the nature of Thursday’s defeat to the Longhorns will light a fire under her group.
“We skipped some looks that we do not require to skip,” Baranczyk stated after the loss to Texas. “… I do not believe we’re as positive as we require to be today. Therefore this is among those video games where you sort of hope that we get our little edge back and making certain that we understand that we can do that.
“I have not seen a group of ours miss as numerous shots either, and after that we turn it over after. Those are the things that will be truly intriguing as we all procedure this due to the fact that this group is excellent.”
OU’s star guard Payton Verhulst was particularly dissatisfied since the Sooners determined the rate of the video game early versus Texas, however as the video game endured, the Longhorns had the ability to much better assert themselves.
“I believed in the very first quarter specifically we were playing a great deal of Oklahoma basketball the method we like to play,” she stated. “We weren’t letting their defense determine what we did on offense. And I believe that gradually type of altered throughout the video game.”
Sunday’s contest versus Tennessee will supply less of a design clash than the fight with Texas.
The Lady Vols wish to go out and run much like the Sooners, and Tennessee leads the country by trying 36.5 3’s a video game.
Sophomore guard Talaysia Cooper leads the method, scoring 17.9 points per video game, and the Tennessee defense leads the nation requiring 27.38 turnovers per video game.
Undoubtedly, the Sooners are going to need to be far better at valuing the basketball.
Veterans Nevaeh Tot and Skylar Vann represented 10 of OU’s 27 turnovers versus the Longhorns, errors Baranczyk hopes her group leaders will have the ability to rapidly put behind them.
That will all be for naught if the Sooners pass up as numerous appearances as they did on Thursday, which was the genuine core of Baranczyk’s disappointments after the loss.
“These ladies are resistant and we react. That’s what I desire us to see. I desire to see us to be able to step in,
