MBB | OU @ K-State | Game Thread
By: Jordan Esco - Editor & Contributor
Posted on: February 6, 2016
Image via AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki
Just kind of have a feeling this one is going to be tougher than it probably should be. Of course every other time I’ve doubted this OU team they’ve made me feel stupid.
So here’s to looking forward to a familiar feeling.
Time to go to work.
BOOMER!
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Let’s get er done!! BOOMER!!
SOONER!
Time to take care of business. I think the fact that they haven’t beaten them on the road in 4 years helps them. They definitely shouldn’t over look them.
Need to be crisp today, minimal turnovers. Road games in kansas have not been kind to this group.
Have to play good defense, win the rebound battle, one and done for them on the offensive end
Away from home so an occasional score update will be appreciated. 🙂
Just under 8. OU up 24-23, KSU at the line for 2 freethrows.
Thanks.
Good start
just gotta maintain this pace, should win 120-0 =)
Already forced 5 turnovers, me likey.
Buddy is cold hearted!!
Perimeter defense slow to get out on shooters.
One of the worst 3 point shooting teams in the country? I’ve got the remedy….play OU.
Back in Turkey games on afn…aaaaass
I have a feeling these guys are going to hang around till the end, hope I’m wrong
What you expect. It’s emotion… there’s always that weirdo who shows up for that one game
He will go for 30 on us and then won’t get 30 the rest of the year!!
Lol really…for sure
Refs are the key…right now a tad suspect but it’s close
KSU will not be able to keep up this hot shooting….I hope.
Was talking to a KSU fan this week about the LSU game, and mentioned the classless fans chanting FU Buddy and throwing things on the court. His response was, that’s the great thing about college basketball. Should give you an indication of what KSU fans are like.
Good grief!
I just don’t like when a team can play the lazy and still be even with Oklahoma
I sure hope we wear down this KState team and win by 15. Keep the ball moving and make them burn.
Lol, KSU player showboating up the sideline and turns it over. Nice work
Don’t like are inside game so far
Been a weakness all year unfortunately
Ummm ok….
Funny as heck. The ESPN gig
When you go to school in Manhattan Kansas…plenty of time to think up gigs like that.
Some people don’t understand sports you are playing an away game its emotion you have a target on your back be realistic ….. you’re playing the number one team in America of course they are going to give their best….
What a shame there are more people there at that game then there are in Norman Oklahoma what is wrong with the Oklahoma fan base
I feel like Lon takes things easy against his Alma mater. We NEVER play well against KSU since he’s been our coach. Frustrating.
Yep he has a meeting and he says hey look I went to school here come on let’s take it easy as a matter of fact let’s just lay down
Hey look, a keyboard commando! Get a life.
The KSU coach is consistently out of the coach’s box running up and down the sideline why do they not call that
38-32 KSU leads at the hallf.
We aren’t playing with enough energy. We need Lattin to be the shot blocker. Buddy has to get more involved. He constantly has games when he’s on fire and then nothing for 10 min.
Lattin and Woodard need to get more involved this next half!!
The key is Spangler…he had such a dominant outside game…plus you have the home field bs luck…but these games mentor players…
OU wins by double digits.
Agreed
Gonna hold you to that. 🙂
Duh I tot I ta a puddy tat…double digits. Well be lucky to win in ot…. please put the alcohol down and step away from table
Lol!
Here we go…..
This place is dead.
Let’s keep it that way!
Its guys like you I feel like beating the s*** out of… you just don’t know what the f*** you’re talking about
Are you off your meds or something?
No but your stupid comments this place is dead and we will win by double digits is the kiss of death jagoff
LOL!!!
Are you f****** happy now…51 47
Probably just the NJ in him taking effect.
Whatever the hell it is, it’s pretty funny.
Good grief get s body on someone!
Is Lattin in foul trouble? Seems like he’s been on the bench a lot today.
3.
Ah. Must’ve missed it for some reason.
Don’t think so
Good point. Long way to go hang on. OU in ot
It’s like playing ISU where every prayer thrown toward the basket gets answered. Damn
Yikes. Almost airballed the FT
Wow, wade was OTB on Spangler
Relying on Buddy too much today.
Hey Dustin how’s that double digit lead going….
#justwaitonit
Oh please I don’t have airfare to fly there and kiss your ass…but I will
Okie dokie
Yep its over…refs in their pocket…going to take a miracle finish
Did you even watch the LSU game?
Cousins needs to run point, penetrate, and look to kick out for threes
If your not making wide open shots it’s pretty hard to beat anybody!
KSU 3-pt %
Season: 28.6%
Tonight: 50%
Unreal.
Reverse that for us
Season: 46.2%
Tonight: 30%
They defended the perimeter well. We did not. There you go.
Ksu..in bonus plus 10 to go yep that’s fair….
K State will pucker up here late, we can turn their clanks into transition buckets
Just stop..settle down and get the ball inside…put in ying..yang…or whatever his name is with Spangler
and beat them at the foul line
just need to be close in the final minutes, this team can close.
Why is Woodard dropping in the paint on D
Same reason Spangs hangs out at the three point line on offense. Who knows?
Take their damn whistles, for the love of red beans and rice!
Why aren’t we setting Beal and Spangler at high posts to help offset their perimeter pressure?
Ah yes, the classy BS chant on a legit foul.
Why why. Why don’t we just go to rim…
Blueprint for beating OU, throw up prayers and have them answered. If not answered just go over the back to tip the ball in.
And hope we shoot 26% from three. We can’t hit anything.
No doubt
I don’t understand why we aren’t getting the ball inside. And why are we still in a zone?
The bs foul calls on Lattin opened our defense wide up. We can’t stop nothing.
Some home-cookin for sure.
Good point…I said same thing
Well…you can’t beat emotion…they win…then get buttttfkd the rest of the year
I would be rather be around for the entire year instead of just one game
What an ugly game
Stops……….
Well this is a game where if ou can somehow win, it would solidify the idea that this team is a final 4 type team. Right now they’re one of the best teams but playing in Manhattan is a demon this team needs to prove they have beaten. They shouldn’t have any true road games in the tourney so going cold from 3 like they have tonight shouldn’t be as big of a deal. Ksu is shooting like 50% from 3.
Worst shooting team in the league shoots lights out tonight and we can’t hit water if we fell out of a boat. Not much you can do about that.
Exactly and without a true road game in the tourney, I can’t see this being an outcome in March. But this one hurts, needed to prove they could win there. Plus games at Texas and at West Virginia are likely to be tougher.
March can’t get here soon enough.
It’s even a foul when they hand us the ball. Awesome.
I don’t blame Cousins. The refs have been garbage tonight. But it’s the Big 12…got a expect horrible officiatng
He pulled back right at the end. That ball was destined for the rafters.
DAng, this Wade kid has just shot it great tonight. The tech is the nail in the coffin. Dang it! Gotta keep your composure.
Embarrassing loss. There goes our big 12 lead. Cant believe we cant beat a mediocre KSU team.
Hard to beat an 8 man team.
Cant blame the refs for shooting 25% from 3.
No but you can blame them for not calling fouls on them and calling bogus ones on us. At least two of those on Lattin were crap and that one on Cousins was crap.
Dude. They called one on K-State where the dude wasn’t within six inches of Cousins. They were awful, but both ways.
But we did beat them on 1/9. We also beat ISU previously on 1/2 before losing to them on 1/18. We lost to Kansas on 1/4, but we’ll likely beat them when we play again on 2/13. This team’s won 19 and lost only 3. Personally, even though that loss hurt last night (and so did OKC’s loss to GS, damn those Warriors) I’m enjoying the hell outta this team and this season. It’s awesome!
0-4 in manhattan though the last 4 years. Got to find a way to beat a not very good KSU team in their house.
Have your fun tonight, KSU. Just cheer us on in April. From your couches. Piss on ya.
Did you read my mind?!
Yes. Yes I did.
Well-played, good Sir. Well-played.
Tough loss, but this team will be fine. Still lots of big games left to be played and a BIG 12 Championship and high seed is still in play. #1 ranking doesn’t mean anything until the end of the season when you are the last team standing, cutting down the nets.
Crappy refs!
Kruger is 4-6 against KSU. Why?
Because it’s his alma mater. He tells his players to intentionally miss shots and not play any defense.
Whatever man, I’m just pointing out a weird fact.
I saw someone throw out this theory towards the bottom of the thread. Just making fun.
All I said was that it feels that way because we always play bad against KSU under Kruger. I didn’t say that was the case, just said it’s an odd coincidence. It doesn’t make sense when we play pretty well against everyone else.
You need to put an s/ after your post so people know you are being sarcastic, or they might think you actually believe that. LOL
Yeah, I picked up that he was being an ass.
My god…what a horrible loss.
Tough to beat a team when they play 8 on 5…
Or they shoot 47% from 3 range and you only shot 25%. But 17 OU freethrows to 30 FT for KSU makes you wonder about some of the officiating, so I don’t disagree.
I know it’s not his style, but I would love to see Lon get a technical foul one of these days. You know it’s gonna be bad in Morgantown.
I would have liked to see Lon come unglued after that cousins steal/foul/tech. That was a clean streal.
Yes and probably six of those fouls we got in the final 4 minutes pushing it inside. Not one our bigs better games either.
Spangler had a double-double, but wasn’t an outstanding effort there. Also, Lattin’s foul trouble was an issue. His worst game in quite awhile. And Woodard with 0 points. WTF? I sure hope he isn’t having a Cousins type slump.
I was there. Don’t blame the refs. They were PUTRID both ways. Oklahoma did NOTHING to help themselves out either. They truly deserved that loss.
KSU bench outscored OU’s bench 32-10. Heck two of their guys outscored our bench by themselves, led by that Wade kids 17. They shot well, OU didn’t, but sure would like to see OU take it to the rim more. I am sure others will agree with this.
Wade is usually a starter and OU didn’t play a lick of D on him, or on anyone for the most part.
thought the refs were very poor on calling fouls on both ends….OU played bad and KSU played well, but the refs were on a page all their own.
Just another day in the Big 12…
It sure seemed like KSU was very physical with very little penalty, but if we looked mean at a guy they called it. Hard to guard driving in the paint when *anything* you do is whistled. Better a 2 alone than a “and 1”.
This is by far the best OU team in a very long time. Unfortunately, they are very inconsistent. They will go far in the big dance, but they will not win it all. Still a year or two away.
With Hield, Cousins and Spangler graduating we will be more than two years away from winning it all.
WAT?
This is the best chance they have. If it doesn’t happen this year, it ain’t gonna happen. Won’t be able to recover with the loss of Buddy, Cousins, and Spangler. It’s the lack of a bench that will keep us from winning it this year.
My wife played college ball in Indiana…she commented about how lazy these guys are on defense under/around the basket. She said they are fairly aggressive on the perimeter, but just get their butts handed to them when it comes to fighting for rebounds. What kills them on poor shooting nights is the “one and done” aspect on the offensive end…
Lazy is the word of the day.
And unc just bailed ou out and we will probably be number 1 again.
Really disappointing loss. Live by the 3 die by it. Still, KSU? KSU and TCU were to be the road “gimmes.” Now, HAVE to make a WVU road win and hold home court to get a regular season crown. Golf analogy – we just missed a two-foot putt. Now we have to make a 15-footer at texsa and a 40-footer at WVU.
But I LOVE my Sooners and this team!
Cush,
Even though I want them to win, I’m glad they lost now and played poorly. Why I say that is I want them to get these kinds of games out of their system now instead of tourney time. They shot poorly the whole night and didn’t play good defense. I think they let the refs get into their head a little bit and they just never seemed to recover. I want them to be sharp come March and play the way they need to. I love my Sooners and I know they will bounce back and get things on the right track.
It’s hard to keep the refs out of your head when any strong defensive effort is rewarded with a whistle, especially when the opponent is playing tighter than a glove with barely a call. That snowballs psychologically.
We would still have won with a decent shooting night, so it’s not entirely the refs’ faults, but there was an awful lot of 5 on 8 going on out there.
Mark I’m not blaming the refs on this. We just shot bad and it caught up to us. I’m fine with that as long as they get it out of their system now instead of tourney time. We will see how LK gets them ready for uterus on Monday. This is a tough matchup.
Just got home from that game. This is one disappointed and disillusioned Sooner fan. I’ve always felt the team left something to be desired when watching on TV, but live? Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Spangler was the least impressive player I’ve seen in quite some time. Guy just stood around and sweated for the most part; never played help-side D, didn’t rebound, couldn’t/wouldn’t put a body on anyone even on FTs. The offense is poorly constructed as it relies far too heavily on 3 point shooting and dribbling. There is NO off-ball movement offensively and they are lazy on their defensive rotations. Kruger has his work cut out for him to get these guys into championship form if he wants to win the B12 and make any kind of noise in March. I cannot believe what I just watched, you guys. That was awful, awful basketball.
If you think this team leaves something to be desired, I don’t see how you have survived watching OU basketball over its history. This doesn’t happen very often AT ALL. And here we stand still complaining. I can understand the “we are OU” argument for football and football recruiting but Geez, this is basketball. They’ve nearly double the TOTAL number of weeks ranked number 1 in the HISTORY of the program.
If u are mad about it, I suggest u don’t watch any games after all these kids graduate.
Thanks for telling me how to be a fan, first of all. Second, I listed very specific points relating to the game of basketball that I found problematic. I don’t feel that I was ridiculous in my statements. Those things all happened mere feet in front of me. It isn’t a “we are OU” argument, it’s a “do things the right way” argument. It doesn’t take a national champion to show effort and hustle. I was disappointed with the seeming lack of care. They looked like they expected K-State to roll over.
Glad I could help.
Back away from the ledge. It’s one game. Enjoy this season, dear.
I’m not on a ledge. Just can’t believe what I witnessed. Lots of standing and dribbling. No help-side D and a severe lack of rebounding. Not a great recipe for success.
Give K-State credit, they did a great job of guarding the perimeter. We didn’t take it inside enough. This is the recipe to beat us unless we change things.
KSU played a great game. When our guards are knocking down shots we can beat anybody in the country. When they aren’t knocking down the outside shots our post offense is just not good enough to go inside. The post is very good at getting put back attempts but struggle with setting up a true inside game. Not knocking them, I love this team, but that is our achiles heel.
Hey whiners….did you say the same when we pushed ku…won two tourneys and beat Villanova
you show your lack of athletic intelligence with your cry bs ever had a bad day at the office??
Good Grief..
Yes, but this is OU! Wait….it’s basketball, we never do this. Apparently most have just started watching and think we are a perennial power.
For Gods sake, just enjoy this while we have it cause next yr will not even approach this yr.
First, legitimate concerns over the way they played are not “whining” or “crying”. Second, “lack of athletic intelligence”? Please explain. When fans can cite exactly why they are upset and then base that on basketball concepts, it isn’t a lack of intelligence. It may not be what you want to hear, but it isn’t “lack of athletic intelligence.”
This years tournaments are going to be awesome..lots of parity.
Kinda like football is getting to be with the exception of the ‘ elite’ programs that recruit the ‘blue chips’. 🙂