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OU women’s basketball: Sooners use effort, toughness to down Northwestern State | Sports

OU women’s basketball: Sooners use effort, toughness to down Northwestern State | Sports

Oklahoma’s bench was on its ft and cheering as loud because it had all recreation within the closing minutes of Wednesday’s recreation in opposition to Northwestern State.

The pleasure wasn’t coming from how shut the rating was. But even with a 40-point lead, the Sooners had been determined to get each free ball on the courtroom, and with each rebound, steal or deflection, the cheering from OU’s bench solely acquired louder.

Junior ahead Skylar Vann was an instantaneous spark because the Sooners’ first participant off the bench by creating additional possibilities with robust offensive rebounds. Vann scored 13 factors with 12 rebounds together with eight within the first half alone.

The Sooners’ went on to win 88-45 behind a season-high 65 rebounds.

“I think Skylar definitely set the tone for us tonight and what our aggressiveness is supposed to look like,” OU ahead Madi Williams stated. “On the boards, just running and playing defense — she kind of did it all. We were able to see that and that’s always a good thing when we can copy and do what she does.”

While Williams credit the workforce’s toughness on the spark Vann supplied early within the recreation, OU coach Jennie Baranczyk stated the junior has been setting the tone in follow in current days and it’s beginning to repay.

Oklahoma entered the sport ranked a hundred and fifth in rebounds per recreation with 40.3 and a rebounding margin of -2.8. On Wednesday, they outrebounded the Demons by that margin (40 rebounds) and didn’t enable an offensive board till the third quarter.

“There were a couple of things that we did from a practice standpoint and a few adjustments that we made. However, I thought that Skylar’s last few days of practice and her intensity and relentlessness has really rubbed off,” Baranczyk stated.

The Sooners sometimes have discovered their offensive rhythm in transition, however in opposition to Northwestern State many of the workforce’s offense got here within the half-court. Oklahoma solely had eight factors off of 12 turnovers, however had 21 second likelihood factors on 18 offensive rebounds.

The Sooners shot 49 p.c from the sector, however had been 9-32 from behind the arc and had 21 turnovers.

Four totally different Sooners completed in double figures and three of them posted double-doubles — Vann, Williams and Aubrey Joens.

Williams scored 16 factors on six of eight capturing with 10 rebounds and Joens put up 11 factors, 12 rebounds and 4 assists with three makes from exterior. The pair mixed for six offensive rebounds and three assists.

“I think she’s kind of sneaky,” Baranczyk stated about Joens. “I’ve said that a million times, she just is. I almost wish that she would shoot the ball a little bit more, let it fly, I think we all do. She’s really starting to fit in too.”

Oklahoma picked up its third straight win and improves to 6-1 on the season. The Sooners proceed a four-game residence stretch on Sunday in opposition to Ole Miss at 2 p.m.

Tarik Masri is a sports activities reporter for The Transcript protecting OU athletics and space sports activities. You can attain him by emailing tarik@normantranscript.com

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