BEVO BEAT Women's Basketball
Women’s preview: Texas vs. Oklahoma
Posted February 28th, 2020
Texas vs. Oklahoma
When: 7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Erwin Center
TV/radio: Longhorn Network/105.3 FM The Bat
About the series: Texas leads 34-25
| Oklahoma (12-15, 5-10 Big 12) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Pos. | Player | Class | Ht. | PPG | RPG |
| 3 | F | Mandy Simpson | Jr. | 6-1 | 5.3 | 6.9 |
| 12 | G | Gabby Gregory | Fr. | 6-0 | 11.0 | 4.3 |
| 25 | G | Madi Williams | Soph. | 6-0 | 15.5 | 7.1 |
| 30 | G | Taylor Robertson | Soph. | 5-7 | 19.4 | 3.2 |
| 32 | G | Tatum Veitenheimer | Soph. | 5-8 | 3.0 | 2.8* |
| Coach: Sherri Coale (501-279, 24th season at Oklahoma; 501-279, 24th year overall) | ||||||
| *-indicates assists per game. | ||||||
About the Sooners: An 83-80 loss to Kansas on Wednesday was Oklahoma’s fifth straight defeat. … Robertson entered this week as the only player in the nation with 100 made three-pointers. Her next 3-pointer will match the Big 12’s record of 122. … Junior guard Ana Llanusa, who missed last month’s meeting with Texas, is OU’s second-leading scorer (16.2 PPG) and has recorded at least four steals in two of her last three games. … Oklahoma ranks 22nd among the NCAA’s 348 Division I programs in scoring offense (75.9 points per game) but 343rd in scoring defense (76.5).
| Texas (17-10, 9-6 Big 12) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Pos. | Player | Class | Ht. | PPG | RPG |
| 0 | G | Celeste Taylor | Fr. | 5-11 | 9.1 | 4.9 |
| 1 | G | Sug Sutton | Sr. | 5-8 | 10.6 | 4.1* |
| 12 | G | Jada Underwood | Sr. | 6-0 | 4.8 | 3.5 |
| 24 | F | Joyner Holmes | Sr. | 6-3 | 13.0 | 8.9 |
| 35 | F | Charli Collier | Soph. | 6-5 | 13.3 | 10.5 |
| Coach: Karen Aston (182-82, 8th year at Texas; 283-145, 13th year overall) | ||||||
| *-indicates assists per game. | ||||||
About the Longhorns: Taylor scored a career-high 22 points in Wednesday’s 77-67 win at No. 25 TCU. That victory was UT’s third over a ranked team this season. … Sutton needs six more assists to bypass Brooke McCarty (413 career assists) and move into 10th place in the school’s record books. … On Saturday, senior guard Lashann Higgs will likely tie Earnesia Williams for seventh place on the list of career games played at Texas. Higgs would then be just four games short of McCarty’s fifth-place total of 139 games. … Texas recorded a 70-53 win at Oklahoma on Jan. 28.
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