OOKLAHOMAKLAHOMA 2008-09 MEN’S BASKETBALL NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SECOND ROUND Saturday, March 21 4:50 p.m. CDT Kansas City, Mo. Sprint Center 18,381 CBS SCHEDULE/RESULTS OKLAHOMA INFORMATION MICHIGAN INFORMATION N5 OKLA. PANHANDLE STATE (Ex.) W, 90-43 Overall Record .......................................28-5 Overall Record .....................................21-13 N8 CAMERON (Ex.) W, 94-39 Big 12 Record/Finish .................13-3/Second Big Ten Record/Finish ........9-9/Seventh (tie) NCAA Tournament Seed ...................... No. 2 NCAA Tournament Seed .................... No. 10 N14 AMERICAN W, 83-54 NCAA Tournament Appearances .......... 26th NCAA Tournament Appearances ...........21st N17 MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE # W, 94-53 NCAA Tournament Record .................. 34-25 NCAA Tournament Record .................. 41-19 N18 DAVIDSON # W, 82-78 Head Coach ...................................Jeff Capel NCAA Tournament Head Coach ................................John Beilein N22 GARDNER-WEBB W, 80-76 Alma Mater ................................... Duke ’97 Second Round Alma Mater ..................Wheeling Jesuit ’75 N26 vs. UAB ^ W, 77-67 Career Record .................146-73 (7th year) Career Record ..............507-310 (31st year) N28 vs. Purdue ^ W, 87-82 (OT) At Oklahoma .................... 67-32 (3rd year) At Michigan .................. 31-35 (2nd year) D4 USC % W, 73-72 Web Site..................www.SoonerSports.com Web Site........................ www.MGoBlue.com D7 at Tulsa (BOK Center) W, 69-44 D10 MAINE W, 78-52 PROJECTED OKLAHOMA STARTERS D13 UTAH W, 70-52 D20 vs. VCU & W, 81-70 BLAKE GRIFFIN • F NOTES: Big 12 Player of the Year ... Leads league in scoring (22.1) ... D22 at Rice W, 70-58 23 6-10 • 251 • So. • Oklahoma City, Okla. Leads nation with 14.3 rpg (OU record is 13.3) and 27 double- D30 at Arkansas L, 88-96 Oklahoma Christian School doubles while ranking third in FG percentage (.643) ... Had 40-point, 23-rebound game Feb. 14 ... Owns Big 12 records with 13 games of PTS REB AST MIN J3 COPPIN STATE W, 93-62 at least 20 points and 15 boards; 457 rebounds on the year ... Has 14 J5 MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE W, 100-64 22.1 14.3 2.3 33.0 games of at least three assists ... Six-time Big 12 Player of the Week. J10 at Kansas State W, 61-53 J12 TEXAS W, 78-63 NOTES: Ranks fi rst on team in steals (1.3), second in rebounding J17 at Texas A&M W, 69-63 TAYLOR GRIFFIN • F 6-7 • 238 • Sr. • Oklahoma City, Okla. (5.9), blocks (1.0) and FG percentage (.549), and third in scoring J21 NEBRASKA W, 72-61 32 Oklahoma Christian School (9.9) and FT attempts (124) ... Has shot .500 or better from fi eld in J24 BAYLOR W, 95-76 each of last 11 games ... Averaging 14.3 points and 6.3 boards over J26 at Oklahoma State W, 89-81 PTS REB BLK MIN J31 at Iowa State W, 78-68 last six games (.660 FG percentage) ... Scored 18 points in NCAA 9.9 5.9 1.0 29.4 fi rst round Thursday ... Ranks 10th in OU history with 96 blocks. F4 TEXAS A&M W, 77-71 F7 COLORADO W, 77-72 TONY CROCKER • G NOTES: Averaging 9.4 points a game ... Has made at least fi ve F11 at Baylor W, 78-63 5 6-6 • 206 • Jr. • San Antonio, Texas 3-pointers four times this year ... Scored career-high 26 points (5- F14 TEXAS TECH W, 95-74 The Patterson School (N.C.) for-6 on 3’s) vs. VCU Dec. 20 ... Ranks eighth in OU history with 152 F21 at Texas L, 68-73 PTS REB AST MIN 3-pointers ... Needs 28 points to become 36th Sooner to reach 1,000 F23 KANSAS L, 78-87 ... Has started 61 straight games ... Sooners are 18-3 in his career F28 at Texas Tech W, 78-63 9.4 3.3 1.2 28.8 when he scores at least 15 points (13-1 last two years). M4 at Missouri L, 64-73 M7 OKLAHOMA STATE W, 82-78 WILLIE WARREN • G NOTES: Named national freshman of the year by Athlon Sports ... M12 vs. Oklahoma State $ L, 70-71 13 6-4 • 207 • Fr. • Fort Worth, Texas Unanimous Big 12 Freshman of the Year ... Second-team All-Big M19 vs. Morgan State * W, 82-54 North Crowley High School 12 ... Leads all league freshmen with his 14.7 points per game ... Earned seven Big 12 Rookie of the Week awards ... The fi rst OU true M21 vs. Clemson or Michigan * 4:50 p.m. CBS PTS REB AST MIN M26-29 NCAA Regionals TBA CBS freshman since 1983-84 to score at least 30 points in a game twice A4&6 NCAA Final Four TBA CBS 14.7 2.2 3.1 30.9 ... Shot .460 from 3-point range in OU’s 11 road games. # Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off (Norman) AUSTIN JOHNSON • G NOTES: Honorable mention All-Big 12 pick ... Ranked third on team ^ Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off (New York, N.Y.) 20 6-3 • 176 • Sr. • Amarillo, Texas with 10.6 points per Big 12 game (6.6 prior to league play) ... Went % Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series Palo Duro High School 18-for-37 (.486) on 3’s in Big 12 road outings ... Scored a career- & O’Reilly All-College Classic (Oklahoma City) high 22 points Jan. 26 at OSU (fi ve treys) ... Ranks third in Big 12 PTS REB AST MIN $ Big 12 Championship (Oklahoma City) with a 2.5 assist-to-turnover ratio ... Has started the last 59 games * NCAA First and Second Rounds (Kansas City, Mo.) 8.7 2.9 3.9 30.8 ... OU is 25-3 the last two years when he scores in double fi gures. NCAA Tournament times are CDT OKLAHOMA’S TOP RESERVES No. Name Position Height Weight Class Points Rebounds Assists Minutes OU ATHLETICS MEDIA RELATIONS 12 Juan Pattillo F 6-6 216 Jr. 6.9 3.8 0.3 16.1 Men’s Basketball Contact: Mike Houck 34 Cade Davis G 6-5 208 So. 5.0 1.8 1.0 15.5 Offi ce: (405) 325-8231 11 Omar Leary G 5-11 173 Sr. 2.0 0.8 1.1 10.2 Cell: (405) 249-5892 1 Ryan Wright F 6-9 234 Jr. 1.9 2.2 0.1 8.6 E-Mail: [email protected] 21 Orlando Allen C 6-11 267 So. 2.1 0.9 0.0 5.0 2008-09 OKLAHOMA MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH JEFF CAPEL CHAMPIONSHIP INFORMATION OKLAHOMA AND THE eff Capel was named Picking up his second NCAA Tournament win as a head coach on Thursday, Oklahoma’s 13th men’s Jeff Capel will lead No. 2 seed Oklahoma (28-5 overall) into a second- NCAA TOURNAMENT round matchup against No. 10 seed Michigan (21-13) on Saturday at Jbasketball head coach on April OU is making its 26th NCAA Tournament 11, 2006. Capel, 34, is 67-32 in approximately 4:50 p.m. CDT. The contest, which will be played at Sprint appearance and 13th in the last 15 years. his third year at OU and led the Center in Kansas City, Mo., will start 30 minutes following the completion Oklahoma’s 22 NCAA Tournament appear- Sooners to a 23-12 record and of the 2:20 p.m. Memphis-Maryland contest. second-round NCAA Tournament ances over the last 27 years are tied for the appearance last year. OU is coming off an 82-54 win over No. 15 seed Morgan State, while nation’s sixth most during the span (only Michigan knocked off No. 7 seed Clemson by a 62-59 score. Arizona, Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Capel compiled a 79-41 (.658) re- Indiana have made more). cord over four years as head coach All of OU’s NCAA Tournament games will air live on the Sooner Basketball at Virginia Commonwealth prior Radio Network (fl agship KOKC 1520 AM in Oklahoma City) with Bob The Sooners have made four Final Four to arriving in Norman. His VCU squads posted a 50-22 (.694) Barry, Sr. (play-by-play) and Mike Houck (analyst) calling the action. appearances (1939, 1947, 1988 and 2002). record in Colonial Athletic Association play and a 47-11 overall Saturday’s contest will be televised regionally by CBS (KWTV Channel 9 in They played in the 1947 and 1988 national home record for a staunch .811 winning percentage. OKC and KOTV Channel 6 in Tulsa) with Tim Brando and Mike Gminski championship games. In 2003-04, VCU’s CAA Tournament championship game victory announcing. Oklahoma is now 10-5 in its last six NCAA over George Mason catapulted the Rams to the NCAA Tourna- Tournaments, with a Final Four showing in ment for the fi rst time since 1996. VCU lost in the fi rst round THURSDAY’S MORGAN STATE RECAP 2002 and an Elite Eight appearance in 2003. to Wake Forest, but not before putting a major scare into the With its win Thursday, OU is 6-2 as the No. 2 fourth-seeded Demon Deacons, 79-78. Capel’s 2004-05 squad, Oklahoma posted an 82-54 win over No. 15 seed Morgan State behind a season-high .604 fi eld goal effort (the third-best in OU’s NCAA Tourna- seed. In 1984, the Sooners lost to No. 10 seed which fi nished 19-13, competed in the National Invitation Dayton (89-85). In 2002, they beat No. 15 seed Tournament, marking just the third time in program history ment history). The Sooners, whose only defi cit was 3-2, held the Bears to an opponent-season-low .286 fi eld goal mark.