The Oklahoma Sooners men’s basketball team was able to pull off the victory in Morgantown in consecutive seasons. The win also gave OU a season sweep of West Virginia. Scott Gleeson of USA TODAY Sports deemed the Sooners one of the big winners on Saturday.
The Sooners are coming into their own and can use the double-overtime win over West Virginia as a propellant to finish this next month strong and peak in March when it matters. The hot-shooting Reaves is driving coach Lon Kruger’s team to success, pouring in 28 points Saturday and averaging 15.8 points and 5.3 assists on the season.
By comparison, that means the West Virginia Mountaineers would be the losers on Saturday in more ways than one. They lost to Oklahoma by one point but it is their NCAA tournament seeding that could take a hit.
Saturday’s double-overtime loss to Oklahoma won’t stain the profile by any means but it was a clash between two projected No. 3 seeds so the loss could hold weight on Selection Sunday if WVU’s seeding line is close.
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The win on Saturday not only gave the Sooners the outright control of the No. 2 spot in the Big 12 Conference but yet another top-15 victory. Oklahoma joins the Ohio State Buckeyes with the most top-15 wins in all of college basketball.
That's 5️⃣ wins against top-1️⃣5️⃣ teams this season – tied with Ohio State for the most in the nation.#BoomerSooner pic.twitter.com/YQlodsbrRc
— Oklahoma Basketball (@OU_MBBall) February 13, 2021
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