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If I were an OU fan, I'd be very nervous about this weekend after how they played tonight.
Sure they won, (by 11 at home against Louisiana-Monroe)...but there's a couple of ominous signs coming out of that box score...
1) They essentially played 7 players deep if you discount Andrew Fitzgerald's 8 minutes of PT. Their starters plus 6th man Cade Davis played virtually the entire game (Willy Warren 33 minutes), Steven Pledger scored 8 points in 16 minutes.
2) Tiny Gallen...3 points, 4 fouls, (10 rebounds though) in 27 minutes. The guy played great against Mt. Saint Mary's, but OU's bigs (Tiny, Fitz, and Wright) combined for 9 points and 14 rebounds tonight.
3) Home court advantage? Who knows...maybe ULM really was fouling a ton...but 23 to OU's 9? OU scored 24 points at the stripe to ULM's 9 (the deciding factor and then some...)
They better be ready for a battle Saturday... Playing in front of a rowdy sold out arena thousands of miles away from your own campus, against a team full of guys who can hit the 3 and a potential NBA lottery pick (especially when you're the ranked BCS squad and they are the "mid-major" playing with nothing to lose)...is going be night and day from their first two games...
Sure they won, (by 11 at home against Louisiana-Monroe)...but there's a couple of ominous signs coming out of that box score...
1) They essentially played 7 players deep if you discount Andrew Fitzgerald's 8 minutes of PT. Their starters plus 6th man Cade Davis played virtually the entire game (Willy Warren 33 minutes), Steven Pledger scored 8 points in 16 minutes.
2) Tiny Gallen...3 points, 4 fouls, (10 rebounds though) in 27 minutes. The guy played great against Mt. Saint Mary's, but OU's bigs (Tiny, Fitz, and Wright) combined for 9 points and 14 rebounds tonight.
3) Home court advantage? Who knows...maybe ULM really was fouling a ton...but 23 to OU's 9? OU scored 24 points at the stripe to ULM's 9 (the deciding factor and then some...)
They better be ready for a battle Saturday... Playing in front of a rowdy sold out arena thousands of miles away from your own campus, against a team full of guys who can hit the 3 and a potential NBA lottery pick (especially when you're the ranked BCS squad and they are the "mid-major" playing with nothing to lose)...is going be night and day from their first two games...
