National Basketball Association
Oklahoma 80, Oregon 68
When: 6:09 PM ET, Saturday, March 26, 2016
Where: Honda Center, Anaheim, California
Officials:
# Mike Eades, # Ray Natili, # Tony Padilla
Attendance:
16232
By The Sports Xchange
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Oklahoma guard Buddy Hield scored 37 points and tied a career high with eight 3-pointers as the No. 7 Sooners advanced to the Final Four with an 80-68 victory over top-seeded Oregon in the NCAA West Regional at the Honda Center on Saturday.
Hield, the two-time Big 12 Player of the Year, had 17 points in the first half, when the Sooners (29-7) built an 18-point lead. Oregon never got within 12 until the final half-minute.
Hield has 117 points in four NCAA tournament games to help Oklahoma advance to its fifth Final Four. Hield was second in NCAA power five conferences with a 25.1 scoring average entering the game.
Forward Dillon Brooks, Oregon's leading scorer at 17.0 points a game, had seven points on 3-of-6 shooting from the floor before fouling out in the final two minutes.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski criticized Brooks as the two met in the receiving line after Brooks made a 3-pointer in the final seconds of the Ducks' 82-68 victory Thursday.
Forward Elgin Cook had 24 points for No. 5 Oregon (31-7), which had a 10-game winning streak broken. Forward Chris Boucher had 14 points.
The Sooners will meet the winner of the Kansas-Villanova game next Saturday in Houston.
Oklahoma, which was averaging 10.4 3-pointers a game, was 12-of-24 from 3-point range. The Sooners have made 42.8 percent of their 3-point shots this season, on pace for a school record.
The Sooners had a 38-32 rebounding advantage and turned 14 offensive rebounds into 16 second chance points.
Oregon played a 1-2-2 three-quarter court gentle zone press in the first half designed to slow Oklahoma, but the Sooners were not fazed.
Hield had 17 points and five 3-pointers in the first half, when the Sooners took a 48-30 lead on Hield's 3-pointer with five seconds remaining, their largest lead of the opening 20 minutes.
Hield passed former Texas Tech guard Andre Emmett for second place in Big 12 career scoring on his fourth 3-pointer of the game with 4:29 left in the half. Emmett totaled 2,256 points.
The Sooners made 9-of-14 shots from 3-point range in the first half and had a dominating 23-10 rebounding edge, turning 11 offensive rebounds into 15 second-chance points.
Oregon had three offensive rebounds and four second-chance points.
Cook had 16 points at the half for the Ducks and Brooks had two.
NOTES: Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski apologized to Oregon coach Dana Altman on Saturday for on-court remarks made to F Dillon Brooks after the Ducks' 82-68 victory Thursday. Krzyzewski was heard to tell Brooks he is "too good of a player to be showing off at the end" after Brooks made a 3-pointer in the final 10 seconds. "It is not my place to talk to another team's player that way," Krzyzewski said in a statement. "In the postgame press conference, I reacted incorrectly to a reporter's question about my comment to Dillon. I sincerely hope I did not cause a distraction for Coach Altman and his team." ... Oklahoma guards Isaiah Cousins, Buddy Hield and Jordan Woodard and F Ryan Spangler have started all 103 Sooners games the last three years. Each has at least 1,000 career points. ... Oregon is one of the five schools that has won a game in the last four NCAA tournaments. Kansas, Gonzaga, North Carolina and Wichita State are the others. ... Oregon was 12-3 against NCAA Tournament teams this season. ... Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger hired Dana Altman as an assistant at Kansas State in 1986, Altman's first Division I job. The Wildcats made the Elite Eight in 1988 and Altman succeeded Kruger at Kansas State when Kruger went to Florida in 1989. ... Oregon and Oklahoma met in the 1939 NCAA West Regional final, with the Ducks winning 55-37 to advance to the national title game. ... Oklahoma was 1-3 against NCAA No. 1 tournament seeds previously, its only victory coming against Arizona in 1988.
Top Game Performances
Oklahoma |
|
Oregon |
Buddy Hield 37 |
Scoring |
Elgin Cook 24 |
Isaiah Cousins 7 |
Assists |
Elgin Cook 4 |
Christian James 10 |
Rebounds |
Jordan Bell 12 |
Christian James 5 |
Free Throws Made |
Elgin Cook 11 |
Christian James 2 |
Steals |
Jordan Bell 2 |
Khadeem Lattin 1 |
Blocks |
Jordan Bell 2 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
Oklahoma
|
80 |
46.6 |
12-24 |
14-17 |
16 |
33 |
2 |
4 |
15 |
Oregon
|
68 |
38.9 |
4-21 |
22-30 |
10 |
29 |
2 |
10 |
12 |