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OU Basketball: Oklahoma Rolls Central Arkansas Behind Jacob Groves’ Career Day
NORMAN — Oklahoma unleashed an offensive onslaught to blow previous Central Arkansas on Saturday.
Led by a profession day from Jacob Groves, the Sooners blew out the Bears 87-66 on the Lloyd Noble Heart.
Groves didn’t wait lengthy to go away his fingerprints on the sport.
He adopted up his first bucket of the sport with back-to-back 3-pointers to go on a solo 8-0 run and put the Sooners (8-3) up 14-4 headed into the primary media timeout of the sport.
Groves poured in 19 of his 26 factors within the first half, besting his earlier career-high of 23 that he scored for Jap Washington within the 2021 NCAA Match, serving to energy the Sooners to 52 factors by halftime.
Sandwiched between final week’s bodily tilt with No. 10-ranked Arkansas subsequent week’s journey to Charlotte to play Florida, the sport served as a confidence builder within the Sooners’ final residence recreation earlier than the vacations.
OU guard Grant Sherfield completed as Groves’ deputy, including 17 factors on 6-of-9 taking pictures, pulling down 3-of-5 makes an attempt from deep whereas doling out 4 assists.
Tanner Groves additionally added to his brother’s large day, ending with 14 factors on 6-of-10 taking pictures.
Early on, the Sooners matched Central Arkansas’ (5-6) tempo.
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Freshman guard Milos Uzan and Sherfield pushed the tempo, resulting in fast transition buckets for 2 of Oklahoma’s first three scores fo the sport, drawing cheers of approval from the modest residence crowd on the Lloyd Noble Heart.
From there, OU settled in and attacked the paint.
Good ball motion made solution to straightforward buckets inside, because the Sooners poured in 48 paint factors. As a crew, the Sooners completed the evening with 21 assists, led by 9 dimes from Uzan.
The big second half lead allowed OU coach Porter Moser to work in a few of his bench items.
Sophomore C.J. Noland scored eight factors in 10 minutes after a quick cameo towards Arkansas, and freshman Otega Oweh completed with 10 factors and swiped three steals in quarter-hour of motion.
The Sooners now put together to move to Charlotte for the Jumpman Invitational, the place OU will meet the Florida Gators on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.
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Purdue football adds another linebacker from Arkansas
Purdue football coach Barry Odom makes first public appearance
Purdue football coach Barry Odom addresses questions from media in first public appearance in West Lafayette
WEST LAFAYETTE − Purdue football continues to stockpile Arkansas linebackers.
After snagging Razorback Alex Sanford out of the transfer portal, the Boilermakers picked up a commitment from Carson Dean.
Dean was a redshirt freshman for Arkansas this season and played in two games.
Dean, from Frisco, Texas, was a three star prospect by 247Sports out of Hebron High who had 17 offers, including Purdue.
In high school, Dean was an all-district outside linebacker after compiling 85 tackles, including 21 for loss as a senior in 2022.
At the time of his commitment, Barry Odom was Arkansas’ defensive coordinator and Mike Scherer, recently hired as Purdue’s defensive coordinator, was the Arkansas linebackers coach.
Scherer recruited Dean to Arkansas.
Odom’s staff, in need of linebackers after Kydran Jenkins graduated and Yanni Karlaftis transferred to Northwestern.
Sam King covers sports for the Journal & Courier. Email him at sking@jconline.com and follow him on X and Instagram @samueltking.
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Purdue lands pledge from Arkansas LB transfer Alex Sanford
Purdue is starting to pick up steam on the transfer portal market as former Arkansas linebacker Alex Sanford announced his commitment to the Boilermakers following an official visit to West Lafayette this weekend.
Sanford becomes Purdue’s second transfer portal pickup of the cycle and second from Arkansas, following quarterback Malachi Singleton, who announced his commitment to the Boilermakers earlier this week.
The redshirt freshman linebacker had committed to Arkansas to play for Barry Odom and Mike Scherer when the two were coaching in Fayetteville. Two years later he now follows the Boilermakers’ new head coach and defensive coordinator to West Lafayette at a position of need.
Purdue had a thin linebacker corps this season, which saw Kydran Jenkins and Yanni Karlaftis depart this off-season. Sanford now joins Hudson Miller, Winston Berglund and Owen Davis as players with experience at the linebacker position for the Boilermakers heading into 2025.
Sanford has had a minimal role on defense during his career, playing just nine snaps, but he has carved out a consistent role on special teams. Sanford had the third most special teams snaps of any Razorback in 2024, and 328 across his two seasons, serving on the kick return, kick coverage, punt return and punt coverage units, holding a 65.2 Pro Football Focus grade in that regard.
Sanford will have two years of eligibility remaining with the Boilermakers.
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