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.

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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