Oklahoma Heats Up to Take Down Nebraska

It wasn’t the sort of Huge Crimson battle that faculty soccer followers fell in love with a long time in the past.

However Oklahoma and Nebraska staged an entertaining faculty basketball sport on Thanksgiving Day wherein OU shot nicely from the sphere and cruised to a 69-56 victory.

It was the Sooners’ opening sport of the ESPN Occasions Invitational at Disney World’s State Farm Discipline Home in Kissimmee, FL.

The Sooners (4-1) advance to play the winner of Thursday’s late sport between Memphis and Seton Corridor. That sport ideas off Friday at 7 p.m. Nebraska (3-2) falls to the loser’s bracket.

OU shot 51 % from the ground for the sport, together with 45 % from 3-point vary.

The Sooners shot 53 % from the sphere within the first half (7-of-12 from the perimeter) and had been powered early by Tanner and Jacob Groves, who scored 12 and 10 earlier than halftime, respectively. It marked the primary time this season each Groves brothers scored in double figures in the identical sport.

OU led by as many as 14 within the first half (37-23) and constructed a 41-34 lead at intermission regardless of being out rebounded 18-9.

Tanner Groves, who shot 0-for-10 from 3-point vary within the Sooners’ earlier sport, buried two treys within the first half, then opened the second half with one other that gave the Sooners a 44-34 lead.

The Sooners continued to make massive photographs all through the second half to take care of a snug lead.

A Jalen Hill 3 from the proper nook prolonged OU’s result in 49-38 with 15:59 to play.

Grant Sherfield’s fadeaway beat the shot clock buzzer with 9:57 to go and pushed the Sooners again to a 53-43 lead.

Hill made it a 55-43 lead along with his turnaround bounce quick within the lane on the 7-minute mark, and Tanner Groves drove by way of the lane for a layup to make it 57-45 with 5:16 left.

Milos Uzan’s driving layup with 5:36 to play pushed it again to a 59-47 lead, and Hill gave the Sooners a 61-49 cushion with one other driving layup with 4:33 to play.

Tanner Groves then all however put the sport away with one other driving layup — this one wearing a pump pretend and reverse to the rim — that gave the Sooners a 63-51 lead with 3:50 left.

Jacob Groves’ one-hand floater beat the shot clock with with 2:08, and Groves’ fast-break layup on a feed from Grant Sherfield made it 67-53.

Tanner Groves was 7-of-8 from the sphere, together with 3-for-3 from vary, and led the Sooners with 17 factors with three blocked shot sand 5 rebounds. Jacob Groves was 7-of-12 for 16 factors and 6 rebounds.

Sherfield completed with 10 factors and eight assists, whereas Hill scored 13 on 6-of-10 taking pictures to go along with three steals.

Nebraska misplaced regardless of an enormous benefit in fouls (19-9), free throws (11-of-19 to 2-of-3) and rebounding (35-23).

The opposite aspect of the bracket consists of Florida State, Siena, Ole Miss and Stanford. Siena and Ole Miss received their video games to advance to Friday’s semifinals.