A 3-point barrage and overwhelming second-half performance pushed No. 20 Oklahoma past West Virginia, 98-77, in Morgantown in the team’s Big 12 Conference opener Saturday afternoon.
Ana Llanusa, playing her first conference game in over 1,000 days, scored a season-high 28 points on 11-of-13 shooting. The Sooners (11-1, 1-0 Big 12) buried 14 3-pointers to score 98 points vs. a Mountaineer defense that entered the day with the nation’s fourth-best scoring defense. The Sooners have now won eight straight games this season, and Saturday’s win marked the team’s sixth straight victory in Morgantown.
Oklahoma jumped out to a big first-quarter lead after sinking seven of its first eight shots, including its first four treys. The Sooners opened up an 11-point advantage after the first period. But West Virginia (9-3, 0-1 Big 12) wouldn’t go away easily, outscoring the Sooners 28-14 in the second frame to take a 47-44 lead into the break. After a pair of lead changes, OU closed the third quarter with an 8-0 run to reclaim a 69-62 lead. The Sooners turned on the jets in the fourth quarter, outscoring the Mountaineers 29-15 in the frame to punctuate the 98-77 win.
The Sooners’ 98 points set a program record for a conference road game, narrowly breaking last year’s 97-point output at Texas Tech. Oklahoma’s field goal percentage of 56.7% (38-67) was the most efficient performance in conference play since it shot 58.3% at TCU in 2015. The 14 3-pointers made by Oklahoma tied a season-high.
Llanusa’s 28 points led the Sooners and matched WVU’s J.J. Quinerly for a game-high in points. Madi Williams added 24 points, 18 of which came in the second half. Taylor Robertson buried six 3-pointers for the second game in a row, extending her NCAA record of five-plus 3-point games to 41 as the sharpshooter now sits 15 treys away from tying the all-time NCAA 3-point record of 497.
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