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Three things you need to know before Oklahoma countries host

Three things you need to know before Oklahoma countries host

The cowboys did not have their best performance in Salt Lake City three weeks ago. Now they will get a chance to compensate it.

Oklahoma State hosts Utah this weekend. The last time these teams met, Osu was lagging early, but remained at a striking distance in the biggest part of the first half as Utah blown up the game open in the second. It was a victory from a wire wire for UTES, which reported one of Cowboys’ worst shootings for the year. Since then, Utah has won four of six and OSU has lost four out of five. Can cowboys be kept from.

Let’s look at three things we need to know about the match that can be taken into account.

1. Hard firing against utes

The cowboys missed a lot of bunnies in Utah, but their 33% shooting was not exactly Fluk.

Utah is ranked third in the large 12 percentage of the opponent of the field, which allows only 40.1% for the year. This number reached 41.8% in the league game, but only one team (Texas Tech) fired better than 44% against Utah, and four fired below 40%. So far, Tech is the only team that shoots over 37% of 3 against Utah. OSU Shot managed to manage a strong 26.1% at Salt Lake’s meeting.

Again, the cowboys did not get ignited very often in a conference game. They shot well in their victories against K-State and Colorado, and some strict firing helped them maintain it relatively close against Arizona and Texas Tech, but they come out of 39.6% shooting (31.6% of 3) at the worst your loss of the year in Kansas.

So if the shots fall, great. But when you don’t need you, you need more …

2. Opportunities

Although you cannot always control when the shots fall, the amount of photos you take is often reduced to the effort, a sermon for Steve Lutz throughout the year.

The cowboys qualify in 14th place out of 16 large 12 teams in field forests trying to match, although they led the large 12 in a corrected tempo. This comes down to two main factors: recovery and turnover.

During their current losing series of three games, the Cowboys made fewer shots in each game and an average of five less playing games than their opponents. In fact, in the Big 12 Play, the Cowboys only dropped more shots from the other team four times, and two of them were in both Pokes victories. This is not the whole picture, but this is a big factor when your team is more a strange bull than a polished offensive machine.

On the glass, the cowboys land in the middle of the package in the most ranked bounce numbers in the league, while the UTES is the best bounces on the BIG 12.

The cowboys actually outpaced UTES in SLC (with one) and they kept the advantage in the 18-6 offensive boards. This, of course, did not prevent them from stuck, but at least shows that the cowboys can collide them on the boards.

As for additional possessions, the turnover affects the team in both directions. Unfortunately, the cowboys have set a new season in the turnover in successive games, something Steve Lutz did not get words earlier this week. Both teams qualify for the bottom of the league (and national) in the rate of turnover and the game, although they were actually quite arranged in this category in their previous meeting, performing 11 each.

The only edge they may have is their ability to force TOS, a skill they have demonstrated throughout the year. This is not exactly the UTES bag. OSU is second in the league, forcing nearly 15 per game, while Utah is the last of the hair over 11.

Utah’s head coach Craig Smith Cosigns on this.

“We have to take care of the ball and have to bounce and deal with their pressure,” said Smith, “because they go after you, one to five, depending on the composition, but one to four at any time. So we have to be really good. “

If the cowboys can be destructive and turn these missed Utah capabilities into paid transition points-again to hang with the boards-this will go a long way to target the scales towards OSU victory.

3. The first trip of Utah to the gia

Cowboys play better at Stillwater.

OSU boasts a record of 7-2 with these two losses coming to the hands of the then-ranked Houston team, which is now No. 6, and a team in Arizona, which is ranked # 15 of Kenpom’s indicators. All this position we have to say is likely to not play just like in Salt Lake City.

“We played very well tonight,” Smith said from Utah’s home victory over OSU. “We had a lot of synergy. We had a lot for us. We were home. Oklahoma State, obviously, like most teams in the country, but in particular in Oklahoma, they are a better team at home than they were on the road, so we have to have a great mentality in this game. “

Pink Out: Utes haven’t played in Stillwater since 1953, when the place is still called Gallagher Hall. These were two years before Eddie Sutton, the name of the court, a game for the school.

The Big 12 Newcomer will witness pink for this trip, as the Eddie Sutton Foundation raises dollars and awareness of breast cancer.


Cowboys and UTES to Appendix at 14:00 Saturday at Gallagher-Bi Arena.

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