At the Lloyd Noble Center, the no. 3/3 Texas women’s basketball team fell on the road to no. 20/22 Oklahoma on Wednesday night.
MADISON BOOKER: Madison Booker is showing why she is one of the best players in the country. Booker has earned six Big 12 weekly honors and three national weekly honors this season. Against ranked opponents this season Booker is averaging 20.8 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.3 assists over six games. Only Caitlin Clark and Hannah Hidalgo have better averages against ranked opponents. Booker has nine games scoring 20 or more points during this season and has scored in double figures in 18 straight games. In Big 12 play Booker is shooting 48.1 percent from the field and 93.3 percent from the free-throw line.
SHAYLE GONZALEZ and TAYLOR JONES: Shayle Gonzalez Scored 10 points and Taylor Jones Added 10 points for the Longhorns. Jones also blocked three shots.
ALIA MOORE: Alia Moore scored nine points and grabbed seven rebounds. Moore had three tackles against Oklahoma.
VIC SCHAEFER: On Feb. 14 at Houston, Texas head coach Vic Schaefer recorded his 400th career victory as a head coach. Schaefer, the 2X national coach of the year, has 20 wins over AP top-25 teams in his time at Texas and 19 wins over AP top-10 teams in his career. With the Texas 81-60 win over Iowa State on Saturday, Coach Schaefer recorded his 100th win at Texas. Last week Schaefer was selected to the Naismith Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List.
Oklahoma led 67-66 with 3:20 to play in the game, but Taylor Jones He scored on an offensive rebound to give Texas the lead 68-67. The Longhorns went up 70-67 on a pair of free throws by Booker with 50 seconds left in the game.
Texas led Oklahoma 70-68 with 28 seconds left, but the Sooners got a pair of offensive rebounds and knocked down a 3-pointer with 4.5 seconds to play to go up 71-70. Texas had the last possession, but couldn’t convert as time expired.
The Longhorns next host BYU on Saturday, March 2 at 7:00 PM at the Moody Center.
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