WICHITA – The No. 9-ranked Sooners stormed to a 79-49 victory Tuesday evening in Charles Koch Arena.
Wichita State (2-3) held Oklahoma (4-0) 18 points below its season scoring average of 97, forcing 24 Sooner turnovers.
Three Shockers finished in double figures, led by redshirt-junior Jayla Murray with 14, and graduate transfer Taylor Jameson and junior Bre’Yon White put up 10 apiece. Jameson led Wichita State in rebounding with seven, and White’s 10 points were a career high. White also tied her career high in steals with four.
The Shockers held Oklahoma’s Raegan Beers to just 10 points after the center averaged 24.7 points in her first three games.
The No. 1 rebounding team in the nation, Oklahoma, won the battle of the boards, 53-31.
Wichita State started the game strong and had it tied at 9-9 halfway through the first quarter, but the Sooners got hot from the three-point line, shooting 5-for-6, three of which came courtesy of Payton Verhulst, to take a 25-11 lead going into the second quarter.
Both teams scored 23 in the second quarter, and it remained a 14-point game at the half.
The Shockers scored five-straight early in the third quarter to cut the deficit to 11, but a 13-0 Sooner run stretched it to a 24-point game.
Wichita State shot just 5-for-26 from the field and 0-for-7 from three in the second half, and Oklahoma claimed its fourth-straight win to remain undefeated.
The Shockers hit the road for the first time this season to take on Creighton in the Emerald Coast Classic in Niceville, Fla. on Monday, Nov. 25.
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