{"id":2212,"date":"2016-04-02T19:28:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T00:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2017-07-08T14:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T19:58:30","slug":"sooners-not-competitive-in-final-four-rematch-with-nova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=2212","title":{"rendered":"Sooners not competitive in Final Four rematch with Nova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo: Bob Donnan, USA Today<\/p>\n

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One team beat the hell of the other team in December.\u00a0 In their rematch in the Final Four, the team that took the dog\u00a0kicking reared up and\u00a0scratched the\u00a0crap out of the team that did the dirty in the first meeting.\u00a0 And that basically sums up today\u2019s National semi-final NCAA game in Houston.\u00a0 Villanova\u2019s Wildcats got revenge on Oklahoma\u00a0\u00a095-51.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, the particulars:<\/p>\n

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  1. As OU was the better team in their earlier meeting in December in Hawaii, Villanova was that much better today.\u00a0 A 67\u00a0 point swing in game scores tells you that Nova had a lot of upside improvement from that afternoon on Pearl while the Sooners had already developed into a well-oiled machine.\u00a0 That\u00a0machine broke down today.<\/li>\n
  2. The great Buddy Hield is a great college player, talent, but he is not an aggressive scorer by nature.\u00a0 Great players get their points in big games and today Hield didn\u2019t show. But that is not his nature in OU\u2019s offensive system.\u00a0 In the NBA things will be\u00a0different.\u00a0 But Buddy cannot do it alone. Teams win and teams lose.<\/li>\n
  3. To get beat as bad as OU did today takes effort on the winner and lack of effort on the loser.\u00a0 It was not a pretty sight to get you ass handed to you by a team you crushed earlier in the season.\u00a0 That fault lays at the feet of Lon Kruger. There are reasons why certain great coaches, as yes, Kruger is one, don\u2019t ever win the big one. Ask Missouri\u2019s Norm Stewart, OU\u2019s Billy Tubbs, or Oklahoma State\u2019s Eddie Sutton.<\/li>\n
  4. The Sooners gave up the wagon in the final ten minutes of the game.\u00a0 Embarrassing when it\u00a0should not have been.<\/li>\n
  5. Villanova was outstanding today.<\/li>\n
  6. \u00a0It\u2019s the NCAA tournament and things like this do happen to great teams like Oklahoma..<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    OU will be good again and don\u2019t think Kruger can\u2019t have this program back to the Final Four again.<\/p>\n

    Last word:\u00a0 as they say \u201cforget about it\u201d Sooner fans\u2026\u2026the sun will rise tomorrow and it will be a better day.<\/p>\n

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    Photo: Bob Donnan, USA Today \u00a0 One team beat the hell of the other team…<\/p>\n

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