Oklahoma wins 64-55, ends 6-game skid to Texas A&M

  • Posted: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:00 a.m.
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NORMAN, Okla. -- Aaryn Ellenberg scored 23 points and Morgan Hook 19 to lead Oklahoma to a 64-55 victory against No. 14 Texas A&M on Tuesday night.


Whitney Hand added 11 points and seven rebounds for the Sooners (18-9, 10-5 Big 12), who tied the Aggies (19-7, 10-5) for second place in the conference standings. The schools split two meetings this season.


Sydney Carter had 12 points and Tyra White 11 for A&M, which shot just 28.6 percent (18 of 63) from the floor en route to seeing its six-game winning streak against Oklahoma snapped.


Adaora Elonu's layup with 4:53 remaining got the Aggies within 54-50, but those were their last points until 33 seconds remained. In that stretch, A&M missed six shots while Hook scored four points to help the Sooners to a 60-50 advantage.


Elonu had nine points.


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Kansas 69, Texas Tech 64: LUBBOCK -- Kansas junior Angel Goodrich had eight assists to break the school's 24-year-old single-season assist record while also scoring a team-high 20 points to help lead the Jayhawks to their first victory in Lubbock since 1978.


At 208 career assists, Goodrich passed Lisa Braddy's record of 207 set in 1987-88.


Kansas (18-9, 7-8) ended a three-game losing streak. Texas Tech fell to 17-10 overall and 5-10 in Big 12 play.


Kansas senior Aishah Sutherland scored 15 points, and freshman Natalie Knight had 12 points.


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Iowa State 66, Missouri 59, OT: AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State struggled from the field and at the line but prevailed in overtime against a gritty Missouri squad Tuesday for a 66-59 victory in Hilton Coliseum.


The win moves the Cyclones to 8-7 in the Big 12 and 17-9 overall. Missouri falls to 1-14 in the Big 12 and 11-15 overall.


The Cyclones got a huge 3-pointer from Hallie Christofferson with 2:32 left in overtime and held Missouri without a basket in the extra period until the game's final second.


Poppens led the Cyclones with 25 points and 16 rebounds in 33 minutes of action for her 13th double-double of the season. Poppens attempted a school-record 24 free throws, connecting on 15 of them. The Cyclones might have put the game out of reach earlier, but were inconsistent at the free-throw line, hitting on 25-39 attempts. Christofferson had 13 points and six rebounds. Christine Flores led Missouri with 16 points. Iowa State trailed for nearly 37 minutes of the game, taking a 56-54 lead on a pair of Chassidy Cole free throws with 45 seconds left in regulation. Missouri's Sydney Crafton hit a 3 with 3.4 seconds left in the second half that forced overtime.


By the extra session the Tigers were without three players who fouled out and ISU built a small cushion to claim a key victory in its pursuit of an NCAA tournament berth. The win was the Cyclones sixth in their last seven league games.


Missouri, which had won its first league game at Kansas Saturday, was hitting its shots early while Iowa State was not. Over the first nine minutes of the first half the Cyclones hit on just 2-12 (.167) field goal attempts and were 1-for-7 (.143) on its shots beyond the three-point arc. The Cyclones' only first-half lead was 3-2 on a Christofferson 3-pointer in the game's first 90 seconds. Missouri outshot Iowa State in the first half hitting on 6-of-13 3-point attempts. The Cyclones hit on just 4-of-16 3-point attempts. Iowa State hit on just 7-of-30 shots (.233).

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