The former competitors of the conference meet on the ground.
N ° 22/21 Missouri basketball will Meet an old rival Big Eight and Big 12 Wednesday evening, when Oklahoma arrives in Columbia for its first match at Mizzou Arena since 2012.
Mizzou (17-6, 6-4 sec) is currently on his first sequence of defeats of the season, Abandoning matches against a pair of top-15 teams in Tennessee on the road and Texas A&M at home successively last week. The tigers remained in the top-25 of national surveys, but lost six places in their previous ranking.
Oklahoma (16-7, 3-7) also won the victory against very classified opponents last week, down 98-70 on the road at n ° 1 in Auburn last Tuesday before a home loss of 70 -52 for Tennessee on Saturday. THE Sooners are trained by carrying Moser.
The match could be important in the pursuit of Mizzu for a good goodbye tournament and a place in the field of the NCAA tournament. In the next three MU games after welcoming the Sooners, the Tigers are on the road twice and welcome Alabama between trips.
Can Mizzou come back to the Win column? Here is what you need to know about Oklahoma before Wednesday’s match:
What are the forces of Oklahoma leading to the Missouri basketball match?
Oklahoma is one of the most effective dry shooting teams.
The real percentage of Sooners shooting – a metric that measures the combined efficiency of a team in the field, the range of 3 points and at the Launcère francs – is 60.6%. According to CBB Analytics, this is classified in the country’s 98th centile and n ° 1 of the conference.
The Sooners are 47.6% of the field this season, fifth in the dry, and draws 37.1% out of 3, which is the fourth best clip in the league. With a shooting brand of 80.5% of the free throw line, Oklahoma leads the dry once it has arrived at the band and is among the 2% of the teams in division I.
It is a dangerous team, if the Sooners can bring it together in Columbia.
He could also create fireworks.
For what it is worth, while Oklahoma is team n ° 1 of the dry for a real percentage of shooting, Mizzou is n ° 2 and only 0.2% behind the Sooners in this metric. So the offensive should not miss Wednesday.
What are the weaknesses of Oklahoma?
Oklahoma is effective, which is a good thing for Sooners. Because compared to their league peers, they do not remove a lot of shots.
The Sooners are the last in the dry for total attempts at the field of 2 points, taking 31.9 shots from the interior of the arc per competition. They are in the lower half of the League for attempts at 3 points and attempts to launch frankly per game.
Part of the reason is that where it was not effective in recovering your own failures. Oklahoma has the second first percentage of offensive rebound (27.4%) in the SEC and allows opponents to transport offensive advice at the second highest rate of the League (32.9%).
It is a lot of goods that are found in the hands of adversaries, and something Mizzou would do well to emphasize.
Player to watch: Moore milestone
Moore presents one of the most difficult games in the league for almost anyone he faces, because the small attacker is 6 fetches 7 inches and draws 43.1% of 3 and 52.1 % in the field. He has an average of 17.7 points per game this season.
He also arrives at the Launcère francs as much as anyone in the Sooners team, and is a threat to the boards with 5.7 rebounds per game.
Tigers will have to choose their poison while keeping the perimeter, while Oklahoma Guards Duke Miles and Brycen Goodin get better than 44% deeply.
Moore, who was appointed as a candidate of Julius Erving Award of the Year Top-10 this week, has the length and production to make him a difficult game outside if the Tigers do not take care.
Where can Mizzou create a match advantage?
Mizzou coach Dennis Gates often talks about winning the battle for additional possessions, or the combination of offensive rebounds and reversals. Tigers may have to take advantage of it against an Oklahoma outfit which was inclined to abandon them both.
The Sooners rank just outside the second third of all division I teams with a 16%rotation rate, which means that they turn the ball approximately once every six possessions. Mizzou is the third best team in the League to force the reversals, which did it on 18.4% of defensive looks.
If Mizzou can also accentuate the gaps of the Sooners on the glass, the tigers have a good opportunity to end their sequence of defeats.
Score prediction: Missouri 86, Oklahoma 70
Mizzou has a 15-1 file at home and has only followed one defeat with another defeat once this season – Saturday. Look for the tigers to straighten the ship with a heavy defensive performance of turnover and a rebound game from Caleb Grill, which failed to shoot the arc against Texas A&M.
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Screening report, score prediction for Missouri vs Oklahoma basketball
