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Oklahoma Moves to Top of Big 12 Standings With Win at Texas Tech

The Sooners logged a season-high 27 assists as Ana Llanusa and Skylar Vann both turned in a big game to take down the Red Raiders.
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Oklahoma Moves to Top of Big 12 Standings With Win at Texas Tech
Oklahoma Moves to Top of Big 12 Standings With Win at Texas Tech

By OU Athletics

Ana Llanusa led the way as No. 19 Oklahoma erased a slim halftime deficit and held off Texas Tech 89-79 in Lubbock on Wednesday night.

Llanusa scored a team-high 20 points on 8-of-16 shooting, while Skylar Vann logged a double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds to secure the victory. 

With the win, Oklahoma (13-2, 3-1 Big 12) moved into a tie atop the Big 12 standings with three other teams.

Oklahoma was hot out of the gates, as Nevaeh Tot scored six early points, and OU jumped out to an 8-0 lead but finished the frame tied at 19-19.

A strong second quarter by Texas Tech (13-4, 1-3 Big 12) pushed the Lady Raiders in front 42-38 at the break. 

The Sooners responded in the third quarter, tying the game early in the frame to take a one-point lead heading to the fourth quarter. 

The final frame featured Vann's dominance, and a pair of Taylor Robertson 3-pointers as the Sooners outscored Tech 27-18 in the last 10 minutes to punctuate the 89-79 win.

Llanusa's 20 points secured her first four-game stretch of 20-plus points since the 2019 season, and the redshirt senior added six assists and three boards in the win. Vann controlled the second half in the paint, scoring 17 of her 19 points to finish, and grabbed 11 boards on the night for the double-double.

The Sooners dished out a season-high 27 assists on 35 made field goals, eight of which came from behind the 3-point line. Dominant on the glass again, Oklahoma outrebounded the Lady Raiders 47-26 in the win, improving to 11-1 when outrebounding opponents this season. The Sooners turned it over just 12 times.

The Sooners take the floor again on Saturday as No. 23 Kansas comes to Lloyd Noble Center for a 2 p.m. tip.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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