What a game for Austin Reaves last night in Fort Worth as he scored 41 points plus the game winner to in essence put OU into their sixth NCAA Tournament in the past seven seasons with a clutch road win at TCU.
After somewhat choking at home on Tuesday night in the final minutes against Texas, the Sooners basically had to win this road game to get itself off the bubble and into the tournament field.
OU was down by eighteen points at one point in the second half, but never gave up and rode Reaves’ OU career game to the final shot with 0.5 left to advance to the NCAA Tournament. The comeback from18 points on the road is an OU school record.
OU is the kind of team which will have a chance to win a game like they did last year in beating Ole Miss in the first round before bowing out to eventual national champion Virginia in the second round.
Next season Lon Kruger has everyone back from this team minus Christian Doolittle. Kruger needs to find a grad transfer who can shoot the trey to go along with Reaves and Brady Manek. The rest of the OU squad has some relatively solid role players. But Kruger needs to go find another consistent scorer.
I like Kruger. During his tenure the Sooners for the most part have made the tournament field, made a Final Four, and produce two National Player of the Year winners in Buddy Hield and Trae Young.
For next season what Lon Kruger needs is another gunner to go alongside Austin Reaves and OU could possibly have a team which could make some noise beyond the second round of March Madness.