Finally, after a murderer’s row of Big 12 defenses including Texas Tech, Iowa State, and West Virginia, Kansas gets a break as they travel to Norman to face the unranked Oklahoma Sooners...right? Well, not really. While Oklahoma doesn’t force turnovers at quite the rate of the three aforementioned teams, they are still very much above average in doing so on 21.8% of possessions. They also rate as the 27th best defense in D1 according to KenPom, which really isn’t much different from West Virginia (who, very much unlike the first two teams, the Jayhawks scored easily against). Teams haven’t shot particularly well against Oklahoma, but at least part of that is due to opponents hitting only 30% from outside, which is unlikely to be sustainable.
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