It’s October, and with the coming of the changing leaves and cooler weather also brings a chance of thunder to the beautiful BOK Center.
That is the annual visit of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder to Tulsa for their annual exhibition game, this year against the Dallas Mavericks. Tipoff is set for 7pm on Tuesday. The game with the Mavericks will be the seventh in a row for the Thunder, who have included Tulsa on their exhibition schedule every year that the BOK Center has been open.
Led by senior linebacker Eric Striker’s 13 tackles and cornerback Jordan Thomas’s two interceptions, the Oklahoma Sooners opened Big 12 Conference play with a convincing 44-24 win over the West Virginia Mountaineers on Saturday in Norman.
When the final gun sounded, the OU defense had forced five West Virginia turnovers and recorded seven sacks of Mountaineers quarterback Skyler Howard, holding the high-powered West Virginia offense to 369 total yards.
TULSA, OK—A crowd of 17,146 saw the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane fall to the Houston Cougars 38-24 on Saturday afternoon. Both teams were opening conference play in The American and looking for their first win.
The Golden Hurricane were defeated last week in Norman when the OU Sooners handed them a 52-38 loss. The Cougars came into the game sitting on a perfect 3-0 record, with their last game defeating Texas State 59-14.
OU running back Samaje Perine is stopped for no gain by TU’s defense.
Many observers figured offense would be on display Saturday when the Tulsa Golden Hurricane squared off with the Oklahoma Sooners Saturday in Bob Stoops’ 100th home game at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, and no one was disappointed, except possibly the defensive coaches for both teams.
The two teams combined for 70 first downs and 1,376 total yards, 863 coming in the first half.
TULSA — The great WNBA experiment in Oklahoma is officially over.
The Phoenix Mercury showed why they have three championships under their belts as they dominated the Shock in all aspects of the game on Saturday night and handed the Shock a 91-67 loss in front of 3,261 in Tulsa’s BOK Center.