Oklahoma Puts Its Experience to Use While Cruising Past Texas A&M | The Reporter25

Texas A&M set to contain friends Hield, the player of the year candidate from Oklahoma, and the Aggies were successful, holding Hield for 17 points, well below his postseason average of 31.4 points per game. The Aggies arrested and their limited Hield ringtones, but it was like trying to bottle experience. The No. 2-seeded Sooners are much more than a one-man team as they demonstrated Thursday in their 77-63 victory against the No. 3-seeded Texas A & M in a round of 16 West Regional game at the Honda Center.

On Saturday, the Sooners will play no. 1-seeded Oregon, which defeated Duke, 82-68.

Hield and to his fellow seniors Ryan Spangler and Isaiah Cousins, along with junior Jordan Woodward, has started 103 straight games, and they were finishing a play the other against Texas A & M, which was led by Tyler Davis (17 points) and Jalen Jones (11 points, 10 rebounds). The Sooners tallied 23 assists, 9 more than the Aggies, with the core four collect 20.

When we have ball movement and flow of ball, everybody gets good shots, said Hield.

No one had better pictures than Woodard, 6-foot guard the Sooners '. He was the smallest player on the Court, but he had the biggest game with 22 points, including his first 2:00 pm 16 minutes.

How hot was Woodard?

Near the end of the first half, he took a loose rebound as the clock shot was running out and threw the ball toward the rim of an impossible angle, only to see him on the bench.

I just wanted to make sure I get it to the rim, said Woodard. It was just that kind of night, I think.

The Woodard mind being overlooked because of his size. On the eve of the game, he said: If I underestimate, not very bright. I like to take on a challenge because I assume guys bigger every day in practice.

The Aggies were also an experienced team, with four high-level inputs, including point guard Anthony Collins. But for stretches in the first half, they played like they were thrown together in a pickup game. Collins twice threw the ball away on passes in the paint. They have to lose control of Hield in the backfield, including in a game on the pitch, allowing you to cut to the basket for an easy tray off a pass from Spangler. The Sooners took advantage of the lapses to score 19 of the last 23 points in the first half to take the lead 45-26 at halftime.

We have a good team that played very well, Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy & said. Every mistake we made, they made us pay.

The hole Texas A&M had dug deep & was, but they don't consider it as a grave. Four nights earlier, the Aggies had erased a 12-point deficit in the last 35 seconds of regulation on his way to a double-overtime victory over Northern Iowa defeat. After that game, one of the seniors, Alex Caruso, the wrote one word on the Whiteboard: believe. The Aggies led to his escape from the second round as a sign that they were destined for the Final Four in Houston.

Led by Davis, the Aggies scored to first 5 points of the second half. Sooners coach Lon Kruger called a timeout. Whatever was said helped to Sooners settle down.

We had a couple of bad offensive possessions, Spangler said, and the coach called that timeout and brought us back together and set our defense up and made sure they were taking smart shots.

In the first two rounds, Spangler did 11 points. He knew he had to contribute more, and against the Aggies, he had to finish with 10. From the beginning, Hield couldn't be contained in plates, which keyed the transition offense the Sooners.

We tried to keep him from touching the ball as much as possible, said Caruso. The other guys did a good job of playing off them. We could not have given them enough credit.

With the win, the Sooners closed a wound that ignited since its loss in the third round to Michigan State in last year's tournament. The defeat of 4 points, Kruger said, was a source of motivation during the spring, summer and fall training.

Losing at the point where you're close, but you go home instead, I think we had our faces more specific during the off-season to improve, progress, work with him, said Kruger.

So, the Sooners were on the same page. Got asked a lot of questions about how we felt last year, Woodard said, so we wanted just to make sure we had a greater focus this game and make it to our ultimate goal.

Round 8 is not the ultimate goal of the Sooners; so that the Sooners planned to commemorate his victory at the hotel watching game film.

Because we have a big game next Saturday, said Hield. Therefore, we have to be very closed for that, too.

Goose Gossage adds replay and Cam Newton to growing hate list (Reporter25)

Add the not-so-instant replay for Goose list of how MLB went wrong of Gossage.

Any Manager can perform on the field more and kick dirt on umpires, the Hall of Famer told the Post on Tuesday, George m. Steinbrenner Field. It was exciting. This was part of the game. That woke up everybody and everybody loved it.

Now you sit there for five minutes and wait for the replay-ing of. And half the time, you can't even tell.

Who's died in the last 100 years due to a bad call? They say, well they lost for a world series and the kid lost his perfect game.  I said: Who died? Let the human element in the game. You can't take the human element out of baseball because it's the fabric of the game .

Gossage remains upset about the State of baseball in 2016 because he cares so much about the game.

They can say whatever you want about ' old school ' and the game passed me by, said Gossage." Let me tell you something: The game does not pass me by.

Gossage plucked for a generation flip Bat and the ' baseball ' running ' nerds last week for ESPN and doubled and tripled down on your comments. After the storm, he was called to a meeting with Yankees Manager Brian Cashman. So but he wants to make it clear that he is only speaking out because of his love for the game that has done so much for him.

I had a lot of people call me and support me, he said. I haven't heard a negative thing about my phone.

It's a shame, it breaks my heart to see the direction this game is going. What, we want a lot of Cam Newton running around?

So, if anyone keeps in check, there's no one to keep him under control, first of all, no one wants to bite the hand that they or the hand that feeds them today fed. The only connection we had was Joe Torre. It's like Washington DC. Everyone starts with good intentions. You can't beat them, join them.

This is the revenge of the nerds, and they're going to get the last laugh-I know that, said Gossage. These guys played rotisserie baseball at a Harvard or wherever they are played, and they were successful, so they think that's all there is to it. This is only a small part f-ing the game.

Let me tell you, you can't control the game, no matter how hard you try. We gave up long ago trying to figure out this s-t out. He has a mind of its own, it has a character of its own. And they're having this character out of the game.

It breaks my heart,  he added. I see the lack of fundamentals. The children are not being taught how to play the game. It's all about the offense. All this just breaks my heart.

Joe Girardi’s direct response to Goose Gossage’s recent rants (Reporter25)

Goose Gossage was not in the Yankees camp Wednesday, a day after he made inflammatory comments to the Post.

But Manager Brian Cashman said his to absence was not related to recent an explosions of Gossage ranging from current players ' behavior in the field with the way the game is run.

The latest came Wednesday when the Hall of Famer ripped instant replay and Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton with the post office.

Do we want a lot of Cam Newton running around? Gossage said Tuesday.

Manager Joe Girardi did not seem thrilled with Gossage when prompted.

I heard a huge comment the other day, the Manager said before the Yankees beat Toronto, by 2-1, at George m. Steinbrenner Field. There is no freedom of speech in our country, but that doesn't always mean that there's no freedom [of] consequences. Sometimes people want to say that there is no freedom of expression, but sometimes you'll be judged on what you say. That's part of life.

Gossage originally made headlines when he told ESPN Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista was a (disgrace to the game) because of his bat flip during last year's playoffs in a speech full of bad language.