March 19, 2010

Recap | Box Score | Photo Gallery

• Oakland falls to 1-2 in the NCAA tournament
• The Golden Grizzlies were outscored 29-12 with Derick Nelson out of the game because of an injury that forced him to get six stitches
• Oakland finished the season with a school record 26 wins
• The Grizzlies trailed at the half 39-26 and fall to 4-9 this season when down at the break
• The Summit League is 8-26 in the NCAA tournament and 3-7 as a No. 14 seed
• With Larry Wright's 3-pointer in the first half (15:38), OU has now made at least one three in 665 straight games, 7th-best streak in the country
• Keith Benson led the Grizzlies with 28 points and reached the 20-point plateau for a team-high 14 times
• Benson finished with nine rebounds and a school record 367 for the season, second most in league history; He had a career-high 16 free throw attempts, pushing his season total to 261, two shy of the school record
• Ledrick Eackles reached double figures for the first time in 13 games, finishing with 17
• Derick Nelson moved into sixth all-time in league history with nine rebounds today, pushing his career total to 849
• The Golden Grizzlies are 0-3 lifetime against Pitt
• OU finished the year 20-2 over its last 22 games
• Oakland finished the season 0-4 versus ranked opponents (Kansas, Syracuse, Michigan State, Pitt)
• The Grizzlies are 5-50 versus BCS schools and 1-22 versus ranked opponents in Division I history (1998-99)

No. 3 Pittsburg Panthers (25-8)

• This is the ninth straight appearance for the Panthers in the tournament
• Pitt outscored OU 25-8 over the final eight minutes of the half
• The Panthers snapped OU's 11-game winning streak
• Pitt advances to the second round for the fifth consecutive year; The last time they did not was in 2005 when they lost to Pacific (79-71) in Boise, Idaho
• The Panthers are 22-22 overall at the tournament and 13-5 in the first round
• Pitt will face No. 6 seed Xavier (25-8) in the NCAA second round