Tuesday, December 28-Wednesday, December 29

SMU 86, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 74	Box Score
No. 22/23 South Florida 70, Jacksonville 57	Box Score
Oklahoma (RV) 89, Wichita State 67	Box Score

SMU 86, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 74

The SMU women's basketball team scored a season-high 86 points in its win against Arkansas-Pine Bluff Tuesday night in Moody Coliseum. Jasmine Smith and Kayla White led the offensive attack, each finishing with a career-high 25 points.
 
With 21 points, her previous career high, Smith made a pair of free throws to pass her previous career high. She went to the line again with 24 seconds left to get to 25. White scored her 23rd point of the game with 3:15 left in the fourth quarter, eclipsing her previous career high of 22 points, scored at Rice as a freshman on Dec. 15, 2018.
 
Savannah Wilkinson poster her seventh double-double of the season with 18 points and a game-high 11 rebounds in the 86-74 victory. SMU shot 42.0 percent (29-of-69) from the field, and made 5-of-13 3-point attempts 38.5 percent. The Mustangs went 23-for-31 at the free throw line, with Wilkinson going 8-for-9 at the stripe.
 
The Mustangs eclipsed 20 points in each of the last three quarters to pull away for the double-digit victory. Danielle Sanderlin finished with eight points, and Keyanna Warthen pulled down a career-high 10 rebounds.
 
UAPB (4-6) was led by Kaila Walker with 15 points, and five players scored at least 10 points. As a team, the Lady Lions shot 41.8 percent (28-of-69) and made six 3-pointers.

No. 22/23 South Florida 70, Jacksonville 57

Elena Tsineke scored 22 points, Bethy Mununga had 21 points and 12 rebounds and No. 22 South Florida led from the outset in beating Jacksonville 70-57 on Wednesday.
 
Tsineke scored 16 first-half points when the Bulls (10-4) built a double-digit first-half lead that it maintained except when the Dolphins got within nine late in the fourth quarter. She finished 8-of-14 shooting, making three 3-pointers. Mununga posted her fourth double-double this season. Maria Alvarez scored 12 points, all off 3-pointers. Dulcy Fankam Mendjiadeu grabbed 11 rebounds to go with eight points.
 
Taylor Hawks scored 17 points and Asiah Jones 10 to lead the Dolphins (7-4), playing their first game since Dec. 13. Jacksonville outshot USF overall but the Bulls were 9-of-21 from the arc to the Dolphins' 2-of-12 and won the boards 40-26.
 
The teams combined to make 22 of 23 free throws with USF making all 13, including eight by Mununga.
 
USF carried a double-digit lead into the second half and built it to 16 on a Alvarez 3-pointer before Jacksonville cut it to 13 entering the final period.
 
The Dolphins were within three points when the Bulls went on a 12-4 run to end the first half and lead 44-33.
 
Before to the game with Jacksonville, the Bulls honored head coach Jose Fernandez for his 400th career win, achieved on Dec. 17. The ceremony included video tributes from the likes of UConn head coach Geno Auriemma, Tulane head coach Lisa Stockton, ESPN and CBS Sports analyst Debbie Antonelli, and USF Hall of Famer – and WNBA All-Star – Courtney Williams, among others.

Oklahoma (RV) 89, Wichita State 67

Oklahoma outscored Wichita State by 18 over the game's final 12 minutes to run away with an 89-67 win Wednesday night at the Lloyd Noble Center.
 
Wichita State (9-4) concludes non-conference play and will now turn its attention to league play with a clean slate. Both teams were missing key pieces in the matchup with DJ McCarty out of the lineup for Wichita State and Oklahoma played without two of its three leading scorers.
 
Mariah McCully recorded her sixth straight game in double figures with a team-high 16 points on 7-of-13 shooting. Asia Strong (14 points, 8 rebounds) and Trajata Colbert (12 points, 8 rebounds) both threatened with double-doubles. Seraphine Bastin chipped in nine rebounds and six assists to go with seven points.
 
Five Sooners finished in double figures, led by Skylar Vann's game and career-high 21 points. Taylor Robertson entered the matchup as the nation's leader in made three-pointers, while shooting nearly 50 percent from beyond the arc. Most of her damage came before halftime, scoring 13 of her 19 points and making all three of her treys in the first 20 minutes.
 
Oklahoma cashed in its season average in three-pointers, going 10-of-27 and shot 46 percent overall. On the offensive end for the Shockers, Wichita State shot just 34 percent from the field and converted 6-of-22 from long range.
 
Both teams committed 21 turnovers, but the Sooners capitalized in transition and on the glass. OU outscored Wichita State 34-9 in fast break points and outrebounded the Shockers by seven, marking just the second time this season Wichita State lost the rebound battle.
 
The game started like a track meet with both teams scoring with ease on the first few trips, but play bogged down as the quarter went on. Wichita State made one of its final seven attempts and went scoreless for nearly three minutes. The Sooners didn't fare much better, but took a 19-15 lead into the second period.
 
Oklahoma quickly pushed its margin to seven on a three-pointer a minute into the second, but back-to-back triples from Carla Bremaud and Strong cut it to just a one-point game. The Sooners then reeled off seven straight of their own and later extended the lead to 10 on one of Taylor Robertson's three first half three-pointers.
 
Oklahoma's two-head scoring attack of Robertson (13) and Skylar Vann (16) accounted for 29 of the Sooners' 44 first half points. Wichita State went into the locker room trailing 44-36. OU's 44 points in the opening half was a season high for a Wichita State opponent.
 
A 9-2 run to open the second half pushed OU's lead to 15, its largest to that point. Following a Keitha Adams timeout with 7:09 on the clock, Wichita State responded with a 14-0 run in the span of less than two minutes to pull within a point. McCully poured in seven of those points.
 
Wichita State got back into the game by forcing turnovers and getting out in transition, but a cold spell over the final 2:44 allowed the Sooners to score the final six points and pushing the lead back to 10. The Shockers missed their final nine field goal attempts of the period.
 
Just over a minute into the fourth quarter Oklahoma buried a pair of triples to make it 69-55, forcing another Adams timeout. That would essentially put the game away as OU stretched it to as many as 24 over the final 5:00 minutes.