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OU Basketball: Oklahoma Trounces Virginia

The Sooners got a massive double-double from Raegan Beers, who had plenty of support as they cruised to 2-0 on the young season.

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Raegan Beers (52) is pictured as the Oklahoma women’s basketball team practice ahead of the regular season at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024.
Raegan Beers (52) is pictured as the Oklahoma women’s basketball team practice ahead of the regular season at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. / NATHAN J. FISH/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
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Postgame notes…

No. 10 Oklahoma 95, Virginia 51
Sooners 2-0, Cavaliers 1-1

Raegan Beers shined in the win, eclipsing 1,000 career points behind a 26-point, 14-rebound double-double.
Her 26 points tied her career high, matching a 26-point output vs. Prairie View A&M on Nov. 19, 2022, when she played at Oregon State.
She became the first Sooner to tally a double-double in the first half since Kaylon Williams vs. UTSA on Dec. 13, 2015.

Skylar Vann neared a double-double with eight points and 10 rebounds.
Sahara Williams added 14 points, four rebounds and three steals.
Payton Verhulst scored 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting.

Oklahoma outrebounded Virginia 66-39. OU’s 66 rebounds were the most for the Sooners since 2005 when they grabbed 66 vs. SMU.
The Sooners’ 66 points in the paint were the most of the Baranczyk era.

The Sooners face Western Carolina (2-0) on Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 10:30 a.m. CT. The game is the program’s annual Field Trip Day.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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