Women’s Roundup: Third-ranked Wildcats roll past No. 19 OU

? The road wasn’t nearly as unpleasant for No. 3 Kansas State this time.

Three days after their 13-game winning streak ended with a loss at unranked Iowa State, the Wildcats had no trouble against No. 19 Oklahoma, winning 74-45 Saturday behind 24 points from Kendra Wecker.

“Wednesday was a tough day,” Wecker said. “We know we didn’t come out and play our best, didn’t play aggressive enough, we weren’t focused. We had a couple really good days of practice and we were aggressive in all aspects of our game tonight.”

The Wildcats (19-2 overall, 6-1 Big 12) ended a six-game losing streak to Oklahoma and handed the Sooners (13-7, 4-3) their most lopsided defeat since a 101-72 loss at home to Nebraska on Feb. 14, 1998.

The Sooners shot a season-low 30.5 percent and committed 16 turnovers, which Kansas State turned into 26 points.

“You just can’t give a team that is that good 26 points off turnovers. You can’t do it,” Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale said. “You couple that with our inability to get the ball to go in the basket, we just don’t have enough offensive firepower to combat all that.”

Megan Mahoney scored 15 points and Nicole Ohlde had 12 points and 12 rebounds, helping the Wildcats outrebound Oklahoma 45-33. Chelsi Welch led Oklahoma with 12 points.

“I thought we played significantly better than we did on Wednesday,” Wildcats coach Deb Patterson said. “You have to be better after you’ve fallen short, and I thought we did that today.”

Oklahoma was 6-of-27 from the field in the first half. It was reminiscent of Wednesday night, when the Sooners went 8-for-29 in the first 20 minutes and fell behind 30-16 in a loss to No. 11 Texas.

The Sooners rallied in that game and wound up losing by six, but there was no comeback this time.

The Sooners got no closer than 13 in the second half.

“She’s big and strong and yet she can shoot the three and take you off the dribble,” Coale said of Wecker.

“There’s nothing she can’t do at the offensive end of the floor.”

Kansas State won in Norman for the first time since 1997. The Wildcats coasted despite not having third-leading scorer Laurie Koehn, who has been bothered by a sprained ankle.

“We know what we’re capable of,” Mahoney said. “We really didn’t bring it at Iowa State. We were just hungry to get back on the floor and try to battle for a win.”

Baylor 95,

Iowa State 83, 2OT

Waco, Texas — Steffanie Blackmon scored 24 points, including a three-point play to force double overtime, as Baylor beat Iowa State. Blackmon tied the score at 77-all with her three-point play with just more than a minute left in the first overtime. Neither team scored again in the period. In the second overtime, Baylor (14-5, 3-4 Big 12) broke away when Ebony Jackson hit a free throw for an 86-81 lead and the Bears went 9-of-10 from the line down the stretch. Iowa State (8-10, 3-4) had a chance to take a lead late in regulation, but Lindsey Wilson missed a free throw.