Riley leads Cowgirls to upset

Oklahoma State coach Kurt Budke, right, is shown in this 2008 file photo with guard Andrea Riley. Budke was killed in a plane crash on Friday in Arkansas.

? With the way Andrea Riley kept scoring, No. 6 Oklahoma tried just about everything to slow her down. Even the kind of double-teams the Sooners normally see deployed against Courtney Paris.

None of them worked.

Riley scored a career-high 45 points, and No. 25 Oklahoma State ended its longest losing streak ever in the Bedlam rivalry by knocking off Oklahoma 82-63 on Saturday night.

“Half of the players were on her, and she still scored. She just took over this game,” Oklahoma State’s Maria Cordero said. “She was scoring, and you might as well let her keep the ball because she was scoring and no one could guard her.”

With the teams both in the Top 25 for the first time ever in the 80-game series, Riley and the Cowgirls (14-1, 2-0 Big 12) were in control from the beginning.

Riley scored all 14 of Oklahoma State’s points during one second-half stretch, extending the lead to 57-38 with a 3-pointer from the left wing. The lead reached as many as 23 at one point.

“It was all because of my teammates. My teammates pumped me up so much,” Riley said. “Without them, I would be so arrogant, so cocky, so all of that.”

Riley got both of Oklahoma’s point guards in deep foul trouble with drives to the basket and was equally deadly from long range, going 4-for-7 from 3-point range. Late in the game, Oklahoma (10-3, 1-1) tried to double-team the speedy guard as she brought the ball upcourt but it only resulted in more fouls 30 feet away from the basket.

Courtney Paris, who scored 41 points in Oklahoma’s win last season in Stillwater, had 15 points and 19 rebounds for her 74th consecutive double-double.