Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech: Odds, final score predictions from ESPN, KenPom

Porter Moser started his first Big 12 Tournament with a bang, leading Oklahoma to a stunning 72-67 upset of No. 2 seed Baylor on Thursday night. As the Sooners regather quickly against Texas Tech on Friday, the Vegas odds and predictions from the metrics are in for the rematch.

Remember: Oklahoma beat Texas Tech once in the regular season. The Red Raiders won round two, though. Here’s everything you need to know about Friday’s quarterfinal showdown.

How to watch Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech

Time: 9:30 p.m. ET

Location: T-Mobile Center

Network: ESPN2

Vegas odds

According to VegasInsider, the Red Raiders are 7-point favorites over the Sooners in the Big 12 Tournament quarterfinals. The over/under for the game is 125.5.

ESPN BPI prediction

ESPN’s College Basketball Power Index (BPI) measures team strength and predicts future performances across the sport. The BPI prediction from ESPN has Texas Tech with a 74.9% chance of advancing to the Big 12 Tournament semifinals.

Projected winner: Texas Tech

Predicted point differential: 6.7

Matchup Quality: 83.8

KenPom prediction

KenPom is another tool that predicts and projects college basketball results. Like ESPN, KenPom projects Texas Tech to advance to the semifinals with a single-digit victory.

Predicted winner: Texas Tech

Predicted final score: Texas Tech 67, Oklahoma 60

Win probability (for Texas Tech): 71%

Oklahoma keeps season alive with stunning upset of defending national champion Baylor

Oklahoma, fighting to keep any hopes of making the NCAA Tournament alive, did just that in Porter Moser’s first Big 12 Tournament as the Sooners’ head coach. OU pulled off a stunning upset of No. 2-seeded Baylor by a 72-67 final score.

Oklahoma, which came into the tournament as the No. 7 seed, needed a perfectly-executed gameplan to stop the Baylor Bears, which came in as heavy favorites, and the Sooners implemented it with apparent ease. The Sooners took a quick first-half lead on Thursday night, but after 11 first-half turnovers, Baylor managed to take a 33-27 halftime lead. But once the Sooners took control in the second half, Moser’s squad never looked back.

Oklahoma shot an incredible 51 percent from the field on Thursday night, making 26-of-51 field-goal attempts, and they made an even more impressive 52.4 percent from three-point range (11-of-21). With such an efficient shooting output, Oklahoma was able to overcome Baylor, which shot 38.5 percent from the field and couldn’t seem to buy a shot from deep, converting on 13.6 percent of three-point attempts.

Oklahoma won the rebounding battle on Thursday, notching 36 boards to Baylor’s 34, and OU also had 18 assists to Baylor’s 11.

Baylor certainly controlled some facets of the game, as the Bears were able to create turnovers frequently. Oklahoma finished with 16 turnovers, while Baylor committed just six of its own, and Baylor even got 12 offensive rebounds to Oklahoma’s six.

But when the starting five put together such a well-balanced offensive attack, Baylor hardly seemed to stand a chance.

Five Sooners scored in double figures, including four starters. Jacob Groves had 15 points, Umoja Gibson had 14, and Jalen Hill and Jordan Goldwire each added 10 points. Marvin Johnson had 12 points off the bench.