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Sat February 9, 2008

Sooners' personality mirrors Capel's

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Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel plays to win -- even during pickup games. But his Sooners face an uphill climb with Longar Longar out and Blake Griffin still not 100 percent. Associated Press
Oklahoma at Colorado
•When: 3 p.m. today

•Where: Coors Events Center, Boulder, Colo.

•TV: ESPNU (Cox 253)

•Radio: KOKC-AM 1520

Probable starters

Oklahoma (15-7, 3-4)
Pos. Player Ht. Cl. Pts. Reb.
G Austin Johnson 6-3 Jr. 8.1 2.5*
G David Godbold 6-5 Sr. 8.0 4.1
G Tony Crocker 6-6 So. 10.9 4.2
F Taylor Griffin 6-7 Jr. 6.9 4.6
F Blake Griffin 6-10 Fr. 14.5 8.7
Colorado (9-13, 1-7)
Pos. Player Ht. Cl. Pts. Reb.
G Marcus Hall 6-2 Sr. 12.6 3.8*
G Richard Roby 6-6 Sr. 17.0 6.5
G Xavier Silas 6-5 So. 10.1 3.1
F Cory Higgins 6-5 Fr. 8.4 4.0
F Marcus King-Stockton 6-9 Sr. 2.6 3.3
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By Scott Wright
Staff Writer
BOULDER, Colo. — Don't ask Jeff Capel to play a round of golf. Or a game of pool.

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He won't do it. The Oklahoma basketball coach is so unabashedly competitive that he won't play something unless he knows he can win.

Like basketball. Capel and his assistant coaches will occasionally start a pickup game after practice and many of the players hang around to watch.

"It's fun to see him take something like a pickup game so seriously to where all he wants to do is win,” junior Taylor Griffin said. "They're all going at it to win. They're talking trash, playing defense as hard as they can, making shots.”

Such displays have brought on a convergence of that ultra-competitive personality within Capel and his team. And that's a good thing, because the Sooners (15-7, 3-4 Big 12 Conference) have little else to carry them through the next few games, starting today at Colorado in a 3 p.m. tipoff.

There's still no targeted return date for senior center Longar Longar, who had been playing with a stress fracture that developed into a full-fledged broken bone in his right ankle last Saturday.

Freshman standout Blake Griffin is being asked to play 38 minutes a game even though he isn't back to 100 percent after spraining the medial collateral ligament in his left knee Jan.