On February 21 , Griffin received a concussion in a loss to the Texas Longhorns , when he caught an inadvertent shot to the face from the open hand of Texas center Dexter Pittman . He sat out the second half during the Sooners loss with a bloody nose . It was the Sooners ' first loss of their conference schedule for the season . After sitting out the next game , a loss to Kansas Jayhawks , he was cleared by the medical staff and returned a week later to get 20 points and 19 rebounds in a victory over Texas Tech . Oklahoma finished second in the conference with a 13 – 3 record but fell short in the first game of the Big 12 Tournament to Oklahoma State . In the NCAA tournament , Oklahoma was seeded No. 2 in the South Region with a 27 – 5 record . In a second-round win over the Michigan Wolverines , Griffin scored 33 points and grabbed 17 rebounds and became just the second player in the 2000s ( decade ) with at least 30 points and 15 rebounds in an NCAA tournament game . The Sooners ended up losing to the North Carolina Tar Heels in the South Regional final
Big 12 Tournament
2009 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament
Blake Griffin