After another top-25 win on Saturday over Iowa State, the Oklahoma Sooners were looking to pick up some momentum before heading to Kansas City for the Big 12 tournament. The Kansas State Wildcats had other ideas, defeating the Sooners 85-69 in Manhattan.
The Sooners started strong out of the gate, holding a lead for much of the first half. The Wildcats kept it close and eventually tied the game at 25 with 3:28 remaining in the first. Nae-Qwan Tomlin’s layup made it 27-25 Kansas State, and the Wildcats led for the remainder of the game.
The Sooners’ largest deficit of the game came at the 14:48 mark of the second half when Tomlin put the Wildcats up by 20. And that was pretty much all she wrote.
True freshman [autotag]Milos Uzan[/autotag] led the way with 20 points, and fellow first-year Sooner [autotag]Otega Oweh[/autotag] poured in 18. Each player experienced a career-scoring game against Kansas State. The problem was they didn’t get much help.
Uzan and Oweh combined to shoot 53.5% from the field. The rest of the team combined to shoot just 33.3% from the field, including [autotag]Jacob Groves[/autotag]’ 4 for 5 performance. You remove Groves’ line and all Sooners not named Uzan, Oweh, and Jacob Groves shot just 24% from the field.
The Wildcats shot better as a team. Kansas State was 53.3% from the field and 47.4% from three. The Wildcats also held a plus-4 margin in offensive rebounds and were plus-7 in total rebounding.
The true freshmen provided some good moments in this game and optimism for the future.
Oklahoma closes the regular season at home vs. No. 22 TCU on Saturday at 2 p.m. CT.
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