Welcome to Big 12 basketball.
It was a wild one on Tuesday night at the Lloyd Noble Center as Oklahoma came up just short in a 69-67 loss to No. 15 Texas Tech.
The Sooners did a lot of things you wouldn’t want in this game and still managed to almost pull it off late. Brady Manek had one of the worst game of his career, Austin Reaves wasn’t nearly up to his standards either and the team as a whole missed gobs of free throws.
And yet, after an intentionally missed free throw by Victor Iuwakor, Reaves had a clean look at a tip in for the tie to send the game to overtime that just rolled off. It was really that kind of night for Oklahoma: close, but just not good enough.
The loss drops them to 5-2 on the season and 1-1 in Big 12 play, Here are three takeaways from this tough dropped home game:
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