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OU digs down deep, earns road win at Arkansas

Bob Przybyloby:Bob Przybylo•01/25/25•

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OU senior Jalon Moore. (Nelson Chenault - Imagn Images)

You have to scratch and claw for those conference road wins, and OU just did that. One of those games where nobody cares about winning pretty. Simply win.

It didn’t come easy, and it was a battle in the second half to get anything going offensively. So fittingly, it was a defensive stand that carried the day.

OU thwarted the final attempt for Arkansas and Johnell Davis to earn a 65-62 road victory Saturday night in Fayetteville.

That’s two in a row now for OU, and it’s the first road victory in the SEC.

OU was looking great early, earning a 33-20 lead. But the Razorbacks fought back to cut it to 35-31 at halftime. The final 20 minutes? Definition of a rock fight.

Largest margin was a six-point lead for Arkansas, basically a one-possession game the rest of the way.

Did just enough on a night where just enough gets the job done.

Game No. 19 OU Takeaways

*Huge second half by freshman guard Jeremiah Fears. A lot of his good work was done on the free throw line, but he was earning those trips.

Fears finished with 16 points, five rebounds and three assists.

*The aggression was there once again by senior Jalon Moore. The execution wasn’t always there, but he kept fighting.

Moore leaked out after the defensive stop to get a dunk in the final second to punctuate the victory. He had 13 points and six rebounds.

*Your unsung hero of the night was Glenn Taylor. Head coach Porter Moser likes to call it shifts instead of subs. Well, Taylor made his shifts count.

Taylor had eight points, six rebounds and two assists in 23 minutes.

*OU held Arkansas scoreless for the final 2:13 of the game. OU didn’t make a 3-pointer in the second half after connecting on seven of them in the first half.

Up next

One road battle to the next. OU (15-4, 2-4) now heads to College Station to take on Texas A&M. The Aggies, of course, overcame an 18-point deficit in the second half to stun OU in Norman 80-78 earlier this month. A&M had its own version of that, blowing a 22-point lead at Texas on Saturday in a 70-69 defeat. Just another day in the SEC.

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