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SoonerScoop Sights & Sounds: OU 82, South Carolina 62

Bob Przybyloby:Bob Przybylo•01/19/25•

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OU HC Porter Moser. (Alonzo Adams - Imagn Images)

The bleeding has stopped for OU basketball. Well, at least temporarily. We have a long way to go in the SEC, but the Sooners definitely could not be 0-5.

Could not be 0-5 staring into the ultra-rare off week. OU does not play again until next Saturday night against Arkansas, who is actually 0-5 in the SEC.

The Sooners got on the right side of the win-loss column with an 82-62 victory against South Carolina on Saturday afternoon.

It was OU’s first-ever SEC win. That’s an historic footnote, more importantly? It snapped the four-game conference losing streak.

Rewatch SEC history for the Sooners with the Sights and Sounds from SoonerScoop video editor Eddie Radosevich.

Head coach Porter Moser on his 7-man starting lineup

“I think the rotations are better when we start bigger. A thing I said a lot last year, and I’m creating that narrative again, we have seven starters. These guys have started a lot of college basketball. It’s a shift, not you’re a sub. I don’t know why people think the word ‘sub’ is bad. It’s not. It’s part of basketball. I’m trying to say, you’re a shift. Just the second shift. People ask me about Mo coming off the bench… now he has 35 minutes to get five fouls.”

Moser on the rest, good or bad?

 “I think it’s both. Mentally and physically, you need it. Big 12 we didn’t have it; Missouri Valley, we didn’t have it. I haven’t had a bye week… we’re going to give a handful of days off, let them get it. But I’ll say this: This team needed it bad. It’s great when the narrative… now you can feed into that we played winning basketball. We had a lot of guys that produced on their shift changes.”

Jalon Moore had 22 points and eight rebounds. Freshman Jeremiah Fears bounced back in a huge way with 16 points, nine rebounds, eight assists, two steals and just two turnovers. It was a career high for Fears in both rebounds and assists.

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