Red Raiders hold Cyclones to 43 points

? Texas players had talked about how they didn’t like Oklahoma’s attitude.

The sixth-ranked Sooners were too cocky. Too much swagger, the Longhorns said.

For good reason.

Oklahoma has owned the Longhorns in recent years and extended its mastery over its border rival with an 85-84 overtime victory Saturday. The Sooners have won six in a row over Texas and 22 of the last 26 in the series.

The Sooners read the comments in Saturday morning’s paper and wrote them on their lockerroom blackboard.

“I don’t like the comment,” said Hollis Price, who led the Sooners with 25 points and provided the key basket in overtime. “We work hard just like everybody else. We’re not an arrogant team. We’re not a cocky team.”

The Longhorns nearly snapped the losing streak. Texas rallied from a 17-point deficit with just over six minutes left to tie it at 74 on Brandon Mouton’s three-pointer on an inbounds pass with less than a second left.

The Sooners appeared to have it won when Aaron McGhee grabbed the rebound of T.J. Ford’s missed three-pointer with about two seconds left in regulation. But McGhee stepped out of bounds under the basket before time ran out.

OU called a timeout to set up a defense, but Ford zipped the inbounds pass to Mouton in the corner and he swished the shot.

Mouton led Texas with a career-high 26 points.

Texas scored first in overtime and the teams traded the lead five times in the extra period. Price’s pull-up jumper in the lane with 19 seconds left put the Sooners ahead for good at 83-82. Jason Detrick then hit two free throws that gave the Sooners a three-point lead.

Ebi Ere, Quannas White and McGhee each scored 16 points for the Sooners (17-3, 6-2 Big 12), who took sole possession of second place in the conference.

Royal Ivey added 17 points and James Thomas had 12 points and 14 rebounds for Texas (14-7, 5-3), which has lost three of its last four after a 4-0 start in league play. The Longhorns have dropped consecutive one-point losses.

“I’m not worrying about their psyche. For a young team, we do play hard,” Texas coach Rick Barnes said. “We’re learning on the job here a little bit.”

No. 20 Texas Tech 69, Iowa State 43

Lubbock, Texas Texas Tech held Iowa State to its lowest point total since a 54-38 loss to Oklahoma State 40 years ago.

After a lackluster first half that saw Texas Tech shoot only 33 percent from the field, the Red Raiders (16-4, 5-3 Big 12) hit 11 of their first 12 shots over the opening nine minutes of the second half and went on to lead by as many as 28 points. Texas Tech shot over 60 percent in the second half.

The Cyclones (9-14, 1-8) shot just 24.2 percent from the field (15-of-62).

The Red Raiders were coming off a flat performance Wednesday night at Nebraska where they lost 80-69. That loss came two days after Texas Tech entered the Top 25 for the first time in five years.

“I don’t think we needed the Nebraska loss, but we learned from it,” said Kasib Powell, who led Texas Tech with 22 points and grabbed eight rebounds.

Andre Emmett scored 13 points and Andy Ellis added nine for the Red Raiders. Tyray Pearson had 13 points and 12 rebounds for Iowa State.