Price leads Oklahoma to Big 12 tourney win over No. 1 Kansas

? Hollis Price scored 23 points, including two clutch 3-pointers that turned back a second-half rally by No. 1 Kansas, and No. 4 Oklahoma won its second straight Big 12 tournament with a 64-55 victory on Sunday.

Drew Gooden had 22 points and 15 rebounds but also committed six turnovers for Kansas, which had its string of 18 straight wins over conference opponents broken by the Sooners (27-4).

Nick Collison added 15 points and 11 rebounds for the Jayhawks (29-3), the highest scoring team in the nation who were held 12 points below their previous low for the season, also against the Sooners.

Oklahoma shot just 34 percent (24-for-71) from the field, its third poor shooting performance in as many games _ but Price, the tournament MVP, made the big shots.

Kansas rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit to force two ties midway through the second half and was still within 49-47 on a dunk by Gooden with 7:02 left.

Price hit two 3-pointers over the next 82 seconds and Jabahri Brown scored with 4:13 left to make it 57-49, and Kansas could never get closer than four points after that.

Price, Brown and Quannas White each made two free throws over the final 1:45 to seal Oklahoma’s win. White finished with 10 points for the Sooners, who held Kansas to 33 percent shooting (19-for-57) and shut out All-Big 12 guard Kirk Hinrich from the field.

The Jayhawks _ who have a school-record 11 100-point games this season and averaged 96 points in tournament wins over Colorado and Texas Tech _ hadn’t scored fewer than 86 points since beating Oklahoma 74-67 on Jan. 19.

Kansas made only seven field goals in the first half and trailed 29-19, but hit its first six shots in the second half. Gooden and Aaron Miles had two baskets each in a 9-0 run that cut Oklahoma’s lead to 31-28 with 17:20 to go.

Collison’s basket with 8:42 left made it 41-all, but the Jayhawks could never regain the lead they lost in the game’s opening minutes.

Hinrich, who came in averaging almost 16 points per game for the Jayhawks, missed all 10 of his field goal attempts and went scoreless until he hit two free throws with 15:09 left. He finished with four points.

Only Collison’s shot from the lane at the first-half buzzer saved Kansas, the nation’s most accurate team, from having more turnovers than field goals in the first 20 minutes.

Kansas, which shot 52 percent in the regular season, was 7-for-30 (23 percent) from the field and committed 12 turnovers against the Sooners’ aggressive man-to-man defense. Still, the Sooners were unable to capitalize as they shot just 37 percent (13-for-35) for the half.