NORMAN — The Oklahoma men’s basketball team outshot Ole Miss 52% to 38% from the field and committed just seven turnovers in a convincing 86-70 home win to start SEC action Saturday. The Rebels had not surrendered more than 77 points in a game this season.

OU guard Xzayvier Brown continued his stellar play with a season-high 23 points on 8-of-11 shooting, and center Mohamed Wague turned in one of his best overall outings with 10 points, a career-high 15 rebounds, three assists and a career-high-tying three blocked shots.

For the Sooners, who improved to 11-3 overall, it was their ninth victory in the last 10 games. The Rebels fell to 8-6 overall.

Brown went 4 for 5 from 3-point range and didn’t commit a turnover in his 25 minutes despite feeling under the weather. It was his fifth straight outing of at least 18 points and fourth of at least 20 during the stretch.

Guard Nijel Pack and forward Tae Davis each scored 15 points. Pack, who did not convert a 3-pointer for the first time this season (he was 0 for 3), was 7 for 8 from inside the arc and added five rebounds and two assists. Davis was 5 for 8 from the field and 4 for 5 from the free throw line, and handed out a gamehigh and career-high-tying six assists.

Forward Kuol Atak came off the bench to register 14 points in 22 minutes on the strength of 4-for-9 3-point shooting. He’s made 10 triples over the last two games.

Both teams started hot from the field, with Ole Miss making seven of its first 10 shots and OU draining eight of its first 12. The Sooners trailed 24-21 before going on an 11-0 run to take an eight-point lead with 6:54 remaining in the first half. The spurt featured an Atak driving slam and a 3-pointer.

After Ole Miss ended a 7:20 scoreless stretch in which it missed 12 straight shots, Atak nailed another 3 — from six feet behind the line — to put OU up 35-26 for its largest lead of the half. The Rebels responded with a 14-6 run to knot the score at 38 before the Sooners took a 43-41 halftime lead.

Brown and Atak each hit two early treys in the second half to push OU’s advantage to 59-51, only to see Ole Miss cut it to a 65-62 game with 8:08 remaining. That’s when the Sooners took control for good, getting another 3 from Brown and making five free throws for an 8-0 run and a 73-62 lead with 5:26 to go.

OU kept getting stops and racking up points in the paint, ballooning its lead to 16 (82-66) with 2:26 left. It ended the game on a 23-10 run over the last 8:30.

The Sooners committed six first-half turnovers but had only one in the second half. They’ve committed single-digit turnovers in eight of the last 12 games, their first time to accomplish that feat in at least the last 30 years. For comparison, OU had six single-dig-it turnover games all of last season.

Ole Miss, which entered the game averaging 7.4 3-point makes per contest, went 9 for 15 from behind the arc in the first half but just 1 for 11 in the second. The Sooners finished 11 for 28 from deep (39.3%), their ninth outing of at least 10 treys and fifth in the last six games.

Oklahoma outrebounded the Rebels 40-33, posted a 36-18 advantage in paint points and blocked six shots.

Ole Miss freshman guard Patton Pinkins scored a game-high 25 points. He was 9 for 11 from the field and 4 for 6 from 3-point range.

OU is back in action Wednesday when it plays at Mississippi State at 6 p.m. CT. The game will be televised by SEC Network.

OU WOMEN BASKETBALL NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Aaliyah Chavez scored 17 points and Zya Vann added 16 and 11 rebounds to help No. 8 Oklahoma rout cold-shooting Mississippi State 95-47 on Sunday.

Raegan Beers chipped in 15 points and 11 rebounds for the Sooners (14-1, 2-0 Southeastern Conference), who had a 64-37 rebound advantage. Six players scored in double figures for the Sooners, who have won 13 straight, the second-longest streak in program history behind a 20-game run by the 2008-09 Final Four team.

Kharyssa Richardson scored 13 points off the bench for Mississippi State (14-2, 1-1), which lost for the first time since Nov. 20. The Bulldogs made 14 of 70 shots (20%) and one of 25 shots from behind the 3-point line (4%).

Oklahoma set a program record for lowest shooting percentage by a conference opponent. The previous mark was 20.7% by Texas Tech of the Big 12 Conference in 2014.

The Bulldogs made just two of their first 19 shots (11%) and trailed 21-8 after one quarter. OU extended the lead to 29-10 on a layup by Beers early in the second.

Three straight baskets by Mississippi State — including a 3-pointer by Crisp — cut the deficit to 29-17.

But the Bulldogs scored only five points after that and trailed 48-22 at halftime. Mississippi State made 7 of 37 shots before the break.

The second half didn’t get much better. Oklahoma limited the Bulldogs to 13 points and extended the advantage to 62-24 on a 3-point play by Caya Smith with 5:41 left in the third quarter. A 20-2 run by OU in the fourth made it 92-40.

The Sooners now look toward a four-game stretch against ranked teams, which begins on Thursday in Norman when they host No. 15 Ole Miss at 6 p.m.

POSTGAME NOTES

• Oklahoma (14-1, 2-0 SEC) won its 13th straight game on Sunday, defeating Mississippi State 95-47 at Lloyd Noble Center to move to 2-0 in league play. The 13-game winning streak is the second longest in program history, trailing only a 20-game run in 2008-09.

• OU, which entered the day ranked second nationally in opponent field goal percentage, held the Bulldogs to 20.0% shooting (14 of 70), setting a program record for lowest opponent FG% in a conference game. The Sooners also limited Mississippi State to 4.0% from 3-point range (1 of 25), the third-lowest opponent 3-point percentage in a conference game in program history.

• After holding Texas A&M to 50 points in Thursday’s SEC opener, the Sooner defense was even more dominant against a Mississippi State offense that ranked inside the nation’s top 25 in scoring entering the day. OU’s 47 points allowed were its fewest in a conference game since limiting Texas Tech to 45 in 2017. The Sooners have won 74 straight games dating back to 2015 when holding opponents under 60 points.

• Oklahoma’s 48-point victory was the second- largest margin of victory in a conference game since 2009, trailing only a 55-point win over Texas Tech on March 3, 2014.

• The Sooners shot 49.6% and scored 95 points, eclipsing 90 for the 10th time this season. Mississippi State had allowed a conference opponent to reach 95 points only twice since 2009 and had not surrendered 70 points in a game this season. The 48-point loss was the Bulldogs’ worst in an SEC game since 2013.

• Freshman Aaliyah Chavez led all scorers with 17 points, adding six rebounds and three assists. She was a plus-41 in 30 minutes and has made a 3-pointer in all 15 games to start her career, tying Taylor Robertson for the longest stretch to open a season in OU history.

• Raegan Beers recorded her fifth straight double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds while adding two blocks. She continues to lead the nation with 12 double-doubles this season and 57 in her career. When she posts a double-double, Beers’ teams (OU and Oregon State) are 51-6.

• Sahara Williams narrowly missed a triple-double with 12 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists. She has scored in double figures in 22 of her last 27 games, and the Sooners are 12-0 when she scores at least 10 points this season.

• Sophomore Zya Vann totaled 16 points on a career-high eight made field goals, 11 rebounds, five steals and four assists for her second double-double in three games. She became the third Power Five player this season to post a 16-11-5-4 stat line and the first Sooner to do so since 1999.

• Three Sooners – Beers, Williams and Vann – recorded double-doubles, marking the 13th such occurrence in program history and the second this season. The only other season with multiple games featuring three OU double-doubles was 200809 (3).

• Oklahoma dished out 25 assists against 13 turnovers. Since Jennie Baranczyk’s arrival, the Sooners are 33-2 when recording at least 25 assists.

• The Sooners outrebounded Mississippi State 64-37, marking their third straight game with at least 60 rebounds for the first time in program history. OU leads the nation with five 60-rebound games this season, the most by any team in a season nationally since 2021-22.

• During its 13-game winning streak, Oklahoma is averaging 98.1 points per game, winning by an average of 40.1 points and shooting 20% better than its opponents. The run includes wins over Florida State, NC State, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M and Mississippi State.

• Oklahoma has won 14 straight games at Lloyd Noble Center and nine straight SEC regular-season contests. The Sooners are 2-0 in SEC play for the first time and 2-0 in conference action for the second time under Baranczyk.

• A new Associated Press Top 25 poll comes out on Monday (1/5), and the eighth-ranked Sooners will look to move up as teams ranked Nos. 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 all suffered losses since the last poll. If the Sooners were to rise to No. 5 in the AP Poll, it would mark the first top-five ranking for OU since the final poll of the 2009 season when OU finished the year No. 4.

• The Sooners now look toward a four-game stretch against ranked teams, which begins on Thursday in Norman when they host No. 15 Ole Miss (14-3, 1-1 SEC) at 6 p.m. The game will air on SEC Network+.

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