Kansas vs. Oklahoma score, takeaways: The No. 6 Jayhawks win for the first time in their last five 12 road games.
No. 6 Kansas overcame an 11-point first-half deficit to beat No. 25 Oklahoma 67-57 on Saturday. The Jayhawks improved to 6-4 against Quad 1 opponents and moved into a third-place tie with Baylor in the Big 12 standings.
The Jayhawks (20-6, 8-5 Big 12) earned their seventh win over a Top 25 team this season, the most in the country. Kansas star guard Kevin McCullar Jr. returned to the lineup after missing two games and scored 10 points while dealing with foul trouble for the majority of the second half.
Kansas star DaJuan Harris Jr. scored 11 points and had seven a*sists, while big man Hunter Dickenson recorded his 15th double-double with 20 points and 16 rebounds. The Jayhawks improve to 7-1 this season when Harris scores at least 10 points.
Oklahoma (18-8, 6-7) played shorthanded without forward John Huguely and guard Rivaldo Soares in the lineup due to injuries. The Sooners led for about 25 minutes of the game until Kansas stormed off midway through the second half and never looked back.
Jalon Moore scored a team-high 17 points for the Sooners in their fifth loss in their last eight games. Oklahoma fell one spot to eighth in the Big 12 standings with the loss.
Kansas overcomes road problems
The drought is over. After losing its last four road games in the Big 12, and five of its last six away from Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas won a road conference game.
Kansas is simply a different team when playing on the road in conference play this season and the home and away divisions prove that.
Kansas has allowed nearly 10 more points on the road (66.0 to 75.8) and has allowed opponents to shoot 40% from beyond the arc in its first six games in Big 12 play. This game could be a turning point, as Kansas holds Oklahoma to a Her total points this season is 57. Oklahoma also connected on just eight 3-pointers on 23 total attempts (34.8%).
Kansas has road games against Baylor and Houston to close out conference play. Both games are important to show that this wasn’t just a one-off performance. Regardless, this was a step in the right direction.
Who escaped from Oklahoma
Oklahoma came into this game shorthanded but looked poised for an upset win. The Sooners led the majority of the first half after taking an 8-5 lead with 15:19 remaining in the first half. They held Kansas without a field goal for nearly six minutes midway through the second half and needed a mini-run to pull away.
They didn’t, and as a result, Kansas never trailed for the final nine minutes of regulation after taking a 49-46 lead.
In the latest bracketology on CBS Sports by Jerry Palm, Oklahoma was on the No. 6 seed line. With this loss, the Sooners fell to 3-7 against Quad 1 opponents and it is very likely that the Sooners will see their seed line drop due to the chaos What happens around them. TCU needed a last-second 3-pointer by Jameer Nelson Jr. To beat Kansas State, Iowa State improved to 9-3 in Big 12 play with a win over Texas Tech and BYU found itself on the wrong side of the scoreboard against Oklahoma State. .
Oklahoma missed Huguely and Soares in this one. However, this game eluded them. Oklahoma had a chance to add another good win to its resume when other teams in the conference lost and couldn’t pull it off.