Sooners Fall To Texas Tech 74-63, Keeping Oklahoma In Big 12 Cellar

Fardaws Aimaq recorded a double-double and Jaylon Tyson scored 18 on 7-for-8 shooting and Texas Tech beat Oklahoma 74-63 on Tuesday night to keep the Sooners in the Big 12 Conference cellar and extend their win streak to four.

Aimaq scored 19 points and had 10 rebounds and Kevin Obanor and Pop Isaacs each scored 11.

Tanner Groves scored 16 points, Jalen Hill scored 14 and Grant Sherfield and Milos Uzan 10 each for the Sooners.

Joe Bamisile’s 3-pointer brought Oklahoma within 62-59 with 3:47 to go before Obanor responded with a layup and a dunk and the Red Raiders maintained safe space from there.

Texas Tech (16-12, 5-10) has won six of its last eight including back-to-back wins against No. 12 Kansas State and No. 6 Texas.

For its part, Oklahoma (13-15, 3-12) entered having the split the same opponents, beating Kansas State before dropping an 85-83 contest against Texas. The Sooners have lost nine of 11.

Texas Tech hosts No. 24 TCU on Saturday. Oklahoma travels to face No. 23 Iowa State on Saturday.