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Cowboys Fall to Sooners in OT, 62-57
January 11, 2010 | Cowboy Basketball
Jan. 11, 2010
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - James Anderson scored a game-high 18 points - including a layup with four seconds to go in regulation - and Marshall Moses added a double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds, but Oklahoma outscored Oklahoma State 8-3 in the overtime period and defeated the Cowboys 62-57 here Monday night in the Lloyd Noble Center.
Anderson suffered a head injury when he connected with the floor after a missed shot going for the rebound. With OSU leading 42-34 on an Anderson dunk at the 13:32 mark, he sat out for 4:40 off the game clock as the Sooners went on a 13-0 run and took a 47-42 lead.
The Sooners (10-6, 1-1 Big 12) closed out the victory in overtime after squandering a five-point lead in the final 20 seconds of regulation.
Tommy Mason-Griffin put Oklahoma ahead with a 3-pointer with just under 3 minutes left in overtime, and Warren sealed the win by hitting two free throws with 10.7 seconds to play.
The Sooners scored 13 straight points to surge into the lead after Anderson went out of the game with about 13 minutes left to play and appeared to get stitches on the side of his head at the end of the Cowboys' bench.
By the time he returned, Oklahoma State's eight-point lead was gone and the struggling Sooners found a way to close out their sixth straight win in the series on their home floor.
Oklahoma was coming off its most lopsided loss in 28 years - since the program's last losing season - and appeared in trouble before Anderson got hurt.
He remained on the floor under the basket for a few moments as athletic trainers attended to him, and he then walked to the end of the Cowboys' bench with a towel pressed up against the side of his head. A trainer appeared to give Anderson stitches as play continued and Oklahoma charged back from a 42-34 deficit.
Tony Crocker, Mason-Griffin and Steven Pledger hit consecutive 3-pointers to push Oklahoma into the lead at 43-42 before Anderson returned with 8:07 to play. Crocker extended the Sooners' lead with a layup before Anderson touched the ball for the first time, fumbling away his dribble against Warren before getting it back with a dive. He then picked up two fouls in a 24-second span, with Warren blowing past him for a layup in between to make it 47-42 Sooners with 6:35 left.
Penn stopped Oklahoma State's dry spell and cut the deficit to three with a driving layup, but it was the team's only basket in a 12-minute span after Anderson went out.
Penn connected again on a 3-pointer from the left wing with 17.4 seconds left, then Anderson put back his own missed layup with 3.7 seconds left after freshman Mason-Griffin missed a pair of free throws that could have iced the game.
Mason-Griffin finished with 14 points for the Sooners, who shot only 38 percent but were still 10 percentage points better than Oklahoma State, which was 19-for-69.
The Cowboys will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 16, as OSU travels to Waco, Texas, to face the Baylor Bears in a 3 p.m. contest. The game will be televised by the Big 12 Network.
