Unranked Oklahoma overwhelms No

NORMAN, Okla.– With Oklahoma set to sign up with the Southeastern Conference in 2025, Sooners fans used the SEC/Big 12 Challenge to offer Alabama a dose of the energy they plan to bring to the league.After teasing the

second-ranked Crimson Tide with chants of”S-E-C”and “overvalued” in the 2nd half, the fans stormed the court– an uncommon occurrence at Oklahoma. Grant Sherfield scored a season-high 30 points, and the Sooners beat Alabama 93-69 on Saturday.It was the sort of minute second-year Oklahoma coach Porter Moser imagined when he left Loyola Chicago to take control of the Sooners.”I believed the crowd was

astounding,” he stated.”I sat there when the crowd rushed the floor– you know, my more youthful self may have gone out in the middle of it– and I just sat there and just stated,’This is a vision.’And like, this kind of enjoyment with the student body– I believed they were awesome. They existed early. Finest crowd I’ve had considering that I have actually been here. “Jalen Hill included a career-high 26 points on 9-for-11 shooting and grabbed eight rebounds. He likewise secured Alabama freshman Brandon Miller, who can be found in averaging 19.5 points, but finished with 11 on 4-for-14 shooting.Hill said he wished to reveal what he was about.”I seem like I had something to prove,”the senior said. “He’s going to be a top-five draft choice at completion of the day, and I simply wanted to prove to everybody– the scouts, the country– that I can hang with him. “Moser said it was a common protective efficiency for Hill.” What he does night in and night out, the men he guards– he’s securing lottery game choices

and he is resistant, “Moser stated.”He’s played a lot of minutes

. And after that for him to have that defensive effort and have 26 points also. I imply, what an efficiency by Jalen. “Tanner Groves had 14 points and 12 rebounds for Oklahoma(12-9), which shot 58 %from the field and published a season-high point overall. It was Oklahoma’s first win over a group ranked in the AP’s leading 2 since the 2002 Huge 12 Tournament and its biggest victory margin ever versus an AP top-five team.The Sooners had actually lost three directly, but there had actually been some indications of progress. They had 3 losses to top 25 groups by 4 or fewer points in January.Alabama coach Nate Oats said the loss could be expensive when it pertains to NCAA competition seeding.” It does not have any impact on SEC standings, which is the only good thing to come out of this,”he stated.” Ideally, we will recover from a loss out of conference, but, you know, it’s bad. We needed the SEC to do well in this Huge 12 difficulty. We obviously didn’t do our task on it

.”The Crimson Tide (18-3)had actually won 9 in a row, however Oats said the team had not been playing well. Rylan Griffen, who led Alabama with 15 points, said Oats had actually warned the group about its uninspired play.”We didn’t truly listen,”Griffen stated. “We didn’t come out ready to fight. … You might kind of feel that we believed we were kind of untouchable.”Oklahoma led 50-33 at halftime and it didn’t appear like a fluke. Sherfield scored 18 points prior to the break and assisted the Sooners shoot 68%from the field in the very first 20 minutes.

Hill added 13 points on 5-for-5 shooting.The half was punctuated by Hill scoring on a spin relocation in the closing seconds and Miller getting released a technical foul.Alabama cut its deficit to 11 in

the second half, however Hill’s dunk on a quick break pressed Oklahoma’s result in 64-46 and got the crowd juiced up. Sherfield’s crossover and fadeaway 3-pointer put the Sooners ahead 78-53.