The Sooners (11-5, 2-2) needed three things to happen to beat Kansas: Shoot well, rebound well and get help (beyond the Big Three of Kristian Doolittle, Austin Reaves and Brady Manek from the supporting cast. They got one of the three, and that was the difference in the game.
Kansas (13-3, 3-1) was without the Big 12’s leading scorer, sophomore Devon Dotson, who was forced to miss the game because of a hip pointer suffered last Saturday against Baylor. Dotson averages 18.0 points a game. As it turned out, it didn’t matter.