In front of a packed house at the WVU Coliseum, the Sooners snatched a 76-62 victory over the West Virginia basketball team.
“You don’t have your full compliment of guys so you can’t do what you set out to do to start the year,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “At the beginning of the year, I said to them, ‘I can play all of you, but you’ve all got to play. You can’t take plays off, you’ve got to play hard and I’ll play all of you.’ Then this guy goes down, that guy goes down and all of a sudden you look at what was a strength has now become a weakness, particularly the way we have to play.