Sooners Roll Prairie View A&M, 83-56

Freshman Drew Lavender had 13 points and seven assists to lead No. 11 Oklahoma to an 83-56 win over winless Prairie View A&M on Saturday night.

The Sooners (7-0) had what amounted to a breather after pulling out consecutive last-second wins over top-20 opponents Michigan State and Purdue.

De'Angelo Alexander added 11 points for Oklahoma. Reserves Jaison Williams and Johnnie Gilbert had 10 apiece.

Prairie View (0-5) mostly let fly with off-balance jumpers and runners, clearly resigned to not being able to match the Sooners basket for basket. The Panthers shot only 32 percent, including 17 percent from 3-point range.

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Only three Prairie View players -- Tyrone Nelson, Roderick Riley and Kevin Cooper -- scored in the first half.

No one else scored for the Panthers until Dashon Harper's basket nearly eight minutes into the second half. It also was the team's first field goal after halftime, cutting Oklahoma's lead to 60-32.

Nelson, who this summer was granted a release from his letter-of-intent to attend troubled Baylor, had eight points and 16 rebounds for Prairie View. Cooper scored 16 and Riley added 14.

Prairie View committed 22 turnovers -- right at the Big 12-leading average of Oklahoma's opponents this season.

The loudest cheers from the crowd came late in the second half when the public announcer revealed that OU quarterback Jason White had won the Heisman Trophy.

One of the more comical sights in the game was when 5-foot-7 Lavender found himself guarding Riley, Prairie View's lumbering 6-11, 307-pound center, late in the first half.

Lavender tumbled to the ground, trying to draw a charge, as Riley scored over him.

Oklahoma forward Kevin Bookout, the team's leading rebounder, sat out the game to rest his right shoulder.