NORMAN — Guard
Nijel Pack made five 3-pointers and forward
Tae Davis registered his first double-double as a Sooner to help the Oklahoma men's basketball team to a 95-69 win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Tuesday night at historic McCasland Field House in Norman.
With tickets to the on-campus game offered almost exclusively to OU students, the Sooners (2-1) outrebounded the Golden Lions (0-4) by 13 on the night and posted a 25-12 advantage in second-chance points.
Pack, who finished 5 for 7 from behind the arc, finished with 15 points, while Davis recorded 13 points, a career-high 15 rebounds, four assists and three steals. Eleven of Davis' rebounds were offensive, OU's most in a game since at least the 1995-96 season.
Junior guard
Xzayvier Brown scored in double figures for the third straight game, tallying a game-high 19 points (13 after halftime) with the help of 5-for-5 free throw shooting. He added three assists and four steals, one off his career high.
Sophomore guard
Dayton Forsythe scored 15 points, his second-highest total as a Sooner, thanks in part to 3-for-6 3-point shooting. In his 22 minutes on the court, OU outscored UAPB by 24 points.
Sophomore forward
Derrion Reid also reached double figures in scoring with his career-high-tying 12 points on 5-for-8 shooting.
OU rode eight points and eight rebounds from Davis and 3-for-4 3-point shooting by Pack to a 42-31 halftime lead. The Sooners were buoyed by a 10-0 run from the 8:17 to 5:33 marks, as they went from a one-point deficit to a 31-22 lead.
UAPB cut the Sooners' margin to 56-48 with 11:38 left in the second half, but Oklahoma responded with an 8-0 burst and methodically pulled away down the stretch.
The win for OU was its 17th in its last 18 regular season non-conference games.
Tuesday's contest was the fourth regular season game and third in the last three years inside McCasland Field House since OU's current home, Lloyd Noble Center, opened in 1975. McCasland Field House was named after 1910s Sooner standout center Howard McCasland and hosted its first game in 1928, a 45-19 Sooners win over Phog Allen's Kansas Jayhawks. OU's all-time record in the venue is now 323-153.
OU is back in action Saturday when it takes on Nebraska on Saturday at 6 p.m. CT in Sioux Falls, S.D. The game will be played at Sanford Pentagon.