After running gauntlet of ranked foes, Oklahoma hosts skidding LSU

Oklahoma snaps its streak of five straight games against Top 25 opponents when it hosts unranked LSU on Saturday in Norman, Okla.The Sooners (16-8, 3-8 Southeastern Conference) lost 82-58 at No. 21 Missouri on Wednesday. Redshirt senior guard Duke Miles led Oklahoma with 18 points and had three assists, which was as many as all of the other Sooners combined.Along with six total assists, Oklahoma rang up 17 turnovers, trailed by 20 at halftime and never led against Missouri. The Sooners have dropped three straight games and four out of five.”I’ve got to put it in perspective,” Oklahoma coach Porter Moser said. “My gut is hurting because we are not playing good basketball. But, it is also (games against) Auburn, Tennessee and Missouri — three of the top 12 teams in the country. So we are trying to muster up some offense anywhere we can get it.”Oklahoma leading scorer Jalon Moore was held to 10 points, well below his average of 17.3 points per game. While Moser is hungry for a win, he wants the Sooners to share the ball better against LSU.”Duke Miles played well from the guard spot for us,” Moser said. “But I don’t think that we had great playmaking ability. Our other three point guards combined for one assist.”