Texas A&M
Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State 79, Texas A&M 77
Jan 11, 2006 | Men's Basketball
January 11, 2006
Freshman Terrel Harris scored a career-high 21 points and had the tiebreaking three-point play to lift Oklahoma State to a 79-77 win against Texas A&M on Wednesday night.
Harris, who'd averaged only 6 minutes before entering the starting lineup four games ago, hit a driving jumper with 2:24 left and his ensuing free throw gave Oklahoma State (11-5, 1-1 Big 12) a 77-74 lead.
Torre Johnson answered a jumper by A&M's Acie Law IV to restore Oklahoma State's lead to three, and Kenneth White and Joseph Jones each missed 3-pointers that would have tied the game for Texas A&M (11-2, 1-1).
After a free throw by Chris Walker, the Aggies got one last chance when Jamaal Brown's pass to Harris went out of bounds with 22 seconds left, but Law missed a 3-pointer from the top of the key at the buzzer.
Law scored a career-high 35 points to lead the Aggies, who have lost both of their road games this season. Joseph Jones added 27 points.
The Cowboys got 16 points from Mario Boggan, 12 from Torre Johnson and 11 from JamesOn Curry and were able to respond to several A&M runs in the second half.
Texas A&M rallied to take the lead with a 15-2 spurt started by layups by Walker and Antanas Kavaliauskas. Law had seven points during the run, including a fast-break layup that gave the Aggies a 54-47 lead.
The advantage stretched to eight after Jones' three-point play, but the Cowboys used an 11-3 run to tie the game at 60 on Boggan's two free throws with 9:27 left.
Law then scored the Aggies' next seven points, and his driving layup extended the Aggies' edge to 67-62 before the Cowboys charged back again.
Oklahoma State regained the lead on Curry's free throw with 4:07 to play that made it 70-69. It was the first of five back-and-forth lead changes leading up to Jones' free throw that tied it at 74.
Harris, who had hit only two 3-pointers in Oklahoma State's first 15 games, made 4 of his 6 shots from 3-point range.
The Cowboys, who haven't lost to the Aggies in Stillwater since the 1922-23 season, have won 12 straight and 18 of 19 in the series.
