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Oklahoma Basketball: Young Sooners Have Fallen on Hard Times

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 6:24 p.m. ET

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The young Oklahoma basketball Sooners found a different way to lose in recording their third consecutive loss and fourth in five games on Wednesday night.

Apr 2, 2016; Houston, TX, USA; Oklahoma Sooners head coach Lon Kruger argues with an referee during the first half against the Villanova Wildcats in the 2016 NCAA Men

The Sooners trailed all but about five minutes in their game Wednesday night with Auburn. Oklahoma whittled away at what at one time was a 17-point second-half deficit, but couldn’t get it any closer than four points, which ended up as the final margin in a 74-70 loss to the Tigers out of the SEC.

The loss broke a six game winning streak for OU and head coach Lon Kruger over teams from the SEC.

Although they produced several scoring bursts in the second half, Auburn always managed to have an answer, and it resulted in a fifth loss for Oklahoma and the Sooners worst nonconference record in six seasons under Kruger.

Oklahoma now finds itself on very thin ice with a 6-5 record heading into what is certain to be a very trying Big 12 schedule.

At the moment, with the top six teams in the Big 12 sporting a combined record of 65-5 and the Sooners set to face four of those six over the first couple of weeks of the conference season, I’m not sure OU is capable of beating any Big 12 team. And that is a very scary notion for a team that went to the Final Four just last season.

Here are the key concerns to take away from the loss to Auburn:

It wasn’t all negative, though. There were a few positives in the game, as well…but very few:

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