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Grant Sherfield scores 30 as Oklahoma beats No. 2 Alabama

Posted on January 29, 2023

NORMAN, Okla. — With Oklahoma set to join the Southeastern Conference in 2025, Sooners fans used the SEC/Big 12 Challenge to give Alabama a dose of the energy they plan to bring to the league.

After taunting the second-ranked Crimson Tide with chants of “SEC” and “overrated” in the second half, the fans stormed the court — a rare occurrence at Oklahoma. Grant Sherfield scored a season-high 30 points, and the Sooners beat Alabama 93-69 on Saturday.

It was the kind of moment second-year Oklahoma coach Porter Moser envisioned when he left Loyola Chicago to take over the Sooners.

“I thought the crowd was unbelievable,” he said. “I sat there when the crowd rushed the floor — you know, my younger self might have ran out in the middle of it — and I just sat there and just said, ‘This is a vision.’ And like, this kind of excitement with the student body — I thought they were awesome. They were there early. Best crowd I’ve had since I’ve been here.”

Jalen Hill added a career-high 26 points on 9-for-11 shooting and grabbed eight rebounds. He also guarded Alabama freshman Brandon Miller, who averaged 19.5 points, but finished with 11 on 4-for-14 shooting.

Hill said he wanted to show what he was about.

“I feel like I had something to prove,” the senior said. “He’s going to be a top-five draft pick at the end of the day, and I just wanted to prove to everybody — the scouts, the country — that I can hang with him.”

Moser said it was a typical defensive performance for Hill.

“What he does night in and night out, the guys he guards — he’s guarding lottery picks and he’s resilient,” Moser said. “He’s played a lot of minutes. And then for him to have that defensive effort and have 26 points as well. I mean, what a performance by Jalen.”

Tanner Groves had 14 points and 12 rebounds for Oklahoma (12-9), which shot 58% from the field and posted a season-high point total. It was Oklahoma’s first win over a team ranked in the AP’s top two since the 2002 Big 12 Tournament and its largest victory margin ever against an AP top-five team.

The Sooners had lost three straight, but there had been some signs of progress. They had three losses to top 25 teams by four or fewer points in January.

Alabama coach Nate Oats said the loss could be costly when it comes to NCAA tournament seeding.

“It doesn’t have any effect on SEC standings, which is the only good thing to come out of this,” he said. “Hopefully, we will recover from a loss out of conference, but, you know, it’s not good. We needed the SEC to do well in this Big 12 challenge. We obviously didn’t do our job on it.”

The Crimson Tide (18-3) had won nine in a row, but Oats said the team hadn’t been playing well. Rylan Griffen, who led Alabama with 15 points, said Oats had warned the team about its lackluster play.

“We didn’t really listen,” Griffen said. “We didn’t come out ready to fight. … You could kind of feel that we thought we were kind of untouchable.”

Oklahoma led 50-33 at halftime and it didn’t look like a fluke. Sherfield scored 18 points before the break and helped the Sooners shoot 68% from the field in the first 20 minutes. Hill added 13 points on 5-for-5 shooting.

The half was punctuated by Hill scoring on a spin move in the closing seconds and Miller getting issued a technical foul.

Alabama trimmed its deficit to 11 in the second half, but Hill’s dunk on a fast break pushed Oklahoma’s lead to 64-46 and got the crowd juiced up. Sherfield’s crossover and fadeaway 3-pointer put the Sooners ahead 78-53.

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