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Cowboys Drop Second Straight at Home
February 22, 2007 | Cowboy Basketball
The Aggies (23-4, 11-2 Big 12) made their first win in Gallagher-Iba Arena a memorable one. They had the largest margin of victory for a visitor since Texas won 108-87 in Stillwater on Dec. 12, 1977, embarrassing the Cowboys on a night when former head coach Eddie Sutton was honored at halftime.
Josh Carter added 10 points and Antanas Kavaliauskas had 13 rebounds for A&M, which cemented its best conference start since going 11-2 in the Southwest Conference to start the 1979-80 season.
Oklahoma State's Mario Boggan and JamesOn Curry, who combined to average 38.7 points entering the game, each had season lows in scoring. Curry had eight points on 3-for-11 shooting, and Boggan went 3-for-13 to finish with seven points and 10 rebounds.
Kenny Cooper scored 10 to lead the Cowboys (19-8, 5-7), who shot 30 percent.
The Aggies, who'd been 0-11 at Gallagher-Iba, took control early and led by at least 12 throughout the second half.
Texas A&M opened a 42-24 lead on Joseph Jones' layup under the basket early in the second half, but then went the next 4 minutes without a basket. Oklahoma State was only able to score five points in that span, and Curry's 3-pointer cut the deficit to 42-29.
Law drove for a layup to end the drought, and he combined with Sloan to score 13 of A&M's next 15 points as the Aggies began to pull away.
Law had a driving layup and a 3-pointer during a 10-0 run that Marlon Pompey topped off with a three-point play that put A&M up 60-37.
Oklahoma State won its previous six home games against top-10 opponents and badly needed a win after four losses in a five-game span dropped the Cowboys from the top 25 for the first time since November. Instead, they lost their second straight home game, following a 75-64 loss to Missouri on Saturday that snapped a 17-game home winning streak.
And the Cowboys never put up much of a fight.
Law found easy paths to the basket early on, driving for a pair of layups during a 10-2 run that put the Aggies up 15-6. He had two more layups as Texas A&M continued to distance itself even with leading rebounder Joseph Jones on the bench with two fouls, and Kavaliauskas' 3-pointer from the left wing made it 26-13.
The Aggies scored seven in a row - including two when Sloan went in for a layup after tracking down a long Oklahoma State inbounds pass that Curry and Kenny Cooper watched go over their heads.
Curry's 3-pointer at the buzzer cut the deficit to 36-22 at halftime.
