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Cowboys' Road Winning Streak Comes to an End in Fort Worth
February 17, 2018 | Cowboy Basketball
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FORT WORTH, Texas --  Kendall Smith scored 21 points for Oklahoma State, as its two-game road winning streak came to an end at the hands of TCU by a score of, 90-70.
Smith scored 14 points in the second half. Mitchell Solomon scored the first seven points of the game and finished with 13.
TCU (18-9, 6-8 Big 12 Conference) rallied from an early 12-point deficit and won for just the fifth time in its last 13 games. OSU (15-12, 5-9) has lost six of eight.
Kouat Noi scored a career-high 19 points for TCU, shooting 7 of 9 from the floor. He added six rebounds and an assist.
Kenrich Williams scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half for the Horned Frogs, while Vladimir Brodziansky added 14 points. Ahmed Hamdy-Mohamed had 12 points, while Alex Robinson scored 11 and Desmond Bane had 10 points.
The Horned Frogs missed their first nine field-goal attempts in the first five minutes while OSU built a 14-2 lead. For the final 15 minutes of the half, TCU was 13 for 19 (68 percent).
The Cowboys still led 24-15 midway through the first half before TCU went on a 14-4 run to take the lead for the first time.
The lead changed hands five times before the Horned Frogs left with a 39-36 halftime lead. Noi had 11 points and six rebounds to lead TCU at intermission.
Solomon didn't score again in the first half after his game-opening spurt. He played just six minutes and was one of three OSU players with three fouls before halftime. At 6-foot-9, he's the tallest starter for the Cowboys, who had difficulty stopping 6-11 Brodziansky and 6-10 Hamdy-Mohamed inside.
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Oklahoma State returns home to play Texas Tech on Wednesday.
