Monday hoops spotlight: Texas at Oklahoma

Texas (16-7)

at Oklahoma (19-3)

ESPN, 9 p.m. ET

Don’t look now — well, OK, go ahead and look — but the Sooners suddenly find themselves not leading the Big 12 but in a three-way tie for second. The surging Longhorns as well as Kansas also are in that mix, adding a bit of spice to the hardwood version of the Red River rivalry.

OU’s loss at Kansas State was just one in a string of surprising results Saturday, but it threw an already wide-open league race into even more chaos.

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Texas is among the teams poised to take advantage after rattling off its fourth consecutive win, third in league play, against Texas Tech over the weekend.

That victory followed a road triumph at Baylor that announced the Longhorns are starting to buy into what first-year coach Shaka Smart is selling.

The Sooners and Buddy Hield should find the home environs more to their liking after a cold shooting night, but they’d better be ready for plenty of full-court pressure from Isaiah Taylor and the Longhorns.

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