Oklahoma men’s basketball’s perfect 12-0 home record this season was broken as the Red Raiders edged the Sooners 72-71 in a game that came down to the final two seconds.

OU lost its first home game against an unranked opponent since Jan. 21, 2008. The loss snapped a 31-game home win streak versus unranked competition, its last loss of the same nature coming against Kansas State in head coach Jeff Capel’s second season.

Playing down two men and having another injured, OU limped out of the first half behind 36-28. The team shot 3-14 from three-point land in the first and fell to Tech runs of 9-0 and 11-1 towards the end of the half.

The shooting did not improve in the second half. The Sooners finished a laughable 6-26 from downtown; one of their worst performances of the season.

“(We took) too many threes,” Capel said. “I thought we settled entirely too much tonight, especially when they weren’t falling. It was a little different than the Texas game when we were making them.”

Capel went on to say he thought the Sooners could have made more drives to the basket and taken advantage of the early Tech foul trouble.

“In the first half they had six fouls with 14 minutes left,” he said. “We never took advantage of that by trying to drive, draw hand checks and get to the line.”

While he had been on fire, Tommy Mason-Griffin did not play like he has been since Big-12 play started. The freshman guard had just three points in the first half on 1-3 shooting from the field.

He ended shooting 3-13 from the field, 2-8 from the three-point arc and nine points. One of his misses was an attempted game-winner with just 2.5 seconds left on the shot clock.

“I did (like the way it looked),” Mason-Griffin said. “But now that I look back at it, I wish I had taken a dribble or two.”

The freshman said while they weren’t shooting that well tonight, it was not completely their offenses fault.

“Our defense didn’t create our offense tonight like it normally did in the past few games,” said Mason-Griffin.

Freshmen Andrew Fitzgerald and Steven Pledger missed the game after receiving petty larceny charges in Norman a few hours after they downed their big-time rival, the Texas Longhorns.

Capel said Fitzgerald and Pledger are suspended indefinitely.

When asked if their absence had an effect on the loss, Capel did not shovel any of the blame off the team.

“Well, it is what it is,” he said. "No excuses for us. We put ourselves in this situation.”

Sophomore guard Willie Warren made his first start since missing the first Tech game with an ankle injury. Warren ended with 18 points but had six turnovers; something Capel said was just unacceptable.

Warren said he is not quite 100 percent, but hopes to be this Saturday against Oklahoma State in Stillwater.

While the team picked up some much needed momentum with their win against Texas, Capel and the team said that momentum is not gone because of this loss.

“We lost momentum Saturday night,” said Capel, referring to the charges against Pledger and Fitzgerald. “This is just another bump in the road.”

The Sooners take on OSU this Saturday in Stillwater at 1 p.m. The game is a crucial part in this team’s quest for a March Madness appearance, Capel said.

“We haven’t been very good (on the road) all season and it’s huge,” he said. “They are going to be really excited about the game; we need to be even more excited. It’s a great opportunity for us.”