The OU men’s basketball team will look to find the win column for the first time in three games when it hosts No. 4 Missouri Tigers at 6 tonight at Lloyd Noble Center.

After bouncing back from a three-game losing streak by defeating then-No. 18 Kansas State on Jan. 14 at home, the Sooners are 2-4 — with three of the four losses coming in Norman.

On Saturday, Oklahoma allowed Iowa State to finish 15-of-30 from 3-point range — with 10 of those buckets coming in the first half — as the Cyclones handed the Sooners a 77-70 defeat.

OU coach Lon Kruger said his team has to play better perimeter defense to be successful.

“We have got to work on it more and do a better job of it in practice,” Kruger said after the Sooners suffered their ninth loss of the season. “We will do that.”

In the closing minutes against the Cyclones, the Sooners were outscored 21-14 to end any hopes of a win.

Junior forward Andrew Fitzgerald said the team has to take the loss and improve.

“We just have to learn from the loss, get back to film and really just guard, trying to take things away,” Fitzgerald said.

Junior point guard Sam Grooms said the Sooners can do better.

“We could’ve guarded better, we could’ve done a lot of things better, but that’s the pleasure of basketball — we have tomorrow and we’ve got to get better and be better for Missouri,” Grooms said.

Missouri has not shared Oklahoma’s struggles this season. The Tigers are 21-2 and are coming off of a 74-71 victory over the No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks.