Nijel Pack had 20 points and four 3-pointers before leaving with an injury and the Oklahoma Sooners continued a late push for an NCAA Tournament bid with an 83-63 blowout victory over Texas A&M in the Southeastern Conference tournament Thursday in Nashville, Tenn.
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Xzayvier Brown had 16 points and six rebounds, Derrion Reid had 15 points and 10 rebounds and Tae Davis had 14 points for the 11th-seeded Sooners, who led by 22 points at halftime to take their sixth straight win.
Oklahoma (19-14) was projected to be one of the last bubble teams left out of the NCAA field of 68 before conference tournaments began.
The Sooners will face No. 17 and third-seeded Arkansas (23-8) in the quarterfinals Friday. The Razorbacks won the regular-season meeting 83-79 on Jan. 27, when Pack scored 22.
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Rashaun Agee had 13 points and 10 rebounds, Rylan Griffen scored 13 points and Pop Isaacs had 12 points on four 3-pointers for the sixth-seeded Aggies (21-11), who shot 38.3 percent.
Pack took a head-to-head shot from Aggies guard Marcus Hill while defending a Hill drive with 5:46 remaining and left the game, holding a towel to his face on the bench. Pack did not return.
Hill was called for a Flagrant 1 foul, and Brown made two free throws for a 77-56 lead.
Mohamed Wague had seven points and eight rebounds for the Sooners, who had a 48-33 rebounding edge.
Oklahoma has won eight of 10 since breaking a nine-game losing streak with a victory over No. 22 Vanderbilt on Feb. 7.
The Sooners, who overcame a 13-point deficit in the first-round in an 86-74 win over South Carolina, never trailed.
Pack’s third 3-pointer of the first half keyed a 21-3 run to give them a 38-14 lead with 5:26 left in the first half.
Davis scored eight points in that stretch and Brown and Jadon Jones had 3-pointers while the Aggies missed 15 of 16 field-goal attempts. Brown’s jumper gave Oklahoma a 49-27 halftime lead.
Isaacs made two 3-pointers and the Aggies made their six shots in the second half to cut the deficit to 54-42 but were never closer as the Sooners pushed it back to 20 shortly and never were challenged.
