{"id":110162,"date":"2026-01-04T05:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110162\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T05:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:40:17","slug":"xzayvier-brown-leads-oklahoma-to-emphatic-win-over-ole-miss-in-sec-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110162\/","title":{"rendered":"Xzayvier Brown leads Oklahoma to emphatic win over Ole Miss in SEC opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">NORMAN, Okla. \u2014 Xzayvier Brown scored 23 points while Tae Davis and Nijel Pack each added 15 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/oklahoma-sooners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/oklahoma-sooners\/\">Oklahoma<\/a> in an 86-70 win over Mississippi on Saturday in an Southeastern Conference opener for both teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Brown shot 8 of 11 from the field and 4 of 5 from 3-point range for the Sooners (11-3). Oklahoma has won its last five games and nine of its previous 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Rebels (8-6) were held scoreless for over 7\u00bd minutes in the first half after missing 12 consecutive field goals, which led to a 12-2 run for Oklahoma and a 35-26 lead. Ole Miss clawed back going into halftime trailing 43-41.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Patton Pinkins led Ole Miss in scoring with a career-high 25 points. Malik Dia added 17.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Mohamed Wague had 11 of his 15 rebounds in the first half and finished with 10 points. Koul Atak added 14 points for Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Sooners shot 52% (31 of 60) from the field compared to the Rebels\u2019 38% (23 of 61).<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Ole Miss: Hosts Arkansas on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Oklahoma: Visits Mississippi State on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more college sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/oklahoma-sooners\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Oklahoma coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORMAN, Okla. \u2014 Xzayvier Brown scored 23 points while Tae Davis and Nijel Pack each added 15 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,3688,102,104,103,772,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-110162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-brief","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-oklahoma-sooners","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}