NORMAN, Okla. – Ohio committed 18 turnovers and Oklahoma pulled away in the second half, keeping the Bobcats winless on the road, 74-63, on Saturday at the Lloyd Noble Center.

With the game tied at 29 at the break, the Sooners (8-3) took over with a hot-shooting second half, making 17 of 24 attempts. Steven Pledger scored 14 of his game-high 18 points after halftime. Amath M’Baye and Romero Osby finished with 16 points apiece.

D.J. Cooper paced the Bobcats (8-5) with 14 points and seven assists. Reggie Keely had 13 points and eight rebounds, while Walter Offutt scored 11 points.

After a Keely three-point play with 17:22 remaining made it 33-32, the Bobcats did not score again for nearly four minutes as the Sooners went on an 8-0 run with an M’Baye fast-break layup making it 41-32.

Offutt had a steal and layup and followed with a 3-pointer that got Ohio to within 47-43 with 11:37 to go, but Pledger responded with a shot from deep of his own. Buddy Hield scored a layup off a steal and M’Baye hit a jumper to push Oklahoma’s lead to 11.

Once again, Ohio made a push, with Offutt knocking down another trey and Cooper scoring a layup to cut the deficit to six. A Jon Smith dunk on an assist by Cooper with 7:10 remaining got the Bobcats as close as 56-52.

Cameron Clark had back-to-back fast-break dunks, followed by a Pledger jumper, to put Oklahoma up by 10. After a Keely jumper ended the run, Pledger drained a 3-pointer, Clark hit a jump shot, and Je’lon Hornbeak and Osby scored consecutive baskets for a decisive 8-0 run – part of a larger 15-2 stretch – that put the game away.

While the Sooners controlled the second half, the first half was back and forth, with Oklahoma using 11 forced turnovers to overcome 30.3 percent shooting.

Ohio held its biggest lead, 17-12, on an Offutt 3-pointer at the 12:11 mark in the first half, but Oklahoma gained an 18-17 lead on an Osby jumper four minutes later.

After that four-minute drought, Ohio later had a three-minute scoreless stretch that allowed Oklahoma to take a 25-21 lead at the 2:35 mark. Eventually, Baltic hit a 3-pointer on the Bobcats’ final possession of the half that tied the score for the last time.

Free throws were a key. The Sooners were 17 of 23 (73.9 percent), while the Bobcats were just 5 of 7 (71.4 percent). Both teams shot 47 percent from the floor in the game.

Oklahoma scored 22 points off turnovers, compared to 10 by Ohio. The Sooners also held a 10-2 edge in second-chance points.

Baltic made his first free throws of the season, going 4 of 4 at the line while scoring nine points, but he had six turnovers. Stevie Taylor had eight points in nine minutes.

Heild scored only five points for Oklahoma, but he contributed seven assists and four steals with only one turnover.

Ohio closes out the non-conference portion of its schedule when it hosts Marshall at 2 p.m. Saturday.