It was a tight game throughout, but Texas A&M held off a late surge from the Oklahoma Sooners to win 75-71, Saturday evening in Norman.

The Aggies improved to 19-8 overall and 9-5 in the SEC, while the Sooners are now 13-14 on the year and 3-11 in SEC play.

Texas A&M scored the first eight points of the game before the Sooners warmed up, and the two teams were tied at 19-19 with 9:26 left to play in the first half. The Aggies led 43-41 at halftime.

Nijel Pack made his first basket of the game, a 3-pointer, with 18:00 remaining in the second half, giving OU its first lead at 44-43. A&M countered with a 3-pointer just 10 seconds later that started a 7-0 run and the Aggies never trailed again.

The Sooners attempted a late comeback with a 10-2 run to cut the Aggies lead to one, 72-71, with 26 seconds left.

Dayton Forsythe came off the bench to lead Oklahoma in scoring with 14 points and a game-high six assists. Mohamed Wague turned in one of his best performances of the season with 12 points, a game-high 13 rebounds and two blocked shots.

OU’s other double-digit scorers were Derrion Reid with 11 points and five rebounds, and Xzayvier Brown who added 10 points and two assists.

The Sooners shot 32.8% from the field, their second-lowest figure of the season, while the Aggies shot 43.5% for the game.

OU posted a 44-39 rebounding advantage.

Prior to the game, the 2015-16 Sooners, coached by Lon Kruger, were recognized on the court during a pregame ceremony, and Buddy Hield became the sixth OU player to have his jersey number honored and raised to the Lloyd Noble Center rafters.

Hield, the 2015-16 consensus national player of the year, joined Wayman Tisdale (23), Alvan Adams (33), Mookie Blaylock (10),  Stacey King (33) and Blake Griffin (23), in having his number honored.

“I would never trade it for nothing,” Hield said of his four years at OU, during a postgame press conference. “Those years made me who I am. This place made me who I am as a person. As a player, you all know what I did, but I grew a lot as a person.”

Hield, a 10th-year NBA player from Freeport, Bahamas, now with the Atlanta Hawks, finished his career as the Big 12 Conference’s all-time leading scorer and ranks second in OU history with 2,291 points. He averaged 25.0 points as a senior in 2015-16 and earned the Wooden Award and Naismith and Oscar Robertson trophies.

OU will visit LSU on Saturday at 5:00 p.m. CST on the SEC Network.