OU won its first true road game of the season. The Sooners defeated Arkansas 65-62 Saturday in front of a projected sold-out crowd of 19,200 at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Arkansas basketball secured an SEC win over Georgia thanks to its offensive rebounding and a determination to get to the free-throw line.

Adou Thiero, who followed Calipari from Kentucky to Arkansas, had five points in the final minute to end the team's five-game losing skid.

After seven days of rest, Oklahoma will battle a team whose start mirrors the Sooners. OU faces Arkansas on Saturday after having a conference bye earlier in the week. Both the Sooners and Razorbacks picked up their first SEC wins in their last games.

Oklahoma (15-4, 2-4) beat Arkansas (12-8, 1-6) 65-62 Saturday night in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The win was the second in a row for the Sooners after they lost their first four games to open up SEC conference play. This was also the first SEC road victory for the Sooners this year. Here are three takeaways from the Sooners’ win:

The Sooners have now won back-to-back games after a four-game losing streak. The win over the Razorbacks is their first conference road win this season.

After a dreadful 20-minute stretch on Saturday, the Sooners woke up and found a way to beat Arkansas 65-62 on the road.

The Oklahoma Sooners and Arkansas Razorbacks took similar approaches in practice and got the same result: their first Southeastern Conference wins. The teams meet Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark., and hope their work off the court will put their SEC woes further behind them.