J’Wan Roberts scored a season-high 20 points and recorded his first double-double of the campaign as No. 14 Houston claimed a 60-47 win over Oklahoma State in the Big 12 opener for both on Monday in Stillwater, Okla.Roberts corralled 11 rebounds to lead the Cougars (9-3, 1-0 Big 12) to their fifth consecutive victory. He shot 9 of 13 from the floor and added a pair of free throws for Houston, which seized control with a 17-1 run that closed the first half and yielded a 28-18 lead at the intermission.Houston’s L.J. Cryer tallied 18 points and four 3-pointers while Milos Uzan posted 12 points, six rebounds and four assists. That duo stroked consecutive 3-pointers early in the second half and Cryer added a jumper to extend the Houston lead to 38-23. The Cowboys (8-4, 0-1) failed to cut the deficit to single digits for the rest of the game and trailed by as many as 22.Brandon Newman scored 12 points for Oklahoma State and Robert Jennings had 10. Machelus Avery, the Cowboys’ leading scorer on the season, scored just five points on 2-for-8 shooting, and Oklahoma State wound up at 25.9 percent from the floor.The Cowboys led 6-4 at the first media timeout, the Cougars’ first deficit following four consecutive wire-to-wire wins. Oklahoma State parlayed a 9-0 run into a 17-11 lead when Patrick Suemnick converted a second-chance opportunity at the 10:24 mark of the first half.
