ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The saving grace about Oklahoma's 76-64 Great Alaska Shootout loss to San Diego was that few were around to see it - the game, played before a sparse Sullivan Arena crowd, ended at about 2:45 Thursday Oklahoma time. If you stayed up to the end, you heard a blunt assessment from coach Jeff Capel during his postgame radio interview.

"We're not very good right now to be completely honest," he said after the Sooners lost their second in a row to fall to 2-2. "Our approach to games, especially on the defensive end, is not where it needs to be. We have a lot of improving to do...

"I didn't like the way we came out to play, just the look we had on our face, the lack of energy. You could tell it was a big deal to San Diego. For the life of me, I can't understand why it wasn't a big deal to us, why we didn't approach it that way."

OU played Houston late Thursday night in its second Great Alaska Shootout game.

The Sooners were on their heels from the first score of the game, a 3-pointer by San Diego guard Brandon Johnson. By halftime, Johnson had 18 points and the Toreros owned a 33-27 lead.

It got much worse for OU from there.

San Diego made six of its first seven shots coming out of the locker room to take a 48-35 lead. Willie Warren, who scored 22 of his game-high 30 points in the second half, hit a top-of-the-key 3 to bring the Sooners within 52-43 at the 11-minute mark, but the Toreros answered with a 9-0 run and never looked back.

When guard Patrick McCollum pulled up for a long 3 with five minutes left, San Diego's lead grew to 72-49.

Postgame problems for Capel included finding someone besides Warren to score. The sophomore guard was the only Sooner to reach double digits. Freshman Tiny Gallon would have gotten there - he had eight points and six rebounds early in the second half but he didn't play the final 15 or so minutes.

"It was an incident that happened on the bench," Capel explained. "Tiny has to understand there are ways he has to perform and behave himself all of the time. There's not one guy bigger than our program. If you don't behave that way, you don't earn or deserve the right to play."