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FARMVILLE, Va. -- Led by 22 points from Leyton Hammonds, Oklahoma State wrestled control of a one-possession game late in the second half after a nearly hour-long power outage to dispatch visiting Longwood, 73-55, on ESPNU Tuesday evening at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
 
Hammonds scored nine points inside the final 11 minutes to key a game-changing 19-4 run for the Cowboys (7-3), who pulled away from the Lancers immediately following a 43-minute delay in Gallagher-Iba Arena. Hammonds finished 11-of-12 from the free throw line and 4-of-6 from the field, doing all his damage in just 20 minutes of action.
 
Longwood, playing on an ESPN television network for the first time in program history, had rallied from as large as a 19-point deficit to cut Oklahoma State's lead to 37-35 with 16:28 to play and trailed by eight points when the stadium lights cut out.
 
"We had the momentum and then the blackout," Longwood head coach Jayson Gee said after the game. "It was probably the strangest thing I've ever been a part of in basketball. I thought our team blacked out after that. We certainly weren't the same team after the blackout as we were before."
 
After play resumed at approximately 11:15 p.m., the Hammonds-led Cowboys charged out of the break with their 19-4 run over the next 5:14 to expand that two-point lead to 66-43. Hammonds hit 9-of-10 free throws during that span while the Lancers came up empty on seven of their first 10 possessions after resuming play.
 
Hammonds was hot from the start, hitting his first three three-point attempts of the game to help Oklahoma State put Longwood (3-8) in a 22-3 hole after the opening tipoff. The Lancers battled back, however, cutting the deficit to 12 by halftime and then to two points following a 10-0 run in the second half. Oklahoma State maintained that lead until the abrupt intermission caused by the power delay and then outscored Longwood 26-16 after returning to the floor.
 
"I thought the depth and their size eventually wore us down," Gee said. "I credit the kids for their effort after trailing by 15. They fought back and didn't lose their faith and didn't lose their confidence, and I was very impressed with that."
 
Redshirt sophomore forward Khris Lane carried Longwood with a 13-point, 10-rebound double-double, the second straight double-digit rebounding game for the Big South's second-leading rebounder.
 
"I thought [Lane] stepped up when we really needed him, and to come into a Big 12 arena and get a double-double says a lot about him," Gee said. "He's really consistent and you can always rely on him to rebound the basketball for us."
 
Lane and Hammonds neutralized each other in the first half, scoring 13 points apiece. Both were quiet at the start of the second half, but where Oklahoma State held Lane without a shot for the entirety of the second half, Hammonds came alive after the power outage with nine points over the game's final 11 minutes.
 
Fisher took over Longwood's scoring load in the second half, scoring 10 of his team-high 18 points after halftime. Fisher hit back-to-back three-pointers that put Longwood within two points at 37-35 but fell victim to Oklahoma's stifling man-to-man defense after that, scoring just one point the rest of the way.
 
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