As No. 17 Kentucky visits Oklahoma on Wednesday night (9 p.m. ET, SEC Network), it will be some sort of homecoming for one Wildcat in particular.

Otega Oweh played his first two seasons of college basketball for the Sooners, and under OU head coach Porter Moser. He played in 28 games as a freshman, including nine starts, and averaged 4.8 points per game. As a sophomore, he started in 28 of 32 games played and averaged 11.4 points per outing. On Tuesday, Oweh talked about his return to the Lloyd Noble Center.

"I'm excited but I'm just treating it like every other game," Oweh said. "Another game that we have to win, so I'm looking at it like that."

Oweh, who saw his streak of double-figure scoring games stopped at 26 on Saturday, knows that not placing special emphasis on this particular game will be the best way to handle the situation.

"It's important," he said. "Since the beginning of the season, I've been trying to focus on one game at a time and putting all of my effort into each game. I'm looking at (this game) as the same."

As for this year's Sooners' team, Oweh played with a couple of the players in addition to playing for Moser.

"It's a brand new team," he said. "I know Coach Moser, he's a big X's and O's guy, so he's going to make sure he does his research. We just have to be ready to fight."

Kentucky is coming off a 96-83 loss at No. 4 Alabama on Saturday. After jumping out to a big early lead, the latter part of the first half cost the Cats. It's something that has been an issue all year, and Oweh believes that UK has the answer to make it right.

"I think that's stuff we have to fix. It's more of an energy thing and a pride thing," he said. "I think we have to take it on our shoulders more. Like if we start the game off hot, we can't do it in spurts, it has to be a full 40 minutes. You can't let those moments happen. We have to do a better job as players of keeping our energy up."

Kentucky will be playing in the state of Oklahoma for the first time ever. UK is 3-0 all-time against the Sooners, winning in 1947 and 1987 in Lexington, then in the Maui Invitational in 2010.