Oklahoma and Gonzaga set to meet in 2025-26 basketball season

USA Today

15-05-2025

Oklahoma and Gonzaga set to meet in 2025-26 basketball season
Oklahoma Sooners basketball coach Porter Moser must like the look of his 2025-26 team quite a bit.
On Wednesday, OU announced it would play Big East power Marquette in a Black Friday game next season. Then, shortly after that announcement, college basketball writer Jon Rothstein reported the Sooners would also play national powerhouse Gonzaga this season in Spokane, Washington.
According to Rothstein, the game will not be played at Gonzaga's home court but at the McCarthy Athletic Center in Washington's second-biggest city. Therefore, it should still function as a home game for the Bulldogs.
The game is the fourth announced nonconference game for the Sooners for 2025-2026. Previously, games were scheduled against Oklahoma State for December 13 in Oklahoma City and former Big Eight conference rival Nebraska in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on November 16.
Oklahoma and Gonzaga are not unfamiliar opponents. They first met back in 2007-08 when Blake Griffin scored 27 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in the Sooners' victory. Gonzaga has won each of the three meetings since, including, most recently, in the 2021 NCAA Tournament when Austin Reaves' 27 points were not enough to overcome the Zags in an 87-71 loss.
The only time OU has played Gonzaga in Spokane was on New Year's Eve 2010. Gonzaga won, 83-69.