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Yahoo
22-05-2025
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- Yahoo
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. Advertisement 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. This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Gonzaga, Oklahoma to meet on basketball court next season
USA Today
15-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Oklahoma and Gonzaga set to meet in 2025-26 basketball season
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.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
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- Yahoo
OU basketball lands Alabama forward Derrion Reid in transfer portal
NORMAN — Porter Moser strikes again. Alabama transfer Derrion Reid, a former five-star recruit and McDonald's All-American, has committed to Oklahoma, he announced on reportedly chose the Sooners over Georgetown and Mississippi. Advertisement Reid, a 6-foot-8 sophomore, struggled with injuries this past season as a freshman with the Crimson Tide. Reid averaged six points and 2.8 rebounds this past season and scored in double-figures in five games, including a season-high 12 against Creighton on Dec. 12. After losing several key pieces of last season's NCAA Tournament team, Moser needed to rebuild. Reid is the fourth transfer addition of the spring for OU this spring. Reid joins Saint Joseph transfer Xzayvier Brown, Miami transfer Nijel Pack and Notre Dame transfer Tae Davis. Despite the turnover, Moser has put together a solid portal squad. Advertisement More: OU basketball transfer portal tracker 2025: Sooners add Xzayvier Brown Colton Sulley covers the Oklahoma Sooners for The Oklahoman. Have a story idea for Colton? He can be reached at csulley@ or on X/Twitter at @colton_sulley. Support Colton's work and that of other Oklahoman journalists by purchasing a digital subscription today at This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: OU basketball lands Alabama forward Derrion Reid in transfer portal
USA Today
24-03-2025
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- USA Today
Pair of Oklahoma Sooners forwards enter the transfer portal
Pair of Oklahoma Sooners forwards enter the transfer portal The Oklahoma Sooners season came to an end on Friday night in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, losing to two-time defending national champion UConn Huskies. It was a strong finish for the Sooners after they had to fight back into the tournament following a five-game losing streak in January and February. Porter Moser likely did enough to see more time with the Sooners, but now he has to rebuild his roster once again with Jalon Moore, Sam Godwin, Brycen Goodine, Duke Miles, Kobe Elvis, and Mohamed Wague set to graduate and the likelihood that leading scorer Jeremiah Fears heading to the NBA Draft lottery. That task was made a little more difficult on the opening day of the transfer portal with Oklahoma forwards Luke Northweather and Yaya Keita headed to the transfer portal, according to SoonerScoop and On3's Bob Przybylo. Northweather played a rotational role for the Sooners this season, coming off the bench to provide a stretch scoring option for the Sooners. In the wake of what would end up being a season-ending injury for Godwin, Northweather's minutes increased. Over Oklahoma's final four games, he averaged 15.5 minutes a game, up from his season average of 11. In 2024-2025, Northweather twice scored 10 points, helping to key wins over No. 24 Arizona and on the road against Texas in the regular season finale. Keita played 21 games as a true freshman but suffered a season-ending knee injury and was limited to just two games in 2023-2024. This year, he played in only six games and averaged 2.4 minutes per game. As part of the 2025 recruiting class, the Sooners are bringing in 6-10 forward from Wisconsin, Kai Rogers. Former four-star center Kuol Atak redshirted in 2024-2025. Both Rogers and Atak will have a chance to lead the way inside for the Sooners in 2025-2026.
USA Today
24-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Oklahoma's Porter Moser says NIL is key to keeping Sooners at a high level
Oklahoma's Porter Moser says NIL is key to keeping Sooners at a high level Show Caption Hide Caption Jeremiah Fears, Jalon Moore recap OU's loss vs UConn in March Madness OU basketball players Jeremiah Fears and Jalon Moore talk to the media after the Sooners' loss to UConn in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. NCAA Four years into the Porter Moser regime at Oklahoma, the Sooners have made one NCAA Tournament appearance. This year yielded the first. A coach whose job security was middling entering the year likely bought himself another year or two to turn the Oklahoma basketball team into Porter Moser's OU basketball team. Joe Mussato at "The Oklahoman" wrote that Moser saved his job and kept the athletic department brass from making a tough decision by making the Big Dance. After Friday's loss to Connecticut in the first round of the tournament, Moser was asked where he thought the program was after four years. He brought up what every coach brings up nowadays. "To get your basketball program right, you have to win in April and May with the NIL," Moser said. "For us, retention, you've got to win in April in May in the NIL to do that." The Sooners likely won't have to create a basketball team from scratch in the offseason, but the team's top six scorers from the season are either out of eligibility or expected to leave the program. Expected is the key word. One player who almost certainly won't be back was Oklahoma's best player on the season, and about the only player who played to his season standard against the Huskies, Jeremiah Fears. Fears is a potential lottery pick if he decides to enter this year's NBA Draft. At worst, scouting services have him as a first-rounder. He averaged 17.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 4.1 assists in his first year of college basketball. And he did so after re-classifying to be a part of the Class of 2024. Age-wise, he should have been finishing his senior year of high school. Moser thinks the Sooners are on the right track, especially if they can continue to land players like Fears. "All four years, we've been in the No. 1 basketball conference," Moser said. "I thought to be able to compete, the guys' (resilience) in this league, I'm so proud of how these guys fought through hard and (got) to where we're at and I'm excited for the future."
