Men's Basketball Meets Nebraska on Saturday in South Dakota

Saturday, November 15

Sanford Pentagon • Sioux Falls, S.D.

6 p.m.

University of Oklahoma

Nebraska

Derrion Reid shooting a jump shot in the game against Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Photo by: Morgan Givens/University of Oklahoma

Men's Basketball Meets Nebraska on Saturday in South Dakota

November 14, 2025 | Men's Basketball

Listen Big Ten Network Live Stats OU Game Notes

NORMAN — Fresh off a 95-69 win over Arkansas Pine-Bluff on Tuesday, the Oklahoma men's basketball team (2-1) travels to take on Nebraska (3-0) in a neutral-site contest Saturday at 6 p.m. CT. The game will be played in Sioux Falls, S.D. at sold-out, 3,250-seat Sanford Pentagon.

Saturday's contest will be televised by Big Ten Network with Chris Vosters (play-by-play) and Shon Morris (analyst) announcing. It will air on the Sooner Sports Radio Network (KRXO 107.7 FM The Franchise in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430 AM in Tulsa; Varsity Radio App) with Chad McKee (play-by-play) and Kevin Henry (analyst) on the call.

The Oklahoma-Nebraska rivalry goes back to the 1920-21 season and spans 188 games. The Sooners lead the series 105-83, although the Huskers are 15-8 in neutral-site matchups.

This will mark OU's second game at Sanford Pentagon, as the Sooners beat Minnesota 71-62 on Nov. 10, 2019, behind 17 points and 10 rebounds from Brady Manek and 11 points, six rebounds and four assists from Austin Reaves. This will be Nebraska's third straight season to play at Sanford Pentagon. It is 2-1 all-time in the building, losing to Saint Mary's last year (77-74).

Oklahoma vs. Nebraska
Date: Saturday, Nov. 15
Tip Time: 6 p.m. CT
Location: Sioux Falls, S.D.
Arena: Sanford Pentagon

BIG TEN NETWORK
LIVE STATS
LISTEN
GAME NOTES

OPENING TIP

• The Sooners bounced back from an 83-68 loss at No. 21/20 Gonzaga by topping Arkansas-Pine Bluff 95-69 on Tuesday at McCasland Field House in Norman.

• Nebraska has won seven straight games going back to last season, tied for its longest winning streak since 2010-11. Its three wins this season have come at home against West Georgia (86-53), Florida International (96-66) and Maryland Eastern Shore (69-50).

• Saturday's game will mark just the second between the longtime conference mates since the Huskers departed the Big 12 for the Big Ten in 2011. The Sooners beat NU 77-64 in Kissimmee, Fla, in 2022-23, Porter Moser's second year as OU head coach.

• OU head coach Porter Moser played collegiately at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., which is 58 miles northeast of Lincoln, Neb., home of the Cornhuskers.

• In his fifth season with the Sooners, Moser is 47-8 (.854) in regular season non-conference play.

• OU has won 17 of its last 18 regular season non-conference games (it went 13-0 last season) and 30 of its last 32.

• Nebraska is under the direction of seventh-year head coach Fred Hoiberg, who owns a 7-5 record against the Sooners (7-4 with Iowa State from 2010-11 through 2014-15 and 0-1 with the Huskers). He owns an 87-108 record with NU and is 202-164 in his 12th year overall.

OU-NEBRASKA SERIES HISTORY

• Saturday's contest will mark the 189th between Oklahoma and Nebraska, with the Sooners holding a 105-83 series lead. The programs first met in the 1920-21 season and shared membership in the Missouri Valley, Big Six, Big Seven, Big Eight and Big 12 conferences before Nebraska moved to the Big Ten starting with the 2011-12 season.

• The programs last met on Nov. 24, 2022, in an ESPN Events Invitational first-round matchup in Kissimmee, Fla., with OU notching a 69-56 win. Brothers Tanner (17) and Jacob (16) Groves combined for 33 of the Sooners' points in the programs' lone meeting as members of different conferences. OU went on to beat Seton Hall (77-64) and Ole Miss (59-55) to win the tournament title.

EARLY SEASON NUGGETS

• Six Sooners have scored in double figures in at least one game this season and two of them - starting guards Xzayvier Brown and Nijel Pack - have done it in all three contests. Brown leads the team with his 18.7 points per game, while Pack ranks second by averaging 16.3. Forwards Tae Davis (11.7) and Derrion Reid (10.0) also average double-figures in scoring, while guard Dayton Forsythe averages 9.0 points, forward Kuol Atak 8.3 and forward/center Mohamed Wague 8.0.

• Seven Sooners average at least 8.0 points per game. OU is the only SEC team with at least seven players who each average 8.0 or more points.

• Coming into the season, Davis's individual career high for rebounds in a game was 10, but the senior ranks second in the SEC this year by averaging 10.3 rebounds per contest and leads the league with his 5.7 offensive caroms per outing. He had 11 offensive boards Tuesday against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, OU's most in a game since at least the 1995-96 season.

• OU ranked 321st last season with its 2.3 blocked shots per game, but through three games this year is averaging 5.0 to rank fifth in the 16-team SEC.

• Wague tied his career high with three blocked shots in each of the first two games. He ranks third in the SEC with his 2.0 rejections per contest.

• OU, which ranked fourth nationally last season with its school-record .795 free throw figure, has picked up where it left off. It ranks fourth in the SEC with its .783 mark. Brown (.923; 12 for 13) and Reid (.917; 11 for 12) rank third and fifth in the league.

PACK MAN

• Oklahoma guard Nijel Pack ranks among the nation's active career leaders in multiple categories. Through Thursday, he is second in career 3-pointers (324), fifth in points (1,794), 26th in assists (372) and 40th in steals (130).

• In his sixth collegiate year, Pack spent his first two seasons at Kansas State (he was a first-team All-Big 12 selection as a sophomore when he averaged 17.4 points and made 95 3-pointers and shot a league-high .436 from behind the arc) and the last three at Miami, Fla. (he helped the Hurricanes to their first Final Four his junior season and was named the Midwest Region Most Outstanding Player). He has started 124 of his 125 career games and owns a 14.4 career scoring average.

PLENTY OF NEW FACES

• Eight of the 14 players on OU's roster are new in 2025-26, and three more were on the Sooners' roster last season but did not play.

• In the offseason, 247Sports ranked all four of OU's transfers among the SEC's top 19. Guard Xzayvier Brown (Saint Joseph's) was ranked No. 8, forward Derrion Reid (Alabama) No. 9, guard Nijel Pack (Miami, Fla.) No. 11 and forward Tae Davis (Notre Dame) No. 19. Each of those four players is averaging in double figures in points this season.

• Kai Rogers highlights OU's freshman class. The 6-10 forward/center, who was a consensus four-star prospect and the No. 66 player in the 2025 recruiting class according to Rivals, was high school teammates in Wisconsin with freshman guard Jake Hansen. Rogers played six minutes in his season debut Saturday at Gonzaga after missing the opener due to injury. The Sooners also signed 7-0 forward Andreas Holst from Denmark and 6-7 forward Finley Keeffe from California, who have yet to play.

• The Sooners also returned three players who redshirted last season: senior guards Jadon Jones and Jeff Nwankwo and freshman forward Kuol Atak. Jones has missed the first two games due to injury, while Nwankwo and Atak have seen ample minutes off the bench. Atak is averaging 10.0 points in 18.4 minutes a game and led the team with 18 points in his collegiate debut against Saint Francis. Nwankwo is averaging 4.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 21.1 minutes per contest.

LOADED HOME SEC SLATE

• All nine SEC teams that play in Norman this season made last year's NCAA Tournament, including national champion Florida, Final Four participant Auburn, Elite Eight participant Alabama and Sweet 16 teams Arkansas and Ole Miss.

• OU's other league foes that will visit Lloyd Noble Center are Georgia, Missouri, Texas and Texas A&M.

UP NEXT

• The Sooners are back home on Thursday, Nov. 20, when they host Oral Roberts at 7 p.m. CT at Lloyd Noble Center. The game will stream on SEC Network+.