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Sunday, November 23

Norman, Okla.

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Alcorn State

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Jeff Nwankwo and Tae Davis high five during the win against Oral Roberts

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November 23, 2025 | Men's Basketball

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NORMAN — The Oklahoma men's basketball team plays its final home game of November when it hosts Alcorn State (0-6) on Sunday at 1 p.m. CT at Lloyd Noble Center.

Sunday's contest will stream on SEC Network+ with Chad McKee (play-by-play) and Bryndon Manzer (analyst) announcing. It will air on the Sooner Sports Radio Network (KRXO 107.7 FM in Oklahoma City; KTBZ 1430 AM in Tulsa; Varsity Radio App) with Toby Rowland (play-by-play) and Kevin Henry (analyst) on the call.

OU is 4-0 against Alcorn State in a series that dates to November 2000. The Sooners have won the four meetings by an average of 24.7 points. The programs met last season on Dec. 7 in Norman (at McCasland Field House), a 94-78 outcome.

The Sooners posted a 95-71 home win over Oral Roberts on Thursday, thanks in part to a career-high 20 points and team-high seven rebounds from forward/center Mohamed Wague.

Alcorn State, located in Lorman, Miss., is coming off a 107-81 loss at LSU on Tuesday. The Braves have played four games against Power Four opponents this season (also against Florida State, Minnesota and Maryland). Their tightest contest was a 76-70 loss at South Alabama on Nov. 6.

Oklahoma vs. Alcorn State
Date: Sunday, Nov. 23
Tip Time: 1 p.m. CT
Location: Norman, Okla.
Arena: Lloyd Noble Center

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• Thursday's game will mark the 19th between Oklahoma and Oral Roberts and the first since the 2020-21 campaign. OU head coach Porter Moser is 2-0 against the Golden Eagles, but this will be his first time facing them with the Sooners.

• In his fifth season at OU, Moser is 47-9 (.839) in regular season non-conference play.

• OU has won 17 of its last 19 regular season non-conference games (it went 13-0 last season) and 30 of its last 33.

• Oral Roberts is under the direction of first-year head coach Kory Barnett, who spent the 2024-25 season as an assistant coach at West Virginia. Prior to that, he served as an assistant at Nevada for five seasons and at UCLA for six. He played collegiately at Indiana.

• First-year ORU assistant coach Will Saxon is a Norman native who earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from OU. He spent eight years in various roles on former head coach Lon Kruger's staff, starting as a student manager and eventually serving as video coordinator.

OU-ALCORN STATE SERIES HISTORY

• Oklahoma is 16-2 against Oral Roberts and has won the last 16 meetings. The Golden Eagles' wins came in 1975-76 (64-58 in Norman) and 1976-77 (68-50 in Tulsa).

• The Sooners are 12-1 in the series in Norman and have won the last six meetings by double-digits, including the most recent matchup on Dec. 16, 2020 (79-65). OU guard Austin Reaves finished with 18 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.

EARLY SEASON NUGGETS

• Six Sooners have scored in double figures in at least one game this season, and Nijel Pack has done it in all five contests. Pack leads the team with his 18.8 points per game while Xzayvier Brown ranks second with his 17.0 average and Tae Davis ranks third (13.0). OU's other two starters — forward Derrion Reid (9.6 ppg) and Mohamed Wague (9.2) are close behind.

• The Sooners have scored over 90 points in four of five games and each of the last three.

• OU is the one of only three SEC teams (Alabama and Florida) with two players (Brown and Pack) who each average at least 17.0 points per game.

• Coming into the season, Davis's individual career high for rebounds in a game was 10, but the senior ranks seventh in the SEC this year by averaging 8.2 rebounds per contest and ranks second in the league and ranks ninth nationally with his 4.4 offensive caroms per outing. He had 11 offensive boards three games ago against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Oklahoma's most in a contest since at least the 1995-96 season.

• Wague's two highest career point totals have come this season (16 in the opener vs. Saint Francis and 20 last game vs. Oral Roberts).

• OU ranked 321st last season with its 2.3 blocked shots per game, but through five games this year is averaging 4.2.

• Wague tied his career high with three blocked shots in each of the first two games. He ranks sixth in the SEC with his 1.6 rejections per contest.

• OU ranked fourth nationally last season with its school-record .795 free throw figure and has been almost as good so far in 2025-26. The Sooners rank third in the SEC and 28th in the country with their .788 season mark. Brown and Reid (.941; 16 for 17 each) are tied for third in the league.

LEADER OF THE PACK

• Oklahoma guard Nijel Pack leads the SEC with his 4.2 3-point conversions per game. Over the last three contests, Pack is 15 for 24 from 3-point distance, good for a .625 mark and third in the SEC.

• Pack is one of six active NCAA Division I players to record over 1,500 career points and 350 assists. Pack leads that group with 1,839 points and has registered 378 assists.

• Pack ranks among the nation's active career leaders in multiple categories. Through Friday, he is second in career 3-pointers (334), fifth in points (1,839), 26th in assists (378) and 46th in steals (131).

• 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 126 of his 127 career games and owns a 14.5 career scoring average.

WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?

• Junior guard Xzayvier Brown has not wasted any time adapting to his new surroundings, as the first-year Sooner is averaging 17.0 points, 2.4 rebounds and team-highs of 3.6 assists and 2.2 steals per outing. He has scored at least 16 points in all but one game and is shooting .536 from the field, .375 from 3-point distance (9 for 24) and .941 from the free throw line (16 for 17).

• Brown's 20-point effort against Nebraska two games ago marked the 22nd of his career. He has reached double figures in points in 37 of his last 38 games and has scored in double figures 60 times.

LOADED SEC HOME 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.

SOONERS SIGN MAYFIELD

• OU head coach Porter Moser announced Nov. 12 the signing of 6-8, 220-pound forward Gage Mayfield, who is regarded as the nation's No. 57 overall player by ESPN and No. 59 by 247Sports. The consensus four-star recruit is ranked the No. 1 player in Alabama by all three outlets and the country's No. 12 small forward by 247Sports.

• From Northport, Ala., Mayfield was a 2024-25 all-state selection and led Hale County High School to an area championship. He averaged 17.9 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game for the Wildcats.

• Mayfield, who committed to OU in September, chose the Sooners over Florida State, Michigan, Tennessee and Vanderbilt

UP NEXT

• The Sooners conclude November against Marquette on Friday at 1 p.m. CT. The game, part of the Bad Boy Mowers Series, will be played at Credit Union 1 Arena on the campus of UIC and will be televised by NBC.