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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Saturday, November 8
Spokane Arena • Spokane, Wash.
9:30 p.m.
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OU, No. 21 Gonzaga Meet Saturday in Washington
November 07, 2025 | Men's Basketball
NORMAN — Oklahoma (1-0) plays its first road game of the season when it travels to take on No. 21/20 Gonzaga (1-0) on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. CT at Spokane Arena in Spokane, Wash.
Saturday's contest will be televised by ESPN2 with Roxy Bernstein (play-by-play) and Sean Farnham (analyst) on the call. 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 Chris Plank (play-by-play) and Kevin Henry (analyst) announcing.
• Saturday's game will mark OU's third inside Spokane Arena. The Sooners lost an 83-69 contest to Gonzaga in the 2009-10 season and an 80-75 overtime game to North Dakota State in the 2014 NCAA Tournament round of 64.
• Fifth-year Oklahoma head coach Porter Moser is 46-7 (.868) in regular season non-conference play with the Sooners.
• OU has won its last 16 regular season non-conference games (it went 13-0 last season) and 29 of its last 30. Its last such loss was on Dec. 20, 2023, vs. No. 11 North Carolina (81-69) in the Jumpman Invitational in Charlotte, N.C.
• Five Sooners scored at least 14 points in the team's 102-66 season-opening win over Saint Francis on Monday. Through Thursday, only one other SEC squad has had at least four players score 14-plus points in a game this season (Vanderbilt had four players do it vs. Lipscomb).
• Gonzaga is under the direction of 27th-year head coach Mark Few, who owns a 742-152 (.830) career record. His squads have made 26 NCAA Tournaments, 13 NCAA Sweet 16s, five Elite Eights and two national championship games (2017, '21).
OU-GONZAGA SERIES HISTORY
• Oklahoma trails Gonzaga 3-1 in the all-time series. The only meeting at Gonzaga was an 83-69 Bulldogs win on Dec. 31, 2009, at Spokane Arena. The game featured a 50-minute delay after OU's Tiny Gallon shattered a backboard on an alley-oop attempt.
• Gonzaga also posted a 72-47 win in the Old Spice Classic in 2012-13 and an 87-71 victory in the 2021 NCAA Tournament round of 32 in Indianapolis.
• OU's lone series win came in the first meeting, 72-68, on Dec. 20, 2007, in the All-College-Classic in Oklahoma City. Longar Longar led OU with 16 points while Blake Griffin, who was consensus national player of the year the following season as a sophomore, had 15 points and 14 rebounds.
GAME 1 RECAP
• Trailing 49-45 with 18:30 left in the second half, Oklahoma used a 32-3 run to pull away in an eventual 102-66 win over Saint Francis on Monday night at Lloyd Noble Center in the season opener for both teams.
• The 32-3 run covered 8:43 of clock and was spurred by redshirt freshman Kuol Atak. In his collegiate debut, the forward scored 13 points in a span of 4:07 on three 3-pointers, a layup and a dunk. He finished with a team-high 18 points with the help of 4-for-8 3-point shooting in 20 minutes off the bench.
• Four other Sooners scored in double figures. Super senior center Mohamed Wague finished with a career-high 16 points, 10 rebounds (second career double-double), a career-high-tying three blocks and two assists. Super senior guard Nijel Pack registered 16 points (4-for-9 3-point shooting) and a career-high three blocks. Junior guard Xzayvier Brown scored 16 points and tallied game highs of six assists and three steals. And senior forward Tae Davis recorded 14 points, eight boards and three assists.
• Redshirt senior guard Jeff Nwankwo, playing his first career Division I game, came off the bench and finished with eight points, nine boards five assists and two steals in 23 minutes.
• OU finished with 10 blocked shots on the night, its most since March 7, 2020, when it registered 10 at TCU. Last season, the Sooners ranked 321st nationally by averaging just 2.3 blocks per game.
• Monday marked just the third time going back to at least the 1996-97 season that five Sooners each scored 14-plus points. The other occasions were on Feb. 9, 2015, vs. Iowa State and Nov. 30, 2023, vs. UAPB.
LACK OF RETURNS
• Oklahoma returns just two players who played in more than six games a year ago. Super senior forward/center Mohamed Wague played in 33 contests (averaged 3.9 points in 11.5 minutes per outing) and sophomore guard Dayton Forsythe played in 31 games (averaged 4.3 points and 1.0 assist in 12.1 minutes per contest).
• Wague's only starts came in the season's last four contests. Over the final five outings, he averaged 9.0 points and 6.8 rebounds (20.7 minutes). He also shot a team-high .723 from the field on the year.
• Forsythe came off the bench in all 31 of his games last season. He scored in double figures four times (three times in SEC action) and netted 25 points (20 in the second half) at Ole Miss in early March with the help of 4-for-5 3-point shooting.
• OU's only other returner who played in at least one contest last season is senior guard Reid Lovelace (six games; did not score).
• The Sooners also return three players who redshirted last season: senior guards Jadon Jones and Jeff Nwankwo and freshman forward Kuol Atak. Jones and Nwankwo were slated to play meaningful roles last season before sustaining injuries that kept them out all year.
FROM THE PORTAL
• Four of OU's eight newcomers are transfers, and each is highly regarded.
• According to 247Sports, three of OU's incoming transfers rank among the SEC's top 11 (guard Xzayvier Brown [Saint Joseph's] at No. 8, forward Derrion Reid [Alabama] at No. 9 and guard Nijel Pack [Miami, Fla.] at No. 11). The other (forward Tae Davis [Notre Dame]) ranks No. 19.
• Brown earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors last year as a sophomore, averaging team highs of 17.6 points, 4.3 assists and 1.5 steals per outing while ranking second with his 5.2 rebounds. The point guard was one of just five players nationally to average at least 17.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.5 steals per contest. He set a program record with his .897 from the free throw percentage (148 for 165). Brown, whose stepfather is first-year OU assistant coach Justin Scott, scored in double figures in all 32 games to pace the Atlantic 10.
• Reid was a consensus five-star prospect and McDonald's All-American as a high school senior before averaging 6.0 points and 2.8 rebounds in 14.0 minutes a game as a sophomore last year for Alabama's 28-9 Elite Eight squad.
• Pack is a highly accomplished sixth-year combo guard who spent his first two seasons at Kansas State (first-team All-Big 12 as a sophomore when he averaged 17.4 points and made 95 3-pointers [led the league by shooting .436]) and the last three at Miami, Fla. (helped the Hurricanes to their first Final Four his junior season and was named the Midwest Region Most Outstanding Player). He has started 122 of his 123 career games and owns a 14.3 career scoring average (1,761 points).
• Davis came to OU after spending the last two years at Notre Dame and the 2022-23 season at Seton Hall. The forward started 64 of 65 games over the last two seasons, including all 33 in 2024-25 when he averaged 15.1 points and 5.3 rebounds to rank second on the team in both categories. He logged eight outings of at least 20 points.
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.
TIP-INS
• The Sooners boast five players who have scored at least 25 points in at least one collegiate game. They are super senior guard Nijel Pack (career-high 35 points with Kansas State against Kansas in 2022), junior guard Xzayvier Brown (career-high 29 points with Saint Joseph's vs. Loyola Chicago in 2024), senior forward Tae Davis (career-high 27 twice with Notre Dame), redshirt senior guard Jadon Jones (career-high 27 with Long Beach State vs. UCLA in 2022) and sophomore guard Dayton Forsythe (career-high 25 vs. Ole Miss last season).
• Gonzaga and Oklahoma were elite free throw shooting teams last season. The Bulldogs ranked second nationally with their .804 mark while OU ranked fourth with its school-record .795 figure.
UP NEXT
• The Sooners return to Norman to host UAPB on Tuesday at 7 p.m. CT. The game, which will be played at historic McCasland Field House, will stream on SEC Network+.
Saturday's contest will be televised by ESPN2 with Roxy Bernstein (play-by-play) and Sean Farnham (analyst) on the call. 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 Chris Plank (play-by-play) and Kevin Henry (analyst) announcing.
| Oklahoma vs. #21/20 Gonzaga Date: Saturday, Nov. 8 Tip Time: 9:30 p.m. CT Location: Spokane, Wash. Arena: Spokane Arena |
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OPENING TIP
• While Saturday's game is being played at 12,000-seat Spokane Arena and not at Gonzaga's 6,000-seat on-campus McCarthey Athletic Center, the contest is considered a true road game for Oklahoma. It will be the Sooners' first regular season true road outing in almost three calendar years (lost 70-66 at Villanova on Dec. 3, 2022).• Saturday's game will mark OU's third inside Spokane Arena. The Sooners lost an 83-69 contest to Gonzaga in the 2009-10 season and an 80-75 overtime game to North Dakota State in the 2014 NCAA Tournament round of 64.
• Fifth-year Oklahoma head coach Porter Moser is 46-7 (.868) in regular season non-conference play with the Sooners.
• OU has won its last 16 regular season non-conference games (it went 13-0 last season) and 29 of its last 30. Its last such loss was on Dec. 20, 2023, vs. No. 11 North Carolina (81-69) in the Jumpman Invitational in Charlotte, N.C.
• Five Sooners scored at least 14 points in the team's 102-66 season-opening win over Saint Francis on Monday. Through Thursday, only one other SEC squad has had at least four players score 14-plus points in a game this season (Vanderbilt had four players do it vs. Lipscomb).
• Gonzaga is under the direction of 27th-year head coach Mark Few, who owns a 742-152 (.830) career record. His squads have made 26 NCAA Tournaments, 13 NCAA Sweet 16s, five Elite Eights and two national championship games (2017, '21).
OU-GONZAGA SERIES HISTORY
• Oklahoma trails Gonzaga 3-1 in the all-time series. The only meeting at Gonzaga was an 83-69 Bulldogs win on Dec. 31, 2009, at Spokane Arena. The game featured a 50-minute delay after OU's Tiny Gallon shattered a backboard on an alley-oop attempt.
• Gonzaga also posted a 72-47 win in the Old Spice Classic in 2012-13 and an 87-71 victory in the 2021 NCAA Tournament round of 32 in Indianapolis.
• OU's lone series win came in the first meeting, 72-68, on Dec. 20, 2007, in the All-College-Classic in Oklahoma City. Longar Longar led OU with 16 points while Blake Griffin, who was consensus national player of the year the following season as a sophomore, had 15 points and 14 rebounds.
GAME 1 RECAP
• Trailing 49-45 with 18:30 left in the second half, Oklahoma used a 32-3 run to pull away in an eventual 102-66 win over Saint Francis on Monday night at Lloyd Noble Center in the season opener for both teams.
• The 32-3 run covered 8:43 of clock and was spurred by redshirt freshman Kuol Atak. In his collegiate debut, the forward scored 13 points in a span of 4:07 on three 3-pointers, a layup and a dunk. He finished with a team-high 18 points with the help of 4-for-8 3-point shooting in 20 minutes off the bench.
• Four other Sooners scored in double figures. Super senior center Mohamed Wague finished with a career-high 16 points, 10 rebounds (second career double-double), a career-high-tying three blocks and two assists. Super senior guard Nijel Pack registered 16 points (4-for-9 3-point shooting) and a career-high three blocks. Junior guard Xzayvier Brown scored 16 points and tallied game highs of six assists and three steals. And senior forward Tae Davis recorded 14 points, eight boards and three assists.
• Redshirt senior guard Jeff Nwankwo, playing his first career Division I game, came off the bench and finished with eight points, nine boards five assists and two steals in 23 minutes.
• OU finished with 10 blocked shots on the night, its most since March 7, 2020, when it registered 10 at TCU. Last season, the Sooners ranked 321st nationally by averaging just 2.3 blocks per game.
• Monday marked just the third time going back to at least the 1996-97 season that five Sooners each scored 14-plus points. The other occasions were on Feb. 9, 2015, vs. Iowa State and Nov. 30, 2023, vs. UAPB.
LACK OF RETURNS
• Oklahoma returns just two players who played in more than six games a year ago. Super senior forward/center Mohamed Wague played in 33 contests (averaged 3.9 points in 11.5 minutes per outing) and sophomore guard Dayton Forsythe played in 31 games (averaged 4.3 points and 1.0 assist in 12.1 minutes per contest).
• Wague's only starts came in the season's last four contests. Over the final five outings, he averaged 9.0 points and 6.8 rebounds (20.7 minutes). He also shot a team-high .723 from the field on the year.
• Forsythe came off the bench in all 31 of his games last season. He scored in double figures four times (three times in SEC action) and netted 25 points (20 in the second half) at Ole Miss in early March with the help of 4-for-5 3-point shooting.
• OU's only other returner who played in at least one contest last season is senior guard Reid Lovelace (six games; did not score).
• The Sooners also return three players who redshirted last season: senior guards Jadon Jones and Jeff Nwankwo and freshman forward Kuol Atak. Jones and Nwankwo were slated to play meaningful roles last season before sustaining injuries that kept them out all year.
FROM THE PORTAL
• Four of OU's eight newcomers are transfers, and each is highly regarded.
• According to 247Sports, three of OU's incoming transfers rank among the SEC's top 11 (guard Xzayvier Brown [Saint Joseph's] at No. 8, forward Derrion Reid [Alabama] at No. 9 and guard Nijel Pack [Miami, Fla.] at No. 11). The other (forward Tae Davis [Notre Dame]) ranks No. 19.
• Brown earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors last year as a sophomore, averaging team highs of 17.6 points, 4.3 assists and 1.5 steals per outing while ranking second with his 5.2 rebounds. The point guard was one of just five players nationally to average at least 17.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.5 steals per contest. He set a program record with his .897 from the free throw percentage (148 for 165). Brown, whose stepfather is first-year OU assistant coach Justin Scott, scored in double figures in all 32 games to pace the Atlantic 10.
• Reid was a consensus five-star prospect and McDonald's All-American as a high school senior before averaging 6.0 points and 2.8 rebounds in 14.0 minutes a game as a sophomore last year for Alabama's 28-9 Elite Eight squad.
• Pack is a highly accomplished sixth-year combo guard who spent his first two seasons at Kansas State (first-team All-Big 12 as a sophomore when he averaged 17.4 points and made 95 3-pointers [led the league by shooting .436]) and the last three at Miami, Fla. (helped the Hurricanes to their first Final Four his junior season and was named the Midwest Region Most Outstanding Player). He has started 122 of his 123 career games and owns a 14.3 career scoring average (1,761 points).
• Davis came to OU after spending the last two years at Notre Dame and the 2022-23 season at Seton Hall. The forward started 64 of 65 games over the last two seasons, including all 33 in 2024-25 when he averaged 15.1 points and 5.3 rebounds to rank second on the team in both categories. He logged eight outings of at least 20 points.
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.
TIP-INS
• The Sooners boast five players who have scored at least 25 points in at least one collegiate game. They are super senior guard Nijel Pack (career-high 35 points with Kansas State against Kansas in 2022), junior guard Xzayvier Brown (career-high 29 points with Saint Joseph's vs. Loyola Chicago in 2024), senior forward Tae Davis (career-high 27 twice with Notre Dame), redshirt senior guard Jadon Jones (career-high 27 with Long Beach State vs. UCLA in 2022) and sophomore guard Dayton Forsythe (career-high 25 vs. Ole Miss last season).
• Gonzaga and Oklahoma were elite free throw shooting teams last season. The Bulldogs ranked second nationally with their .804 mark while OU ranked fourth with its school-record .795 figure.
UP NEXT
• The Sooners return to Norman to host UAPB on Tuesday at 7 p.m. CT. The game, which will be played at historic McCasland Field House, will stream on SEC Network+.
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