Challenge Accepted, And Won

Tuesday, December 2

Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum • Winston-Salem, N.C.

6 p.m. (CT)

University of Oklahoma

6-2,0-0SEC

Wake Forest

6-3,0-0ACC

Oklahoma

Wake Forest

Mohamed Wague celebrates a basket in the game against Wake

December 02, 2025 | Men's Basketball

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Oklahoma picked up its second ACC/SEC Challenge win in two tries, suffocating Wake Forest in the second half and emerging with a convincing 86-68 road win Tuesday night inside LJVM Coliseum. It was the first meeting between the programs.

Forwards Tae Davis and Derrion Reid (career high) led six Sooners in double-figure scoring with 18 each, and center Mohamed Wague logged 11 points and a career-high 14 rebounds to lift OU (6-2) to its fourth straight win. The Demon Deacons, who had won three in a row, fell to 6-3.

Nijel Pack was 3 for 6 from 3-point range and scored 13 points, his lowest total of the season, while fellow guards Xavier Brown and Jadon Jones netted 11 apiece. For Jones, it was his highest output as a Sooner.

Oklahoma shot 48.1% from the field and held Wake Forest to a 33.9% mark. The second-half difference was even more stark, with the Sooners shooting 61.5% and the Demon Deacons 33.3%.

OU led 37-35 at halftime after trailing by as many five points (13-8) seven minutes into the game. The Sooners used an 8-0 run to go up 37-32 before Wake hit a 3 on its last possession of the half.

Baskets on each of its first three possessions of the second half pushed OU's lead to 43-37 before WFU knotted the score at 47 with 15:15 remaining. From there it was all Sooners, as Porter Moser's squad went on a 37-14 run over the next 12 minutes to take a commanding 84-61 advantage. From the 11:00 to 2:28 marks, OU went 11 for 13 from the field. Wake made just five of its final 20 shot attempts.

Jones, who also grabbed four rebounds, scored nine straight points for the Sooners in a second-half span of 1:53, sandwiching 3-pointers around three free throws. He had not scored more than eight points in any of his previous three outings this season.

Wague's 14 rebounds (11 defensive) spurred OU to a dominant performance on the glass. The Sooners outboarded Wake 42-24 for its largest margin of the season. Wague also tied a season high with three assists, blocked two shots and added a steal in a career-high 33 minutes. He was 3 for 3 from the field and 5 for 7 from the foul line.

Reid's three highest-scoring games of his career have come in the last three outings. He was 6 for 11 from the field, 2 for 4 from long distance and 4 for 6 from the free throw line on the night, and added four rebounds and a steal.

Brown logged game highs of five assists and three steals, and backcourt mate Dayton Forsythe came off the bench to supply four assists and a steal.

The Sooners, who beat Georgia Tech 76-61 in Norman in last year's SEC/ACC Challenge, committed eight turnovers in the first half Tuesday, but just four in the second. Wake Forest also committed 12 turnovers on the night, but OU posted a 14-5 advantage in points off turnovers. The Demon Deacons entered the game ranked 19th nationally by forcing 17.0 turnovers per contest.

OU's last true road game against an ACC squad had been on Nov. 17, 1995, vs. Georgia Tech, an 83-72 Oklahoma loss at the Georgia Dome in a second-round Preseason NIT contest. The last time the Sooners played an ACC team in its on-campus arena was on Jan. 4, 1993, an 88-84 overtime loss to Duke.

OU faces Arizona State in Phoenix on Saturday at 9 p.m. CT in the Jerry Colangelo Classic. The game will be played at PHX Arena, home of the NBA's Phoenix Suns.