OU at Wake Forest for ACC/SEC Challenge Matchup

Tuesday, December 2

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

6 p.m. (CT)

University of Oklahoma

Wake Forest

Tae Davis and Derrion Reid await starting lineup announcements during the game against Marquette

Photo by: Morgan Givens/University of Oklahoma

OU at Wake Forest for ACC/SEC Challenge Matchup

December 02, 2025 | Men's Basketball

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NORMAN — The 5-2 Oklahoma men's basketball team heads to Winston-Salem, N.C., to take on 6-2 Wake Forest (6-2) in an ACC/SEC Challenge contest on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. CT at LJVM Coliseum.

Tuesday's game will be televised by ACC Network with Doug Sherman (play-by-play) and Terrence Oglesby (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.

Tuesday's contest will pit an Oklahoma team that ranks 13th nationally out of 361 teams by committing just 9.1 turnovers per game against a Wake Forest squad that ranks 18th with its 17.0 turnovers forced per outing. OU's 18 combined turnovers over the last three contests are the program's fewest over a three-game stretch in more than 30 years.

For the second consecutive game, the Sooners will face a program for the first time (beat Marquette 75-74 in Chicago on Friday). OU's last contest against an ACC team was a 76-61 win over Georgia Tech in the SEC/ACC Challenge on Dec. 3 of last year. The Sooners' last true road game against an ACC squad was Nov. 17, 1995, vs. Georgia Tech, an 83-72 Oklahoma loss at the Georgia Dome in a second-round Preseason NIT contest. The last OU game at an ACC team's on-campus arena was on Jan. 4, 1993, an 88-84 overtime loss to Duke.

Oklahoma vs. Wake Forest
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 2
Tip Time: 6 p.m. CT
Location: Winston-Salem, N.C.
Arena: LJVM Coliseum

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OPENING TIP

• OU guard Nijel Pack and forward Tae Davis previously played for ACC teams and each faced Wake Forest three times. As a Miami Hurricane, Pack averaged 16.0 points per outing, which included a 24-point, four-assist, four-steal effort in a Feb. 18, 2023, win in Miami. He went 8 for 18 (.444) from 3-point range over the three games. As a Notre Dame player the last two seasons, Davis averaged 14.0 points and 5.3 points against Wake Forest.

• Oklahoma won its first SEC/ACC Challenge contest last year against Georgia Tech in Norman. OU guard Jeremiah Fears paced all scorers with 18 points in the 76-71 win. The SEC went 14-2 in last year's Challenge, including 6-2 in road games.

• The Sooners are in the second of a four-game stretch against power conference teams, all away from home (vs. Marquette [in Chicago], at Wake Forest, vs. Arizona State [in Phoenix] and vs. Oklahoma State [in Oklahoma City]).

• In his fifth season at Oklahoma, head coach Porter Moser is 50-9 (.847) in regular season non-conference play.

• OU has won 20 of its last 22 regular season non-conference games (it went 13-0 last season) and 33 of its last 36.

• Wake Forest head coach Steve Forbes, who is in his sixth season with the Demon Deacons, served as an assistant coach under Moser at Illinois State during the 2003-04 season, Moser's first with the Redbirds. Forbes led East Tennessee to a 30-4 record and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2019-20, and is looking to take Wake to its first Big Dance since 2017.

• Both of Wake Forest's losses came by one point (85-84 to No. 6 Michigan in Detroit and 84-83 to No. 15 Texas Tech in the Bahamas).

OU NOTES & NUGGETS

• Oklahoma has scored at least 95 points in four of seven games. Last season, OU reached the 95-point mark twice in 34 contests.

• Over the last three games, the Sooners have outscored their opponents by a resounding 48-13 margin off turnovers.

• Six Sooners have scored in double figures in at least one game this season, and Nijel Pack has scored at least 15 in all seven contests. Pack leads the team with his 19.3 points per game while backcourt mate Xzayvier Brown ranks second with his 13.7 average. Forwards Tae Davis (13.0) and Derrion Reid (11.3) also average double figures, while forward/center Mohamed Wague rounds out the starting five with his 7.7 points per game.

• Davis ranks fifth in the SEC with his 8.0 rebounds per contest and ranks first in the league and eighth nationally with his 4.4 offensive caroms per outing. He had 11 offensive boards against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Oklahoma's most in a contest since at least the 1995-96 season. Against Marquette on Friday, he reeled in 11 boards, including six of OU's 10 on the offensive end.

• Reid's two highest-scoring games of his career have come in the last two outings, as he tallied a career-high 16 points in the win over Alcorn State (to go along with a career-high eight rebounds) and 15 in the victory over Marquette.

• Wague's two highest career point totals have come this season (16 in the opener vs. Saint Francis and 20 vs. Oral Roberts). He combined for 16 field goals in those two games and has made one field goal in each of the other five contests.

• The Sooners ranked 321st in 2024-25 with their 2.3 blocked shots per game, but through seven games this year are averaging 4.3.

• OU ranked fourth nationally last season with its school-record .795 free throw figure and has been solid again in 2025-26 with its .759 season mark. Brown is third in the league at .941 (16 for 17) and Reid is fifth at .875 (21 for 24).

LEADER OF THE PACK

• Oklahoma sixth-year guard Nijel Pack leads the nation with his 4.4 3-point field goals per game. He also paces the SEC with his .508 3-point field goal percentage. Over the last five contests, he is 25 for 43 (.581) from long distance and has made at least four treys in each of those games.

• Prior to his current five-game stretch, Pack had never made at least four 3-pointers in more than three consecutive games in his career.

• Pack is one of six active NCAA Division I players to record over 1,500 career points and 350 assists. He leads that group with 1,880 points and has registered 386 assists.

• Pack ranks among the nation's active career leaders in several categories. Through Sunday, he is second in 3-pointers (344), third in points (1,880), 28th in assists (386) and 43rd in steals (135).

• A sixth-year collegian, Pack spent his first two seasons at Kansas State (he was a first-team All-Big 12 pick 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 128 of his 129 career games.

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• 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.