Men's Hoops at Texas A&M Saturday Afternoon

Saturday, January 10

College Station, TX

2:30 p.m.

University of Oklahoma

Texas A&M

Xzayvir Brown dribbling the ball up the court against Ole Miss

Photo by: Morgan Givens/University of Oklahoma

Men's Hoops at Texas A&M Saturday Afternoon

January 09, 2026 | Men's Basketball

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NORMAN — The Oklahoma men's basketball team (11-4, 1-1) looks to start a new winning streak Saturday at Texas A&M (12-3, 2-0) when it plays its first of two games against the Aggies this season. The Sooners and A&M will tip off on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. CT inside Reed Arena in College Station, Texas. OU has won nine of its last 11 games, while the Aggies have won their last five and 10 of their last 11.

Saturday's game will be televised by SEC Network with Kevin Fitzgerald (play-by-play) and Rodney Terry (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 and Kevin Henry on the call.

OU's 85.0 scoring average is its highest through a season's first 15 games since 2017-18 and fifth highest in the last 32 years. Similarly, the Sooners' 10.0 3-pointers per game are their third most through 15 contests in the 40-year 3-point era (starting in 1986-87). Under first-year head coach Bucky McMillan, Texas A&M ranks second in the SEC with its 94.4 scoring average and with its 11.5 treys per game.

Oklahoma has committed single-digit turnovers in eight of the last 11 games and nine times on the season. No other OU team in at least the last 30 years has registered nine or fewer turnovers eight times over an 11-game stretch. The Sooners lead the SEC and rank 13th nationally by averaging just 9.5 turnovers per contest, while Texas A&M ranks second in the league by forcing 16.1 turnovers per game.

Oklahoma vs. Texas A&M
Date: Saturday, Jan. 10
Tip Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: College Station, Texas
Arena: Reed Arena

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OPENING TIP

• The Sooners had their season-long five-game winning streak snapped at Mississippi State on Wednesday. Oklahoma has not lost consecutive games this season, winning by an average of 19.7 points following its first game after losses.

• First-year Sooner guard Nijel Pack, who played two seasons at Kansas State and spent the last three at Miami [Fla.], needs 17 points for 2,000 in his career. For perspective, only six OU players who spent their whole career in Norman reached 2,000 points (Wayman Tisdale, 2,661; Buddy Hield, 2,291; Jeff Webster, 2,281; Tim McCalister, 2,275; Darryl "Choo" Kennedy, 2,097; and Stacey King, 2008).

• Texas A&M is coming off consecutive one-possession victories to open SEC play. The Aggies won 75-72 at LSU on Jan. 3 before posting a 90-88 win at Auburn on Tuesday.

• First-year Aggies coach Bucky McMillan directed Samford to a 99-52 record the last five seasons after 12 years as the head coach Mountain Brook (Ala.) High School, where he won five state championships.

• OU head coach Porter Moser, who served two assistant coaching stints with Texas A&M under head coach Tony Barone, had never coached against the Aggies prior to last season. Saturday's contest will mark Moser's second time coaching against A&M in College Station.

• Moser's initial stop at A&M marked his first assistant coaching job. He was there from 1991-92 through 1994-95, and in 1994 helped the Aggies to the NIT, their first postseason appearance in seven years (they finished 19-11). After coaching at UW-Milwaukee during the 1995-96 campaign, Moser returned to A&M for two more seasons.

SERIES HISTORY

• Oklahoma is 32-12 all-time against Texas A&M and is 11-7 in College Station (8-7 at Reed Arena).

• The Sooners won the first 11 games of the series and 25 of the first 26, but the Aggies have won 11 of the last 18. Prior to last year's A&M two-game sweep, OU had won the last three matchups, all since the Aggies left the Big 12 for the SEC.

• Before the 2024-25 season, the last meeting between OU and Texas A&M occurred in the 2016 NCAA Sweet 16 in Anaheim, Calif., with the No. 2-seeded Sooners posting a 77-63 victory over the No. 3-seeded Aggies behind 22 points from Jordan Woodard and 17 points and 10 rebounds from national player of the year Buddy Hield. Lon Kruger's Sooners beat No. 1 seed Oregon 80-68 the next game to advance to the program's fifth Final Four.

LAST YEAR VS. THE AGGIES

• In last year's first meeting on Jan. 8 in Norman, No. 17/16 Oklahoma shot .543 from the field, a season-best .583 from 3-point range (with a season-high 14 treys) and held leads of 51-33 with 17:00 remaining and 70-59 with 8:25 to go, but Texas A&M scored 30 points off OU's season-high 18 turnovers to post an 80-78 win. Brycen Goodine went 9 for 11 from 3-point range (tied for the fourth most makes in program history) and scored 34 points (the most by a Sooner in seven years). A&M got a career-high 34 points from Zhuric Phelps, who went 6 of 10 from deep and hit the game-winning 3 with 19 seconds left for the final points of the contest.

• In the Jan. 28 rematch in College Station, OU outscored No. 13/15 Texas A&M by 18 points from 3-point distance but was outrebounded 47-19 (21-2 on the offensive ends) and was outscored 20-3 in second-chance points in a 75-68 loss. Goodine went 5 for 9 from deep and scored a game-high 24 points, and Jalon Moore added 22 points for OU. Freshman guard Jeremiah Fears averaged 16.7 points per contest entering the night, but was 0 for 5 from the field and did not score. Phelps scored 15 to lead A&M, which shot just 37.5% from the field.

PACK MENTALITY

• Sixth-year guard Nijel Pack ranks fourth in the SEC with his 3.2 3-point field goals per game and fifth with his .449 3-point field goal percentage.

• Pack has made at least one 3-pointer in 14 of 15 games, at least three in 10 contests and at least four in seven outings. He buried at least three treys in six consecutive games between Nov. 11 and Dec. 2, the first Sooner to accomplish the feat since consensus national player of the year Buddy Hield during OU's 2015-16 Final Four campaign.

• Through Thursday, Pack ranks second nationally in 3-pointers among active career players (361; High Point's Chase Johnston has 384), third in points (1,983) and 28th in assists (411).

• 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 136 of his 137 career games.

OU NOTES AND NUGGETS

• Oklahoma has scored at least 85 points in 10 of its 15 games (67%), already its most 85-point efforts in a season since 2017-18. For comparison, OU's last four teams scored 85-plus a combined 21 times in 133 games (16%; nine times last year, six in 2023-24, two in 2022-23 and four in 2021-22).

• Heading into Wednesday's Mississippi State contest, OU had committed single-digit turnovers in each of its previous five games. It was tied for the third-longest streak in the last 30 years by an SEC team. Only Ole Miss (nine last season) and Tennessee (six in 2023-24) posted longer streaks. The Sooners' nine outings of single-digit turnovers are already their most in six seasons (11 in 2019-20).

• Oklahoma is the only SEC team to start the same lineup every game this season. OU's starters have been guards Xzayvier Brown and Nijel Pack, forwards Tae Davis and Derrion Reid and center Mohamed Wague.

• OU's top four scorers are all transfers in their first year in the program. Pack leads the team with his 15.9 points per game while Brown (15.7), Davis (12.5) and Reid (11.4) also average double figures. Wague rounds out the starting five with his 7.4 points per contest.

• Since averaging 7.3 points on 7-for-30 field goal and 0-for-14 3-point shooting over a three-game stretch while battling a sprained ankle, Brown has scored 21, 21, 18, 22, 23 and 13 points the last six outings. Over the six contests, he is averaging 19.7 points while shooting 55.4% from the field, 48.4% (15 for 31) from deep and making all 21 free throw attempts, and has committed just eight turnovers. On the season, he leads the SEC by shooting 93.8% from the free throw line (45 for 48).

• The Sooners have outscored 11 of their 14 opponents after halftime. Nebraska, Kansas City and Mississippi State are the only teams to outscore OU in the second half. The Sooners are +64 points in the first half this season (+4.3 average) and +128 in the second (+8.5 average).

• In eight home games (all wins), OU has outscored opponents 147-59 off turnovers (18-7 per contest). In its three true road games (one win), that advantage is just 30-25 (10-8 average).

• Reid's five highest-scoring games of his career have come in his last 10 outings, as he tallied 16 points against Alcorn State (to go along with a career-high eight rebounds), 15 vs. Marquette, 18 at Wake Forest, 15 vs. Kansas City and a career-high 22 against Stetson, all OU wins.

• Wague (3.1) and Davis (2.9) rank third and fifth in the SEC in offensive rebounds per game. Davis had 11 offensive boards against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, OU's most in a contest since at least the 1995-96 season. He recently surpassed 1,000 career points and 500 rebounds (has 1,070 and 523).

• Wague's three highest career point totals have come this season (16 in the opener vs. Saint Francis, 20 vs. Oral Roberts and 15 vs. Stetson), as have his two highest rebound totals (14 at Wake Forest and 15 vs. Ole Miss in the SEC opener). He is shooting a team-high 62.5% from the floor.

• Redshirt freshman forward Kuol Atak ranks second on the team with his 26 3-point makes (shooting .413) despite averaging just 13.7 minutes over his 14 games. Over the last seven contests, he is 18 for 39 (.462) from behind the arc (10 for 21 [.476] the last three games).

• Sixth-year guard Jadon Jones ranks seventh on the team with his 7.2 points per game off the bench in an average of 21.6 minutes over his 11 outings. He missed all of last season with the Sooners due to injury, as well as the first four games this year. Jones has drawn eight fouls in his 11 games while attempting a 3-pointer. He has also made 17 treys.

• OU announced Dec. 28 the signing of 23-year-old Kirill Elatontsev (pronounced kee-REEL EE-el-uh-tahn-suv) a center from Russia who is averaging 2.0 points and 2.0 rebounds in his 11.9 minutes per contest over his first two games. From Krasnoyarsk, Russia, the 6-11, 240-pound Elatontsev has one semester of eligibility remaining.

• Nine of the 15 players on OU's roster are new in 2025-26, and three more were on last year's team but redshirted.