Sooners Host Georgia for First Time Saturday

Saturday, February 14

Norman, Okla.

2:30 p.m.

University of Oklahoma

Georgia

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Nigel Pack in white uniform on a basketball court

Sooners Host Georgia for First Time Saturday

February 13, 2026 | Men's Basketball

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NORMAN — For the first time in program history, the Oklahoma men's basketball team (12-12, 2-9 SEC) hosts Georgia (17-7, 5-6) when the teams meet Saturday at 2:30 p.m. CT at Lloyd Noble Center.

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 is 8-4 at home this season, with four players averaging at least 11.6 points per game and two more averaging 8.9 and 8.7. It is outshooting opponents 49%-45% from the field and 37%-32% from 3-point range in the 12 contests. Georgia is 4-2 in true road games (beat Florida State, South Carolina, Missouri and LSU; lost to Florida and Texas).

The Bulldogs have scored over 100 points seven times this season and rank second in the SEC with their 90.8 points per game. They lead the league in blocked shots (6.7 per game), steals (8.8 per game) and turnover margin (+3.8 per game).

Oklahoma vs. Georgia
Date: Saturday, Feb. 14
Tip Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Norman, Okla.
Arena: Lloyd Noble Center

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SCENE SETTERS

• Oklahoma is 2-9 in SEC play despite holding a halftime lead in six of the 11 games, including in five of the last seven. In fact, OU has held a double-digit lead in four of the last seven outings. The Sooners have been outscored in the second half in 10 of the last 11 contests, however.

• OU is the only SEC team and one of just seven out of 361 nationally to start the same lineup every game this season. Its starters have been guards Xzayvier Brown and Nijel Pack, forwards Tae Davis and Derrion Reid and center Mohamed Wague. Georgia has started five different lineups.

• Oklahoma's 83.0 scoring average is its highest through a season's first 24 games since 2017-18 and fifth highest in the last 32 years. Similarly, OU's 9.7 3-pointers per game are its third most through 24 contests in the 40-year 3-point era.

• Georgia, which spent five weeks this season in the AP poll (peaked at No. 18 in early January) and is receiving votes in both major polls this week, is 3-2 in true road games in league play (won three of last four) and is coming off an 86-66 home loss to No. 14 Florida on Wednesday in which it set a season low for points.

• After going 16-16 in 2022-23 under first-year head coach Mike White, Georgia finished 20-17 in 2023-24 (its first 20-win campaign since 2015-16) and 20-13 last season (was an NCAA Tournament No. 9 seed and lost 89-68 to No. 8 seed Gonzaga in the first round).

SERIES HISTORY

• Oklahoma is 1-1 all-time against Georgia, winning a 93-90 contest in the 1987-88 season in Hawai'i and losing a 72-62 game last year in Athens, Ga.

• OU's win came in the Chaminade Christmas Classic championship game on Dec. 25, 1987, in Honolulu. The 12th-ranked Sooners, who were coached by Billy Tubbs, finished that season 35-4 and advanced to the national championship game. The unranked Bulldogs were coached by Hugh Durham and finished 20-16. With starting guards Ricky Grace and Dave Sieger battling foul trouble much of the game, fellow backcourt starter Mookie Blaylock, in his first year with the Sooners, scored a then-career-high 30 points and added six rebounds and seven assists. Senior forward Harvey Grant made 11 of 15 shots and finished with 26 points and 10 boards. Georgia was led in scoring by junior forward Toney Mack, who was 12 of 19 from the field and 3 for 4 from long distance for a game-high 32 points. The Bulldogs went 6 for 7 from 3-point range while holding the Sooners to 5-for-22 shooting from long distance, but committed 24 turnovers to OU's 18. Tubbs' squad shot 51% from the field and Georgia shot 50%. Grant, Blaylock and junior center Stacey King were named to the all-tournament team, with Grant earning MVP honors.

• Last year at Georgia, No. 17/16 Oklahoma led 36-33 at halftime but was held to 31% field goal and 21% 3-point shooting in the second half in the 10-point defeat on Jan. 11. The Bulldogs, who attempted 37 free throws to OU's nine, improved to 11-0 at home. Senior forward Jalon Moore was one of four Sooners who scored in double figures, registering game highs of 17 points and nine rebounds. Guards Kobe Elvis and Duke Miles each tallied 14 points, with Elvis registering a team-high-tying five assists and Miles adding five rebounds, three assists and two steals. With 10 points, senior center Mohamed Wague reached double figures for the second time of the season and added three rebounds, two assists, two blocks and three steals. No other Sooner scored more than three points. OU held Georgia to 18% 3-point shooting (3 for 17) but was outrebounded 41-33 and was outscored 16-6 in second-chance points.

PACK MENTALITY

• Nijel Pack, a first-year Sooner who is in his sixth year overall (only played nine games last season at Miami), is one of just four active players with 2,000 career points (2,126). Over the last five games, Pack is averaging 18.6 points and has made 19 3-pointers on 40 attempts (48%). He ranks second in the SEC with his 3.2 3-pointers per contest and third with his .452 3FG%.

• Pack ranks second among all active Division I players and 39th all-time with 389 career 3-point field goals. Entering the weekend, only 29 players have ever made 400 3-pointers.

• Pack scored over 20 points in each of OU's final three games of January (25 at Missouri, 22 vs. Arkansas and 23 vs. Texas), matching his longest career streak of 20-plus outings (also in 2022-23 with Miami and 2021-22 with Kansas State).

• Pack ranks second in the SEC with his 3.2 treys per game and third with his .425 3FG percentage.

• Pack has made at least one 3-pointer in 22 of 24 games, at least three in 15 contests and at least four in 10 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.

• 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 145 of his 146 career games.

OU'S 'X' FACTOR

• Junior guard Xzayvier Brown has scored at least 13 points in 14 of the last 15 games and at least 18 points in 11 of those 15 outings. He is averaging 18.7 in the 15 contests on 50% field goal, 40% (34-for-84) 3-point and 93% (54-for-58) free throw shooting. Included were six 20-point games in SEC play (23 in a win over Ole Miss, a season-high 24 against No. 19 Florida, 21 vs. No. 18 Alabama, 22 at South Carolina, 21 at Kentucky and 20 in a victory at No. 15 Vanderbilt).

• Brown ranks second in the SEC by shooting 92% from the free throw line (78 for 85). His streak of 27 makes ended Jan. 13 vs. Florida but he has still made 56 of his last 60 attempts (93%).

• After scoring at least 20 points in 14 of 35 games last year at Saint Joseph's, Brown has a team-high 11 games of 20-plus in 24 outings this season (Nijel Pack ranks second with six such efforts). Brown has 31 career games of at least 20.

MORE OU NOTES AND NUGGETS

• Oklahoma has led for at least 22 minutes in five of the last seven games but has just one win to show for it. It led for over 30 minutes three games ago in a loss to Texas and for 39:45 in a win at No. 15 Vanderbilt this past Saturday (never trailed).

• The Sooners have scored at least 85 points in 12 of their 24 games, already their most 85-point efforts in a season since 2017-18 (15). 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).

• OU has committed single-digit turnovers 12 times, already its most such outings for an entire season in 11 years (12 times in 2014-15). The Sooners average just 10.1 turnovers per contest.

• In 10 games since a league-opening win vs. Ole Miss, OU is giving up 38.0 points per first half and 46.7 points per second half. Over the last three games, it is surrendering 52.3 in the second half.

• OU's top four scorers are all transfers in their first year in the program. Xzayvier Brown averages a team-high 16.6 points per game, while Nijel Pack (15.9), Tae Davis (12.7) and Derrion Reid (11.8) also average double figures. Mohamed Wague rounds out the starting five with his 6.5 per contest.

• Reid has scored at least 11 points in each of the last six games. He is averaging 12.3 points on 53% field goal shooting during the stretch.

• Wague (3.1) and Davis (2.4) rank second and 11th 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 surpassed 1,000 career points and 500 rebounds this season (has 1,188 and 571).

• Twenty-three of Davis's 30 points the last two games, including all 14 at Vanderbilt, came in the first 6 1/2 minutes of action.

• Davis went 41 for 66 (62%) from the free throw line over OU's first 17 games but is 22 for 25 (88%) over the last seven.

• 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).

• OU announced on Dec. 28 the signing of 23-year-old Kirill Elatontsev (pronounced kee-REEL EE-el-uh-tahn-suv), a 6-11, 240-pound center from Russia who is averaging 4.9 points and 2.8 rebounds in 16.3 minutes per contest over his 12 games. He is shooting 54% from the field, 42% (8 for 19) from 3-point range and 69% (11 for 16) from the free throw line. Over the last eight contests he is averaging 6.4 points on 57% field goal and 44% (8 for 18) 3-point shooting and has 10 steals.

• Long Beach State transfer Jadon Jones is averaging 5.5 points in 18.8 minutes per game over his 20 outings. He has also drawn 11 fouls while attempting a 3-pointer. The 2021-22 Big West Conference Defensive Player of the Year has 11 steals and eight blocks over the past seven games.

• Redshirt freshman forward Kuol Atak ranks third on the team with his 29 3-point makes (shooting 40%) despite averaging just 12.4 minutes over his 18 games. He is 19 for 39 (49%) from long distance in home contests, including 10 for 19 (53%) over his last three outings at Lloyd Noble Center. He has played in just two of OU's last seven games (no points in one minute at South Carolina on Jan. 20 and nine points on 3-for-7 3-point shooting in 16 minutes at Kentucky on Feb. 4).