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Tuesday, March 3
Norman, Okla.
6 p.m.
University of Oklahoma
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OU Hosts Missouri in Tuesday Senior Night Contest
March 02, 2026 | Men's Basketball
NORMAN — Looking for its fifth win in seven games, Oklahoma (15-14, 5-11 SEC) hosts Missouri (20-9, 10-6) on Tuesday at 6 p.m. CT at Lloyd Noble Center on senior night. Sooners Tae Davis, Jadon Jones, Reid Lovelace, Nijel Pack and Mohamed Wague will be honored during a pregame on-court ceremony.
Tuesday's game will be televised by ESPNU with John Schriffen (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.
After losing nine straight games, Oklahoma has won four of its last six (at No. 15 Vanderbilt, vs. Georgia, vs. Auburn and at LSU). In those four victories, OU led for 136:24 of 160 minutes and by double digits for a combined 69:01, and six Sooners averaged double figures in scoring. OU shot a combined 53% from the field and 51% (46 for 91) from 3-point range in the four wins.
Picked seventh in the preseason SEC media poll, Missouri is 20-9 on the year and in a three-way tie for fourth place in the league at 10-6. The Tigers, who are 4-4 in SEC road games (beat Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Mississippi State; lost to Ole Miss, LSU, Alabama and Arkansas), have won six of their last eight games. Head coach Dennis Gates is in his fourth season at MU and owns a 75-55 record there.
• OU is the only SEC team and one of just five out of 361 nationally to start the same lineup every game this season (Houston is the only other Power Five squad). Its starters have been guards Xzayvier Brown and Nijel Pack, forwards Tae Davis and Derrion Reid and center Mohamed Wague. Missouri has started seven different lineups.
• This marks the second straight season for the Sooners to host Missouri in their home finale. Last year on March 5, OU shot 57% from the field and 96% from the foul line (25 for 26) in a 96-84 win over the No. 15 Tigers. Freshman guard Jeremiah Fears scored a career-high 31 points on 9-for-13 field goal and 12-for-12 free throw shooting. Playing in his last home game, senior forward Sam Godwin made all five of his field goal tries en route to 12 points before leaving the game at the 5:32 mark of the first half with a season-ending injury. He was replaced by Mohamed Wague, who tied a career high with 12 points (4 for 4 each on field goals and free throws) and grabbed five rebounds.
• Oklahoma leads the SEC in league play with its 38.1% 3-point field goal mark and ranks third with its 9.6 treys per outing. Over the last five games, the Sooners are shooting 46.3% (56 for 121) from behind the arc. On the season, OU is averaging 10.0 treys per game (the school record is 10.3 in 2015-16).
• Pack, a first-year Sooner who is in his sixth year overall, ranks first among active Division I players (and 24th all-time) with 410 career 3-point field goal makes and third with 2,213 points. He leads the SEC with his .453 3-point field goal percentage and 3.3 treys per game. Over the last five outings, Pack is a sizzling 21 for 35 (60%) from long distance.
• Wague is coming off the most productive three-game stretch of his career, averaging 13.3 points, 10.3 rebounds, 3.0 blocked shots and 1.7 steals while going 16 for 20 (80%) from the free throw line against Texas A&M, Auburn and LSU. The fifth-year center recorded 12 points, 13 rebounds and two blocks against the Aggies, 18 points, nine boards and career highs of four blocks and four steals vs. Auburn and 10 points, nine caroms and three rejections at LSU. He entered the three-game stretch averaging 6.2 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.3 blocks and 0.5 steals while shooting 60% from the charity stripe.
• The resurgence of guard Dayton Forsythe has boosted OU the last few weeks. After a 10-game stretch in which he averaged 1.3 points and went 2 for 31 from the field (he battled sprains of both ankles), the sophomore is averaging 9.8 points over the last eight contests. Over the last six games, he is averaging 11.0 points (four double-digit efforts).
• The Sooners hold a 116-99 series lead and have won 17 of the last 28 meetings. OU is 65-22 against MU in Norman and has won nine of the last 12 meetings at Lloyd Noble Center.
• Tuesday's game will mark the 216th in the series, making Missouri the fourth-most-played opponent in OU history. The Sooners have faced Oklahoma State 251 times, Kansas 227 and Kansas State 218.
• OU and Missouri have met in some significant matchups, including 14 times in Big Eight/Big 12 Tournament play and twice in the NCAA Tournament. The programs each won four meetings in Big Eight Tournament action, with Mizzou winning title-game contests in 1982 (68-63) and 1989 (98-86) in Kansas City, Mo. The Sooners posted a 5-1 head-to-head record in the Big 12 Tournament, which included a 49-47 win in the 2003 championship game in Dallas.
• In 2002, OU and MU met in an Elite Eight game in San Jose, Calif. Kelvin Sampson's No. 2 seed Sooners pulled out an 81-75 win over Quin Snyder's 12th-seeded Tigers for OU's first Final Four berth since 1988. Hollis Price scored 18 points.
• The programs also met in the 2021 NCAA Tournament first round, a 72-68 OU win in Indianapolis. Lon Kruger's No. 8-seeded OU squad got 23 points from Austin Reaves to down Cuonzo Martin's ninth-seeded Tigers.
• After Tae Davis hit two free throws to give OU an 81-78 lead with 5.6 seconds left in the second half, Missouri's Trent Pierce hit a 37-footer with no time left to force overtime. In the extra session, the Sooners took an 87-85 advantage on an Xzayvier Brown shot in the lane with 4 seconds remaining, but MU forward Mark Mitchell dribbled up the floor and made a 3-pointer at the horn for the one-point win. OU didn't trail in OT until Mitchell's 3.
• OU outshot Missouri 48%-45% from the field and 44%-29% from 3-point range (12 makes to six), but was outrebounded 41-29 and outscored 19-3 in second-chance points. MU grabbed 17 offensive boards to OU's five and attempted 11 more shots.
• Nijel Pack (25) and Brown (19) accounted for more than half of the team's points and 11 of its 12 assists. Pack was 8 for 13 from the field, 5 for 8 from 3-point range and 4 for 4 from the free throw line. Brown was 5 for 11 from the floor, hit a pair of triples, was 7 for 9 from the foul line and handed out a game-high six assists.
• Pack leads active Division I players and ranks 24th all-time with 410 career 3-point field goals. The only player to ever wear an OU uniform who has made more career treys is Umoja Gibson (428; was a Sooner during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons).
• Pack leads the SEC with his .453 season 3-point field goal percentage and 3.3 treys per game. Nationally, he ranks fifth and 13th, respectively.
• Pack has scored 20-plus points in six of the last 10 games (25 at Missouri, 22 vs. Arkansas, 23 vs. Texas, 20 at Tennessee, 22 vs. Auburn and 21 at LSU).
• Pack has made at least one 3-pointer in 27 of 29 games, at least three in 19 contests and at least five in nine 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, 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 150 of his 151 career games.
• Brown has a team-high-tying seven outings of at least 20 points 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, 20 in a victory at No. 15 Vanderbilt and 20 in a win at LSU).
• Brown leads the SEC by shooting 91% from the free throw line (85 for 93) but only has 14 attempts over the last nine games. For comparison, he attempted 43 free throws over the previous nine contests. He assembled a streak of 27 makes, which ended Jan. 13 vs. Florida.
• After scoring at least 20 points in 14 of 35 games last year at Saint Joseph's, Brown has a team-high 12 games of 20-plus in 29 outings this season. He has 32 career games of at least 20.
• The Sooners have scored at least 85 points in 14 of their 29 games (48%), already their most 85-point efforts in a season since 2017-18 (15). For perspective, OU's last four teams scored 85-plus a combined 21 times in 133 games (16%).
• Oklahoma has committed single-digit turnovers 16 times, already its most such outings for an entire season in at least 40 years. The Sooners average just 10.0 turnovers per contest. Over the past 50 seasons, the fewest turnovers OU averaged per game was 11.0 in 2020-21.
• OU is averaging 24.0 bench points in its five SEC wins and 15.1 bench points in its 11 league losses.
• The Sooners' top four scorers are all transfers in their first year in the program. Nijel Pack averages a team-high 16.1 points per game, while Xzayvier Brown (15.6), Tae Davis (12.1) and Derrion Reid (11.3) also average double figures. Mohamed Wague rounds out the starting five with his 6.9 per contest.
• Davis surpassed 1,000 career points and 500 rebounds this season and now has 1,234 and 598.
• OU announced on Dec. 28 the signing of 23-year-old Kirill Elatontsev (kee-REEL EE-el-uh-tahn-suv), a 6-11, 240-pound center from Russia who is averaging 4.3 points and 2.3 rebounds in 15.1 minutes per contest over his 17 games. He is shooting 53% from the field, 38% (9 for 24) from 3-point range and 73% (16 for 22) from the foul line.
• Long Beach State transfer Jadon Jones is averaging 5.8 points in 18.9 minutes per game over his 25 outings. The sixth-year guard, who is 12 for 23 (52%) from 3-point range over the last six outings, has drawn 13 fouls while attempting a 3-pointer. The 2021-22 Big West Conference Defensive Player of the Year has 17 steals and 11 blocks over the past 12 games.
• Redshirt freshman forward Kuol Atak ranks third on the team with his 38 3-point makes (shooting 43%) despite playing in just 21 of 29 games and averaging only 12.2 minutes in those contests. He is 27 for 52 (52%) from long distance in home games, including 18 for 32 (56%) over his last five outings at Lloyd Noble Center. He has played in just five of OU's last 12 games. In the Sooners' Feb. 14 home win against Georgia, he scored 18 points on 6-for-7 3-point shooting.
Tuesday's game will be televised by ESPNU with John Schriffen (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.
After losing nine straight games, Oklahoma has won four of its last six (at No. 15 Vanderbilt, vs. Georgia, vs. Auburn and at LSU). In those four victories, OU led for 136:24 of 160 minutes and by double digits for a combined 69:01, and six Sooners averaged double figures in scoring. OU shot a combined 53% from the field and 51% (46 for 91) from 3-point range in the four wins.
Picked seventh in the preseason SEC media poll, Missouri is 20-9 on the year and in a three-way tie for fourth place in the league at 10-6. The Tigers, who are 4-4 in SEC road games (beat Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Mississippi State; lost to Ole Miss, LSU, Alabama and Arkansas), have won six of their last eight games. Head coach Dennis Gates is in his fourth season at MU and owns a 75-55 record there.
SCENE SETTERS
• Despite its 5-11 SEC record, Oklahoma has held a halftime lead in eight of the 16 games. In fact, it has held a double-digit advantage in seven of the last 12 outings (four wins).• OU is the only SEC team and one of just five out of 361 nationally to start the same lineup every game this season (Houston is the only other Power Five squad). Its starters have been guards Xzayvier Brown and Nijel Pack, forwards Tae Davis and Derrion Reid and center Mohamed Wague. Missouri has started seven different lineups.
• This marks the second straight season for the Sooners to host Missouri in their home finale. Last year on March 5, OU shot 57% from the field and 96% from the foul line (25 for 26) in a 96-84 win over the No. 15 Tigers. Freshman guard Jeremiah Fears scored a career-high 31 points on 9-for-13 field goal and 12-for-12 free throw shooting. Playing in his last home game, senior forward Sam Godwin made all five of his field goal tries en route to 12 points before leaving the game at the 5:32 mark of the first half with a season-ending injury. He was replaced by Mohamed Wague, who tied a career high with 12 points (4 for 4 each on field goals and free throws) and grabbed five rebounds.
• Oklahoma leads the SEC in league play with its 38.1% 3-point field goal mark and ranks third with its 9.6 treys per outing. Over the last five games, the Sooners are shooting 46.3% (56 for 121) from behind the arc. On the season, OU is averaging 10.0 treys per game (the school record is 10.3 in 2015-16).
• Pack, a first-year Sooner who is in his sixth year overall, ranks first among active Division I players (and 24th all-time) with 410 career 3-point field goal makes and third with 2,213 points. He leads the SEC with his .453 3-point field goal percentage and 3.3 treys per game. Over the last five outings, Pack is a sizzling 21 for 35 (60%) from long distance.
• Wague is coming off the most productive three-game stretch of his career, averaging 13.3 points, 10.3 rebounds, 3.0 blocked shots and 1.7 steals while going 16 for 20 (80%) from the free throw line against Texas A&M, Auburn and LSU. The fifth-year center recorded 12 points, 13 rebounds and two blocks against the Aggies, 18 points, nine boards and career highs of four blocks and four steals vs. Auburn and 10 points, nine caroms and three rejections at LSU. He entered the three-game stretch averaging 6.2 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.3 blocks and 0.5 steals while shooting 60% from the charity stripe.
• The resurgence of guard Dayton Forsythe has boosted OU the last few weeks. After a 10-game stretch in which he averaged 1.3 points and went 2 for 31 from the field (he battled sprains of both ankles), the sophomore is averaging 9.8 points over the last eight contests. Over the last six games, he is averaging 11.0 points (four double-digit efforts).
OU-MIZZOU: RIVALRY RENEWED
• Oklahoma and Missouri have been members of the same conferences for 95 years (from 1919-20 through 2011-12 and starting again in 2024-25). Shared league membership began with the Missouri Valley Conference in 1919-20 and continued with the Big Six Conference in 1928-29, the Big Seven in 1947-48, the Big Eight in 1957-58 and the Big 12 in 1996-97. Missouri left the Big 12 for the SEC in July 2012, and OU joined the SEC in July 2024.• The Sooners hold a 116-99 series lead and have won 17 of the last 28 meetings. OU is 65-22 against MU in Norman and has won nine of the last 12 meetings at Lloyd Noble Center.
• Tuesday's game will mark the 216th in the series, making Missouri the fourth-most-played opponent in OU history. The Sooners have faced Oklahoma State 251 times, Kansas 227 and Kansas State 218.
• OU and Missouri have met in some significant matchups, including 14 times in Big Eight/Big 12 Tournament play and twice in the NCAA Tournament. The programs each won four meetings in Big Eight Tournament action, with Mizzou winning title-game contests in 1982 (68-63) and 1989 (98-86) in Kansas City, Mo. The Sooners posted a 5-1 head-to-head record in the Big 12 Tournament, which included a 49-47 win in the 2003 championship game in Dallas.
• In 2002, OU and MU met in an Elite Eight game in San Jose, Calif. Kelvin Sampson's No. 2 seed Sooners pulled out an 81-75 win over Quin Snyder's 12th-seeded Tigers for OU's first Final Four berth since 1988. Hollis Price scored 18 points.
• The programs also met in the 2021 NCAA Tournament first round, a 72-68 OU win in Indianapolis. Lon Kruger's No. 8-seeded OU squad got 23 points from Austin Reaves to down Cuonzo Martin's ninth-seeded Tigers.
EARLIER THIS YEAR AT MISSOURI
• On the verge of a big road win, Oklahoma fell victim to a pair of buzzer-beating 3-pointers — the first at the end of regulation and the second in overtime — in an 88-87 loss to Missouri on Jan. 24.• After Tae Davis hit two free throws to give OU an 81-78 lead with 5.6 seconds left in the second half, Missouri's Trent Pierce hit a 37-footer with no time left to force overtime. In the extra session, the Sooners took an 87-85 advantage on an Xzayvier Brown shot in the lane with 4 seconds remaining, but MU forward Mark Mitchell dribbled up the floor and made a 3-pointer at the horn for the one-point win. OU didn't trail in OT until Mitchell's 3.
• OU outshot Missouri 48%-45% from the field and 44%-29% from 3-point range (12 makes to six), but was outrebounded 41-29 and outscored 19-3 in second-chance points. MU grabbed 17 offensive boards to OU's five and attempted 11 more shots.
• Nijel Pack (25) and Brown (19) accounted for more than half of the team's points and 11 of its 12 assists. Pack was 8 for 13 from the field, 5 for 8 from 3-point range and 4 for 4 from the free throw line. Brown was 5 for 11 from the floor, hit a pair of triples, was 7 for 9 from the foul line and handed out a game-high six assists.
PACK MENTALITY
• First-year Oklahoma guard Nijel Pack surpassed the 2,000-point mark Jan. 11 at Texas A&M and has 2,213 for his career to rank third nationally among active players.• Pack leads active Division I players and ranks 24th all-time with 410 career 3-point field goals. The only player to ever wear an OU uniform who has made more career treys is Umoja Gibson (428; was a Sooner during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons).
• Pack leads the SEC with his .453 season 3-point field goal percentage and 3.3 treys per game. Nationally, he ranks fifth and 13th, respectively.
• Pack has scored 20-plus points in six of the last 10 games (25 at Missouri, 22 vs. Arkansas, 23 vs. Texas, 20 at Tennessee, 22 vs. Auburn and 21 at LSU).
• Pack has made at least one 3-pointer in 27 of 29 games, at least three in 19 contests and at least five in nine 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, 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 150 of his 151 career games.
OU's 'X' FACTOR
• After scoring at least 13 points 14 times in a 15-game stretch (he averaged 18.7 points in the 15), junior guard Xzayvier Brown has been held to an average of 10.8 points over the last five games.• Brown has a team-high-tying seven outings of at least 20 points 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, 20 in a victory at No. 15 Vanderbilt and 20 in a win at LSU).
• Brown leads the SEC by shooting 91% from the free throw line (85 for 93) but only has 14 attempts over the last nine games. For comparison, he attempted 43 free throws over the previous nine contests. He assembled a streak of 27 makes, which ended Jan. 13 vs. Florida.
• After scoring at least 20 points in 14 of 35 games last year at Saint Joseph's, Brown has a team-high 12 games of 20-plus in 29 outings this season. He has 32 career games of at least 20.
MORE OU NOTES AND NUGGETS
• Oklahoma has led for over 20 minutes in seven of the last 10 games and has been ahead for 213 out of 285 minutes (75%) in those seven contests.• The Sooners have scored at least 85 points in 14 of their 29 games (48%), already their most 85-point efforts in a season since 2017-18 (15). For perspective, OU's last four teams scored 85-plus a combined 21 times in 133 games (16%).
• Oklahoma has committed single-digit turnovers 16 times, already its most such outings for an entire season in at least 40 years. The Sooners average just 10.0 turnovers per contest. Over the past 50 seasons, the fewest turnovers OU averaged per game was 11.0 in 2020-21.
• OU is averaging 24.0 bench points in its five SEC wins and 15.1 bench points in its 11 league losses.
• The Sooners' top four scorers are all transfers in their first year in the program. Nijel Pack averages a team-high 16.1 points per game, while Xzayvier Brown (15.6), Tae Davis (12.1) and Derrion Reid (11.3) also average double figures. Mohamed Wague rounds out the starting five with his 6.9 per contest.
• Davis surpassed 1,000 career points and 500 rebounds this season and now has 1,234 and 598.
• OU announced on Dec. 28 the signing of 23-year-old Kirill Elatontsev (kee-REEL EE-el-uh-tahn-suv), a 6-11, 240-pound center from Russia who is averaging 4.3 points and 2.3 rebounds in 15.1 minutes per contest over his 17 games. He is shooting 53% from the field, 38% (9 for 24) from 3-point range and 73% (16 for 22) from the foul line.
• Long Beach State transfer Jadon Jones is averaging 5.8 points in 18.9 minutes per game over his 25 outings. The sixth-year guard, who is 12 for 23 (52%) from 3-point range over the last six outings, has drawn 13 fouls while attempting a 3-pointer. The 2021-22 Big West Conference Defensive Player of the Year has 17 steals and 11 blocks over the past 12 games.
• Redshirt freshman forward Kuol Atak ranks third on the team with his 38 3-point makes (shooting 43%) despite playing in just 21 of 29 games and averaging only 12.2 minutes in those contests. He is 27 for 52 (52%) from long distance in home games, including 18 for 32 (56%) over his last five outings at Lloyd Noble Center. He has played in just five of OU's last 12 games. In the Sooners' Feb. 14 home win against Georgia, he scored 18 points on 6-for-7 3-point shooting.
UP NEXT
• OU closes the regular season at Texas on Saturday at 6 p.m. CT. The game will be televised by SEC Network.
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