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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Saturday, February 21
Norman, Okla.
7:30 p.m.
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OU to Host A&M, Honor Hield and 2016 Final Four Team
February 20, 2026 | Men's Basketball
NORMAN — Oklahoma (13-13, 3-10 SEC) goes for its third win in four contests when it hosts Texas A&M (18-8, 8-5) on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. CT at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman.
Saturday's game will be televised by SEC Network with Mike Morgan (play-by-play) and Jon Sundvold (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.
Oklahoma will host a 10-year reunion this weekend for its 2015-16 Final Four team, including a pregame on-court recognition. During a halftime ceremony, 2015-16 consensus national player of the year Buddy Hield will become the sixth OU men's basketball player to have his jersey raised to the LNC ceiling. Hield, OU's second-leading all-time scorer with 2,291 points, wore No. 24.
First-year Sooner Nijel Pack, who is in his sixth year overall, ranks third among active players with 2,164 career points. He has scored at least 17 points in six of the last seven games and is averaging 18.7 points during the stretch (has made 27 3-pointers on 52 attempts [52%]). He is three treys away from becoming just the 31st Division I player ever to register 400 makes.
After losing nine straight games, OU has won two of its last three (at No. 15 Vanderbilt and vs. Georgia). In those two contests, the Sooners led by double digits for a combined 40:32 of 80 minutes (27:23 at Vandy and 13:09 vs. Georgia). It shot a combined 56% from the field and 50% (23 for 46) from 3-point range.
• 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. Texas A&M has started seven different lineups.
• Picked 13th in the preseason SEC media poll, Texas A&M is 18-8 on the year and in a five-way tie for fifth place in the league at 8-5. The Aggies are 3-3 in SEC road games, beating Auburn, Texas and Georgia, and falling to Tennessee (2OT), Alabama and Vanderbilt. Their 80-77 comeback home win over Ole Miss on Wednesday snapped a four-game losing streak (they started 7-1 in conference play). Head coach Bucky McMillan is in his first year with A&M and sixth year overall.
• The resurgence of guard Dayton Forsythe has helped key the Sooners' recent turnaround. After a 10-game stretch in which he averaged 1.3 points and went 2 for 31 from the field and 0 for 12 from behind the arc, the sophomore is averaging 8.8 points over the last five contests on 52% field goal and 45% (5 for 11) 3-point shooting. Over the last three games, he is averaging 12.5 points (10 for 18 from the floor) in 20.7 minutes.
• Oklahoma 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. 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.
• The Sooners won the first 11 games of the series and 25 of the first 26, but the Aggies have won 12 of the last 19 and each of the last three. 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.
• The lone NCAA Tournament meeting between the programs occurred in the 2016 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.
• Nijel Pack scored a game-high 24 points, his most in 12 contests. Pack, who surpassed the 2,000-career-points mark, matched his season high with six 3-pointers and added a season-high-tying six rebounds as well as a game-high-tying five assists. The Sooners also squandered double-doubles from Derrion Reid (the first of his career) and Tae Davis. Reid made a career-high four treys on six attempts and finished with 19 points and a career-high 11 rebounds, three more than his previous high. Davis was 5 for 10 from the field and logged 12 points and 10 boards.
• Winner of the 2016 Wooden Award, Naismith Trophy and Oscar Robertson Trophy, Hield was a two-time Big 12 Player of the Year. He finished his career as the Big 12's all-time leading and OU's second-leading scorer with 2,291 points.
• Hield was the 2016 NCAA West Regional Most Outstanding Player after he went 8 for 13 from behind the arc and scored 37 points in a Final-Four-clinching win over Oregon.
• Hield and additional members of OU's 2015-16 Final Four team, coached by Lon Kruger, will also gather for a 10-year reunion this weekend and be recognized during a pregame on-court ceremony. The Sooners were ranked in the AP top 10 the entire season and spent three weeks in the No. 1 spot and 12 of 20 weeks in the top 3.
• Pack ranks second among all active Division I players and 31st all-time with 397 career 3-point field goals. Only 30 players have ever made 400 3-pointers.
• Pack has scored 20-plus points in four of the last seven games (25 at Missouri, 22 vs. Arkansas, 23 vs. Texas and 20 at Tennessee). He scored 17 and 18 in two of the other three games during the stretch.
• Pack ranks second in the SEC with his 3.2 treys per game and third with his .442 3FG percentage.
• Pack has made at least one 3-pointer in 24 of 26 games, at least three in 17 contests and at least four in 12 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 147 of his 148 career games.
• Brown has six 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 and 20 in a victory at No. 15 Vanderbilt).
• Brown ranks second in the SEC by shooting 91% from the free throw line (79 for 87), but only has eight attempts over the last six games. His streak of 27 makes 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 11 games of 20-plus in 26 outings this season (Nijel Pack ranks second with seven such efforts). Brown has 31 career games of at least 20.
• The Sooners have scored at least 85 points in 13 of their 26 games (50%), 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%).
• OU has committed single-digit turnovers 13 times, already its most such outings for an entire season in at least 40 years. The Sooners average just 10.2 turnovers per contest.
• Oklahoma is averaging 27.0 bench points in its three SEC wins and 13.8 bench points in its 10 league losses.
• OU's 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 (15.7), Tae Davis (12.9) and Derrion Reid (11.4) also average double figures. Mohamed Wague rounds out the starting five with his 6.2 per contest.
• Davis surpassed 1,000 career points and 500 rebounds this season and now has 1,219 and 579).
• Davis went 41 for 66 (62%) from the free throw line over OU's first 17 games but is 29 for 37 (78%) over the last nine.
• 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 4.7 points and 2.6 rebounds in 16.2 minutes per contest over his 14 games. He is shooting 56% from the field, 43% (9 for 21) from 3-point range and 69% (11 for 16) from the foul line.
• Long Beach State transfer Jadon Jones is averaging 5.7 points in 18.4 minutes per game over his 22 outings. He has also drawn 13 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 nine games.
• Redshirt freshman forward Kuol Atak ranks third on the team with his 36 3-point makes (shooting 43%) despite playing in just 20 of 26 games and averaging only 12.3 minutes in those contests. He is 25 for 46 (54%) from long distance in home contests, including 16 for 26 (62%) over his last four outings at Lloyd Noble Center. He has played in just four of OU's last nine games. In the Sooners' last home outing against Georgia on Saturday, he scored 18 points on 6-for-7 3-point shooting.
Saturday's game will be televised by SEC Network with Mike Morgan (play-by-play) and Jon Sundvold (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.
Oklahoma will host a 10-year reunion this weekend for its 2015-16 Final Four team, including a pregame on-court recognition. During a halftime ceremony, 2015-16 consensus national player of the year Buddy Hield will become the sixth OU men's basketball player to have his jersey raised to the LNC ceiling. Hield, OU's second-leading all-time scorer with 2,291 points, wore No. 24.
First-year Sooner Nijel Pack, who is in his sixth year overall, ranks third among active players with 2,164 career points. He has scored at least 17 points in six of the last seven games and is averaging 18.7 points during the stretch (has made 27 3-pointers on 52 attempts [52%]). He is three treys away from becoming just the 31st Division I player ever to register 400 makes.
After losing nine straight games, OU has won two of its last three (at No. 15 Vanderbilt and vs. Georgia). In those two contests, the Sooners led by double digits for a combined 40:32 of 80 minutes (27:23 at Vandy and 13:09 vs. Georgia). It shot a combined 56% from the field and 50% (23 for 46) from 3-point range.
SCENE SETTERS
• Oklahoma is 3-10 in SEC play but has held a halftime lead in six of the 13 games. In fact, it has held a double-digit lead in five of the last nine outings (two 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. Texas A&M has started seven different lineups.
• Picked 13th in the preseason SEC media poll, Texas A&M is 18-8 on the year and in a five-way tie for fifth place in the league at 8-5. The Aggies are 3-3 in SEC road games, beating Auburn, Texas and Georgia, and falling to Tennessee (2OT), Alabama and Vanderbilt. Their 80-77 comeback home win over Ole Miss on Wednesday snapped a four-game losing streak (they started 7-1 in conference play). Head coach Bucky McMillan is in his first year with A&M and sixth year overall.
• The resurgence of guard Dayton Forsythe has helped key the Sooners' recent turnaround. After a 10-game stretch in which he averaged 1.3 points and went 2 for 31 from the field and 0 for 12 from behind the arc, the sophomore is averaging 8.8 points over the last five contests on 52% field goal and 45% (5 for 11) 3-point shooting. Over the last three games, he is averaging 12.5 points (10 for 18 from the floor) in 20.7 minutes.
• Oklahoma 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. 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 32-13 all-time against Texas A&M (15-4 in Norman).• The Sooners won the first 11 games of the series and 25 of the first 26, but the Aggies have won 12 of the last 19 and each of the last three. 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.
• The lone NCAA Tournament meeting between the programs occurred in the 2016 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.
JAN. 10 OU-A&M RECAP
• After leading 67-63 midway through the second half, Oklahoma was outscored 20-9 the rest of the way in an 83-76 loss at Texas A&M in the teams' first meeting this season on Jan. 10. OU went 4 for 14 (29%) from the field over the game's last 10 minutes and missed its last 10 3-point attempts after starting 11 for 21. The Sooners entered the game averaging a league-low 9.5 turnovers per contest but committed a season-high 17 on the day and were outscored 18-8 off turnovers.• Nijel Pack scored a game-high 24 points, his most in 12 contests. Pack, who surpassed the 2,000-career-points mark, matched his season high with six 3-pointers and added a season-high-tying six rebounds as well as a game-high-tying five assists. The Sooners also squandered double-doubles from Derrion Reid (the first of his career) and Tae Davis. Reid made a career-high four treys on six attempts and finished with 19 points and a career-high 11 rebounds, three more than his previous high. Davis was 5 for 10 from the field and logged 12 points and 10 boards.
OU TO HONOR HIELD, 2015-16 FINAL FOUR SQUAD SATURDAY
• 2016 consensus national player of the year Buddy Hield will become the sixth former OU men's basketball player to have his jersey raised to Lloyd Noble Center's ceiling on Saturday during a halftime ceremony. He will join Wayman Tisdale (No. 23 honored in 1997), Alvan Adams (No. 33 honored in 1998), Mookie Blaylock (No. 10 honored in 2001), Stacey King (No. 33 honored in 2008) and Blake Griffin (No. 23 honored in 2016).• Winner of the 2016 Wooden Award, Naismith Trophy and Oscar Robertson Trophy, Hield was a two-time Big 12 Player of the Year. He finished his career as the Big 12's all-time leading and OU's second-leading scorer with 2,291 points.
• Hield was the 2016 NCAA West Regional Most Outstanding Player after he went 8 for 13 from behind the arc and scored 37 points in a Final-Four-clinching win over Oregon.
• Hield and additional members of OU's 2015-16 Final Four team, coached by Lon Kruger, will also gather for a 10-year reunion this weekend and be recognized during a pregame on-court ceremony. The Sooners were ranked in the AP top 10 the entire season and spent three weeks in the No. 1 spot and 12 of 20 weeks in the top 3.
PACK MENTALITY
• First-year Oklahoma guard Nijel Pack surpassed the 2,000-point mark Jan. 11 at Texas A&M and has 2,164 for his career to rank third nationally among active players.• Pack ranks second among all active Division I players and 31st all-time with 397 career 3-point field goals. Only 30 players have ever made 400 3-pointers.
• Pack has scored 20-plus points in four of the last seven games (25 at Missouri, 22 vs. Arkansas, 23 vs. Texas and 20 at Tennessee). He scored 17 and 18 in two of the other three games during the stretch.
• Pack ranks second in the SEC with his 3.2 treys per game and third with his .442 3FG percentage.
• Pack has made at least one 3-pointer in 24 of 26 games, at least three in 17 contests and at least four in 12 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 147 of his 148 career games.
OU's 'X' FACTOR
• After scoring at least 13 points 14 times in a 15-game stretch (he averaged 18.7 points on 50% field goal, 40% [34-for-84] 3-point and 93% [54-for-58] free throw shooting in the 15 contests), junior guard Xzayvier Brown has been held to five points each of the last two games.• Brown has six 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 and 20 in a victory at No. 15 Vanderbilt).
• Brown ranks second in the SEC by shooting 91% from the free throw line (79 for 87), but only has eight attempts over the last six games. His streak of 27 makes 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 11 games of 20-plus in 26 outings this season (Nijel Pack ranks second with seven such efforts). Brown has 31 career games of at least 20.
MORE OU NOTES AND NUGGETS
• Oklahoma has led for over 20 minutes in five of the last seven games. It led for 22:38 in an 88-87 loss at Missouri, for 23:36 in an 83-79 loss to Arkansas, for 30:21 in a 79-69 loss to Texas, for 39:45 in a 92-91 win at Vanderbilt and for 20:57 in a 94-78 win over Georgia on Saturday.• The Sooners have scored at least 85 points in 13 of their 26 games (50%), 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%).
• OU has committed single-digit turnovers 13 times, already its most such outings for an entire season in at least 40 years. The Sooners average just 10.2 turnovers per contest.
• Oklahoma is averaging 27.0 bench points in its three SEC wins and 13.8 bench points in its 10 league losses.
• OU's 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 (15.7), Tae Davis (12.9) and Derrion Reid (11.4) also average double figures. Mohamed Wague rounds out the starting five with his 6.2 per contest.
• Davis surpassed 1,000 career points and 500 rebounds this season and now has 1,219 and 579).
• Davis went 41 for 66 (62%) from the free throw line over OU's first 17 games but is 29 for 37 (78%) over the last nine.
• 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 4.7 points and 2.6 rebounds in 16.2 minutes per contest over his 14 games. He is shooting 56% from the field, 43% (9 for 21) from 3-point range and 69% (11 for 16) from the foul line.
• Long Beach State transfer Jadon Jones is averaging 5.7 points in 18.4 minutes per game over his 22 outings. He has also drawn 13 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 nine games.
• Redshirt freshman forward Kuol Atak ranks third on the team with his 36 3-point makes (shooting 43%) despite playing in just 20 of 26 games and averaging only 12.3 minutes in those contests. He is 25 for 46 (54%) from long distance in home contests, including 16 for 26 (62%) over his last four outings at Lloyd Noble Center. He has played in just four of OU's last nine games. In the Sooners' last home outing against Georgia on Saturday, he scored 18 points on 6-for-7 3-point shooting.
UP NEXT
• OU stays home to host Auburn (14-12, 5-8 SEC) on Tuesday at 8 p.m. CT.
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