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Oklahoma Announces Full Men's Basketball Schedule

The Sooners have 16 home games scheduled as well as four neutral-site games, including three in NBA arenas, plus their second season of games in the SEC.
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By OU Media Relations

NORMAN — With its non-conference slate of games finalized, University of Oklahoma Vice President and Director of Athletics Joe Castiglione and head coach Porter Moser announced the Sooners' full 2025-26 men's basketball schedule Thursday.

Oklahoma will play a 31-game regular season that features 16 home contests, 11 true road outings and four neutral-site games. It begins its campaign with an exhibition contest vs. Wisconsin on Oct. 24 at Fiserv Forum, home of the Milwaukee Bucks. That competition is one of three the Sooners will play in NBA arenas in 2025-26. They also take on Arizona State at PHX Arena (Phoenix Suns) on Dec. 6 and Oklahoma State at Paycom Center (Oklahoma City Thunder) on Dec. 13.

OU opens the regular season at home vs. Saint Francis on Monday, Nov. 3, and will play additional non-conference home games vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Nov. 11), Oral Roberts (Nov. 20), Alcorn State (Nov. 23), Kansas City (Dec. 16), Stetson (Dec. 22) and Mississippi Valley State (Dec. 29). The Nov. 11 OU-student-only Arkansas-Pine Bluff game will be played at historic McCasland Field House and will not be part of the OU season ticket package.

The Sooners will play true road games at Gonzaga in the second game of the season on Nov. 8 (off campus at Spokane Arena) and at Wake Forest on Dec. 2 as part of the ACC/SEC Challenge. Last year, the SEC went 14-2 in the event.

Neutral-site non-conference action includes outings against Nebraska on Nov. 15 in Sioux Falls, S.D. (Sanford Pentagon), vs. Marquette on Nov. 28 in Chicago (Credit Union 1 Arena), vs. Arizona State and vs. Oklahoma State.

In Southeastern Conference play, each league team will face the other 15 squads at least once, and each team will twice play three others during the schedule. For the second straight year, the Sooners will take on Missouri, Texas and Texas A&M both home and away.

Oklahoma will open SEC play at home by hosting Ole Miss on Saturday, Jan. 3. All nine of OU's SEC opponents that visit Lloyd Noble Center in 2026 made the 2025 NCAA Tournament, including five that advanced to at least the Sweet 16: Florida (national champion), Auburn (Final Four), Alabama (Elite Eight), Arkansas (Sweet 16) and Ole Miss (Sweet 16).

OU will play five Saturday SEC home contests: Jan. 3 vs. Ole Miss, Jan. 17 vs. Alabama, Jan. 31 vs. Texas, Feb. 14 vs. Georgia and Feb. 21 vs. Texas A&M. Its four midweek home games will be Jan. 13 or 14 vs. Florida, Jan. 27 or 28 vs. Arkansas, Feb. 24 or 25 vs. Auburn and March 3 or 4 vs. Missouri.

The Sooners' five Saturday road contests in league action will be played Jan. 10 at Texas A&M, Jan. 24 at Missouri, Feb. 7 at Vanderbilt, Feb. 28 at LSU and March 7 at Texas. Their four midweek road games will be Jan. 6 or 7 at Mississippi State, Jan. 20 or 21 at South Carolina, Feb. 3 at Kentucky and Feb. 17 or 18 at Tennessee. Tennessee advanced to last season's Elite Eight and Kentucky to the Sweet 16.

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Weekend dates for the 2026 SEC slate have been finalized, as have some midweek dates. Most of the midweek contests, however, will be announced by the conference office at a later time, as will tip times and TV network and streaming designations.

The SEC Tournament will be played at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena for the fourth straight year. The event will run from March 11-15.

The SEC is coming off one of the most dominant seasons in history, with its teams winning a record 88.9% (185-23) of their regular season non-conference games in 2025. Their KenPom.com rating of +22.09 was the highest in history. The league also set NCAA records with 14 NCAA Tournament selections and seven Sweet 16 teams, and tied the NCAA record with four Elite Eight squads. Florida's national title was the SEC's first since 2012.

Oklahoma ranks No. 6 nationally in On3's Team Transfer Portal Index. And according to 247Sports, three of OU's incoming transfers rank among the SEC's top 11 (Xzayvier Brown at No. 8, Derrion Reid at No. 9 and Nijel Pack at No. 11), and a fourth (Tae Davis) ranks No. 19.

Oklahoma season tickets are on sale now, starting at just $199. For more information, contact the OU Athletics Ticket Office at 405-325-2424, email outickets@ou.edu or visit www.SoonerSports.com/Tickets.

New courtside seats are being added for the 2025-26 season along the south baseline of Lloyd Noble Center. Fans interested in more information should contact the Sooner Club at (405) 325-8000 or soonerclub@ou.edu.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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