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Report: Oklahoma's Porter Moser Expected to Hire Assistant, Land Guard Prospect from Transfer Portal

College basketball insider Jon Rothstein reported that Moser will bring in St. Joseph's aide Justin Scott, whose stepson Xzayvier Brown is one of the top prospects in the portal.
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St. Joseph's guard Xzayvier Brown
St. Joseph's guard Xzayvier Brown | Deena Ghazzi / Sideline Photos via SJUHawks.com

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Oklahoma needs help from the transfer portal.

Porter Moser might be on the verge of making a huge splash.

According to CBS college basketball insider Jon Rothstein, Moser is expected to hire St. Joseph’s associate head coach Justin Scott as an assistant coach at OU.

Scott’s stepson is St. Joseph’s sophomore guard Xzayvier Brown, who entered the portal earlier Monday and is immediately considered one of the top prospects available for transfer.

The 6-foot-2 Brown led the Hawks in scoring this past season at 17.6 points per game. He also averaged 5.2 rebounds (second on the team) and 4.3 assists (first) while shooting 42 percent from the floor (176-of-419), 35 percent from 3-point range (63-of-180) and a program record 89.7 percent from the free throw line (148-of-165). 

Brown was also second on the team with 47 steals and averaged 2.7 turnovers per game as he helped lead the Hawks to a 22-13 record this season.

Brown was first-team All-Atlantic 10 Conference and also made the A-10 All-Tournament team. Last year he was voted A-10 Rookie of the Year as well as Big 5 Rookie of the Year for Philadelphia schools.

Last season Brown led the team with 62 steals and was second in scoring at 12.7 points per game and third in assists at 117.

Brown hails from Philadelphia, where he starred at Roman Catholic School win the Philadelphia Catholic League championship and led the school to a Class 6A state title as a junior. 247 Sports rated him as a 3-star prospect.

His stepfather just finished his sixth season working for St. Joseph’s and head coach Billy Lange and was promoted to associate head coach in the spring of 2023.

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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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