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OU Basketball: Oklahoma Reveals 2024-25 SEC Opponents

The Sooners learned their nine conference home opponents and the nine they'll play on the road in their first season in the Southeastern Conference.
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Oklahoma coach Porter Moser
Oklahoma coach Porter Moser | BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY

Ready or not, here comes the SEC.

Oklahoma coach Porter Moser faces another roster overhaul and still hasn’t made a visit to the NCAA Tournament.

But the Sooners’ 2024-25 schedule offers no respite.

OU learned its SEC opponents on Monday, and there are highlights aplenty.

With road trips to Tuscaloosa, Fayetteville, Gainesville, Athens, College Station and more, the Sooners’ SEC road slate is daunting.

But no less daunting is a home schedule that includes the likes of Kentucky, LSU, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.

OU officially joins the SEC on July 1. Dates (and tipoff times) will be announced later, but Monday revealed enough for now.

Home-and-home series with Missouri, Texas and Texas A&M  loom. 

So do road trips to Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia and Ole Miss.

The Sooners’ home slate consists of dates with Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vandy.

Attendance at Lloyd Noble Center has lagged in recent years, so refreshing the conference home schedule should provide a boost from the home crowd.

Moser is 54-45 in three seasons since replacing Lon Kruger, including a 20-35 mark against Big 12 Conference competition. During Moser’s stay in Norman, the Big 12 has emerged as college basketball’s best conference.

But the SEC has also elevated the sport of basketball, placing seven teams in the NCAA Tournament field last season.

In 2023-24, Tennessee was 27-9, Auburn 27-8, South Carolina 26-8, Kentucky 23-10, Alabama and Florida 24-12, A&M 21-15, Mississippi State 21-14, Ole Miss 20-12 and Georgia 20-17.

Only Arkansas (16-17), Vandy (9-23) and Mizzou (8-24) had losing records.

Since the beginning of the 2018-19 season, the Sooners are 13-2 against SEC competition, according to an OU press release. OU is 241-194 all-time record against its future SEC opponents.

According to the SEC scheduling matrix, SEC teams play all 15 opponents at least once in league play between Jan. 4 and March 8. This year's SEC Tournament will be held March 12-16 in Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.

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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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