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Bedlam Basketball is Back: Oklahoma, OSU Schedule Hoops Doubleheader

The Sooners and Cowboys/Cowgirls will meet this season in a non-conference doubleheader in Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma basketball coach Jennie Baranczyk
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By OU Media Relations

NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma, in partnership with Paycom Center and Oklahoma State University, announced this week that the Sooners will face OSU in a basketball doubleheader in Oklahoma City on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025.

The OU men's and women's teams will take on the Cowboys and Cowgirls in non-conference matchups at Paycom Center, home of the 2024-25 NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder.

Fans can attend both games with a single ticket. Oklahoma season ticket holders will receive an email with pre-sale details, and OU students will get ticket information after the start of the fall semester.

Last season, head coach Porter Moser and the OU men's team defeated Oklahoma State 80-65 at Paycom Center on Dec. 14. The Sooners lead the all-time men's series 144-106 and have won the last three meetings.

The OU women's program holds a 69-47 Bedlam series advantage and has won six straight against the Cowgirls under head coach Jennie Baranczyk, including a 91-56 game in Norman on Feb. 24, 2024.

"It was an incredible experience for Oklahoma City to fill the arena with both OSU and OU fans in 2024," said Paycom Center general manager Chris Semrau. "We are honored to not only continue to host the Bedlam tradition but also expand it by adding the women's game."

The in-state rivals have met at least once every season in men's basketball since 1927-28, while the women's programs squared off annually from 1975 through 2024.

General public tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster on Friday, Aug. 1, at 10 a.m.

Game times will be announced at a later date.

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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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