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OU Basketball: Oklahoma Lands Bedlam Transfer

Lexy Keys spent three years becoming one of the top 3-point shooters in Oklahoma State history; now she'll finish her career with the Sooners.
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OU Basketball: Oklahoma Lands Bedlam Transfer
OU Basketball: Oklahoma Lands Bedlam Transfer

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Jennie Barancyk is wasting no time rebuilding the Oklahoma roster.

And she didn’t have to go far to get started.

Baranczyk has apparently landed Lexy Keys, a 3-point and defensive specialist at Oklahoma State for the last three seasons.

The 5-foot-7 Keys, originally from Tahlequah, announced her decision to transfer to the other side of the Bedlam rivalry on Tuesday via social media.

Keys played high school basketball at Sequoyah High School, then was named Big 12 All-Freshman as she made 16 starts and played in all 28 games in 2020-21.

As an OSU sophomore, Keys played in 28 games and made 23 starts, averaging 10.1 points per game with a team-leading 51 successful 3-pointers.

Keys’ career-highs were 19 points against Kansas as a freshman and 22 against West Virginia as a sophomore. Last year, her season-high of 17 came against Kansas State.

Keys scored in double figures 17 times as a junior, including 14 in each regular season game against the Sooners. She also led the team in steals 11 times.

She shot .363 from the floor and .315 from 3-point range while averaging 9.4 points and 3.5 rebounds per game last season and made 32 starts.

In her OSU career, Keys ranks sixth in school history in 3-pointers with 130.

Baranczyk faces a major rebuild in Norman as she must replace three seniors — two of whom (Taylor Robertson and Madi Williams) rank 1-2 in school history in games played and starts, and one of whom is the all-time 3-point shooter in NCAA basketball history (Robertson).

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. 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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