After falling wanting the NCAA Match final spring, Oklahoma jumps into the 2024-25 basketball season Monday night time when it hosts Lindenwood in Norman, Okla.
Sooners coach Porter Moser has but to take his group to the NCAA Match in his three years on the helm, however final yr was the hardest blow. Oklahoma began the season 10-0, was ranked as excessive as seventh within the nation in mid-December, however struggled within the Massive 12, ending ninth within the convention and was declared the final group out of the 68-team subject.
The Sooners had been 20-12 (8-10). Oklahoma declined an NIT bid, with Moser saying he was considering of the well being and well-being of his gamers.
Oklahoma will look totally different when it takes the ground Monday, and never simply due to the brand new SEC logos on the ground; that is the Sooners’ first season within the SEC. Javian McCollum, who averaged 13.3 factors final season, transferred to Georgia Tech. Glenn Taylor Jr. transferred in from St. John’s to Oklahoma after beginning 21 video games for the Crimson Storm.
All-Massive 12 honorable point out choice Jalon Moore is the Sooners returning main scorer with 11.2. He made 31 begins final season.
Brycen Goodine is a sixth-year senior who has performed at Syracuse, Windfall and most just lately Fairfield. He shot 46.7 p.c from three-point vary final yr for the Stags.
Moser additionally praised redshirt freshman Jacolb Cole, a wing participant. Cole was the seventh-rated participant in Missouri in 2023.
“He embraced it [being a redshirt]. We had a ability improvement play for him; bear in mind, he tore his ACL in highschool, he is a 6-8 wing participant, a lefty,” Moser stated. “He provides us a giant physique wing. I actually like his toughness.”
Lindenwood is beginning its third season as a Division I basketball program. A member of the Ohio Valley Convention, the Lions completed 9-22 (3-15) final yr.
Coach Kyle Gerdeman is in his sixth season with the Lions, and he’s optimistic about this system he’s constructing.
“I believe most likely, like loads of loads of groups within the convention, you understand just about a brand new group,” he stated. “We have got some returners again however bringing in, you understand, loads of new guys, some Division I transfers, a number of highschool children, three freshmen, couple of junior school children as nicely.
“I believe loads of loads of unknown however I believe loads of pleasure as a result of I do really feel … we have sort of been in a position to construct a base for our program.”
–Area Degree Media
