For Porter Moser and OU basketball, this is deja vu all over again | Mussatto

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NORMAN — Like Yogi Berra said, it’s deja vu all over again.

OU men’s basketball under Porter Moser is becoming quite redundant. Rack up wins against lesser non-conference foes, struggle in conference play, sweat it out on Selection Sunday.

If the Sooners miss the NCAA Tournament for the fourth consecutive season, we might look back to what happened Wednesday night as a reason why.

No. 16 OU’s 80-78 loss to No. 9 Texas A&M was a brutal defeat for all sorts of reasons.

1. The Sooners led the Aggies by 18 points with 17 minutes left in the game. Texas A&M outscored OU 47-27 from then on.

2. OU guard Brycen Goodine had 34 points off the bench! The transfer from Fairfield via Providence and Syracuse shot 9-of-11 from behind the arc. His nine 3-pointers were the most by a Sooner since Trae Young made 10 against TCU in 2018. OU shot 14-of-24 (58%) from 3-point range and lost.

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Oklahoma coach Porter Moser shouts at an official during an SEC men’s college basketball game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Texas A&M Aggies at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. Texas A&M won 80-78.

3. Texas A&M was without star guard Wade Taylor IV, who was injured. A two-time All-SEC selection, Taylor is the Aggies’ leading scorer at 15.7 points per game. Up stepped Zhuric Phelps in Taylor’s absence. Phelps matched Goodine with a 34-piece — one of the most obscure scoring duels I can remember.

4. This was OU’s first-ever SEC home game. If the Sooners are to make the NCAA Tournament, they have to protect their home floor in conference play. You can find all sorts of data points as to why OU has missed the tournament in each of Moser’s first three seasons, but a 13-14 record in Big 12 home games is as glaring as any. And this SEC might be better than any of those Big 12s.

“It was a very, very tough loss, but man, you’ve gotta have amnesia,”…

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Author : The Oklahoman

Publish date : 2025-01-09 11:31:00

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