Tag: 2024-2025 Oklahoma Sooners Men’s Basketball

Oklahoma Sooners add Long Beach State transfer Jadon Jones

In an attempt to retool the roster for 2024-2025, the Oklahoma Sooners add Long Beach State transfer guard Jadon Jones.

The Oklahoma Sooners have several roster holes to fill as they prepare for their fourth season under Porter Moser. As they work to build a team that can break through and get back into the NCAA tournament, OU added Long Beach State transfer guard Jadon Jones.

Jones was the 2023-2024 Big West Defensive Player of the Year for a Long Beach State squad that went 21-15 and finished fifth in the conference. Jones averaged 12.1 points per game on 41.9% shooting from the field and 37% from 3. He was an 81% free-throw shooter last season.

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After the losses of Milos Uzan, Otega Owen, Rivaldo Soares, Le’Tre Darthard and Jovian McCollum, the Sooners have a large number of minutes to fill in the backcourt.

Jones brings a wealth of experience to the Sooners. He has played in 112 games over four seasons, averaging 10.2 points and 28.2 minutes per game during his career. He started 90 games in his time with the Beach and should start for the Sooners or at least play significant minutes off the bench in 2024-2025.

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Oklahoma Sooners land transfer guard Kobe Elvis

It took them a while but the Sooners land a talented veteran guard from Dayton.

It’s been a crazy offseason for [autotag]Porter Moser[/autotag] and crew as they have to replace at least five key players from last year’s team. That could be six if [autotag]Jalon Moore[/autotag] decides to stay in the NBA Draft.

So far the Sooners have been active in the transfer portal but haven’t had a lot of luck landing guys. That was until Tuesday when they picked up their first transfer of the cycle.

[autotag]Kobe Elvis[/autotag] is a 6-foot-2 guard who spent the last three seasons at Dayton after transferring from DePaul. Last year, he averaged 9.4 points per game and shot 37% from three. That’s where the Sooners hope he can provide a lift to next year’s team.

The biggest thing Elvis adds is experience. He’s played in 105 games, 84 of which he has started. That includes starting 50 of the last 54 games he’s played. Overall, he’s not a prospect that is going to blow fans away, but he’s a solid piece to get, as they need to have some experience for next season.

If you can pair him with some of the big fish the Sooners are after, that makes it an even better pick-up. Even still, this is similar to the moves we’ve seen Moser make in the past to get his team some veteran leadership. That can be valuable if the Sooners can figure out how to make it back to the [autotag]NCAA Tournament[/autotag].

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State of the Oklahoma Sooners Men’s basketball program

Can the Oklahoma Sooners continue to live in the transfer portal?

Another year and another offseason of roster turnover for [autotag]Porter Moser[/autotag] and the Oklahoma Sooners men’s basketball team. The Sooners are coming off a year of growth but not enough to make the NCAA Tournament.

This marks the third straight season the Sooners have not gone dancing in March, which is unacceptable for a program like Oklahoma. The Sooners also now have their work cut out for them because they have to replace five key pieces from this past year’s team.

[autotag]Le’Tre Darthard[/autotag] and [autotag]Rivaldo Soares[/autotag] are out of eligibility. Milos Uzan, John Hugley and Otega Oweh have all entered the transfer portal. The writing seemed to be on the wall as the season was coming to a close but they still create a big hole to fill this offseason.

The Sooners did add two players to this past year’s recruiting class meaning they have four spots to fill in the transfer portal.

Some of the names the Sooners have reportedly been linked to are [autotag]Brandon Garrison[/autotag] from Oklahoma State, [autotag]Sean Pedulla[/autotag] from Virginia Tech and [autotag]Kevin Overton[/autotag] from Drake. What do they all have in common? They all played high school basketball in Oklahoma.

But right now, the state of the program is not good.

Does that mean those guys aren’t buying into Moser’s message? Are they not buying into the vision he has for the program or for them as individual players? What is the disconnect so far?

In this day and age, you can build a great team in the portal. North Carolina State and Alabama both did it. They both have several key pieces that transferred in this year or the year before. It can be done, but Oklahoma and Moser have to start hitting on the big fish.

I get Oklahoma isn’t a “basketball school” and is much more of a “football school”. A lot of people say Purdue is a basketball school and not a football school. Did you know since the 1980-1981 season, Purdue has made one Final Four, whereas Oklahoma has made three? Purdue ended their final four drought this season.

It’s time for the university and the people who support the school to start showing more support to the basketball team. Start raising NIL so they can be competitive in that space in the portal. If the Sooners will start getting competitive, they’ll have no problem getting fans into seats.

But it starts with the school taking it a little more seriously than they have to this point.

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