OU basketball, Porter Moser riding high with win after win

It’s May, get it, it’s early, but there is a positive momentum wave right now with OU basketball. Stemming from last season’s success to knocking out the transfer portal, it has been a very kind month for head coach Porter Moser and company.

Saturday? OU unveiled a new look to the practice court at Lloyd Noble Center. Sounds like a small thing, but just add it to everything else. Because everything else? Is pretty dang good.

new court for the lab 👀 pic.twitter.com/ij942JE289

— Oklahoma Basketball (@OU_MBBall) May 3, 2025

You also had the Friday announcement that two former Sooners are going to be showcased at the NBA Draft Combine, beginning next weekend.

Only 75 players get the invite and former OU guard Jeremiah Fears and forward Jalon Moore are both among that elite group.

That’s the type of momentum Moser can use both in high school recruiting and in the transfer portal. You have the success of Fears coming straight out of high school and unleashed in the right way to prosper.

Then you have the development of Moore. And if you want to point toward someone who got better the longer he was with OU, boom, there’s Moore.

Keep riding the wave.

Transfer portal additions (4)

Derrion Reid (Alabama, F, 3 seasons)

6-8, 220

6.0 points per game, 2.8 rebounds, 14.1 minutes

Closing the show with a bang. And closing it with another legitimate transfer portal victory. OU did not look like the favorite when Reid first hit the portal and was making visits. But the Sooners powered through and made their impression last week on his visit. Reid is a former McDonald’s All-American and missed a month of his freshman season with an injury. Fully healthy, he becomes a versatile piece at power forward and the wing position. OU needed to address the frontcourt, and it was done time and time again.

Xzayvier Brown (St. Joseph’s, G, 2 seasons)

6-2, 175

17.6 points per game, 5.2 rebounds, 4.3 assists, 42% FGs, 90% FT

Doesn’t matter that everybody knew this was coming for more than a week. There’s just a certain feeling of relief and excitement when it is actually announced. Brown was huge for St. Joe’s during his two seasons there, and he adds to what is already a pretty solid guard rotation. The belief remains his stepfather, Justin Scott, will be coming along, filling out the assistant coach spot vacancy. That has still not been announced by OU, but the dots keep connecting in the right direction. He was one of just five players nationally this past season to average at least 17.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.5 steals per game.

Nijel Pack (Miami, G, 1 season)

6-0, 185

13.9 points per game, 4.3 assists, 3.0 rebounds

Pack only played nine games last season for the Hurricanes. His departure from Kansas State to Miami was one of the benchmark moments in the portal/NIL. Pack was down to four schools with OU, KSU, Kansas and Indiana. He was leading the team in scoring averaging 13.9 points per game before injuring his foot Dec. 10 against Tennessee, and is expected to seek a medical hardship waiver to play his sixth season in college. In 122 games, he has knocked down 313 3-pointers while shooting just above 40 percent. Two in one day? That’s how you get on the transfer portal board. Pack and Davis committed the same day.

Tae Davis (Notre Dame, PF, 1 season)

15.1 points per game, 5.3 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 48% FGs

6-9, 208

A Power 4 transfer? Check. A big man Power 4 transfer? Oh yea, there was no way OU wasn’t going to at least make its pitch. Davis showed up at OU early in the process, and the Sooners made him a massive priority right from the jump. He started his career at Seton Hall and is someone who has shown the steady development and improvement with every season. OU had plenty of spots to fill in the frontcourt, and Davis was a tremendous starting point. He had eight performances of 20-plus points. That included a career-high 27 points against Buffalo (made 12 of 13 free throw attempts) and at Georgia Tech (was 9 for 10 at the line).