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OU basketball ready for final exhibition, heading to Wisconsin

Bob Przybyloby: Bob Przybylo10 hours agoBPrzybylo
Derrion Reid

One last look for OU basketball before the real thing gets going. Another quality look as well as Wisconsin has not been a slouch for a long time.

The Sooners won a secret scrimmage against Texas Tech two weeks ago, 89-87, and time to head to Milwaukee.

Final exhibition set for 7 p.m. Friday in Milwaukee (Big Ten Network+).

“The key, is bonding and gelling,” head coach Porter Moser said. “Guys nowadays, I look at the guys that we signed in the portal, you don’t have to beg ’em to get in the gym. They’re going to be in the gym, live in the gym. Guys nowadays, if you got to worry about guys getting in the gym and working…

“It’s more about having them come together because you’ve got to form a bond to that when distractions start happening during the season, a loss or whatever it may be, they come together. That’s why it’s important.

“I can’t imagine them not getting together and all of a sudden in September they’re getting together. So to me, it’s more important. We can all say the practice time, I love it, I’m a practice guy. But they’re going to get in the gym. They’re going to work out. We’re limited in hours anyways. It’s that time together hanging out, spending that time in the summer, getting to know each other so they can create a bond faster than when we come back in the fall.”

OU cleaned up in the transfer portal, no question about that. The quartet (Nijel Pack, Tae Davis, Xzayvier Brown, Derrion Reid) is so good, but the road is so tough. All it did was improve OU from being 15th in the SEC preseason poll last season to No. 12.

OU begins its season Nov. 3 (Monday). A local media day is expected in Norman sometime next week.

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