The Sooners were upset by East Texas A&M, 68-64, in Monday's season opener. After hearing chants for his firing and apologizing profusely to the fanbase, Porter Moser may have poured something stiff in the wee hours of Tuesday to dull the pain, if only for a moment. So here's a six-pack of stats to encapsulate a catastrophic season-opening showing.
"I apologize to every single person that came in," Moser said. "The things you do in a game like this in basketball that gets you beat, we did." Moser has only made the NCAA Tournament once in his first five seasons at Oklahoma, a big reason why CBS Sports' Gary Parrish put him as one of five coaches entering the 2026-27 season on the hot seat. Last night's results won't help.
To Moser's credit, the Sooners have always been right on the doorstep of an at-large bid, largely because it avoided disastrous losses like this. Moser was 31-0 in Quad 4 games at Oklahoma entering Monday. Star point guard Xzayvier Brown, one of the top 20 floor generals in the sport, did not play with a leg injury, but that doesn't explain or excuse this one.
"Shouldn't turn it over 15 times," Moser said. "I don't care who's out, who's in, who hasn't played." Oh, and this loss wasn't fluky. East Texas A&M dominated long stretches of the game.
It led by 16 points in the second half. Bo Aldridge, a Hutchinson Community College transfer, was the best guard on the floor, pouring in a game-high 22 points and dishing five assists. Lions coach Jaret Von Rosenberg has a real-deal player in French freshman forward Mohamed Diakite, who delivered 15 points, seven rebounds, two assists, three steals and the game-sealing poster jam.
The one that sealed it! #HailET #LT pic.twitter.com/jcGhqV9L9v Oklahoma will feel the reverberations from this one all the way until Selection Sunday. "There's no running away from this loss," Moser said.
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