Thirty games into the 2025 college basketball season and it comes down to one game — the final contest of the regular season and a classic Red River Rivalry between bitter rivals Oklahoma and Texas with much at stake for both teams.
ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has both Oklahoma and Texas among the first four teams out in his latest NCAA Tournament projections. And he has the Sooners as the first team left out of the tournament going into the final weekend of the regular season.
Both teams are coming off much-needed wins earlier this week. Oklahoma (18-12, 5-12) defeated No. 15 Missouri behind a career-high 31-point performance from freshman Jeremiah Fears. Texas (17-13, 6-11) came away with an 87-82 overtime win at home over No. 25 Mississippi State.
With eight SEC teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25, including three of the top five, this is one of the rare times this season with two unranked SEC teams facing each other. The Sooners and Longhorns are in a battle for 13th in the 16-team SEC standings. That spot currently belongs to Texas, but an Oklahoma win on Saturday would forge a tie.
Oklahoma owns a 57-49 record in the all-time series with its chief rival, but Texas is 26-20 in games played in Austin. The Sooners have lost the last three times they have paid a visit to the Moody Center in Austin. The last time OU won there was an 80-79 squeaker in 2021.
Texas won the earlier game this season in Norman 77-73. The Sooners fought back from a 23-point second-half deficit but came up just short at the end. OU cut the Longhorn lead down to two points with 15 seconds left but couldn’t get any closer.
Saturday’s game is scheduled to tip off at 7 p.m. CT and will be televised on SEC Network with an announce crew of Roy Philpott (play-by-play) and Pat Bradley (analysis).
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