The Oklahoma Sooners’ nonconference schedule for the 2026-27 men’s college basketball season is almost complete, and so far, it doesn’t have any dates worth circling for fans, especially at home.
Rocco Miller of Bracketeer.org and The Field of 68 recently revealed the Sooners’ lackluster nonconference slate that still has three dates to fill. But even if OU head coach Porter Moser goes out and finds three big-time programs for the Sooners to take on, the schedule overall will still have OU fans staying home and likely continue the Sooners’ streak of having the worst attendance in the SEC. And at this point, it’s hard to blame fans for not filling Lloyd Noble Center between disappointing seasons and underwhelming visitors.
Oklahoma’s nonconference schedule is almost complete and it’s obviously lacking
According to Miller, the Sooners’ season will tip off on Tuesday, Nov. 2, against East Texas A&M, which went 11-21 last season out of the Southland Conference. Cupcake opponents are pretty standard early in seasons, but for the Sooners, that’s just the beginning of anticlimactic matchups.
The rest of OU’s nonconference opponents set to visit Lloyd Noble Center include Mississippi Valley State, Fairleigh Dickinson, Campbell, Alabama State, Jackson State and UL Monroe. All are mid-major programs that had losing records last season. Fairleigh Dickinson is the only program of that group that will not have a brand new head coach next season after just firing their old one…