Sooners Men's Basketball Cruises Past Fairleigh Dickinson for Third Straight Win

NORMAN, Okla. — After the Sooners played some sloppy basketball last week, Porter Moser wanted to see some control and ball security on Friday night against Fairleigh Dickinson in the Lloyd Noble Center.

The Sooners came out of the gate with control of the game and never looked back, systematically taking down the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights, 74–58, to improve to 3–1 on the season and move to 3–0 on the Sooners’ current homestand.

The Sooners opened the game on a 7-0 run, fueled by a Pop Isaacs 3-pointer. After that initial explosion, the Sooners would go on to control the rest of the game, systematically taking down the Knights.

The Knights attempted to make a comeback several times during the first half of play, trimming the Sooners lead to single digits on four separate occasions. However, each time FDU made a push to get back in the game, Oklahoma quickly shut them down. Right before the half, Isaacs and Edwards connected on back-to-back deep threes to extend the Sooners lead to 40-28 at the break.

After the break Fairleigh Dickinson never got closer than 11 points. Midway through the half, the Sooners broke open the game with a 12-0 run that included a great steal and coast-to-coast slam dunk by Edwards. The Sooners lead grew to as many as 26 points and the rest of the game was smooth sailing for the Sooners.

After scoring a season-high 17 points, the senior guard was on fire from behind the arc. He was 5-of-9 from three-point range, and also added five rebounds and three steals to his line.

Edwards came off the bench and provided a huge spark for the Sooners. Edwards finished the game with 16 points on the night, including a perfect 7-of-7 from the free throw line.

Derrion Reid, a junior forward, had 14 points and eight rebounds, while point guard Xzayvier Brown had 10 points and seven assists, with zero turnovers in the game.

The Sooners held Fairleigh Dickinson’s leading scorer, David Jevtic, to just five points on the night. FDU’s bench produced 15 points from Vophcy Prophete and 14 points from Bol Agu but the Knights were unable to find many answers to the Sooners’ defensive play.

What was most notable about the Sooners’ play on Friday night was their ability to control the basketball for long stretches of time and maintain possession for the entire game. With Dayton Forsythe out of the lineup with an ankle injury, the Sooners’ rotation of backcourt players was pressed into action and they responded by turning the basketball over only four times on the night, including only one in the first half of play.

The Sooners’ 16 points off of the 10 turnovers by the Knights was enough to secure the win and keep the game out of reach of the Knights for the entire game.

UP NEXT: The Sooners’ homestand continues on Wednesday, Nov. 18, when Oklahoma hosts the Campbell Fighting Camels in a 7 p.m. matchup at the Lloyd Noble Center.