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Oklahoma basketball: OU-Texas game delayed a day

By Chip Rouse

Apr 4, 2020; Austin, TX, USA; Texas Longhorns forward Kai Jones (22) drives and scores against Oklahoma Sooners guard Elijah Harkless (24) and forward Kur Kuath (52) in the first half at the Frank Erwin Center. Mandatory Credit: Ricardo B. Brazziell/American-Statesman via USA TODAY NETWORK
Apr 4, 2020; Austin, TX, USA; Texas Longhorns forward Kai Jones (22) drives and scores against Oklahoma Sooners guard Elijah Harkless (24) and forward Kur Kuath (52) in the first half at the Frank Erwin Center. Mandatory Credit: Ricardo B. Brazziell/American-Statesman via USA TODAY NETWORK /
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The Oklahoma basketball game with Texas this week has been moved back a day because of bad winter weather in both Oklahoma and Texas.

The game between the No. 9 Sooners and No. 12 Longhorns was originally scheduled for Tuesday night in Norman, but the Big 12 announced on Monday that the contest will be moved to Wednesday night. The time and television information has not yet been determined.

This is the result of the bitter cold and extremely dangerous winter weather that is gripping a large part of the country.

The OU-Texas Red River Showdown is one of two schedule adjustments impacting the Sooners that the Big 12 announced on Monday.

The Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game in Stillwater that was earlier rescheduled for Thursday, Feb. 25 has now been moved to Monday, March 1, when it will be televised beginning at 8 p.m. on ESPN2.

Those same two teams will play in Norman 48 hours before that.

The original Big 12 schedule had the Sooners and Cowboys playing the first of their two scheduled Bedlam games on Jan. 16. Covid-19 issues with the Oklahoma State program, however, forced the postponement of that game, and its was subsequently rescheduled for Feb. 25.

Oklahoma head coach Lon Kruger told Joey Helmer, OU Insider for 247Sports that the schedule movements are no big deal given all the other adjustments teams have been dealing with in this unusual college basketball season.

“I think teams across the country are probably as prepared, given all the COVID-19 adjustments, to handle weather or injury or foul trouble or whatever else because players all over the country have had to adjust and take it in stride and do whatever it is we need to do to play the next game, whenever that is,” Kruger said.

At this point, the next Oklahoma game is against Texas at Lloyd Noble Center on Wednesday.

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