The men’s Oklahoma basketball team didn’t win the Big 12 Tournament, but one of their own came out a big winner.
Umoja Gibson, known by his teammates and coaches simply as “Mo,” was named to the Big 12 All-Tournament Team.
Gibson scored 14 points in Oklahoma’s win over No. 2 seed Baylor and was the Sooners leading scorer with 16 points in the semifinal loss to No. 3 seed Texas Tech. The 6-foot, 1-inch Sooner senior from Waco, Texas, averaged 15.0 points and 2.5 made three-pointers per game in Oklahoma’s two tournament games.
Over the past three games, Gibson has averaged nearly 20 points per game. He scored a game-high 29 points in OU’s road win a week ago at Kansas State in the regular-season finale.
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Gibson was joined on the 2022 Big 12 All-Tournament Team by Ochai Agbagi and Christian Braun of tournament champion Kansas, the Texas Tech duo of Terrence Shannon Jr. and Bryson Williams and Mike Miles of TCU.
Gibson is in his second season at Oklahoma after playing his first two years of collegiate basketball at North Texas, in Denton, Texas.
The two-year Sooner starter is averaging 12.4 points per game and is Oklahoma’s second leading scorer this season. He was one of four scholarship players who remained at OU after Lon Kruger retired as head coach and was replaced by Porter Moser.
In 33 games this season, Gibson has averaged almost 32 minutes per game and has scored in double digits 24 times.
Gibson and his OU teammates now wait to find out their postseason fate. They have an outside chance of making it into the NCAA Tournament for what would be the fourth straight season, but are most likely headed for the National Invitation Tournament.