Oklahoma center Raegan Beers may no longer be one of the best players in women’s college basketball, but instead, the best player in women’s college basketball.
It took one game of the 2025-26 season for Beers to already make a statement in the No. 6 Sooners’ 84-67 win against Belmont on Monday night at Lloyd Noble Center.
Raegen Beers posts double-double in Oklahoma's season opener
Beers, a 6-foot-4 senior, posted her 46th career double-double in the season opener with a team-high 29 points and 10 rebounds with a block in 27 minutes. The point total was just one shy of her career high. However, her 13 made field goals was a new high. And she did all that while going up against her sister, Rylie.
The only knock on Beers last season was a lack of minutes while averaging 22.3 despite starting, but she already surpassed that total in Game 1, which is a sign her minutes should continue to bump up as games get bigger as long as Beers stays healthy.
This production was expected from Beers this season, though. She led the Sooners with 17.3 points and 9.4 rebounds a game, plus had 39 blocks and 20 steals, in her first season at OU last year after transferring from Oregon State. At the end of the season, she was named a consensus All-American Honorable Mention and First-Team All-SEC.
Beers went into this season as a preseason All-American with the expectation to be one of the best players in the country while also playing for one of the best teams in the nation. She’s surrounded by more talent than she’s ever been after the Sooners returned four starters from last season and added No. 1 2025 recruit Aaliyah Chavez, who put up 16 points in her college debut Monday night.
No matter how impressive, though, an outing against the likes of Belmont won’t turn too many heads in Beers’ direction. But the Sooners hit the road to play No. 3 UCLA on Monday night in Sacramento, California, where Beers will go toe-to-toe with 6-foot-7 Lauren Betts, who led UCLA with 21 points in its season opener against San Diego State. A dominate performance on the West Coast in a top-5 matchup could put Beers and the Sooners at the top of women’s college basketball early.