Trae Young: good dude.
The Sooners will host 14-seed Florida Gulf Coast at 1:30 p.m. CT Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center. Before that game tips off, though, 6-seed Iowa and 11-seed Murray State will plat at 11 a.m. CT.
The winner of both of those games will meet in the second round on Monday in Norman.
Young, who grew up in Norman and played one season at OU before heading to the NBA, is pitching in during OU's quest to fill Lloyd Noble Center for the Sooners' first-round game. OU announced Thursday that Young bought 150 tickets for local kids to attend Saturday's game for free.
Tickets can be picked up at the Young Family Athletic Center, which is on Trae Young Drive in Norman, because of course. As of Thursday evening, OU posted that free tickets were still available.
A HUGE thank you to @TheTraeYoung for buying tickets for youth in Norman!
— Oklahoma Basketball (@OU_WBBall) March 20, 2025
Stop by the Young Family Athletic Center to claim your 🆓 tickets‼️ pic.twitter.com/EWZqAvcU1h
Young guided the OU men to the NCAA Tournament as a freshman in 2018. He led the country in points per game (27.4), points (848), assists (271), assists per game (8.7) and assist percentage (48.6%) that season while winning the Wayman Tisdale Award for National Freshman of the Year.
After one college season, the Dallas Mavericks drafted Young with the fifth overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft before almost immediately trading him to the Atlanta Hawks for Luka Dončić. Since, Young has emerged as a four-time NBA All-Star for the Hawks.