Oklahoma basketball gets Reid, Forsythe back for next year
OU basketball picked up some good news on Tuesday.
Oklahoma basketball came out of transfer-portal-exit season in good shape. Great shape, even. On Tuesday, the last day players could enter the portal, forward Derrion Reid and guard Dayton Forsythe both announced they would return to the Sooners for the 2026-27 season.
They became the third and fourth players from last year's rotation to announce their return, following guard Xzayvier Brown and forward Kai Rogers . Brown may be Oklahoma's leading returning scorer, but Reid was regularly the team's best player. He averaged 11.
7 points and 4. 4 rebounds while shooting 51% from the floor in his first season with the Sooners. Reid transferred to Oklahoma after playing his freshman year at Alabama, where he joined as a five-star recruit out of high school.
Forsythe was the top rated high-schooler in Oklahoma out of the 2024 class. The Dale High graduate averaged about 12 minutes a game his freshman season, but upped the average to about 17 per night last year as one of coach Porter Moser's first guard options of the bench. Forsythe finished the year averaging 5.