OU Basketball: Former Oklahoma Guard Announces Portal Destination

Milos Uzan entered the transfer portal on March 31, and on Friday night he revealed his new hoops home will remain in the Big 12.

John E. Hoover | Apr 13, 2024

Oklahoma G Milos Uzan / Alonzo Adams-USA TODAY Sports

Former Oklahoma guard Milos Uzan has picked his new home.

And he’s staying in the Big 12.

Uzan announced Saturday night that he’ll be playing next season at the University of Houston under coach Kelvin Sampson.

https://x.com/lossyuzan/status/1779318546893332813

In two seasons in Norman, Uzan played in all 64 games with 56 career starts. He averaged 7.6 points, 2.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game as a true freshman, and 9.0, 3.2 and 4.4 this past season as a sophomore.

Uzan, a 6-foot-4, 190-pound sophomore from Las Vegas, announced on March 31 that he would be entering the portal after two years as a frontline player for Porter Moser’s Sooners. Uzan was seen as a fundamental piece of Moser’s eventual rebuild, but his productivity faded toward the end of 2023-24 as the Sooners hit a tailspin that ultimately kept them out of the NCAA Tournament for the third year in a row.

Uzan was one of four Sooners to hit the portal this offseason, joining fellow sophomore Otega Oweh, transfer guard Javian McCollum and transfer forward John Hugley.

That foursome played in a combined 118 games this season and averaged an aggregate 39.1 points, 12.4 rebounds and9.4 assists per game.

Uzan led the Sooners with 139 assists and was fifth in scoring and sixth in rebounds.

Published Apr 13, 2024

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.