Oklahoma Adds Butler to 2021-22 Schedule

Sooners and Bulldogs will tangle in December as part of the Big 12-Big East Battle.

John E. Hoover | Jun 2, 2021

Oklahoma Adds Butler to 2021-22 Schedule /

Oklahoma’s upcoming basketball schedule got a little heftier on Wednesday.

As part of the Big East-Big 12 Battle, OU will host Butler in a tantalizing interconfertnce game on Dec. 7 at Lloyd Noble Center.

Butler, historically one of the more potent programs in the nation, went just 10-15 season, including 8-12 in Big East play. The Bulldogs have won 20 games in five of the eight seasons since joining the Big East.

Oklahoma, in the first year under head coach Porter Moser, finished 16-11 overall and 9-8 in the Big 12 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

TV and tip time for the OU-Butler matchup will be announced later.

According to a press release, the four-year agreement between the two leagues continues through the 2022-23 season with an equal number of games played in each conference's home market each year.

All games in the 2021 Big East-Big 12 Battle were jointly determined by the two conferences and will be played in December.

The home school has the right to determine the venue of its game. Broadcast arrangements for the games will be determined by the national television rights holder of the home team, which is ESPN for the Big 12 and Fox Sports for the Big East.

2021 Big East-Big 12 Battle

Dec. 1 Texas Tech at Providence
Dec. 2 Kansas at St. John's
Dec. 4 Iowa State at Creighton
Dec. 5 Xavier at Oklahoma State
Dec. 7 Butler at Oklahoma
Dec. 8 Marquette at Kansas State
Dec. 8 Connecticut at West Virginia
Dec. 9 Texas at Seton Hall
Dec. 12 Villanova at Baylor
Dec. 18 TCU at Georgetown

Published Jun 2, 2021

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.