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Oklahoma Lands Commitment from Elite Shooting Guard

Otega Oweh chose the Sooners over Penn State while also holding offers from Illinois, Miami and others.

John E. Hoover

Oklahoma Lands Commitment from Elite Shooting Guard
Oklahoma Lands Commitment from Elite Shooting Guard /
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New Oklahoma basketball coach Porter Moser has landed a verbal commitment from one of the elite players in the 2022 recruiting class.

Otega Oweh, a 6-foot-4, 180-pound shooting guard from Blairstown, NJ, committed to the Sooners on Friday evening during a ceremony on CBS Sports HQ.

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According to the 247 Sports composite rankings, Oweh is the No. 8 shooting guard in the nation and the No. 76 player overall in the 2022 class.

He visited OU on Sept. 1, and chose the Sooners over Penn State. He also had offers from Illinois, Depaul, Georgia, Georgetown, UMass, Miami, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ole Miss, St. John’s, Virginia Tech and Washington and others.

As a sophomore, Oweh averaged 14.9 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game. 

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John E. Hoover
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.