OU Basketball: Oklahoma's Porter Moser Denies DePaul Whispers

The third-year Sooners head coach told media on Monday he has no intention to leave Norman after the season.

NORMAN — Oklahoma men’s basketball  coach Porter Moser left nothing to the imagination Monday when asked about rumors of him leaving Norman after the 2023-24 season.

“[I] haven’t talked to anybody, not even thinking about anything. I’m just absolutely not even engaging in anything like that, 100 percent,” the third-year Sooners head coach told media ahead of No. 25 OU’s road match with No. 12 Baylor on Tuesday. “[I’m] so excited about where we’re at with the team. This is everything we’ve tried to build for, is being in this position."

Moser, a Naperville, IL, native, coached at Loyola-Chicago from 2011-21, only a 15-minute drive from DePaul, and led the Ramblers to an NCAA Final Four appearance in 2018. Rumors have swirled since January on social media that Moser could return to Chicago to repair DePaul’s struggling program (3-20 this season, 0-12 in Big East play), but Moser called it exactly that — “rumor mill fodder, nothing true.”

Peevy said from the outset the net won’t be cast as wide as before because he was able to talk to many before.

Josh Schertz
Bryce Drew
Bobby Hurley
Porter Moser

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It’s not the first time during his tenure at OU that Moser has been linked to a not-yet-vacant job. Last year, the 54-year old coach was asked about his interest in the Notre Dame job, to which he answered with similar fervor as he did Monday:

“I’m a Catholic kid from Chicago. We had a lot of success in the Chicago area,” Moser said last year. “ … With that said, I have no interest. I’ve not pursued it, nor do I have any interest. Oklahoma’s my home. The Sooners are my home.”

Moser and the Sooners tip off Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Waco, Texas.