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Oklahoma Lands Power Forward via Transfer Portal

Sam Godwin, who hails from Moore, played last season for the Wofford Terriers.

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Oklahoma Lands Power Forward via Transfer Portal
Oklahoma Lands Power Forward via Transfer Portal /
Sam Godwin
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Oklahoma coach Porter Moser apparently is already bringing in talent for next year from the transfer portal — and he’s keeping it local.

Moser, who had to build a roster almost from scratch in his first season, has begun replenishing for 2022-23 with Wofford forward Sam Godwin.

Godwin, who originally hails from Ada and Moore — he played in high school at Southmoore — is a 6-foot-9, 230-pound forward.

He entered the transfer portal on March 23 and on Saturday announced his new destination via Instagram.

In his freshman season at Wofford, he played in 22 games with five starts, averaged 6.2 points and 3.7 rebounds in 16.6 minutes per game, and was named to the Southern Conference All-Freshman team. He had eight double-figure scoring games, including a career-high 15 points against Carver.

For the season, he shot .621 from the field, was 1-of-2 from 3-point range and hit 68.6 percent from the free throw line.

At Class 6A Southmoore, Godwin was named Southmoore Male Athlete of the Year, was a coaches first-team All-State and Academic All-State as he averaged 16 points, 12 rebounds and 3.2 blocked shots per game while leading the SaberCats to the 6A State Semifinals, where he was named to the All-Tournament team.

Moser has said he likes having players on the roster who grew up in Oklahoma, and said players like Ethan Chargois (Tulsa) and Marvin Johnson (Ardmore), who transferred to OU last year, were personally invested because they were raised around OU basketball.

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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.