Oklahoma basketball gets Reid, Forsythe back for next year

Oklahoma basketball came out of transfer-portal-exit season in good shape. Great shape, even.

On Tuesday, the last day players could enter the portal, forward Derrion Reid and guard Dayton Forsythe both announced they would return to the Sooners for the 2026-27 season. They became the third and fourth players from last year's rotation to announce their return, following guard Xzayvier Brown and forward Kai Rogers.

Brown may be Oklahoma's leading returning scorer, but Reid was regularly the team's best player. He averaged 11.7 points and 4.4 rebounds while shooting 51% from the floor in his first season with the Sooners. Reid transferred to Oklahoma after playing his freshman year at Alabama, where he joined as a five-star recruit out of high school.

Forsythe was the top rated high-schooler in Oklahoma out of the 2024 class. The Dale High graduate averaged about 12 minutes a game his freshman season, but upped the average to about 17 per night last year as one of coach Porter Moser's first guard options of the bench. Forsythe finished the year averaging 5.3 points per game, a number that will almost certainly increase if he returns to shooting like he did his freshman season. Last year, he shot just 34% from the floor versus a 45% mark in year one.

Oklahoma also will bring in freshman forward Gage Mayfield and transfers Khani Rooths, a center, and Tyler Hendricks, a guard. That gives Moser likely seven of his top eight or nine players in the rotation next year.

This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Reid, Forsythe set to return to Oklahoma basketball next year