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OU freshman guard Dayton Forsythe good to go for Sooners

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OU freshman Dayton Forsythe. (Alonzo Adams - Imagn Images).

OU head coach Porter Moser wants his teams to be physical, but maybe freshman guard Dayton Forsythe took it too far.

Joking, of course, but it sounds like Forsythe is going to be just fine and ready to go for OU. Forsythe took an elbow to the face in the first half of OU’s 65-62 victory at Arkansas on Saturday night.

Forsythe actually finished the play and made a steal before being subbed out. He didn’t play in the second half, sound like it was just for precautionary reasons.

Sunday? Everything was back to normal.

“I mean, it’s like it never happened with him,” head coach Porter Moser said. “Anyway, ‘How are you?’ ‘Fine. Fine.’ ‘OK, just asking.’ It’s like it never happened. The swelling’s gone down; a little black and blue. He looks like Dayton, like he’s been in a fight. I love it.”

Forsythe has been key for OU in recent games. He did not play in the first meeting against Texas A&M three weeks ago.

The Sooners (15-4, 2-4) are at No. 13 Texas A&M at 8 p.m. Tuesday. OU lost 80-78 against the Aggies in Norman, blowing an 18-point lead in the second half.

The shoe was on the other foot this weekend. The Aggies let a 22-point lead get away in a 70-69 loss at  Texas.

Moser reminiscing…

“My wife and I, we met at The Tap. There’s a bar in College Station called The Tap that’s still there. We had, I don’t know, 10 years ago, we had an anniversary and went back to a football game and we went back there. There’s a burger place that used to be an old feed store. It was called Koppe Bridge. It literally had two things on the menu, chicken sandwich and a burger and cold bottled beer. And now that’s all developed out there and now they got a big menu. But it was the best burger. He had two things, one or the other and a long neck. Those are what you ordered when you went to the Koppe Bridge. I loved that place. I loved Wings’N More. Mark Dennard, the old Miami Dolphins guy, owned Wings’N More. Know that’s still there.

“We had quite a route of restaurants that I loved there. But yeah, my wife worked at The Tap, and I lived right across the street, and that’s where I met (her). … Real romantic story, but that’s what it was. Hey, 30-something-plus years. We didn’t have, what is it, Match.com or whatever the hell it’s called. Met the old-fashioned way.” – Moser talking about returning to College Station, his first coaching stop and where he met his wife

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