OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City opens its men's basketball season with three games in Lawrence, Kansas, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
 
The Stars open against Baker at 5 p.m. on Thursday, followed by Haskell Indian Nations University at 8 p.m. on Friday and Park at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
 
First-year coach Tim Moser leads an OCU team with no returning starters and four returning players.
 
Moser has five players who came with him from Texas-Tyler (Noah Suarjaya, Mate Kapanadze, Xavier Williams, Spencer Gaze and Jacob Bell), three of whom have experience as starters.
 
OCU has won its last three season openers, but the last time the Stars opened with three games away from home, they lost all three in 2022-23 in Arizona.
 
Baker and OCU haven't met since the Stars won 66-58 at home in 2019. The Stars beat Haskell 115-85 last season.
 
Baker is 2-1 on the season with wins over Haskell and Friends and a loss against Columbia. Sophomore guard Cam Jones averages 17.3 points and eight rebounds, and Kameron Jonns averages 16 points off the bench.
 
Park dropped two games at home last weekend to Arizona Christian and Georgetown and heads to Lawrence at 0-2. Abubakar Kromah leads the team at 21.5 points and eight rebounds per game.
 
Haskell is 0-4 with losses to Baker, Benedictine, Friends and Ottawa. Parker Baumann averages 24.3 points and 7.5 rebounds per game.