With three Sooner starters who started every game for three seasons and helped lead Oklahoma to 29 overall wins last season and a Final Four appearance now gone, this season starts a new era of Oklahoma basketball with a new complement of starters and a number of new faces as well as some familiar faces in different roles.
Washburn is playing its third exhibition game against a team from the Big 12. The Ichabods visited Kansas, ranked No. 2 in the preseason Associated Press poll, a week ago, and later that week played an exhibition game at Kansas State.