Back in 2015, after an OU horse pig threw popcorn on some OSU fans inside Lloyd-Noble, I took an opportunity to reminisce about OU men's hoops and write about one of my favorite mascots – Top Daug. Here's a snippet:
Out of all the mistakes the Sooner brass has made with the basketball program, the worst was tossing aside the beloved hoops mascot, Top Daug, for the monstrosity known as the Horse Pigs (Boomer and Sooner) in 2004.
Top Daug made his debut during the run and gun days of the Billy Tubbs era. Billy didn’t want the team to be known as "under dogs," so he came up with the idea for a Top Daug mascot. Cheesy? Yes… but Top Daug was awesome. He had a bold, obnoxious personality, could spin his head around in circles, and whenever you had to suffer through a patented “OU Field Goal Drought” during the “heart, hustle, hardwood” days of the Kelvin Sampson era, he’d serve as reminder for how fun things used to be.