OU basketball: Sooners welcomed to Houston with fanfare

Oklahoma's traveling party flew into Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base on the south side of Houston on Wednesday evening.

The Sooners were greeted by a receiving line of military veterans who were flanked by jets and tanks. The base is a joint instillation shared by various active and reserve military units. 

"They had a whole walkway where the soldiers were standing there with flags, each one," Sooner guard Jordan Woodard said. "They greeted us there, and we got to shake their hands. 

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"It was great to see."