NORMAN, Ok–Oklahoma has suspended basketball player Akolda Manyang after he punched a former Sooner football player in the face.

That player is Strafford product Tyler Evans.

Evans says he was trying to keep Manyang from hitting on a woman outside of a bar early Sunday morning.

The punch cut evans’ lip and knocked two of his teeth out.

Police charged Manyang with felony assault.

He’s a seven footer who’s in his junior year at Oklahoma.

Evans played football at Oklahoma after his Strafford high school career.