Bedlam basketball: Longtime teammates Lindy Waters III, Trae Young will be reunited on opposite sides of Bedlam

Oklahoma State's Lindy Waters III, center, will be reunited with longtime teammate Trae Young of Oklahoma in the first Bedlam basketball showdown of the season Wednesday in Norman. [PHOTO BY TYLER DRABEK, FOR THE OKLAHOMAN]

NORMAN — Only a couple of men anywhere have spent as much time on a basketball court with Trae Young as Oklahoma State guard Lindy Waters III has.

Teammates since elementary school, Waters and Young, the Oklahoma freshman star, will be competing on the same court for the first time since their Norman North High School team lost in the Class 6A state finals in 2016 when No. 7 OU hosts OSU in the first Bedlam showdown of the season at Lloyd Noble Center.

While Young's impact is easy to measure in statistics — he leads the nation in scoring (29.6) and assists (10.7) per game through his first 12 career games — Waters' effect is gauged differently.

The 6-foot-6 guard doesn't lead the 10-3 Cowboys in points, rebounds, assists or blocks.