Also, OU’s baseball team stole 11 bases on Tuesday.

Happy Wednesday, Sooners friends and fans!

It was another tough loss for the Oklahoma Sooners men’s basketball team Tuesday night, getting blown out by the No. 9 Texas Tech Red Raiders, 66-42, down in Lubbock. Oklahoma has now lost seven of their last eight games and is 14-14 overall, just 4-11 in Big 12 play. The Sooners produced their lowest scoring output since 2004 and for the first time since at least 2004, not a single Sooner scored in double-figures.

The Oklahoman, as well as the OU Daily’s Grayson Blalock, break down the Sooners’ blowout loss to the Red Raiders and explained how their NCAA Tournament hopes are now hanging in the balance.

Next up is Bedlam round two, this Saturday at 11 a.m. on CBS. The Sooners need to more than likely win these final three regular season games to get back into March Madness.

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OU Women’s Basketball

• The Oklahoma Sooners women’s basketball team snapped their three-game losing streak, beating the TCU Horned Frogs on Wednesday night, 92-57. Six total Sooners scored in double-figures, led by Skylar Vann’s 17 points and Gabby Gregory’s season-high 13. The bench combined for 50 points in the blowout of the Horned Frogs. OU is now 21-6 on the season, 10-5 in Big 12 play.
• The Sooners are back in action on Saturday hosting the Kansas State Wildcats. OU will be honoring the 2002 Final Four team as well as recognizing former head coach Sherri Coale for all she did for the Oklahoma program. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. on Bally Sports Oklahoma.

OU Softball

• The No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners Softball team has dominated so for in the 2022 season, sitting at 10-0 on the season, outscoring their opponents 95-2, given up 0 earned runs and run-ruled eight opponents, six in a row. The highlight of the weekend was Jocelyn Alo hitting her 95th career home run, tying her with Sooners legend Lauren Chamberlain as the all-time NCAA home run leaders. The Hawaii native will more than likely break that this weekend. The Oklahoman’s Jenni Carlson profile’s how Alo’s ‘exile’ has lead her to becoming the home run queen. The Tulsa World’s Guerin Emig breaks down what Alo’s 96th homer will mean to both her and Sooners legend Lauren Chamberlain.
• The domination has lead to some individual accolades including Jocelyn Alo being named Louisville Slugger/NFCAorg & Big 12 Player of the Week. Alo hit five home runs in five games, including hitting career No. 95 to tie Lauren Chamberlain as the NCAA Career Home Run Leader. Alo batted .600 on the weekend with 11 RBI and seven extra base hits, leading No. 1 OU to five run-rule wins. She slugged an exceptional 1.733 and registered 26 total bases.
• Also, congrats to Hope Trautwein for being named conference co-pitcher of the week. Trautwein threw her fourth career no-hitter in OU’s 11-0 run-rule victory over McNeese on Saturday. The graduate transfer struck out eight in five innings of work and allowed just one walk to the 16 batters she faced. It marked her first individual no-hitter as a Sooner after combining on a perfect game in OU’s season opener.
• Next up, the Sooners head out to the West Coast to Cathedral City, California, for the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic. Five total games against Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State, No. 9 Arizona, No. 18 Tennessee and Utah. First up, Oklahoma faces off with CSU Fullerton on Friday at 2:30 p.m. and Long Beach State at 5 p.m. All games can be caught on flosoftball.com.

OU Baseball

• The Oklahoma Sooners Baseball team looked good on Tuesday, beating Wichita State, 6-2, to improve to 3-1 on the season. Braden Carmichael got the win throwing five innings, giving up one earned run and striking out four batters.
• Cade Horton and Tanner Tredaway both contributed 2-RBI, with Tredaway hitting a solo home run as well. Additionally. Sooner baserunners swiped 11 bags on the day. The OU Daily’s Eduardo Olivas highlights the Sooners successes in their 2022 home opener win over Wichita State.
• The Sooners are back in action this weekend against Northwestern State. The three-game series has been moved to Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas due to inclement weather in the Norman area. All three games can be heard on KREF 1400 AM/99.3FM starting Friday at noon.

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Sooners stall, Red Raiders soar as OU loses seventh game in last eight

The Oklahoma Sooners men’s basketball team traveled down to Lubbock with a major opportunity to sweep the No. 9 Texas Tech Red Raiders, and for a large part of the first half it looked like that was in play. However, after the Sooners got within four points with just under four minutes to go in the first half, the offense stalled out and Texas Tech took over, ultimately winning going away, 66-42.

After the Sooners cut the lead to 25-21, OU went on an 8 minute 46-second scoring drought that spanned the final four minutes of the first half and the first four of the second half. In that time the Red Raiders lead ballooned to 17, 39-22. To go along with the first drought, the Red Raiders also went on a 19-0 run to blow the game wide open late in the second half.

This has been a problem for Oklahoma all season long, scoring droughts that effectively eliminate the Sooners from making a realistic late game push.

Now the offense wasn’t good the rest of the game anyway, with no Sooners scoring in double-figures, in fact, this was the first time since at least the 2004-2005 season that not one Sooner was able to net at least 10 points.

However, The energy wasn’t there regardless of any statistics. This game was decided early in the second half and the Sooners put up little effort to flip the script.

Now, you have to give Tech their credit; the Red Raider defense is elite and proved it once again on Tuesday, forcing 21 turnovers, stealing the ball 11 times and scoring 26 points off of those turnovers.

The Red Raiders were just better all around. Tech dominated the second half, 37-20, won the rebounding battle 31-17 and shot 58.3% from the field, compared to Oklahoma’s 36.4%.

Overall, there’s no more margin for error for the Sooners. Oklahoma now sits at .500 on the season, 14-14, and an abysmal 4-11 in Big 12 play. Heading into Tuesday’s game Joe Lunardi, slated OU as one of the first four teams outside of March Madness, and then OU lost again. There are three games remaining, Oklahoma State, West Virginia and at Kansas State, who all have 12+ losses. The Sooners need all three and potentially another win in Kansas City to force their way into the Big Dancd. Without Elijah Harkless, the lack of consistent scoring and a stagnant bench, the Sooners are in bad shape heading into must win territory. If the energy doesn’t return, it’s time to start looking to the 2022-2023 season.

What’s Next?

The Sooners try to get back above .500 this Saturday when the Oklahoma State Cowboys (13-14 overall, 6-9 Big 12) come to the Lloyd Noble Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 11 a.m. on CBS.

Oklahoma Softball and Baseball had successful tournament weekends, Basketball teams both lose big in Ames

Happy Monday, Sooners friends and fans!

The University of Oklahoma showed out this weekend on the diamonds.

First up, the Oklahoma Sooners Softball team continued to show why they are the No. 1 team in the entire country, dominating the Houston Classic. The Sooners won all five games in run-rule fashion, beating McNeese and Houston twice each, Texas State once. OU outscored their opponents 55-1 to improve to 10-0 on the season.

The highlight of the weekend was Jocelyn Alo hitting her 95th career home run, tying her with Sooners legend Lauren Chamberlain. The Hawaii native will more than likely break that record on Friday. The Oklahoman’s Ryan Aber wrote about Alo’s record breaking long ball in the Sooners victory over Texas State.

Next up, the Sooners head out to the West Coast to Cathedral City, California, for the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic. Five total games against Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State, No. 9 Arizona, No. 18 Tennessee and Utah. First up, Oklahoma faces off with CSU Fullerton on Friday at 2:30 p.m. and Long Beach State at 5 p.m. All games can be caught on flosoftball.com.

OU Baseball

• Oklahoma Sooner Baseball started off the 2022 season very well at the State Farm College Baseball Showdown at Globe Life Field. Oklahoma went 2-1, shutting out Auburn 3-0, dropping game two against No. 11 Arizona 14-4 and finishing the weekend with a 6-1 victory over Michigan. The Oklahoman breaks down the Sooners opening weekend as a whole.
• The Sooners host Wichita State on Tuesday at 2:30 for their home opener, before a three game series against Northwestern State this upcoming weekend. You can catch all four of these games on Sooner Sports TV.

OU Basketball

• Both Oklahoma Sooners basketball teams headed up to Iowa this weekend and dropped tough losses to the Cyclones.
• First, the Oklahoma Sooners men’s basketball team played the early game, losing their 6th game in the last seven, falling at Iowa State 75-54. OU is now just above .500 on the season at 14-13, just 4-10 in the Big 12. The main area of concern, with Elijah Harkless out for the rest of the season with an injury, the Sooners’ bench combined for just two points. The OU Daily’s Colton Sulley shows us how the Sooners deficit got out of hand so quickly. Also, the Oklahoman’s Berry Tramel explains how a new arena won’t fix all of the attendance problems Oklahoma men’s basketball is facing.
• Next up, the Sooners have the opportunity to sweep No. 9 Texas Tech, when they face off with the Red Raiders in Lubbock at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. You can catch the game on ESPN +

• The Oklahoma Sooners women’s basketball team is in a much better spot as a program, but suffered a smilier fate this weekend, getting blown out in Ames by No. 6 Iowa State, 89-67. Only two Sooners scored in double-figures, with Taylor Robertson only racking up five points. The OU Daily’s Nick Coppola examines the Sooners’ losing streak and what lead to such a tough loss at Iowa State.
• OU dropped to No. 20 in the AP Poll on Monday.
• OU tries to snap this three game losing streak on Wednesday when the TCU Horned Frogs (6-17 overall, 2-12 Big 12) come to town. The game is at 6:30 and you can catch the action on ESPN+.

OU Football

• Oklahoma Sooners Football picked up a 2022 commitment from Marcus Wide Receiver Dallas Dudley. Dudley will come to Norman as a preferred walk-on and was high school teammates with 2023 wide receiver commit Ashton Cozart.
• One of the biggest storylines for the Oklahoma Sooners Football program is the return of Strength and Conditioning coach Jerry Schmidt. The Tulsa World’s Guerin Emig breaks down Schmidt’s return and how he has seen the players are all in.

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Sooners lose sixth game in the last seven.

The Oklahoma Sooners men’s basketball team is officially in the danger zone for missing March Madness this year, falling at Iowa State 75-54. The Sooners are now barely above .500 at 14-13 on the season, and a miserable 4-10 in Big 12 play, losing six of their last seven contests.

OU started off red hot shooting 3-3 from the field and leading 10-5, but it was basically all Cyclones after that. ISU outscored the Sooners 35-15 the rest for the first half to take a 40-25 lead into the break. To really illustrate the Sooners struggles, OU made as many baskets in the first half as they had turnovers, nine.

No doubt Friday’s announcement that one of the Sooners’ leaders, Elijah Harkless, would be out the rest of the season impacted the team, but other guys have to step up and that just didn’t happen, especially on the defensive end.

The Sooners got the game to single digits after the under eight timeout, but then the Cyclones went on a 15-0 run to put the game away. Nine Cyclones scored, including three in double-figures, lead by Izaiah Brockington with 22 points.

Now there were some offensive highlights, including 10-5 starts in both halfs, cutting the lead down to five with about 13 minutes to go in the game, 49-44. However, It wasn’t sustained at a high enough level for Oklahoma to win. Just six Sooners scored in total, three in double figures; Jordan Goldwire and Jalen Hill did their best, both putting up 15 points, while Jacob Groves added in 11. The Sooners struggled, like they have a lot during conference play, with Tanner Groves racking up only seven points, while Umoja Gibson netted just four points, 0-4 from beyond the arc.

Once again, the bench was almost non-existent, especially without Harkless providing that spark. The OU bench totaled just two points on five shots, compare that to Iowa State’s bench that scored 15 points on nine shots.

Overall, the team had to just quickly after Harkless was officially out, but the margin of error is gone. We are talking about the same issues we have for months; the Sooners were out rebounded 21-20, out-assisted 19-12 and turned the ball over 16 times to the Cyclones’ 11. OU probably needs three of these last four games to force a tournament berth, but if they don’t get contributions from the bench and start to flip the rebounds and assists in their favor, the season will be officially over in the next couple weeks.

What’s Next?

Oklahoma looks to stop the bleeding and stay above .500 on Tuesday when they travel to Lubbock, Texas and face off with the No. 11 Texas Tech Red Raiders (21-6 overall, 10-4 Big 12) on Tuesday. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. on ESPN+.

NORMAN – The No. 2 Oklahoma women’s tennis team is back at the Headington Family Tennis Center for a top-10 showdown against No. 10 USC on Sunday at noon.

Oklahoma Basketball has a big double-header in Ames, while diamond sports start strong this weekend

Happy Friday, Sooners friends and fans!

Oklahoma Sooners basketball hasn’t had the best week. The men’s basketball team lost to No. 20 Texas again, 80-78, on Tuesday. The Sooners got the Longhorns to overtime, but couldn’t get the defensive stops when they were needed, while the bench didn’t contribute much either. The Oklahoman’s Justin Martinez gives us his main takeaways from the Sooners’ heartbreaking loss to Texas. Next up Oklahoma looks for their first sweep of the season as they travel to Iowa State on Saturday at 1 p.m. on ESPN+. Oklahoma needs probably at least three of these last four games to make sure they get a shot in March Madness.

Tough news on Friday as well as Elijah Harkless announced he will miss the remainder of the season duet so an injury, but will be back next season and ready to “shock the world.” This is a big loss for the Sooners down the stretch as Harkless averages 10 points per game (4th most on the team), has contributed 45 assists (2nd most) and grabbed 4.1 rebounds per game (3rd). Multiple players will need to step up in his absence.

Another topic that’s been floating around for a while is Oklahoma Basketball potentially getting a new arena. The topic picked up steam this week as men’s head coach Porter Moser said the time for a new venue is now. The OU Daily’s Colton Sulley puts the topic in context.

• The Oklahoma Sooners women’s basketball team has hit a skid at a tough time in their schedule, losing back-to-back games for the first time this season. Wednesday was a tough defeat as the Sooners fell to the Texas Tech Lady Raiders, 97-87, who were riding a 7-game-losing streak. The Oklahoman breaks down how the upset happened and what the Sooners can do to avoid another tough loss.
• It’s a double-header in Ames as the Sooners will face off with the Cyclones after the men on Saturday at 6 p.m, also on ESPN+.

OU Softball

• The No.1 Oklahoma Sooners softball team is 7-0 and so far outscored their opponents 63-2 on the season, after day one of the Houston Classic. McNeese State was first up and the Sooners dismanteled the Cowgirls 15-1 in just five innings. Jordy Bahl got the win in the circle again after throwing four strikeouts in just 3.1 innings, she is now 3-0 on the season. Tiare Jennings racked up three hits and three-RBI, while Grace Lyons also added in three hits and a homerun.
• The Sooners earned their 7th win of the season, 5th by run-rule, against Houston. OU beat the Cougars 8-0. Nicole May pitched a complete game one hit shutout. Jana Johns and Jayda Coleman each brought in two-RBI, while five total Sooners logged hits.
• Next up, the Sooners face off with McNeese State and Houston again Saturday. The Sooners and Cowgirls play at 12:30 p.m. on Sooners Sports TV. Oklahoma and Houston matchup at 3 p.m. on ESPN+.

OU Baseball

• Oklahoma Sooners Baseball gets their season started this weekend in the College Baseball Showdown at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
• The Sooners got things going in a big way, beating Auburn 3-0 Friday afternoon. Four Sooners got their turns on the hill, compiling five total strikeouts and three total hits. Jake Bennett got the start, only allowing one hit through five innings, while Colton Sundloff got the win, pitching two innings and also allowing just one hit. OU only got four hits, but Peyton Graham opened the game up with a two-run long ball in the bottom of the 7th. Cade Horton also made contact to bring in Tanner Tredaway in the 8th to finish the scoring.
• OU will also play Arizona on Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday against Michigan at 6:30 p.m. You can catch all these games on flobaseball.com.

OU Football

• It was announced Friday that the College Football Playoff will not expand beyond four teams for the remainder of the contract, meaning through 2025, and Oklahoma’s time in the Big 12, the Playoff will not be expanding, for good or for bad. The Tulsa World’s Guerin Emig breaks down why not expanding the Playoff now is absurd and will lead to missed opportunities.
• Also, College Football News compiled all of the Final Top 25 polls from the AP and USA Today and determined, based off the final polls, OU is the best college football program in history.

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