(by Bryant Crews) After one of the best baseball seasons in recent memory, Oklahoma Baseball is trying to replicate the success of winning a regular season conference title and get back to Omaha for the first time since 2022. This past season’s team was incredible. They produced at the plate and picked up big-time performance from the mound...read more from the Sooners Wire
OU Baseball: UConn Ends Oklahoma's Season as Sooner Bats go Silent
(by Ryan Chapman) NORMAN — Oklahoma’s rally through the Norman Regional fell one win short on Monday night. The Connecticut Huskies put on a defensive clinic, quelling any attempts for OU to string together any offense, to advance to next weekend’s Super Regionals. A pair of two-run bombs in the fourth inning proved to be all the Huskies needed...read more from AllSooners,
Sooners baseball has options heading into winner-take-all Game 7 vs. UConn
(by Eddie Radosevich) Less than 24 hours removed from a pair of dominant pitching performances, Sooners baseball heads into Monday night’s winner-take-all regional championship in a relatively comfortable spot following a nine-hour dual-elimination game saga. Grant Stevens and Jett Lodes. Their names will forever be connected to Sooners baseball...read more from the SoonerScoop
Lodes' masterpiece helps Sooners force a winner-take-all rematch with UConn
(by Parker Thune) Oklahoma won't die, at least not without one hell of a fight. To say the Sooners had the deck stacked against them on Sunday evening is putting it mildly. For one thing, they were facing elimination against a UConn team that had defeated them just 24 hours earlier. Moreover, they had already played nine tense, emotionally taxing innings...read more from the OUInsider
OU Baseball: Jett Lodes Fuels Oklahoma to Victory, Pulls Sooners Within One Game of Super Regionals
(by Ryan Chapman) NORMAN — To climb stave off elimination, unlikely heroes must emerge. Enter Jett Lodes. The senior right-hander had made 16 appearances entering the weekend, pitching a total of 23 innings for the Sooners. In Sunday’s second contest, a Regional Final against the UConn Huskies, OU coach Skip Johnson gave Lodes the ball in relief...read more from AllSooners
OU Baseball: Grant Stevens' Career Outing Powers Oklahoma Past Duke in NCAA Regional
(by Randall Sweet) NORMAN — In an elimination game against Duke on Sunday afternoon, NCAA Regional host Oklahoma kept its Super Regional hopes alive, defeating the Blue Devils 4-3. OU won its first contest of the NCAA Tournament with a convincing 14-0 victory over Oral Roberts, but fell to Connecticut 4-1 on Saturday night to place Skip Johnson's...read more from AllSooners
OU Baseball: Oklahoma Shocked by UConn in Norman Regional
(by John E. Hoover) NORMAN — With their best pitcher on the mound, Oklahoma’s bats went quiet Saturday night — and the Sooners’ postseason took a pronounced downturn. OU was shocked in a 4-1 loss to Connecticut at L. Dale Mitchell Park, a setback that sends the top-seeded Sooners (38-19) into the loser’s bracket and sets up No. 3-seed UConn...read more from AllSooners
OU Baseball: Sooners cruise to blowout victory in opening game of Norman regional
(by Parker Thune) Skip Johnson raised some eyebrows when he decided to start Kyson Witherspoon over ace Braden Davis in the opening game of Oklahoma's regional. But that decision by the Sooners' revered baseball coach paid off in spades Friday night, as Witherspoon turned in arguably the best performance of his Oklahoma career...read more from the OUInsider
OU Baseball: Oklahoma Opens NCAA Tournament by Rolling Oral Roberts
(by John E. Hoover) NORMAN — Let the postseason march begin. Oklahoma opened the 2024 NCAA Tournament on Friday night with a comfortable 14-0 victory over Oral Roberts in a first-round game at the Norman Regional. No. 9-ranked OU got a strong pitching performance from Kyson Witherspoon and the explosive Sooner lineup overwhelmed...read more from AllSooners
Oklahoma baseball vs Oral Roberts prediction, odds for Norman Regional of NCAA Tournament
(by Justin Martinez) The No. 9-seeded OU baseball team will face Oral Roberts in the Norman Regional of the NCAA Tournament. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The double-elimination regional also includes UConn and Duke. Here's everything you need to know about the game:...read more from The Oklahoman
OU Baseball: Oklahoma Meets Oral Roberts in Norman Regional
(by Randall Sweet) NORMAN — On Friday night, Oklahoma will host its first NCAA Regional contest in 14 years when the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles make their way to Norman. The year after a 52-win season last year in which ORU make a run to Omaha, the Sooners' in-state counterparts will look to repeat their postseason success from 2023 and play...read more from AllSooners
How OU baseball veteran Kendall Pettis' leadership is fueling Sooners into NCAA Tournament
(by Colton Sulley) NORMAN — When OU baseball received the news it wasn’t a top-eight overall seed in the NCAA tournament as projected, fifth-year senior Kendall Pettis delivered a message to the clubhouse. Disappointed with the omission, Pettis felt he had a responsibility to gear his message more toward this group’s last chance to play together...read more from The Oklahoman
OU Baseball: Meet Oklahoma's Opponents in the 2024 Norman Regional
(by John E. Hoover) Oklahoma is back in the NCAA Tournament for the third year in a row and is hosting a regional in Norman for the first time in 14 years. OU is the No,. 9 national seed in this year's tournament and will host 4-seed Oral Roberts, 3-seed Connecticut and 2-seed Duke this weekend at L. Dale Mitchell Park. OU hasn't hosted a regional since 2010...read more from AllSooners
OU Baseball: NCAA Awards Oklahoma Baseball Regional
(by John E. Hoover) For the fourth time in school history, Oklahoma will host a baseball regional at L. Dale Mitchell Park. OU was announced Sunday as one of 16 NCAA Tournament regional hosts for this year’s postseason event. The full tournament field will be announced Monday at 11 a.m. on ESPN2. OU has been widely projected as one of eight...read more from AllSooners
OU Baseball: Oklahoma Falls to Oklahoma State in Big 12 Title Game
(by John E. Hoover) Oklahoma will not ride valiantly into postseason — and the SEC — with with one final Big 12 Tournament trophy. Instead, the Sooners will try to heal their wounds from being trampled underfoot once again by their old Bedlam rival. No. 2-seed Oklahoma State hit three home runs and routed top-seeded OU again in a 9-3 Bedlam victory...read more from AllSooners
OU Baseball: Key players, How to Watch Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State in Big 12 championship game
(by John Williams) This last ride through the Big 12 has been a memorable one. The Oklahoma Sooners have positioned themselves to go out on a high note after their incredible comeback win over Kansas on Friday. Now they’ll take on Bedlam rivals Oklahoma State in the Big 12 tournament championship game. The Sooners are riding high...read more from the Sooners Wire
OU Baseball: Oklahoma completes memorable comeback, walks off Kansas
(by Blake Mullen) Oklahoma just won't quit. After an offensive slugfest versus TCU in the morning game, Kansas advanced to face Oklahoma for the second straight day in Arlington. This matchup would be an elimination bout where the victor would advance into the Big 12 championship game. Similar to yesterday, Oklahoma found themselves down early...read more from the OUInsider
OU Baseball: Oklahoma Overcomes 7 Errors to Beat Kansas
(by John E. Hoover) How good is the Oklahoma offense? Good enough to overcome a defensive avalanche of seven errors, apparently. The No. 8-ranked Sooners lit up the baseball and held on to beat Kansas 7-5 Thursday afternoon in the Big 12 Tournament at Globe Life Field in Arlington, TX. The Sooners — who ran away with the Big 12’s regular...read more from AllSooners
'Program Guy' Bob Stoops spotted enjoying OU baseball's win over TCU
(by Aaron Gelvin) The Oklahoma Sooners baseball team shutout the TCU Horned Frogs in their Big 12 Conference Tournament opener on Wednesday, and they had at least one famous fan in attendance. Former Oklahoma head football coach Bob Stoops took in the game, played in Arlington, Texas at Globe Life Field. The broadcast couldn’t help but...read more from the Sooners Wire
OU Baseball: Oklahoma tops TCU in Big 12 tourney behind a Braden Davis shutout
(by Blake Mullen) The No. 1 seeded Sooners came to play in their first postseason matchup of the year. Oklahoma entered the Big 12 tournament as the regular-season champions and No. 8 team in the nation. Their first tilt in Arlington pitted them against TCU, who they had a perfect 3-0 record against in the regular season. The Horned Frogs beat...read more from the OUInsider
