Oklahoma baseball will turn around and come home.
The Sooners took a 3-0 mid-week game against Dallas Baptist on Tuesday, stayed in Dallas-Fort Worth overnight and then flew out to California to play Cal Poly. On the very next day, the Big West Conference announced that no one in the conference will be playing anytime soon.
“The Big West Conference announced today that it is indefinitely suspending all spring conference and non-conference competition, effective immediately,” they announced in a release. “The main priority of the Big West Conference continues to be the health, safety and wellness of our student-athletes, coaches, administrators, fans and media as we continue to monitor all developing and relevant information on the COVID-19 virus.”
Oklahoma was scheduled to play a four-game series in San Luis Obispo, California, against Cal Poly, which has been smack dab in the middle between coronavirus hot spots in Los Angeles and San Francisco. This comes on the heels of Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz tested positive for the coronavirus in Oklahoma City, the Big 12 Conference cancelling the Big 12 basketball tournament this weekend alongside basically every major sports entity in the country.
Lincoln Riley and Oklahoma canceled media availabilities for spring practice that included a 20-minute viewing period of the first part of practice and post-practice interviews. The University of Oklahoma announced that it would go to two weeks of online classes for the two weeks after spring break (March 16-20).
No update has been made in regards to Oklahoma athletics in response to COVID-19 yet. Sooners Wire will post updates as more information becomes available.
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