No more of the unknown.
It at least appears that way for Oklahoma baseball 2020.
A year ago, the Sooners played one team in non-conference play (Dallas Baptist) that made the NCAA Tournament, and that was for a single mid-week game. Oklahoma played six games in non-conference play against teams who made the NCAA Tournament in 2018, but those, too, all came in mid-week games against small school teams who had to win their conference to make the tournament.
That idea has since passed, and the Sooners will be battle tested for conference play and beyond this season.
Oklahoma is set to start the year with a three-game series against a perennial NCAA Tournament team up until the last two years in Virginia. Then, two weeks later, the Sooners will get to go up against college baseball powers Arkansas and LSU in the Shriners Classic in Houston. Oklahoma will play host to another perennial NCAA Tournament team in San Diego State for a three-game series and also have mid-week contests against Dallas Baptist and Arkansas prior to conference play starting.
Head coach Skip Johnson and his No. 24 ranked team are set to play 10 top-25 matchups based off the preseason D1Baseball.com top-25 when you include Oklahoma State and Texas Tech.
There will be no question about who this Oklahoma baseball team will be by the end of the season.
Or even by the time the Big 12 conference opening series against Texas in March.
The Sooners and Virginia will kick off the 2020 college baseball season Friday night at 6 p.m. CT in Pensacola, Florida.
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