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Oklahoma softball seeks bounce-back in Big 12 tournament

Oklahoma Sooners softball will need to channel their dominance early in the season if they want to win the Big 12 Tournament.

The Oklahoma Sooner softball team enters the 2024 Big 12 Tournament this week as a 2 seed behind the Texas Longhorns. It’s the first time OU isn’t at the top in 12 years.

But the Sooners still have a chance to earn the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament if they can win the Big 12 Tournament this week.

It hasn’t been as clear a run to this point for [autotag]Patty Gasso[/autotag]’s team, which lost a three-game series at Texas and a three-game series at home against the Oklahoma State Cowgirls. Everybody in the world of NCAA softball knows the Sooners can flip the switch, however, and run past any and every team they face.

Oklahoma won Game 3 at home against Oklahoma State last week by a score of 8-2 to secure the 2 seed in Oklahoma City. The top of the Big 12 standings features three of the top four teams in the country: the Sooners, Cowgirls and Longhorns.

Oklahoma is sandwiched between their two rivals at No. 2. Texas is No.1 and Oklahoma State is No. 3.

The Big 12 Tournament will run May 8-11, but Oklahoma’s first game will not be until Thursday. The Sooners face No. 7 Kansas, which won the first-round game against No. 10 Houston. First pitch for Oklahoma’s quarterfinal game is 1:30 p.m.

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Oklahoma Sooners open Big 12 tournament play with big win over TCU Horned Frogs

The Oklahoma Sooners led from start to finish in their 69-53 Big 12 tournament win over the TCU Horned Frogs.

It didn’t take long for the top-seeded Oklahoma Sooners to find their footing in the Big 12 tournament in their 69-53 win over the TCU Horned Frogs. The Sooners led from start to finish.

Oklahoma opened up a 10-point lead in the first quarter and pushed it to 12 early in the second quarter. But the Horned Frogs didn’t go quietly in the first half, closing the first 20 minutes of play down just five. TCU outscored the Sooners by four in the second frame.

[autotag]Lexy Keys[/autotag] led the Sooners in scoring in the first half, scoring nine points on three of three shooting from the three-point line. Aubrey Joens had five points in the first quarter.

It was a back-and-forth third quarter, and TCU even pulled within three points with just under two minutes to play in the quarter. But in the fourth, the Sooners began to pull away with a 17-11 final 10 minutes.

The Sooners had a fantastic game in the paint, outscoring the Frogs 30-14 and outrebounding TCU 46-35. Oklahoma shot 42% from the field and 42% from three while holding TCU to just 29% shooting from the field.

True freshman [autotag]Sahara Williams[/autotag] led Oklahoma in scoring for the game, with 17 points on 5 of 11 shooting. She was one of two from three and 6 of 6 from the free throw line. She turned it on in the second half with 13 points for the Sooners.

The Sooners move on to the semifinals of the Big 12 tournament, where they’ll take on Iowa State on Monday at 1:30 p.m. CT.

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