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Oklahoma finishes in the Top 25 in 2023-2024 Director’s Cup standings

Oklahoma Athletics had another strong year, finishing 24th in the Director’s Cup Top 25.

The Oklahoma Sooners had another very strong year, as OU has finished in the Top 25 of the Division 1 LEARFIELD Director’s Cup standings  once again.

The Sooners finished ranked 24th, marking the 21st time in the last 24 years that Oklahoma has made an appearance in the final rankings.

Points are awarded based on each institution’s finish in the NCAA Championships. For Division I, 19 sports are counted, four of which must be baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and women’s volleyball. The next highest 15 (maximum) sports scored for each institution, regardless of gender, are used in the standings.

The football team led by [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] participated in the [autotag]Valero Alamo Bowl[/autotag] following a bounce-back season in 2023. The Sooners posted 10 wins for the 42nd time in program history, including the signature win of the Venables era to this point. Oklahoma beat Texas 34-30 on October 7.

Obviously, the Sooners got a big jump from [autotag]Patty Gasso[/autotag]’s softball team winning their fourth national championship in a row an eighth overall.

But while football is always the headliner at Oklahoma and softball has become a force with their dynastic run under Gasso, plenty of other sports had remarkable seasons as well.

After winning its first-ever [autotag]Big 12[/autotag] regular season title, OU baseball hosted an NCAA regional for the first time since 2010. [autotag]Skip Johnson[/autotag] was named Big 12 Coach of the Year.

Women’s basketball won its second straight Big 12 championship under the direction of head coach [autotag]Jennie Baranczyk[/autotag], and first outright since 2009, en route to a third consecutive NCAA Tournament. The Sooners advanced to the second round of the tournament.

K.J. Kindler and the Women’s Gymnastics team made the NCAA tournament championship finals. Mark Williams and the Men’s team finished third in the NCAA finals.

Men’s and women’s tennis saw both squads advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Men’s golf placed ninth at the national championship, earning the program’s seventh top-10 finish in eight years. The squad won the NCAA Rancho Sante Fe Regional to qualify for the program’s 13th straight NCAA Championships – the second longest streak in the country. Women’s golf, returned to the postseason by earning a spot in regional action.

Joe Castiglione continues to be one of the best athletics directors in the business. The Sooners are in good hands as long as Joe C wants to keep doing it.

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