Fansided · Mar 5, 2020
Does anyone really care about Oklahoma basketball?
Twenty-four hours ago, the men’s Oklahoma basketball team had a good chance of moving into a third-place tie in the Big 12 standings with one regular season game left to play.
A pretty heady achievement, all things considered. The Sooners were picked to finish eighth this season in the annual preseason poll of the conference coaches.
Instead, on Wednesday Lon Kruger’s guys found themselves tied for fifth and in danger of dropping one more spot if they come up short at TCU on Saturday. Sixth place has been OU’s average conference finish over the last five seasons, although that number is actually boosted by a third-place finish and a tie for second in 2015-16 and 2014-15, respectively.