Both ESPN bracketology wizard Joe Lunardi and Jerry Palm, who does the same number crunching for CBS Sports, project the Sooners as a No. 9 seed in their latest NCAA Tournament projections.
That brings the Oklahoma men’s team back full circle to where Lunardi, for one, had OU projected on Nov. 15, just a couple of weeks into the college basketball season. By Jan. 24, the Sooners stood at 3-3 against Big 12 opponents and had dropped to the 11 line in Lunardi’s March Madness tournament projections and having to endure a play-in game to make it into the official 64-team tournament field.