The Sooners have made NCAA Tournament appearances in six of the last seven seasons and have made 32 NCAA postseason appearances overall.
Oklahoma was no where to be found in Lunardi’s pre- and early season “Bracketology” projections forecasting what the NCAA Tournament field and seeding would look like at the end of the season. After three wins to begin the season, however, two of which were on the road against teams from Power Five conferences, Lunardi had the Sooners as a No. 9 seed.
By early December, after a 19-point loss to Stanford, Lunardi dropped Oklahoma to a 10 seed, and back-to-back mid-December losses to Wichita State and Creighton, both on the road, cost the Sooners to fall one more spot, to No.