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Oklahoma basketball: Sooners squandered their best opportunity to win a national title

The 1987-88 NCAA national championship game between No. 4 Oklahoma and unranked Kansas represented two extremes of emotion for me personally.

On one hand, it was the most euphoric I have ever felt about OU’s chances of winning a national championship in a sport other than football.

In my heart and mind, there wasn’t any way the Sooners could lose. They had been dominant all year, averaging more than 100 points per game, had beaten five ranked teams on the way to 35 wins and had already beaten Kansas twice that season. It was the closest you could get to a sure thing.