Oklahoma’s most glaring March Madness issue immediately exposed itself

Jim Dedmon-Imagn ImagesNo. 5 seeded Oklahoma on Friday was eliminated from the SEC Women's Basketball Tournament with a 112-78 blowout loss to No. 4 LSU. The loss came a day after OU had to overcome a slow start to beat No. 12 Florida 82-64 to advance to the quarterfinal, and although different results, the same problem plagued the Sooners in both games.

Although extremely talented as a top-10 team most of the season, there was fear that inexperience would be the Sooners' weakness once games started to matter the most in March. That had been a consistent issue all season when an opponent matched OU's talent level for a big game, as the Sooners are 1-7 against top-10 teams this season after a…