Special season for Sooner sports
We’ve passed Valentine’s Day, so the school sports calendar is 51/2 months old. And the three primary sports at OU, the three sports that draw the biggest crowds, are a combined 59-5.
That’s ridiculous. The football team went 12-2, played for a national championship and finished fifth in the polls. Jeff Capel’s men’s basketball team is 25-1, ranked second nationally and headed for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Sherri Coale’s Sooner women are 22-2, ranked second and also headed for a No. 1 seed.
OU has had some sensational school years. In 2001-02, both basketball teams reached the Final Four, and the football team went 11-2 and finished No. 6 in the polls. In 1987-88, both Barry Switzer’s football team and Billy Tubbs’ basketballers played in national-title games (both lost), but the women’s basketball team was a non-factor regionally, much less nationally.
But this school year is just silly good. Five losses by mid-February? This is a special season for all things Sooner. An NCAA championship in basketball — a longshot for the women, since UConn seems dominant; a possibility for the men, since no clear-cut favorite exists — would lift this athletic season to the greatest in school history, and it might deserve that distinction anyway.
-------------Berry Tramel can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter @BerryTramel. Visit Berry's website here.
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Not to mention, that if Blake Griffin wins POY, that makes two Sooners winning the top individual award (Bradford being the other) in their respective sports this year.
We are so proud of the University of Oklahoma,of the faculty,students and all their achivement,honors and many years of excellence in sports and sportmanship.
Best wishes for another good year and let`s bring home
the 2009 N.C.Trophy #8
since i am a osu fan i hate to admit it but ou is really good men and womens basketball,they might play for all the marbles.
JW
being in oklahoma makes me real proud born in mexico i been here for 11 yrs i became a sooner fan im just so happy for the state and the fans go sooners
Tramel, OU’s 2001 football team was 11-2 & ranked 6th nationally. You’re thinking of the 2002 team (which competed in the 2002-2003 school year) that went 12-2 & finished 5th.