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By Scott Wright

Members of OU’s 1988 team will be on hand Saturday for a 20-year reunion celebration during the Sooners’ 1 p.m. game against Texas A&M at Lloyd Noble Center. 

Coached by Billy Tubbs, the 1988 squad was one of two OU teams in history to reach the national title game.  Former players scheduled to join Tubbs and the rest of the coaching staff for a halftime tribute include Harvey Grant, Tyrone Jones, Stacey King, Tony Martin, Terrence Mullins, Art Pollard and Jason Skurcenski.

Read a little more about the 1988 team and their Saturday festivities here.

While the rest of the third-ranked Oklahoma men’s gymnastics team takes the week off from competition, senior gymnast Jonathan Horton is preparing for his biggest event of the year. Horton will join the world’s best at the 2008 Tyson American Cup at New York City’s legendary Madison Square Garden on Saturday, March 1. The event will be carried live on NBC (Cox Channel 3 in OKC) beginning at noon.

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First year head soccer coach Nicole Nelson completed her staff on Wednesday, naming Graeme (pronounced Gram) Abel an assistant coach. Abel comes to Norman after coaching the past three years on the University of Nevada’s staff.

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The No. 47 Oklahoma Sooners men’s tennis team returns to the court Thursday, Feb. 28 following a 10-day layoff. The Sooners travel up Interstate-44 to face in-state rival Tulsa (9-2) on Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

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By Scott Wright

Nebraska coach Doc Sadler called point guard Cookie Miller “doubtful” for Wednesday’s game against the Sooners.

It turns out the injury to Miller’s shoulder was only a sprain, but Sadler doesn’t expect the 5-foot-7 freshman to play Wednesday.

Here’s the story from the Lincoln Journal Star.

By Scott Wright

Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel continues to search for either a point guard or scorer to fill Keith Clark’s vacant scholarship, and a few names seem to be falling off the list of potential recruits.

Georgia wing Travis Leslie recently gave Rivals.com his top five schools and Oklahoma was not among them. Though the Sooners seemed to be intrigued by Leslie’s athletic ability, the word on the 6-foot-6 Atlanta product is that his basketball skills are unpolished. Capel doesn’t really need to spend time waiting for a prospect to develop. He’d be better off waiting to see if Clark got his grades in order at Rose State and bringing him back instead.

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By Scott Wright

OU point guard Austin Johnson is still dealing with quite a bit of back pain, and it seems to be getting worse, the junior said Monday.

Johnson said he expects to meet with OU team physician, Dr. Brock Schnebel, this afternoon to determine if he needs to change medications. He said they do not believe the injury will require surgery.

Johnson suffered a herniated disc in his lower back during a summer workout, which forced him to miss the team’s exhibition trip to Canada in September.

In other injury news, junior forward Taylor Griffin had a heating pad on his right shoulder before the team practiced Monday. Griffin was taking part in all portions of practice that were open to the media.

By Scott Wright

So, Sooner basketball fans, would you like to play Arkansas again? That’s who Joe Lunardi has the Sooners facing in his latest edition of Bracketology. Of course, the NCAA prefers to avoid regular-season rematches in the first two rounds of the Tournament. Lunardi has the Sooners as a No. 8 seed, facing the Hogs in Raleigh, N.C., which lately has been a popular place to send OU by the bracketologists. Jerry Palm has OU as a No. 7 seed in Raleigh, facing Villanova. In both brackets, OU is paired up with North Carolina as a potential second-round opponent.

Still no word on whether Nebraska point guard Cookie Miller will play against Oklahoma Wednesday night. Something should be known later today, according to this story from the Lincoln Journal Star, when the 5-foot-7 point guard undergoes an MRI.

Colorado coach Jeff Bzdelik took a shot at OU coach Jeff Capel last week, referencing Capel’s comment that OU’s loss at Colorado was “the most embarrasing thing I’ve been a part of.” Check it out.

http://newsok.com/article/3208082/1203817301

We’ll have a weekly update on Sundays throughout the recruiting season about the top recruits in the nation with interests in OU and OSU as well as those from the state of Oklahoma.