NORMAN — Before they can come home, the Sooners must first go west to slay a couple women's basketball giants.
Though it landed in the Oklahoma City Regional, No. 6 seed Oklahoma must travel to Seattle to take on No. 11 Gonzaga in the first round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament on Saturday (5:30 p.m., ESPN2) with a potential second-round matchup against No. 3 Washington looming.
Oklahoma (22-9) entered the last week of the season with the possibility of hosting the first two rounds in Norman as a top-16 seed. But blowout losses to Baylor in the regular season finale and to West Virginia in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament likely dropped the Sooners from a borderline No.