“You can’t feel sorry for yourself for too long,” said Sooner head coach Pete Hughes after the game, “because we’re up early in the morning (on Sunday) and trying to figure out how to win this thing. You can’t let Saturday night beat you twice, and we’ll be ready to go tomorrow.”
Louisville, the top seed, broke up a 1-1 tie with a seven-run explosion in the eighth inning off of five Oklahoma pitchers and cruised home from there to put itself in the driver’s seat to advance to the next round in the NCAA Baseball Championship.