The OU women have been a permanent fixture in March Madness going back now 18 consecutive seasons. The men haven’t been quite that consistent. From 1995 to 2009, however, a span of 15 years, the Oklahoma men were no-shows in the NCAA Tournament just twice.
In six season under head coach Lon Kruger, who is one of only two Division I coaches to take five different schools to the NCAA Tournament, Oklahoma has been part of March Madness four times, including an appearance in the Final Four a year ago.
Billy Tubbs, the winningest of the 14 OU men’s head coaches in over 100 years of Sooner varsity basketball, took nine Oklahoma teams to the NCAA Championship Tournament, eight of them consecutively (1983-90).