In the 35 years that followed, the Sooners have been a participant in the NCAA Tournament 25 times and this year marks their 30th such appearance.
Shortly after the arrival of Billy Tubbs as the Oklahoma head basketball coach, the Sooners started to become known as more than just a football school in the landscape of major college sports. It isn’t that OU had not had good basketball teams before that time, but rather that the Sooners had never established the consistency of success on the hardwood that came about after Tubbs’ arrived in Norman.
Oklahoma mad nine trips to the NCAA Tournament in Tubbs’ 14 seasons as the Sooners’ head coach.