February is the month of Valentine’s Day, but Oklahoma hasn’t been on the receiving end of much love in that critical month of the college basketball season.
In the eight seasons Lon Kruger has been the Sooners’ head coach. Oklahoma is just 21-34 in February, and three times in those eight seasons, the Sooners have won two or fewer games. They have posted a February record over .500 just once in Kruger’s seven full seasons in Norman.
Oklahoma’s 79-71 loss Saturday at West Virginia marked the sixth time in the last eight seasons that the Sooners have lost their first game in the month of February.