Of course, we all recognize that the only meaningful measure is what happens on the actual basketball court. And we won’t know the answer to that
With the returning talent and a recruiting class ranked in the top-20 nationally, there is good reason to believe that the Sooners will continue to get better, as they have each of the last two seasons.
It didn’t take long after the final horn in the exciting national championship game earlier this month for the college-basketball clairvoyants to begin projecting what next season might look like.
Oklahoma is not projected to break into the top 25 to start next season — at least not in the “Way-too-Early” 2019-20 college basketball forecasts — but the Sooners are projected as an NCAA Tournament team, which is already a step in the right direction from this time a year ago.