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Oklahoma-Virginia NCAA tournament second-round prediction: Can the Sooners get lightning to strike twice?

When: 6:45 p.m. Sunday, Columbia, South Carolina

Records: Oklahoma (20-13, 7-11 Big 12); Virginia (30-3, 16-2 ACC)

TV: truTV

What's on the line

For Oklahoma, it’s the chance to make it to another Sweet 16. Lon Kruger has a case to be remembered as one of the best coaches in Sooners’ history, but he has just two Sweet 16’s on his résumé in Norman. A third would tie him with Billy Tubbs and Kelvin Sampson all-time in OU history. Besides that motivator, the Sooners are playing with house money. No one expected them to get to this point -- further than they got with Trae Young and Kam McGusty -- especially before the season started.