In the first eight weeks of the season, the Sooners, with an 11-1 record, the nation’s leading scorer and wins over three ranked teams, have gone from being unranked in the preseason all the way to No. 7 in both of the major national weekly polls.
ESPN “Bracketology” guru Joe Lunardi has Oklahoma and its freshman sensation Trae Young as a projected 4-seed in this year’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. That’s up from his 10-seed projection for the Sooners before the start of the 2017-18 season.
Lunardi projects seven teams from the Big 12 Conference making it into the NCAA Tournament this season.