It seems fitting that Oklahoma, the Big 12 regular-season champions for a sixth consecutive season and the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, which returns for the first time since 2010, will be playing closest to home and at the same venue where the Sooners won the Women’s College World Series a year ago.
Fitting to Sooner fans, but certainly not so for the other five teams that complete the bracket for this year’s conference championship tournament.
For the second straight season, Patty Gasso’s OU softball team finished the regular season, which ended this past weekend, with a 17-1 conference record, matching its best in the Big 12 era.