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Sooners prez still undecided on Big 12 expansion

Two weeks after noting Big 12 expansion "is not a sure thing," Oklahoma president David Boren said Tuesday that the Sooners have yet not reached an institutional opinion on expansion.

SI.com and the Dallas Morning News both reported Tuesday that Boren had "come full circle" and "is now opposed to Big 12 expansion."

"I do not know where the speculation came from," Boren said in a statement to ESPN, "but Oklahoma has not yet taken a position on expansion."

On Sept. 14 after a university regents meeting on Oklahoma's campus in Tulsa, Boren noted that expansion shouldn't be "automatically assumed.