A year ago, the story on the Oklahoma Sooners was Trae Young. If you watched ESPN at all during last year’s college basketball season, you heard all about him. Trae was fantastic, but the team was average. They were a 10-seed, lost their first round game, and finished the year ranked 48th by KenPom.
By winning their first round game this season, they’ve already outpaced last year’s squad. That was their 20th win, the first time since 2016 that they won 20 games. They went to the Final Four that year. They’re currently 36th on KenPom.
That first round win, by the way, was a dominating 95-72 affair over Ole Miss.