Bill Haisten's Big 12 Insider

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:53 AM PST

Missouri: With Monday's victory at Oklahoma, the Tigers seized sole possession of the Big 12 lead. Missouri is a half-game above Kansas and Baylor in the standings. The Tigers have beaten both Kansas and ...

Baylor rips OU women again

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:38 AM PST

Brittney Griner scored 27 points and had eight rebounds and eight blocked shots to help No. 1 Baylor remain undefeated with another lopsided victory over Oklahoma, 81-54, on Monday night.

OU Basketball Notebook: Paging Cameron Clark

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:24 AM PST

On a night Oklahoma played the best team in the Big 12 Conference, Cameron Clark had the least active game of his Sooners career on Monday.

Sooners miss shots, lose to Missouri

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:23 AM PST

If you are going to break Kansas' seven-year stranglehold on the Big 12 Conference, you had better be two things: very good and extremely lucky.

Basketball: OU's Campbell honored

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:04 AM PST

Oklahoma's Sharane Campbell was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week for the fourth time.

OU's Stoops offers junior from home state

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:58 PM PST

(by Jared Shanker/$ESPN$) Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops is from Youngstown in northeast Ohio, but he dipped into the opposite side of the state to send out the Sooners’ latest offer....

Sooners quartet needs help from teammates

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 10:54 PM PST

How well did Oklahoma play Monday night? So well, even after missing 14 of 23 free throws, Steven Pledger, one of the nation’s best sharpshooters, had an open 3 to send the Sooners into overtime against No. 4 Missouri....

Sooners good enough everywhere but the free throw line

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 10:54 PM PST

Steven Pledger sank to the floor with his face in his hands as the buzzer sounded. He couldn’t believe the 3-pointer he took with about 1 second remaining didn’t go through the net. It wasn’t the only thing running through his mind after ...

Last season ended in first trip to College Word Series since 2004

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 10:54 PM PST

Hunger. Passion. Those were the two words most often repeated at the Oklahoma softball squad’s Media Day on Monday. And it’s those two traits that the Sooners are bringing to the 2012 season, which kicks off on Friday....

Sooners Come Up Short At The Charity Stripe In 71-68 Loss To Mizzou

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 09:14 PM PST

The Missouri Tigers were walking into a test of focus after coming off a win against another top 10 opponent in the Kansas Jayhawks. The nation had already been shocked once in let down as the Tigers fell to the Oklahoma St. Cowboys. However, this time around, Mizzou barely passed as Coach Frank...

Big Ten kicking around idea of on-campus playoff games

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:53 PM PST

(by John Taylor/CFT) When it comes to the current system to determine a national champion in major college football, there appears to be just one certainty: come 2014, after the current BCS cycle ends, the postseason will look vastly different than it has for the past decade-plus....

Bears hand OU 27-point beating

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:50 PM PST

Resistance was futile as the OU women’s basketball team was swept aside easily by the No. 1 Baylor Bears on Monday in Waco.

Oklahoma Sooners Flex National Prominence in 2012 Recruiting Class

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:41 PM PST

The Oklahoma Sooners have long held a strong recruiting influence in Oklahoma and Texas. However, it appears that yearly influence is growing into a national thing. The Sooners reeled in recruits from 11 different states in their 2012 class, something that doesn’t happen every year despite...

Sooners' upset bid falls short

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 07:50 PM PST

There were 2.5 seconds remaining on the clock when junior forward Romero Osby stepped toward the free-throw line. Oklahoma trailed No. 4 Missouri, 71-68, Monday night in Lloyd Noble Center, and Osby needed to hit at least one of his two shots.

Softball team eager for season to begin

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 07:35 PM PST

After earning its way to the program’s sixth Women’s College World Series appearance last season, the 2012 OU softball team admitted during Monday’s press conference that this team is determined to pick up where last year’s team left off.

Sooners fall just short against Mizzou

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:15 PM PST

Steven Pledger rimmed off a game-tying 3-pointer at the buzzer, and No. 4 Missouri escaped the Lloyd Noble Center on Monday night with a 71-68 victory.

No. 4 Missouri holds off OU men 71-68

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:14 PM PST

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Quality OU softball preview

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 05:36 PM PST

Quality OU softball preview Preseason Top Five ain't too shabby. Could be a good year for both our teams on the diamond.

#4 Missouri @ Oklahoma Game Thread

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST

Tip: 6:03 PM (CST) Location: Lloyd Noble Center Television: ESPNU Web: watchespn.com Radio: Sooner Radio Network Next Game Missouri Tigers @ Oklahoma Sooners Monday, Feb 6, 2012, 6:00 PM CST Lloyd Noble Center #4 Missouri Coming To Town: Looking For A Repeat Over...

Calvin Thibodeaux introduced as new TU assistant

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 02:38 PM PST

Calvin Thibodeaux was introduced as Tulsa’s defensive tackles coach on Monday afternoon to complete Bill Blankenship’s football staff.

Andy Staples: Re-ranking 2009 recruiting classes based on actual on-field production

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:33 PM PST

(SI.com) When a coach stands up on National Signing Day and says he doesn't care where Rivals.com or Scout.com ranked his recruiting class, he's probably lying....

USC earns top spot in latest 2012 look

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

(by Mark Schlabach/ESPN) College football's recruiting season is in the rearview mirror, and many of the country's top teams have restocked the cupboards for runs at conference titles and BCS bowl games....

Looking at the new 'too early' top 25

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:26 PM PST

(by David Ubben/ESPN) Colleague Mark Schlabach uncorked his newest preseason top 25 with (sad sigh time) almost seven months until the college season begins....

Dr. Saturday: Headlinin' - West Virginia claims FSU's schedule as its latest victim en route to the Big 12

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:41 PM PST

(by Matt Hinton) Thanks for RSVPing. West Virginia is still tangled in a legal thicket in its defection from the Big East to the Big 12....

Sooner Women Hoops Bringing Attention To A Good Cause

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:29 PM PST

It’s Pack The Place Pink time again in Norman, Oklahoma. What exactly is Pack The Place Pink? Women’s college basketball has started to raise the initiative of women’s cancer awareness by online auctions and Oklahoma has been a part of it for the last six years. All proceeds from...

Baylor women still No. 1 in basketball poll; OU receiving votes

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:09 PM PST

Baylor is once again the unanimous No. 1 choice in The Associated Press women's college basketball poll while St. Bonaventure entered the Top 25 for the first time ever.

CCM Roundtable - Five Point Firing Line

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:51 AM PST

Its my fault that it has been a little while since we've done a roundtable here at Crimson And Cream Machine but we're back with five topics to discuss in rapid fire format. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts in the comments section. 1. Looking back on Oklahoma's 2012 football recruiting...

#4 Missouri Coming To Town: Looking For A Repeat Over Oklahoma

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 10:05 AM PST

January 3rd is not a date any basketball fans want to remember from this season. The Oklahoma Sooners traveled to Columbia, MO to take on a highly ranked Missouri Tigers squad in their conference opener. The end result was getting bounced to the tune of 87-49 setting the Sooners lowest point total...

Big East Mediation From The Fairway

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 09:46 AM PST

(by JohnRadcliff/Smoking Musket) Sadly, no on ever listens to me. Things do seem to be coming to a head. Mediation is scheduled to conclude on February 9th and the Big 12 2012 football schedule was due February 1st....

Post-signing day Big 12 Power Rankings

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 09:31 AM PST

(by David Ubben/ESPN) Signing day has come and gone. NFL decisions have been made. Coaching staffs -- the major moves, at least -- have been settled....

Triple option: Players to watch

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:27 AM PST

(by Jake Trotter/$ESPN$) Three thoughts this morning: 1. A few players to watch this spring: Kameel Jackson, Frank Shannon and Quentin Hayes. Jackson came on strong late last season....

Thoughts on the 46th Super Bowl as football season officially ends

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:03 AM PST

(by Berry Tramel) Not a bad football game in Indianapolis on Sunday night. Keep producing Super Bowls like this, and the NFL might just make a go of it....

Jay Norvell sends strong message with 2012 haul

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 07:57 AM PST

(by Carey Murdock/SoonerScoop) When Landry Jones sets foot on the OU practice fields early next month, he'll likely have flashbacks to everything that went wrong down the stretch in 2011....

After all these years, Tubbs, Stewart still call it like they see it

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST

Here's an encore from the two main characters in my Oklahoma-Missouri basketball story from Monday's World: First, we have Billy Tubbs on Mizzou's departure for the SEC… 'Everybody's ......