With no Oklahoma Sooners or Oklahoma State Cowgirls at the Women’s College World Series this year, no team in particular is getting that in-state home-field advantage down the road in Oklahoma City that the rest of college softball whines about on an annual basis. So with many OU fans still likely to make the short trip to Devon Park over the next nine days, Alabama head coach Patrick Murphy, only somewhat jokingly, plead his case on why Sooner Nation should support the Crimson Tide during the WCWS.
“Well first to all the Oklahoma fans that are looking for a team to cheer for, it’s right here,” Murphy said. “We have the same color pallette. You know, A-M-A at the bottom, you could almost think it says Oklahoma. Just pretend it does. So I’ll take those 10,000 fans cheering for us.”
Coach Murph is always recruiting 😂Will Oklahoma fans be cheering for Bama in the WCWS? pic.twitter.com/59eRvviaLv
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Sooners have better WCWS rooting interests than Alabama
It’s known around college softball the support the Sooners get from nearby OU fans during their annual appearances in the Women’s College World Series. The Sooners this season, though, slipped in Super Regionals to Mississippi State to end their nine-year streak of getting to the WCWS. That leaves local softball fans with no real rooting interest at Devon Park…