Entering the third weekend of the college softball season, Oklahoma stood 8-1 and ranked No. 4 nationally by both Softball America and ESPN/USA Softball.
The reigning SEC champions play 12 games in 11 days, beginning with six games this weekend in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, California, a suburb of Palm Springs. This is the 19th time in the last 21 years that Oklahoma has participated in this popular early-season tournament.
Sooners competing in Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic just outside of top 3
This year marks the first time in the past five seasons that an Oklahoma softball team has lost a game this early in the season and was ranked lower than No. 3 nationally. Despite that, the 2026 Sooner softball lineup may be one of the most prolific offensive teams that Patty Gasso has put on the diamond in her 33-year tenure as Oklahoma head coach.
Oklahoma may be in slightly unfamiliar territory in winning percentage and national standing this early in the season, but the Sooners have wasted little time showing off what they are capable of offensively, leading all of college softball in several major categories. After two weeks, OU leads the country in runs scored (125), runs per game (13.89), home runs (38), on-base percentage (.557) and slugging percentage (.951), and is No. 2 in batting average (.460)…