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Oklahoma Announces Final Big 12 Softball Slate

The Sooners go from six conference opponents and 18 league games to nine opponents and 27 Big 12 games.
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Oklahoma Announces Final Big 12 Softball Slate
Oklahoma Announces Final Big 12 Softball Slate

Oklahoma on Thursday announced its 2024 conference schedule for the upcoming season — the Sooners’ last in the Big 12.

With more Big 12 teams this year (the league’s softball roster has expanded from seven to 10, adding UCF, BYU and Houston), OU will open conference play March 8-10 at home with a series against Iowa State (they opened March 25 last season), and will close league action at home against Oklahoma State May 3-5.

OU will play five series at home and four on the road, including April 5-7 at Texas.

The Sooners’ other home series are March 22-24 against Baylor, April 11-13 against BYU, and April 19-21 against Houston.

OU will hit the road for series at Texas Tech (March 15-17), Kansas (March 28-30), Texas and UCF (April 26-28).

Patty Gasso’s three-time defending national champion Sooners are expected to open brand new Love’s Field on time next spring, transitioning away from Marita Hynes Field after 25 years there.

OU concludes its fall exhibition schedule Thursday night at home with a Battle Series intrasquad scrimmage.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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