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Oklahoma Maintains Top Spot in Polls Heading Into SEC Tournament

How strong is the Sooners' hold on the top spot heading into postseason?
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Oklahoma second baseman Ailana Agbayani smiles after reaching on a hit against Kentucky at Love's Field.
Oklahoma second baseman Ailana Agbayani smiles after reaching on a hit against Kentucky at Love's Field. | Ryan Chapman / Sooners on SI

NORMAN — Winning two of three at Texas A&M was enough to keep Oklahoma atop the softball rankings.

The Sooners remained atop the NFCA/Go Rout coaches' poll Tuesday, earning 18 of 31 first-place votes.

OU also remained atop the D1Softball and Softball America polls.

Oklahoma is ahead of Nebraska, which received 11 first-place votes and moved up a spot to No. 2, and Texas Tech, which received one first-place vote but dropped a spot in the rankings.

No. 4 Alabama received the other first-place vote.

Tennessee moved up three spots to No. 5, followed by UCLA, Florida, Florida State, Arkansas and Texas to close out the top 10.

Other SEC teams in the NFCA poll include No. 15 Texas A&M, No. 17 Georgia, No. 18 LSU, and No. 19 Mississippi State

South Carolina and Ole Miss received votes.

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Other Sooners' opponents from this season in the rankings include No. 12 Duke, No. 16 Oklahoma State, No. 20 Arizona and No. 24 Arizona State.

Oklahoma (48-7, 20-4 SEC) opens the SEC Tournament against either Georgia or LSU at approximately 7 p.m. Thursday in Lexington, Ky. The game will be broadcast on the SEC Network.

The Sooners are the No. 1 seed in the tournament after clinching the outright title with Saturday's doubleheader sweep of the Aggies.

In the D1Softball poll, Alabama is No. 3 while Texas is No. 6 and Tennessee No. 7.

.The Sooners have plenty to play for in the SEC Tournament, where they could secure the No. 1 overall seed for the first time since 2023.

Oklahoma appears unlikely to slip any lower than the No. 3 overall seed, despite being ranked sixth in the RPI.

The last time the Sooners were seeded tower than second was in 2018, when they were the No. 4 seed and ultimately fell in the semifinals of the Women's College World Series.

Oklahoma also enters the postseason chasing some major records.

The Sooners are tied with UCLA with 173 home runs after breaking their own 2021 record of 161 home runs in a season.

Freshman catcher kendall Wells is one home run away from tying the NCAA single-season record of 37 set by Arizona's Laura Espinoza in 1995.

The Sooners' .806 slugging percentage is ahead of the pace set bu the 2021 team, which set an NCAA record at .778. They are also currently sixth all-time in runs, one behind this year's UCLA team and 72 off the record 636 set by the 2021 Sooners.

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Ryan Aber
RYAN ABER

Ryan Aber has been covering Oklahoma football for more than a decade continuously and since 1999 overall. Ryan was the OU beat writer for The Oklahoman from 2013-2025, covering the transition from Bob Stoops to Lincoln Riley to Brent Venables. He covered OU men's basketball's run to the Final Four in 2016 and numerous national championships for the Sooners' women's gymnastics and softball programs. Prior to taking on the Sooners beat, Ryan covered high schools, the Oklahoma City RedHawks and Oklahoma City Barons for the newspaper from 2006-13. He spent two seasons covering Arkansas football for the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas before returning to his hometown of Oklahoma City. Ryan also worked at the Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and the Muskogee Phoenix. At the Phoenix, he covered OU's national championship run in 2000. Ryan is a graduate of Putnam City North High School in Oklahoma City and Northeastern State University in Tahlequah.

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