Soccer Opens Postseason With Bedlam at Big 12s

NORMAN — Oklahoma opens postseason play Saturday when it takes on Oklahoma State in a Bedlam rematch at the 2023 Big 12 Soccer Championship. First touch is slated for 3:30 p.m. CT on ESPN+ at the Round Rock Multipurpose Complex in Round Rock, Texas.

The Sooners are the tournament's No. 10 seed and the Cowgirls earned the No. 7 spot. The winner of Saturday's match gets a date with No. 2 BYU on Monday evening in the Big 12 quarterfinal. Only 10 of the league's 14 teams qualified for the tournament.

FOR THE FANS

Tickets can be bought individually for each round with the quarterfinals being two sessions. All-session tickets will cost $35. Kids under 4 are free with a purchasing adult. All-session tickets will cost $35. Kids under 4 are free with a purchasing adult.

Tickets can be purchased here.

SEASON STORYLINES

• Run It Back: It's a Bedlam rematch for the Sooners, who fell 1-0 in Stillwater last week. The Sooners and Cowgirls were even in nearly every statistical category, but an 83rd minute strike from OSU was the difference. A win on Saturday would mark the second consecutive season that OU won a game in the conference tournament.

• Hat Trick Hawkins: In what could be her final game, Emma Hawkins will look to notch her 50th career goal. She's the only player in OU history to notch multiple hat tricks as Sooner and she has a team-high nine goals this season (49 in her career).

• Boom or Bust: It's been a tale of two locations for the Sooners in 2023 as OU is 6-2-1 at home where its outscoring opponents 30-10, but is 1-7-1 away from John Crain Field and has been outscored 18-3. OU is 0-1 at neutral sites (1-0 loss to Montana in Spokane, Wash.)

Lead, Ramey pre-OSU Since returning to the net in the West Virginia match, goalkeeper Olivia Ramey has allowed just three goals in 380 minutes of action and had clean sheets vs. Cincinnati and Texas.