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Baseball Continues Big 12 Play at TCU
March 14, 2024 | Baseball
Oklahoma
TCU
March 15-17 / Fort Worth, Texas / Lupton Stadium
FIRST PITCH
• Oklahoma continues Big 12 conference play this weekend in Fort Worth, Texas, facing off against No. 12 TCU. The three-game series at Lupton Stadium is set for first pitches of 6:30 p.m. CT, 5 p.m. and 1 p.m., Friday through Sunday, respectively.
• The series can be watched via Big 12 NOW on ESPN+ and heard locally in Oklahoma on SportsTalk 1400 AM/99.3 FM or nationwide on The Varsity app. Live stats can be found at OUStats.com. Toby Rowland and Ross Hubbard will be on the radio call.
• Tickets for OU fans in the DFW area can be purchased via GoFrogs.com.
• The Sooners enter the weekend at 10-6 following a Wednesday win over UT Arlington, 5-1, in Arlington and 14-5 loss to Oklahoma State in Norman on Tuesday. Last weekend saw OU sweep UCF on conference-opening weekend. Now in its 27th and final season in the Big 12 conference, Oklahoma is 355-318-2 all time in conference play.
LEADING OFF
• The Sooners have opened the season with a 10-6 record, highlighted by a top-10 win over then-No. 9 Tennessee, a walk-off victory over former conference foe Nebraska and a Big 12-opening sweep of then 9-1 UCF.
• Oklahoma is in its seventh season under the direction of head coach Skip Johnson (including the 2020 season that was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson, who spent the 2017 season on staff as an assistant coach, has led the Sooners to a 199-138 record, three NCAA Tournament appearances, the 2022 Big 12 tournament championship and the 2022 College World Series finals since taking over as head coach prior to the 2018 season.
• The Sooners returned 13 letterwinners from the 2023 squad and brought in 26 newcomers for the 2024 season.
• Oklahoma finished the 2023 season by making its 40th NCAA Tournament appearance in program history, playing in the NCAA Charlottesville Regional.
• The Sooners ended the 2023 season with a 32-28 record and an 11-13 mark in Big 12 Conference play.
SERIES HISTORY
• TCU: The Sooners and Horned Frogs have met as far back as 1942, with OU leading the all-time series 77-49.
• The Horned Frogs have held the advantage since entering the Big 12 in 2013 with a 17-13 advantage over OU.
• Oklahoma has claimed four of the last six matchups, including winning the Big 12 series over TCU a season ago in Norman. The last meeting of that series was March 19, 2023, a 7-5 OU win at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
RECAPPING THE START TO THE SEASON
• After dropping the season opener to Oregon, the Sooners bounced back in a big way with a pair of wins vs. No. 9 Tennessee and Nebraska in dramatic fashion at the Shriners Children's College Classic at Globe Life Field in Arlington.
• Opening the home slate vs. Wright State, the Sooners came sprinting out of the gates on offense, putting up a combined 46 runs on the weekend, highlighted by a 20-0 home-opening day win on Friday.
• After dropping a 19-9 decision in seven innings to Pittsburgh in OU's first game of the Las Vegas College Baseball Classic, the Sooners fought back with a tough matchup vs. Ohio State on Sunday. Holding a lead into the ninth inning, the Buckeyes were able to rattle off a pair of runs to edge the Sooners, 4-3.
• The Sooners opened Big 12 play last weekend in dominant fashion, sweeping a UCF team that came to Norman at 9-1 and fresh off a win at No. 4 Florida. The Sooners pitching and hitting was firing on all cylinders as OU outscored the Knights 29-8 on the weekend, capped by a 14-2, seven inning run-rule on Sunday.
• Following a four-game win streak at home, the Sooners saw the streak snapped by Bedlam rival Oklahoma State Tuesday, with the Cowboys besting the Sooners, 14-5. Wednesday, OU got back in the win column with a 5-1 win at UTA. Starter Carson Atwood led the OU pitching staff with a career-high tying four strikeouts.
THE NUMBERS
• On the season, the Sooners are batting .326 as a team, paced by sophomore Easton Carmichael and junior John Spikerman's identical .419 averages. Graduate transfer Michael Snyder leads the team with 24 RBIs, three home runs and a .717 slugging clip. Carmichael paces OU with seven doubles, while senior Bryce Madron has drawn a team-best 13 walks.
• On the mound, the Oklahoma pitching staff has a 5.22 team ERA with 162 strikeouts to 76 walks.
• Nine Sooners have homered so far in the early season for a total of 15 team blasts, led by Snyder's trio, while four other Sooners have homered twice.
• Thirteen Sooners have brought in at least one run, with seven plating at least seven runs.
• Junior LHP transfer Braden Davis has been solid in his four appearances as a Sooner, leading OU with 25 strikeouts in 19.0 innings pitched.
• Sophomore righty transfer Kyson Witherspoon paces the team with a 1.88 ERA in 14.1 IP to go with 11 strikeouts, while veteran lefty James Hitt has 22 K's in 16.1 innings pitched, highlighted by a single-game high for any OU pitcher with 10 vs. Nebraska (2/18).
• The pitching staff has recorded double-digit strikeouts in nine of OU's first 16 games with a season-high 15 twice (vs. Tennessee [2/17], vs. Wright State [2/24]).
• The Sooners have had 17 pitchers make appearances so far in 2024, with 11 registering seven-or-more strikeouts, led by junior LHP Braden Davis' 25 and senior LHP James Hitt's 22.
• Head coach and pitching coach Skip Johnson and the Sooners have 22 pitchers on the roster in 2024.
CARMICHAEL CLAIMS BIG 12 WEEKLY HONORS
• Easton Carmichael was named the Big 12 Co-Player of the Week, the conference announced the weekly honors Monday. The OU catcher/designated hitter helped OU to a 4-0 week, capped by a conference-opening sweep of UCF in Norman. Carmichael hit .615 with four extra-base hits, including two home runs and 8 RBIs.
• The sophomore went 8-for-13 on the week and scored eight runs, drew three walks and stole a base, while only striking out once. In Sunday's 14-2 run-rule win, Carmichael hit a three-run, walk-off home run in the seventh inning to end the game early and send OU to its first Big 12-opening sweep since 2019.
• Entering the week (3/11), Carmichael is second in the league in batting (.472), third in hits (25) and sixth in slugging (.755). He shares the weekly award with Texas' Max Belyeu.
• The honor marked OU's first weekly award of the season and the first since Easton's brother, Braden Carmichael, claimed Pitcher of the Week accolades a season ago (5/22/23). The honor is OU's first Player of the Week nod since Brett Squires on May 16, 2022.
LAST RODEO IN THE BIG 12
• 2024 marks Oklahoma's final season in the Big 12 conference with the school's impending move to the SEC for the 2024-25 academic year.
• All-time, the Sooners are 355-318-2 in Big 12 play dating back to the inaugural baseball season in 1997.
• The Sooners hold a combined 27 conference titles, winning the regular season crown 22 times and the conference tournament five times. Most recently, OU won the tournament in Arlington in 2022.
• With the addition of new Big 12 members UCF, BYU, Cincinnati and Houston, Oklahoma plays 30 conference games in 2024, compared to 24 in years past. OU meets three of the four new additions this season in UCF, BYU and Cincy.
L. DALE MITCHELL PARK EXPANSION PROJECT
• The Oklahoma baseball facility enhancement project will transform the look of the ballpark from both the interior bowl and the exterior of the stadium. New locker rooms, training areas, coaches offices and team meeting areas combined with chairback seating, terraced berms and additional awnings and concourses will provide a first-class facility for fans and student-athletes. In addition, a new, state-of-the-art performance and player development center will be added. A new entry to the team areas will include a Champions Lobby, displaying the success and tradition of the Oklahoma baseball program.
• More than 35,000 in square-foot-space of new areas benefiting student-athlete performance and recovery including a robust medical services area, weight room and sports science to centralize student-athlete training at the baseball field.
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