Sooners To Begin Postseason At Gainesville Regional

The Oklahoma baseball team will begin postseason play at the Gainesville Regional and face Liberty in the opening game on Friday. The 64-team 2022 NCAA Baseball Championship bracket was revealed Monday on ESPN2.

Oklahoma, the regional No. 2 seed, will play regional No. 3 seed Liberty at noon Friday on ESPN+. Regional host and No. 13 national seed Florida will face Central Michigan on Friday. OU has never played Liberty or Florida in baseball and is 9-3 all-time against Central Michigan.

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The Sooners (37-20, 15-9 Big 12) earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by winning the Big 12 Championship with an 8-1 victory over Texas Sunday night. OU went 4-0 in the event, also defeating West Virginia (6-4), Texas Tech (6-3) and Kansas State (4-3).

The winner of the Gainesville Regional will face the winner of the Blacksburg Regional, which features No. 4 national seed Virginia Tech, Gonzaga, Columbia and Wright State.

Oklahoma is making its 39th appearance in an NCAA Regional, and first since 2018. The Sooners are 86-76 all-time in NCAA tournament games, have appeared in 10 College World Series and won national championships in 1951 and 1994.

Oklahoma has won 10 of their last 13 games entering the postseason and is 19-8 since April 12. OU closed its Big 12 regular season slate by winning five straight series and 11 of its last 15 contests.

The Sooners, which tied for second place in the league standings, posted an aggregate 21-9 record against Big 12 opponents this season. OU is ranked 19th in the RPI and went 18-12 against the top 50 teams in the RPI rankings, which was the third-most top-50 wins nationally.