Sooner Basketball: M & W face tough weeks w games @ home & road!

[OUBeliever56A]

The Oklahoma Sooner Basketball Teams each face two tough teams this week with games on the road and at home during the week. The games this week follow games on Saturday that saw a wrestling match in Norman as the Men defeated OSU and a game in Ames where the Sooner Women defeated the Cyclones easier than most thought. I tried to watch both games in Puerta Vallarta but it seems ESPN+ can not be accessed outside of the country. So I 'watched' both on Live Stats and listened to the Men's game on radio.

The Sooner Men are now 6-5 in conference and are in tie for 6th in the Big 12. They are 2 full games out of first place. The Men play two teams above them this week in Baylor (6-4) and Kansas (7-5). Kansas has already lost once this week as the Jayhawks got beat in Lubbock last night by 29. Coach Self was not around to see the end as he got two "T's" and was gone with about 7 minutes to play. The Sooners are ranked again this week at #25 in the AP and 21 in the Coaches polls. Baylor is ranked 12 & 13, Kansas is ranked 6 & 7. The NET Rankings are 31 for OU, 12 for Baylor and 17 for Kansas.

The Men play at Baylor tonight at 8 PM. Baylor is not as big and long as they have been in past years, but they are still a very strong team. To finish the week, the Men host Kansas at 3 PM on Saturday. Both games are on the ESPN main channels with the Baylor game on ESPN2/U and the Kansas game on ESPN. the two games this week will go a long way to determining where the Sooners finish in the Big 12 this year. I think the Men need to split their games at least this week. A sweep would be tremendous, to drop both games would be a tough kick in the pants for them.

The Women are now 11-1 are in first place in the Big 12 by a full game over K-State. The Women play Baylor (7-5) at home in LNC on Wednesday at 6 PM on ESPN+. On Saturday, the Sooners will travel to West Virginia (9-3). From what I have seen, Baylor is not the team they have been in the past. West Virginia is a strong team and even better at home. The Sooner women will have to play well to go 2-0 this week, I think I would take a win at home on Wednesday and a good game at West Virginia going either way for the Women. But the Sooners did play very well on the road at I-State last Saturday thanks to Verhulst's big game.

The Sooners are ranked 23 in the AP Poll and hold 34 ranking in the NET. Baylor is ranked 21 in the AP and 19 in the NET. West Virginia is ranked 24 and holds a 22 NET ranking.

Good luck to both Sooner teams this week in big weeks for both teams.

Boomer Sooner!

[AustinTXSooner]

I tried to watch both games in Puerta Vallarta but it seems ESPN+ can not be accessed outside of the country. So I 'watched' both on Live Stats and listened to the Men's game on radio.

I had this issue with several websites, including my mortgage company, when I was in Japan two months ago. You can subscribe to a VPN, I used ExpressVPN, and there are a number of places in the states that it can make it look like you're at instead of outside the country. Actually, there's 105 countries that it can make it look like you're in. For one month, it's $12.95. So getting it just to watch a game might not be cost efficient.

The weirdest one was Home Depot. Can't even bring up the home page in Japan.