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Sooners Illustrated’s Josh Callaway, James D. Jackson and Tom Green break down the Oklahoma wide receiver and tight end rooms ahead of spring practice, analyze the latest staff changes and size up the path to the NCAA Tournament for both OU men’s and women’s hoops.

As the college basketball season winds down and football spring camp approaches, the Sooners Illustrated Podcast is back with a brand new episode.

Host Josh Callaway and analysts James D. Jackson and Tom Green open the show by continuing their position status reports series with the Oklahoma wide receivers and tight ends.

“I think you feel better, at least going into the season, than you did a year ago (about the wide receivers),” Green said. “It was a big question mark last year. You didn’t know who was going to be that No. 1 guy, who was going to step up, how some of these guys were going to develop. But you look at the production of that room, obviously losing Drake Stoops is difficult…but you’re returning everybody else basically.”

“The tight end position, I think, becomes more valuable now with Joe Jon Finley stepping up to that role (as co-offensive coordinator,” Jackson said. “A lot of the times last year, when (OU) was in a sticky situation in the red zone, it was a Drake Stoops screen pass or something like that instead of going to the tight end position…I really feel a lot better about (the tight ends).”

The guys then dive into the latest staff movement with the departure of J.R. Sandlin and the hire of Jolie Ale before turning their attention to the hardwood and both men’s and women’s basketball’s hopes for reaching the NCAA Tournament.

“(Oklahoma) is still in a pretty good position,” Green said. “Right now they’re 18-8, they’re 6-7 in the conference, sitting in eighth place. Most bracket experts think that the Big 12 is going to get nine teams in. So, Oklahoma is still right there in the thick of things.”

“I think two more wins probably gets you there,” Callaway said. “Three and I think they’re a lock. (Oklahoma) is pretty firmly in (the field) now…Now, all wins aren’t created equal. You go beat Houston and that’s a little different than beating (Oklahoma State) this weekend.”

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Examining Oklahoma’s NCAA Tournament chances, latest bracketology entering final regular-season week

At least, that’s what Oklahoma is hoping for as its regular season draws to a close. The Sooners (19-10, 7-9 Big 12) have two games remaining on their regular-season schedule, plus next week’s Big 12 Tournament, as they try to lock down an NCAA Tournament bid for the first time since 2021.

Oklahoma narrowly missed out on a win that would have undoubtedly secured its ticket to the Big Dance on Saturday when its upset bid fell just short in an 87-85 loss to top-ranked Houston at the Lloyd Noble Center. Now the Sooners till try to regroup as they hit the final week of the regular season. Their first opportunity comes Tuesday night in the team’s home finale against Cincinnati, which OU previously beat on the road back in January. That will be followed by Saturday’s regular-season finale on the road against rival Texas, another team that’s expected to make the NCAA Tournament’s field of 68.

‌Entering the week, Oklahoma has an 88.5% chance of making the NCAA Tournament, according to T-rank. The Sooners would feel much better about those odds if they can get at least one more win and reach the 20-win mark for the season.

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For the rest of the season, Sooners Illustrated will take a weekly snapshot of Oklahoma’s NCAA Tournament resume, with a look at the team’s record by quadrant, as well as the latest projections for the Sooners in the field of 68. Here’s where things stand with about two weeks until the start of the NCAA Tournament: