The OU men’s and women’s track teams have moved up in the national rankings following a solid competition at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational last weekend in New York.

When most OU students were hitting the books last December for finals, several members of the Sooner softball team were hitting off international pitchers as apart of the USA junior national team during the 2011 World Championships in South Africa. Sophomore Destinee Martinez and incoming freshmen Lauren Chamberlain and Georgia Casey all competed during the two-week long competition after qualifying for the event in 2010.

There’s an old sports adage that says you can tell a lot about a team by how it responds to a loss. If that’s the case, the OU women’s gymnastics team was an open book during its upset victory Sunday against No. 2 Arkansas.

The OU women’s tennis team is young. Of the seven members on the team, two are freshmen and three are sophomores, leaving redshirt junior Peta Maree Lancaster and senior Marie-Pier Huet as the only upperclassmen on the team.

OU wide receiver coach Jay Norvell was named the Big 12 Recruiter of the Year by Rivals.com Tuesday.

Resistance was futile as the OU women’s basketball team was swept aside easily by the No. 1 Baylor Bears on Monday in Waco.

There were 2.5 seconds remaining on the clock when junior forward Romero Osby stepped toward the free-throw line. Oklahoma trailed No. 4 Missouri, 71-68, Monday night in Lloyd Noble Center, and Osby needed to hit at least one of his two shots.

After earning its way to the program’s sixth Women’s College World Series appearance last season, the 2012 OU softball team admitted during Monday’s press conference that this team is determined to pick up where last year’s team left off.

The OU men’s basketball team will look to find the win column for the first time in three games when it hosts No. 4 Missouri Tigers at 6 tonight at Lloyd Noble Center.

The No. 20 OU men’s tennis team cruised past No. 40 Nebraska, 6-1, on Saturday in Norman.