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Patty Gasso says no apologies on how OU won SEC regular season championship

Bob Przybyloby:Bob Przybylo•05/07/25•

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OU softball head coach Patty Gasso has to get out of her own head sometimes. Because she really cannot tell you why she feels this way.

Let’s face it – that’s just not normally the way you clinch a conference championship. You don’t clinch it watching a game being played before you, when you don’t factor into the outcome.

But that’s what happened with OU. Tennessee beat Texas A&M last Friday, and the Sooners clinched the regular season championship. First season in the SEC, first championship.

However, Gasso just had a hard time accepting it. Well, at least initially.

“We knew it, but it wasn’t like we know it so let’s not care. We were almost caring too much. And personally? I really wanted to get one more of those games so we could say won the series,” Gasso said. “I don’t know, why do I feel that way? We won it. We outright won it. If we didn’t outright win it, they wouldn’t have announced it. I’m like what am I stressing over? Like we had to prove something more.

“You can look at us losing a few series. What you’re not talking about are the big-time series that we swept that happened early in the season. I’m just so mad at myself for having that mentality of pretending we don’t hear it or know it. We came back here and had a big celebration over it because we should, we should.”

OU won the first game at Florida last Thursday but then dropped the final two to enter this week’s SEC Tournament at 43-7 overall and 17-7 in the SEC.

The Sooners became the first SEC regular season champion to lose three series, but as Gasso said, OU had impressive sweeps of teams like South Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi State and Texas.

If you don’t like how that worked out, Athens might give everybody a second shot. Georgia is playing host to the SEC Tournament. OU is the No. 1 seed, followed by Texas A&M, Texas and Tennessee.

OU cannot claim a tournament crown by sitting in the dugout. It will have to do it on the field, and that’s quite OK with Gasso and the Sooners.

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