Sooners Big 12 preseason faves

NORMAN — The nine-time defending Big 12 champion Oklahoma softball team was voted by the league’s head coaches as the 2022 preseason favorite on Wednesday.

The Sooners received 36 points in this year’s poll and were followed by Oklahoma State with 31 and Texas with 26. OU received six of the seven first-place votes with OSU garnering the other. This is the 10th straight year and 13th in the last 14 seasons that OU has topped the conference’s preseason poll.