Oklahoma enters its 25th consecutive week at No. 1 in this week’s 2022 USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll. The Sooners (42-1) have not relinquished their hold since ascending to the top spot on March 2, 2021.
Despite suffering its first loss of the season, Oklahoma remained the top ranked team in this week’s 2022 USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll. The unanimous No. 1 Sooners (38-1) had its NCAA DI-record undefeated start of 38 games halted by then-No. 18 Texas in the final game of a three-game Big 12 series.
It's been about a month since this site last checked in on Michigan Softball, which came in early February, just before the start of the season. That was our season preview piece and in it I opined that much of what the team hopes to accomplish in 2022 hinges on what was going to happen in the early season non-conference portion of the schedule. We are now through the meat of that section of the schedule, so I felt that this week would be a good time to check in and see what's going on with the squad and how they fared in a Softball Roundup: How Michigan Fared The Wolverines got the season started in Tampa and it was pretty disappointing. Though they did go 3-2, Michigan was unable to beat either of the good teams there, USF or Florida, putting up just one combined run in the two games. The USF game was sullied by a strange decision to start freshman Lauren Derkowski in the circle rather than one of Michigan's ace pitchers. Derkowski gave up three runs in the first