After a year hiatus, women’s Bedlam basketball is back.
The Oklahoma and Oklahoma State women’s basketball teams will be reviving the Bedlam series with a game Dec. 13 at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, which will be a doubleheader with the men’s Bedlam game, multiple sources tell the Norman Transcript.
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An official announcement was sent out Wednesday, announcing tickets will go on sale Aug. 1 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. Fans can attend both games with a single ticket.
The teams didn’t play in the 2024-25 season, with the last matchup being in Gallagher-Iba Arena in February 2024, but both have high expectations entering next season.
The Sooners went to their first Sweet 16 since 2013 and picked up the No. 1 recruit in the 2025 class Aaliyah Chavez.
The Cowgirls made the NCAA Tournament as a 7-seed and had one of the better transfer portal classes in the nation this offseason. The Cowgirls are also returning All-Big 12 first-team performer Stailee Heard.
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OSU coach Jacie Hoyt has yet to beat the Sooners, going 0-4 in her first two seasons from 2022-24.
The Sooners have won all six games under coach Jennie Baranczyk and are 69-47 all-time against the Cowgirls.
The Paycom Center hosted the men’s Bedlam game last season, with the Sooners winning 80-65.
This is another huge step in both the rebuild of the Bedlam Series and women’s basketball in Oklahoma.
The past few seasons have had a lot of momentum, growing the sport in Oklahoma alongside the explosion of the WNBA.
It’s a first step in the right direction, but Baranczyk said back in 2024 that she wanted potential future games remaining in Stillwater or Norman.
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“I think it’s important,” Baranczyk said in a postgame press conference Feb. 3, 2024. “Not just for our university, I feel like we are ambassadors for our sport. On a national level, women’s basketball has all-time high in terms of viewership. We don’t have that in Oklahoma right now, we’ve got to increase that…
“If it were up to me, we’d keep it simply because of that and we’d keep it on campus.”
