The 2024 Women's College World Series Final matchup is set, and it's a Red River Rivalry.
The Oklahoma Sooners are going for their fourth consecutive NCAA Championship. The Texas Longhorns are going for the first in school history.
Can any of the other contenders spoil the party?
Oklahoma | -500 |
Texas | +350 |
Oklahoma entered the Women's College World Series Final as the -135 favorite, but a Game 1 win over Texas in the best-of-three series has moved their odds to -500.
Texas' outright odds have moved to +350 after their loss.
The Sooners won Game 1 8-3. Tiare Jennings had three RBI including a home run, and Kinzie Hansen and Kasidi Pickering joined her in going yard. Mia Scott hit a home run for the Longhorns.
Four different pitchers threw for Texas in Game 1 while Oklahoma starter Kelly Maxwell threw a complete game with eight strikeouts, four walks and four hits allowed.
So far in the College World Series, Texas has beaten Stanford, Florida, and Stanford again after they won in the losers' bracket.
Oklahoma beat Duke and UCLA before losing to Florida, but then the Sooners beat Florida in an elimination-game rematch in extra innings as each team had one loss in the double-elimination Women's College World Series.
Texas and Oklahoma rank first and second in team batting average (Texas: .375; Oklahoma: .362), sixth and 11th in team ERA (Texas: 1.86; Oklahoma: 1.99), and first and fourth in shutouts (Oklahoma: 23; Texas: 21).
Odds mentioned in this article were correct at the time of writing and are subject to change.