OKLAHOMA SPORTS NEWS

Last Update on March 10, 2010 01:31 EST

SUMMIT-S DAKOTA ST-ORAL ROBERTS

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Kristin Rotert scored 21 points and made the game-clinching free throw with four seconds left in overtime to give defending champion South Dakota State a 79-75 victory over Oral Roberts in the Summit League tournament final Tuesday.

The Jackrabbits earned their second straight automatic NCAA tournament bid in their second year as a full-fledged Division I member.

The Eagles beat SDSU in both regular-season meetings and came back from nine points down with less than four minutes to play in regulation to force overtime.

Maria Boever added 18 points and Ketty Cornemann 17 for the Jacks .

Jaci Bigham scored 28 points, Kevi Luper 17, Jordan Pyle 12 and Janae Voelker 10 for Oral Roberts .

BEDLAM PART 3

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- There will be a third round of Bedlam basketball for a second straight season.

Oklahoma State and Oklahoma meet in the first round of Big 12 Conference tournament on Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo.

Oklahoma State figures to be comfortably in the NCAA tournament field before taking the court against the Sooners, while Oklahoma seems destined for its first losing season in 29 years.

Last year Oklahoma was in the conversation for a No. 1 NCAA tournament seed and the Cowboys were scrambling and needing a couple of conference tournament wins to feel secure about making the 65-team NCAA field. One of those tournament wins came against the Sooners.

BIG 12 TOURNAMENT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Big 12 tournament gets started this week in Kansas City. For more than half the teams, it will be a warm-up for the real madness of March.

That's because, barring a major meltdown, the conference will likely get seven teams into next week's NCAA tournament.

Kansas, vying for the No. 1 overall seed, is a lock. Kansas State, Baylor, Texas A&M, Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma State also seem likely to get NCAA berths.

It could interesting is if someone else wins the conference tournament and the automatic bid that comes with it. Colorado beat Baylor and played Kansas and Kansas State close. Iowa State closed out the season with a win over K-State and even 12th-seeded Nebraska has shown flashes of toughness during the season.

ALL-BIG 12-WOMEN

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Two Oklahoma Sooners and an Oklahoma State Cowgirl have been chosen first-team All-Big 12.

OU guard Danielle Robinson and forward Amanda Thompson and OSU guard Andrea Riley were each selected to the 10 player first team.

It's the first time Thompson has been named to the first team, the second for Robinson and the third straight for Riley. Robinson was also selected to the All-Defensive team for the second straight year.

OU's Nyeshia Stevenson and OSU's Tegan Cunningham were each named to the all-conference second team.

OKLAHOMA-PRO DAY

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- With all the first-round prospects coming out of Oklahoma for this year's NFL draft, St. Louis Rams coach Steve Spagnuolo joked that he might just camp out on the Norman campus for a while.

Carrying the No. 1 pick with him, Spagnuolo visited the Sooners' pro timing day Tuesday, getting another chance to see defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, offensive tackle Trent Williams, tight end Jermaine Gresham and others after last week's NFL combine.

Quarterback Sam Bradford wasn't among those to work out in front of NFL scouts, but Spagnuolo says he'll be back when the 2008 Heisman Trophy winner holds his own session on March 25.

Spagnuolo says the Rams would love to find a way to split the pick and use it on more than one player. Instead, they'll have a big decision to make in next month's draft.

DRAFT-BALOGUN

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- Mike Balogun hopes a year away from football hasn't made him a forgotten man when it comes time for the NFL draft.

Balogun was forced to sit out all of last season after starting at middle linebacker for Oklahoma in the BCS championship game, but he didn't give up on the game.

Balogun has continued training and participated in Oklahoma's pro timing day on Tuesday in front of representatives from all but one NFL team.

The 26-year-old was stripped of his final year of eligibility by the NCAA, which ruled that he had played for a semipro team after his 21st birthday. Balogun contends that's not the case, and he still has a lawsuit pending against the NCAA.

He's seeking monetary damages and also hopes to change the way the NCAA handles cases.