It’s not like Patty Gasso’s Sooners are in bad company.

There’s that.

Sherri Coale and Bob Stoops, maybe the two coaches in this town who could ask for a lifetime contract and get the regents to scramble into a meeting by sundown, watched their own storybook teams go down in flames in January and March.

And for crying out loud, one of Barry Switzer’s best teams was stunned, and I mean absolutely stunned because it still doesn’t make any sense, by Lou Holtz’s Arkansas Razorbacks. And if you’re one of Kelvin’s guys, then you have to love Patty Gasso, because this is the first time a team of hers has been stone cold shocked in the postseason and it used to happen to Sampson’s teams all the time, even if Manhattan was enough for everybody.

So there’s all of that.

Not that it makes any sense.

Because this team was so good for so long.

Until it wasn’t.

Seven hits in two games. A bunt, two more infield hits, a blooper, two home runs and a clean double.

If Lauren Eckermann was aces until the end Saturday, she fell short Sunday.

Asked if her stuff was good after OU’s season ended via a 7-2 loss to a DePaul team playing like it invented the game, all she could say was “Not as good as it should have been, obviously.”

But she wasn’t alone.

And that’s the mystery.

Apart from winning and losing, there’s good softball and bad softball and the Sooners didn’t play the former.

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