The Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team played its home games in the Lloyd Noble Center and was a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) former Big Eight Conference at that time.

The team then won three consecutive home games before losing to #2 Kansas on the road.

The team then won 8 contests in a row including back to back victories over #1 ranked teams (Missouri and Kansas) at the end of February as well as a rubber match victory against Kansas in the Big Eight Conference tournament semifinals.

[2] The team earned the school's third consecutive #1 seed in the 1990 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, but was eliminated in the second round by North Carolina 79–77.

[4] Roster The following were the team's results in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.