By Justin Worsley,
Two years ago, the Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball program went 30-6 and found themselves in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament.
Today, the program is an embarrassing 14-18 and according to reports, head coach Jeff Capel is out of a job.
The Sooners ended their season last weekend with a blowout 74-54 loss to conference rival Texas in the Big XII tournament. In five years, Capel has compiled a 96-69 record, but in the last two seasons, Oklahoma has gone a combined 27-36, including 9-23 in the Big XII.
One of the biggest reasons that Oklahoma has failed to build on their 30-win season is due to the departure of Blake Griffin. The forward left the Sooners after his sophomore year and went on to become the first-overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft. Griffin won the Oscar Robertson Award in 2009 as the nationa's top basketball player.
Capel is the second head coach in the Big XII to lose his job in the past week. Texas Tech fired Pat Knight a week ago.
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