OSSAA Basketball State Tournaments indefinitely postponed due to Coronavirus

The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) announced Thursday afternoon that the high school State Basketball Tournament will be indefinitely postponed. The boys and girls’ tournaments were scheduled to begin Thursday afternoon.

For the second time in the past three years the Class 6A No. 9 ranked Charles Page High School boys’ basketball team (19-7) qualified for the State Tournament, and they were supposed to play No. 5 Midwest City (22-3) at Tulsa Memorial Veterans Arena at 8:30 p.m.

“We have decided to postpone all OSSAA-sponsored activities for this weekend,” announced Executive Director David Jackson in a noon press conference. “We haven’t decided when those activities will be rescheduled. We’ll work on that as soon as we can.”

According to Jackson, some school districts are considering extended spring breaks to further limit the spread of Coronavirus, and he declined to provide even a generalized timeline on when the games would be either rescheduled or canceled outright.

School districts will retain the right to determine whether they will continue with regular season athletic events.