Oklahoma Pitcher Lands Big 12 Honor

The Sooners' juco transfer takes home the league's pitcher of the week award after taking a no-hitter into the eighth inning at West Virginia.

John E. Hoover | May 11, 2021

Braden Carmichael’s big-time performance last week at West Virginia was recognized when the Big 12 Conference named him Pitcher of the Week.

Carmichael recorded a season-high 10 strikeouts and took a no-hitter into the eighth inning of the Sooners’ 9-1 victory in Morgantown on Saturday.

Carmichael, a third-year sophomore from Prosper, TX, who joined the Sooners this year from Grayson County College, retired 13 consecutive hitters between the third and seventh innings. He left after a leadoff walk I the eighth, walked just four Mountaineers and threw 124 pitches.

It’s Carmichael’s first career Big 12 honor, and the fourth for the Sooners this season. Tyler Hardman was named Big 12 Player of the Week on March 15, Jason Ruffcorn was named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week on May 3 and Brett Squires was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week on May 10.

Oklahoma will face Oklahoma State for the fifth time this season in a non-conference Bedlam matchup on Tuesday at ONEOK Field in Tulsa. Game time is set for 7 p.m. on ESPN2.

Published May 11, 2021

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.