Oklahoma is doing something college softball has never seen

No college softball team has ever hit home runs better than the 2026 Oklahoma Sooners, and that's not even a bold take anymore, just facts.

The No. 1 Sooners on Friday night in a 10-2 win over No. 11 Georgia broke the program and NCAA record for most home runs in a season when freshman Kendall Wells hit No. 162 in the second inning, breaking a mark that was previously held by the 2021 Sooners. Even that record-breaking 2021 team, though, didn't feature the greatest home-run hitter in college softball history in its lineup.

As the 2026 Sooners are putting together the best home run season ever by a team, Wells is also doing it as a player, as that same homer was her 35th of the season, which broke Jocelyn Alo's record for most in a season by an OU player and is eked even closer to the NCAA record.

Sooners destroy NCAA record as Kendall Wells enters legend status

The most unbelievable part about the Sooners and Wells' historical seasons is that they have at least five games left in the regular season, plus the postseason, while everyone behind them or ahead of them in the record books needed a complete season to accomplish the feat. OU comfortably broke the record and now just gets to run up the score, which the Sooners promptly started to do Friday night with four home runs in the game to reach 165 total. Through 50 games, OU is averaging 3.3 bombs every time the team takes the field.

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Wells moved up to third on the list for most home runs in a season in the NCAA record book while stealing the OU record from Alo. She's just three homers shy now of breaking the 31-year-old NCAA record for most home runs in a season that Arizona's Laura Espinoza set in 1995 with 37. Considering Wells herself is averaging just under one homer a game, that record will surely belong to her by the time the regular season concludes.

OU fans are getting the privilege of witnessing history in real time, and for a program with eight national titles and famous for producing home run queens, even this 2026 season is something unlike anything else that's been accomplished in college softball.

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