From the NCAA staff:

• Monday's tripleheader will be the first at a College World Series since June 2, 1980.

• Oklahoma has 102 home runs, most of any 2010 CWS team and the most since the Sooners hit 114 in 1998, the last year of the old minus-five bat standard. OU has 12 home runs in seven NCAA tournament games and has hit 20 homers in the eighth inning or later this season.

• Sooners closer Ryan Duke tied the program's career saves mark with his 28th save. Jeff Bajenaru also saved 28 games in 1999-2000. Thanks in large part to Duke, OU is 40-0 when leading after eight innings in 2010 and 74-1 the last two seasons.

• South Carolina now has lost its last seven CWS openers, with its last victory coming in 1977. The Gamecocks did end a 46-inning scoreless streak in CWS openers, though, with Christian Walker's second-inning home run. They had been shut out in CWS openers in 1985, 2002, 2003 and 2004.

• South Carolina's loss was its first of the NCAA tournament, leaving Arizona State as the only undefeated team left in the postseason.