CONOCOPHILLIPS/ARVEST TOURNAMENT BEGINS THURSDAY IN BARTLESVILLE
Bartlesville High School Bruins head coach Jake Christenson draws up a play during an earlier season game. The annual COP/Arvest Invitational Tournament begins Thursday in Bartlesville.
BECKY BURCH/Bartlesville Area Sports
By MikeTupa
Jan. 8, 2026
BARTLESVILLE AREA SPORTS REPORT
After displaying glimpses of physical competitive equity during the first eight games, the Bartlesville High School Bruin basketball team surges into January with a busy — but exciting — week ahead.
Thursday will pull up the curtain on the 23rd Annual ConocoPhillips/Arvest Tournament at the Bruin Fieldhouse.
This is actually the 24th-scheduled year for the tournament, but it was snowed out in 2010-11.
The Bruins are scheduled to battle Mustang at 8:30 p.m. Thursday.
This is one of the most rugged COP/Arvest boys fields ever — six 6A schools, three teams with two-or-fewer losses and only three teams with losing records.
The full Thursday boys’ schedule is:
11:30 a.m.: Tulsa Union (5-1) vs. Tulsa McLain (3-3).
2:30 p.m.: Broken Arrow (6-1) vs. Yukon (2-8).
5:30 p.m.: Owasso (7-3) vs. Tulsa Rogers (0-8).
8:30 p.m.: Bartlesville (3-5) vs. Mustang (8-2).
Play will continue Friday and Saturday.
Bartlesville will be seeking its first COP/Arvest boys title since the 2011-12 season. The Bruins advanced to the final in 2021-22 and last season — although that was due to a forfeit win in the semifinal.
As mentioned above, the Bruins exuded some promise during their first eight games for new head coach Jake Christenson.
Christenson said the Bruins’ biggest challenge is not its collective physical assists but its aggregate mental/emotional approach.
He took charge of a Bruin program that’s won only six games the past two seasons and has recorded only one winning season in the past nine years.
“We’ve been beat up so long by 6A teams … our mental toughness is not too good,” he explained. “We don’t believe in our abilities to go beat these teams right now. At least we now know what to attack.”
Christenson said he’s also still trying to set his main rotation.
“Some of the guys are kind of Jekyll-and-Hyde how they play,” he said. “It depends on the night. That’s kind of tough to coach around.”
But Christenson said he felt his team progressed during the Christmas break practices.
By the end of this coming weekend the Bruins should know a lot more about themselves and their potential.
With one more win they will surpass their victory total for last season and the season before.
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LADY BRUINS
This will be the eighth year the COP/Arvest tourney has featured a girls’ bracket.
The Lady Bruins won the first-place trophy in the 2018-19 version and advanced last season to the championship final and losing to Broken Arrow.
The Lady Bruins — which are coached by Justyn Shaw — will open tourney play at 7 p.m. Thursday. Other girls’ games that day will be 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Below are the boys and girls brackets, followed by Bartlesville scores from previous years.
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ConocoPhillips/Arvest boys basketball bracket.
ConocoPhillips/Arvest girls basketball bracket.
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Following are a history of past COP/Arvest scores.
PAST COP/ARVEST SCORES FOR BARTLESVILLE
BOYS
2002-03
Bartlesville 57, Claremore 39
Bartlesville 68, Muskogee 56
Bartlesville 58, Glendale (Mo.) 55
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2003-04
Bartlesville 89, Claremore 50
Bartlesville 56, Muskogee 51
Bartlesville 68, Tahlequah 61
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2004-05
Bartlesville 77, Trinity Christian 25
Bartlesville 50, Glendale (Mo.) 45
Bartlesville 66, Enid 48
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2005-06
Bartlesville 59, Catoosa 27
Bartlesville 59, Holland Hall 43
Enid 57, Bartlesville 56 (ot)
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2006-07
Bartlesville 68, Catoosa 39
Bartlesville 57, Holland Hall 44
Bartlesville 58, Enid 46
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2007-08
Tulsa Rogers 59, Bartlesville 57
Bartlesville 41, Putnam City West 39
Bartlesville 51, Shawnee 47
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2008-09
Bartlesville 48, Tulsa Rogers 39
Putnam City West 59, Bartlesville 51
Enid 63, Bartlesville 50
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2009-10
Ardmore 58, Bartlesville 40
Bartlesville 55, Tulsa Rogers 37
Bartlesville 69, Bentonville (Ark.) 54
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2010-11
(Snowed out?)
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2011-12
Bartlesville 61, Hugo 42
Bartlesville 43, Bixby 38
Bartlesville 41, Bishop McGuinness 27
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2012-13
Bartlesville 68, Ardmore 33
Bartlesville 55, Bixby 53
Bartlesville 50, Broken Arrow 45
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2013-14
Bartlesville 49, Enid 43
Bixby 56, Bartlesville 45
Bartlesville 52, Tulsa Memorial 51
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2014-15
Bartlesville 55, Del City 42
Bartlesville 48, Ardmore 45
Carl Albert 45, Bartlesville 42
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2015-16
Bartlesville 66, Del City 42
Bartlesville 64, Ardmore 61
Carl Albert 64, Bartlesville 51
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2016-17
Bartlesville 63, Enid 57
Bartlesville 44, Southmoore 36
Carl Albert 63, Bartlesville 44
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2017-18
Bartlesville 77, Enid 49
Bartlesville 51, Stillwater 48
Carl Albert 67, Bartlesville 64
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2018-19
Bartlesville 54, Enid 42
Southmoore 53, Bartlesville 45
Bartlesville 50, Stillwater 46
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2019-20
Hirschi (Texas) 61, Bartlesville 40
Stillwater 62, Bartlesville 40
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2020-21
Bartlesville 60, Stillwater 51
Midwest City 57, Bartlesville 51
Bixby 81, Bartlesville 46
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2021-22
Bartlesville 72, Tulsa McLain 45
Bartlesville 62, Southmoore 54
Tulsa Washington 56, Bartlesville 51
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2022-23
Bartlesville 85, Ponca City 48
Carl Albert 64, Bartlesville 46
Millwood 71, Bartlesville 68
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2023-24
Southmoore 58, Bartlesville 33
Ponca City 53, Bartlesville 50
Yukon 84, Bartlesville 39
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2024-25
Bartlesville 36, Ponca City 35
Bartlesville def. Millwood (for.)
Southmoore 72, Bartlesville 37
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GIRLS
2018-19
Bartlesville 82, Wichita Life 55
Bartlesville 64, Southmoore 43
Bartlesville 59, Norman 43
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2019-20
Bartlesville 50, Southmoore 45
Carl Albert 39, Bartlesville 36
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2020-21
Bartlesville 39, Del City 33
Choctaw 68, Bartlesville 28
Carl Albert 55, Bartlesville 38
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2021-22
Carl Albert 59, Bartlesville 43
Bartlesville 51, Tulsa Memorial 45
Southmoore 67, Bartlesville 35
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2022-23
Bartlesville 76, Tulsa Memorial 17
Tulsa Washington 79, Bartlesville 38
Bartlesville 52, Del City 46
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2023-24
Bartlesville 67, Tulsa Memorial 63 (ot)
Broken Arrow 46, Bartlesville 31
Bartlesville 47, Millwood 34
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2024-25
Bartlesville def. Tulsa Central (for.)
Bartlesville 53, Carl Albert 49
Broken Arrow 65, Bartlesville 24