NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma coach Jennie Baranczyk hears the favored catchphrase “6-7” on a regular basis at house, probably extra usually than please and thanks.
Getting an earful of it at a girls’s basketball sport, effectively, that was new for the mom of three.
Baranczyk and the sixth-ranked Sooners grew to become the most recent school group to send fans into a frenzy after they hit 67 factors in an 89-61 victory against North Alabama on Friday.
A whole lot of scholars on a discipline journey screamed their approval together with the ever present phrase and juggled their arms up and right down to mimic a video that went viral earlier this 12 months.
Sports activities viewers might need seen the movement earlier than, maybe in six or seven NFL games.
“I didn’t do it as a result of I used to be like, ‘Yep,’” stated Baranczyk, who has a son and two daughters. “I knew it. However I’m like, ‘Gotta give the folks what they need generally.’”
Raegan Beers, who completed with 20 factors and 11 rebounds within the victory, raved concerning the OU bench response. Teammates, assistant coaches and staffers celebrated concurrently in comparable style.
Beers stated teammates Payton Verhulst, who made a 3-pointer to provide Oklahoma a 66-33 lead, and Zya Vann have been making an attempt to attract fouls, presumably so they may shoot free throws.
“We received so excited to do this,” Beers stated. “We knew the youngsters have been going to get enthusiastic about that. That’s the enjoyment of this sport. That’s why I like this sport. Simply to have that vitality within the constructing and lean into what’s trending in the intervening time, which is 6-7, no matter meaning. It was a lot enjoyable to have that second and let the youngsters take pleasure in it.”
Dictionary.com made the viral time period “6-7” its word of the year, and it isn’t even actually a phrase. It’s a phrase youngsters and youngsters can’t cease repeating and laughing about whereas mother and father and academics can’t make any sense of it.
The phrase — if you happen to can name it that — exploded in recognition over the summer season. It’s extra of an inside joke with an unclear which means, pushed by social media.
Dictionary.com says its annual choice is a linguistic time capsule reflecting social traits and occasions. However the web site admitted it too is a bit confused by “6-7.”
“Don’t fear, as a result of we’re all nonetheless making an attempt to determine precisely what it means,” the location stated in its announcement final month.
How did “6-7” grow to be a factor?
All of it appears to hint again to rapper Skrilla’s music from 2024 referred to as “Doot Doot (6-7).”
That music began showing in TikTok movies with basketball gamers, together with the NBA’s LaMelo Ball who stands 6-foot-7.
Then a boy, now generally known as “The 6-7 Child,” shouted the ever present phrase whereas one other child subsequent to him juggled his arms in a video that went viral this 12 months.
That’s all it took.
So what does “6-7” imply? The true reply is nobody is aware of, however it’s broadly considered innocent. In contrast to another traits which have come and gone, there’s not believed to be an inappropriate backstory to the craze.
In keeping with Dictionary.com, the phrase might imply “so-so,” or “perhaps this, perhaps that” when mixed with the juggling arms gesture.
Merriam-Webster calls it a “a nonsensical expression used particularly by teenagers and tweens.”
Regardless, it’s trending at basketball video games when a group nears 67 factors, and in soccer video games when it’s time for a dance.
It occurred on the Prairie View-Oklahoma State girls’s sport earlier this week and at an Air Drive-South Dakota girls’s sport.
Related Press freelance author Tim Willert contributed to this report.
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