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University of Oklahoma Athletics
OU Announces 2000-01 Women's Basketball Schedule
August 25, 2000 | Women's Basketball
NORMAN, Okla. - Fourth-year Head Coach Sherri Coale announced the University of Oklahoma's 2000-01 women's basketball schedule today. This year's lineup features at least 27 regular season games, 12 to be played at the Lloyd Noble Center and 15 on the road, and participation in the annual Bertha Teague Classic and the elite Coaches vs. Cancer Invitational, as well as the Big 12/ACC Challenge.
Oklahoma basketball will be showcased on ESPN2 at least once and will be featured on FOX Sports Network four times as part of the Big 12 regular season basketball package. Additional television games, as part of the Sooner Sports Properties broadcast package, will be announced at a later date.
Coale and the Sooners are coming off OU's most successful season in women's basketball history with a school-record 25 victories (25-8), a share of the Big 12 Conference regular season title (13-3), a trip to the NCAA Sweet 16 and a final national ranking of No. 13 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.
Coale, the 2000 Big 12 Coach of the Year, and her Sooners will face 12 teams that participated in the NCAA Tournament (Georgia, Notre Dame, Southwest Missouri State, SMU, North Carolina, San Diego, Stanford, Iowa State, Texas Tech, Texas and Nebraska), and two teams that played in the WNIT (champion Wisconsin and Missouri). In addition, 10 squads finished among the top two within their respective conference.
"This year's preseason schedule is the toughest I've had at OU and it will test our basketball program," said Coale. "The three tournaments, the Bertha Teague, Coaches vs. Cancer and Big 12/ACC Challenge, plus our opponents in December, Stanford, SMU and Southwest Missouri State, are great preparation for a very tough conference schedule and postseason action. This is going to be an exciting year for our program."
Oklahoma opens the season with a pair of exhibition games against Oklahoma Christian (Nov. 6) and Australia Institute (Nov. 10), followed by its annual participation in the Bertha Teague Classic in Tulsa, Okla., featuring Oklahoma State, Tulsa, OU and host Oral Roberts on Nov. 17-18.
This year's Coaches vs. Cancer Invitational is loaded with top-25 programs. Oklahoma will face Georgia, which advanced to last year's NCAA quarterfinals, in the opening game on Nov. 22, followed by a game against Notre Dame, a 2000 NCAA Sweet 16 team, or Wisconsin, the 2000 WNIT champion, on Nov. 24. Both games are expected to be carried on national television but an official announcement is pending. The Sooners' lone game slated for ESPN2, for now, is against North Carolina in the Big 12/ACC Challenge on Jan. 21 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Other highlights of the non-conference schedule occur at home against Southwest Missouri State (Dec. 1), SMU (Dec. 9) and Stanford (Dec. 28). The Sooners also will play in a tough atmosphere at Southwest Missouri State in Springfield (Dec. 16). Each team participated in last year's NCAA Tournament and posted 20-win seasons. SMU won its conference while SMSU and Stanford finished second.
Other key regular season contests are games against Big 12 rivals and teams that advanced to the 2000 NCAA "Big Dance" including Texas Tech, an NCAA quarterfinalist, and Sweet 16 team Iowa State, plus Texas, Nebraska and Kansas.
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