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No. 12 Sooners Face Jayhawks On Wednesday Night.
January 23, 2001 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 23, 2001
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THE GAME
Oklahoma (13-4, 4-1 Big 12) enters Wednesday's game against Kansas (7-9, 1-4 Big 12) on a four-game winning streak. OU recently defeated Texas A&M, 97-84, and North Carolina, 94-77. OU's win over UNC was apart of the Big 12/ACC Challenge, which the Big 12 swept as Iowa State defeated North Carolina State.
Kansas' Sunflower Cablevision will televise the game taped delay at 10 p.m. in Lawrence and surrounding counties. The contest will also be carried live on Oklahoma's KOMA-AM (1520) radio station and on the Internet at www.SoonerSports.com.
OU enters the game ranked 12th in the AP and 13th in the USA Today/ESPN coaches' polls. Kansas enters the game unranked.
KU looks to snap a two-game losing streak as the Jayhawks lost to Colorado, 72-63, and Oklahoma State, 61-53, last week. Kansas has also dropped six of its last seven games.
SERIES RECORD
Oklahoma won the last meeting between the two teams, 88-69, a year ago in Norman, ending a four-game losing skid to Kansas. However, KU sports an overall record of 27-15 when facing the Sooners. Oklahoma has never won in Lawrence under OU coach Sherri Coale. The last time the Sooners left Lawrence with a victory was a 71-68 decision in 1995-96.
OKLAHOMA (13-4, 4-1 BIG 12) LED BY COMMITTEE
Oklahoma has had seven different players leading the Sooners' offense this season. At North Carolina, junior guard LaNeishea Caufield (Ada, Okla.) exploded for 18 of her game- and season-high 23 points in the season half, while junior center Jen Cunningham (Kingston, Ontario) has the team two of the three previous games. Cunningham scored a career-high 18 points against Texas A&M and Texas, plus had 12 rebounds against the Longhorns for her first collegiate double-double. Junior guard Stacey Dales (Brockville, Ontario) led the team at No. 23 Baylor tying a career-high 28 points, while senior guard Sunny Hardeman (Norman, Okla.) poured in a career-high 20 points on a 6-of-8 performance from beyond the arc against No. 7 Iowa State. Sophomore forward Caton Hill (Ada, Okla.) recorded a double-double with career highs of 25 points and 15 rebounds at Colorado to open Big 12 Conference action. Bottom line, OU has many weapons to throw at its opponents and when they try to stop one or even two of those weapons, Head Coach Sherri Coale unleashes another.
Leading Oklahoma in scoring this season is preseason All-Big 12 selection and Conseco Nancy Lieberman-Cline Step Up Award candidate Stacey Dales (Brockville, Ontario). Dales sports team highs of 7.5 assists and 16.6 points per game, ranking first and sixth in the Big 12 Conference, respectively. Her assists per game also ranks fifth in the nation. In addition, Dales ranks second on the team and seventh in the nation in steals with 3.2 thefts per outing, plus she's fourth on the team in rebounds with 4.3 rpg.
Preseason third-team All-America canadiate LaNeishea Caufield (Ada, Okla.) leads the nation in steals with 4.4 thefts per outing. She also ranks second on the team in free throw percentage, hitting 85.5 percent (71-for-83), scoring (16.4 ppg), assists (3.6 apg) and third in rebounds (4.6 rpg).
Hill leads the team in rebounding with 8.8 boards per game and in double-doubles (10+ rebounds, 10+ points) with six. She boards per game rank fourth in the league. Hill also ranks third in scoring with 12.3 points per game and in free throw percentage, shooting 84.1 from the charity stripe. Cunningham tops the team in blocks with 1.4 per outing and ranks second on the team in rebounds with 6.6 rpg.
As a team, OU scores 83.9 points and gets 42.2 rebounds per game compared to its opponents' 73.9 points and 36.9 rebounds.
KANSAS (7-9, 1-4 BIG 12)
Head Coach Marian Washington and Kansas (7-9, 1-4 Big 12) looks to end a two-game losing skid and pick up their second Big 12 win of the season. KU's only conference win came against Kansas State, 78-67 on Jan. 13. The Jayhawks are 5-3 at home and 1-1 against the Big 12 when playing at the Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas lost at Oklahoma State, 61-53, and at Colorado, 72-63, last week, before defeating KSU. Prior to the KSU victory, the Jayhawks had dropped four straight, at Arizona, 81-73, at UC-Santa Barbara, 71-64, Baylor, 85-80, and at Iowa State, 67-48.
Against Colorado, senior center Jaclyn Johnson came off the bench, due to a sprained ankle suffered at Oklahoma State, to lead the team with 16 points. Johnson was joined in double figures by Jennifer Jackson (15) and Brooke Reves (14). The Jayhawk loss came despite the fact that KU made the same number of field goals as the Buffaloes (25) and shot a higher percentage both from the floor and the free throw line, where Kansas hit a season-high 78.6 percent. But CU went to the line 12 more times than KU and escaped with the nine-point victory, breaking a three-game Jayhawk winning streak over the Buffaloes.
Johnson leads the team in scoring with 15.9 points per game, while Reves averages 14.6 points per game. Johnson and Reves also leads the team in rebounds with 7.6 and 7.2 boards per game, respectively.
Kansas owns a +7.1 scoring margin, while averaging 72.7 points per game on offense and allowing just 65.6 points per game on defense. The Jayhawks are shooting 47.3 percent from the field, including 35.3 percent from the three-point range.
A LOOK BACK AT NORTH CAROLINA
CHAPEL HILL, NC (AP) - Oklahoma did its part in the ACC-Big 12 Challenge. What Sooners coach Sherri Coale would really like is for her team to challenge No. 7 Iowa State and No. 9 Texas Tech in the Big 12.
"Playing in the Big 12 makes you concentrate on endurance and not on getting too up for these sorts of big games," Coale said after Oklahoma dispatched North Carolina 94-77 on Sunday. "The Big 12 is, if not the toughest conference in America, then one of the toughest."
Oklahoma (13-4) travels Wednesday to Kansas (7-9) before getting its shot at Texas Tech next Sunday. Oklahoma headed back to Norman after turning in what Coale called "one of our better performances."
The Sooners cut off the Tar Heels' transition game, made the extra pass on offense, and generally played like a team ready to get serious about Big 12 play.
"We keep getting better," Coale said. "We got better in practice Thursday and Saturday. And we got a little better today. That's one of the things I really like about this team."
Her Sooners free-lanced a bit more than Coale would have liked, but it was hard to rein them in when they were clicking so well on both ends of the court. Their 50 percent field-goal average was slightly better than their usual 47.3 percent. They had 18 turnovers, fewer than their normal 20.4 per game and the Sooners had more 25 assists, up from their typical 19.8.
"That usually means your offense is playing pretty well," Coale said.
The bottom line was more points than the Sooners' average of 83.3 a game, already tops in the Big 12 this season.
"One of the things people asked about this team earlier in the year was can they shoot? Well, yes, we can shoot. We just haven't always taken good shots," Coale said.
The Tar Heels knew Oklahoma was talented, North Carolina's Sylvia Hatchell said.
"Defensively, we could have done better," Hatchell said, "But Oklahoma is a great team, really great on offense. They're very talented, with a lot of great players who can all score."
LaNeisha Caufield had a season-high 23 points and seven assists to lead Oklahoma (13-4). Rosalind Ross made a career best five 3-pointers and tied her career high of 19 points, while Stacey Dales added 18 points.
"North Carolina just seemed to concentrate on everyone else and left me open to dominate," Caufield said.
Caufield made 11 of 18 tries from the floor and contributed seven assists. Ross made six of 10 shots, five of nine coming beyond the arc. Ross scored 11 points in the first half and Dales 13 to help the Sooners easily erase an early 5-2 deficit and take command by halftime with a 45-37 lead.
The Sooners started the second half with three unanswered baskets, two by Caufield, to open up a 51-37 lead. They missed four straight shots during one stretch, allowing UNC to creep back within 53-46 on a jumper by Coretta Brown with 14:50 to play, but that was as close as North Carolina would get in the final minutes.
LaQuanda Barksdale led North Carolina (10-7) with 18 points and 14 rebounds for her 30th career double-double. She was held to a single basket in the second half's first 10:27.
Brown scored 17 points for UNC, despite her 5-for-17 shooting from the field. Juana Brown chipped in 12 points and Candace Sutton 10.
Hatchell wasn't too sympathetic about Oklahoma's conference challenges. North Carolina hosts No. 5 Duke on Thursday. Getting drubbed on ESPN was not her idea of how to get up for her team's archrival.
"We're not crazy about it, that's for sure," Hatchell said. "Normally, when you have a non-conference game this time of year, it's supposed to be a breather. Every conference game is emotional. You have to get up for each one."
ROSS CAPTURES BIG 12 ROOKIE OF THE WEEK HONORS IN WOMEN'S HOOPS
Oklahoma's Rosalind Ross (Milwaukee, Wis.) was named the Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Rookie of the Week in a vote of a media panel for games played from Jan. 15-21. Ross becomes the first Sooner to earn rookie of the week honors this year and the second straight OU player to be recognized by the league's office as junior guard Stacey Dales was named player of the week this past period.
Ross, a 5-9 junior college transfer, assisted OU with wins over Texas A&M, 97-84, and at North Carolina, 94-77, last week. Coming off the bench, she averaged 11.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 3.0 assists per game while shooting an impressive 45.5 percent from beyond the three-point line (5-of-11) and a solid 41.2 percent from the field (7-of-17). The Milwaukee, Wis., native had a career-high 19 points at North Carolina including nailing a personal-best 5-of-9 three pointers (45.5 percent). She also had four rebounds, three assists and shot 60 percent from the field (6-of-10) in only 19 minutes of action against the Tar Heels. Against Texas A&M, Ross grabbed four rebounds, dished out three assists, pocketed two steals and scored four points for the Sooners.
The junior has played in all 17 games this season and averages 7.5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game for OU. Ross also shoots 41.8 percent from the field and, in Big 12 play, sports a 41.2 three-point field goal percentage.
OKLAHOMA EARNS SECOND HIGHEST RANKING EVER
With its recents wins over Texas A&M and North Carolina, Oklahoma moves up a spot in this week's Associated Press Top 25 Poll, going from No. 13 to No. 12, the second highest rankings ever for an OU women's basketball team. In 1985-86, the Sooners were ranked No. 11 for the week of Jan. 12, 1986.
OU also moved up two spots in the USA Today/ESPN Poll, going from No. 15 to No. 13. This ties OU's highest USA Today ranking this season. The Sooners were ranked 13th in the Nov. 20, 2000 poll.
Oklahoma has been ranked in all 12 AP and USA Today/ESPN coaches polls this year.
SOONERS RANK 35TH IN NATIONAL ATTENDANCE
Oklahoma is ranked 35th in this week's unofficial NCAA Division I Women's Basketball home attendance survey, which is compiled by the University of Wisconsin Women's Sports Information Office. The Sooners are averaging 2,196 fans per game.
IN THE NCAA STATISTICS
In the most recent NCAA Division I basketball statistics (released on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2001), Oklahoma ranked in the following national stat categories ... No. 10 in scoring, averaging 83.9 points per game and 15th in field goal percentage (47.5).
Individually, the Sooners have two players that rank among the nation's elite in three categories. Juniors LaNeishea Caufield (Ada, Okla.) and Stacey Dales (Brockville, Ontario, Canada) ranks among the best in steals, assists and free throw percentage. Caufield leads the nation in thefts with 4.4 steals per game and ranks 32nd in free throw percentage, shooting 85.5% from the charity stripe. Dales ranks fifth in the NCAA in assists per game with 7.5 and 17th in steals per game, pocketing 3.2 per outing. Note: Oklahoma numbers include OU games to date.
SOONER VERSATILITY
Head Coach Sherri Coale has a deeper and more versatile team as eight players are playing 10-or-more minutes per game. Coale has also seen six different player lead the Sooners in scoring, making it tougher for OU's opponents to focus on stopping the Sooners' dynamitic duo of junior guards LaNeishea Caufield and Stacey Dales.
TAYLOR TO MISS NEXT TWO WEEKS
Senior Desiree Taylor (Richardson, Texas) will miss the next two weeks due to tearing her PCL (post anterior cruciate ligament) against Baylor on Jan. 13. Taylor is averaging 1.5 points and 1.3 rebounds in 7.3 minutes of action this season. Taylor is expected to return to action on Feb. 3, against Missouri.
THE MISSING LINK
One of the most obvious keys to Oklahoma's most recent success has been the emergence of junior Jen Cunningham (Kingston, Ontario, Canada). She has scored a career-high 18 points twice, Texas and Texas A&M, and had the offensive rebound for the game-winning basket at Baylor.
After not attempting a shot against Iowa State, OU's only true center came to life against Texas as she scored a career-high 18 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for her first collegiate double-double. She also set personal bests in field goals made (8) and attempted (12) against the Longhorns. The following game against Baylor, Cunningham sealed the win for the Sooners as she grabbed an offensive rebound for a key three-point play in the final minute. She matched her career-best offensive performance against Texas A&M with a team-high 18 points.
In the Sooners' last four games the Canadian has nearly averaged a double-double with 13.0 points and 9.3 rebounds. Cunningham is also shooting 57.6 percent from the field (19-of-33). Prior to the breakout, Cunningham was just averaging 4.5 points.
Cunningham has appeared in 14 starting lineups and has set or matched career highs in 10 of 13 categories, including 15 rebounds and five blocked shots at San Diego on Dec. 21. Cunningham leads the Sooners' blocking efforts with 24 of Oklahoma's 43 blocked shots. She now ranks ninth on OU's all-time blocked shots list with 43.
For the season, she contributes 6.5 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game plus shoots 46.3 percent from the field. The Canadian also ranks among the Big 12 Conference best in blocked shots (5th), defensive rebounds (14th) and rebounds (18th).
OU RANKS 8TH IN LATEST RPI
The Sooners are also ranked eighth in the most current WBCA/ Summerville RPI Rankings. Oklahoma also ranks ninth in the latest Collegiate Basketball News Women's RPI College Basketball Rankings.
The Sooners have played eight top-25 teams this year. OU is 4-4 against the nation's best, defeating Southwest Missouri State, 89-82, Stanford, 102-98 OT, Texas, 85-74, and Baylor, 90-87.
HILL'S AMONG BIG 12 BEST ALL AROUND PLAYER
Sophomore Caton Hill (Ada, Okla.) is among the Big 12 Conference's best all-around players. In Big 12 Conference games, Hill is the ONLY player who ranks among the top 15 in nine different statistical categories.
SOONER BACKCOURT TANDEM AS GOOD AS IT GETS
Juniors LaNeishea Caufield (Ada, Okla.) and Stacey Dales (Brockville, Ontario) are one of the best guard tandems in America. Seventeen games into the season, Caufield and Dales lead the Sooners and are among the Big 12 Conference and NCAA best as they post impressive numbers.
Dales ranks fifth in the NCAA and leads the team and Big 12 Conference in assists with 7.5 per game. She also averages a team-high 16.6 points while hustling for 4.3 rebounds and pocketing 3.2 steals per game which ranks 17th in the nation. Dales shoots 46.1 percent from the field and 70.7 percent from the charity stripe. The Canadian also is among the league's best in four categories: assists, assists/turnover ratio, steals and scoring.
Caufield leads the nation, Big 12 Conference and team in steals per game with 4.4 thefts per outing. She also ranks second on the squad in scoring with 16.4 points per game and is third in rebounding with 4.6. The Oklahoman hits 85.5 percent of her free throws ranking her 32nd in the nation.
DOUBLE DOSE
Sophomore Caton Hill (Ada, Okla.) continues to play well for the Sooners as the 6-1 power forward dropped 17 points and 12 rebounds against the Texas Longhorns on Jan. 10, for her sixth double-double of the season and fourth all-time against UT. Hill is third in the Big 12 Conference and leads the team for most double-doubles (6).
From Dec. 18 to Jan. 3, Hill produced four straight double-doubles, including career highs of 25 points and 15 rebounds at Colorado on Jan. 3. Hill owns 12 career double-doubles.
She tops the team in rebounding with 8.8 per game and field goal percentage (.500), of players averaging 20-plus minutes per game. She also ranks third on the team in scoring with 12.3 points per game.
BIG 12 HAS FIVE RANKED TEAMS FOR SECOND STRAIGHT WEEK
For the third straight week and only the third time in the conference's five-year history, the Big 12 has five ranked teams in the Associated Press Poll. This week Colorado earned its first ranking of the year as it entered the poll at No. 25 to join Iowa State, Texas Tech, Texas and Oklahoma. This week's rankings are: No. 7 Iowa State, No. 9 Texas Tech, No. 12 Oklahoma, No. 17 Texas, and No. 25 Colorado. Prior to the last three weeks, the only other time the Big 12 has had five ranked teams was Nov. 17, 1997.
DALES BECOMES THE 16TH PLAYER TO SCORE 1,000 POINTS
In just two-and-a-half seasons, junior guard Stacey Dales (Brockville, Ontario) became the 16th player in Oklahoma women's basketball history to score 1,000-points. It took Dales 77 career games to achieve this goal, while teammate LaNeishea Caufield accomplished this milestone earlier this year against Georgia (65 career game).
Dales surpassed this milestone by matching a career-high 28 points in OU's 90-87 victory at Baylor on Jan. 13. She scored her 1,000th point on a jumper with eight seconds to play in the opening half. The Canadian native has scored 282 points this season, pushing her career total to 1,048.
For the Sooners, she has scored in double digits and has dished out five-or-more assists in 15 of 17 games this year. Dales produced her first double-double of the sesaon when she had 14 points and distributed a career-high 14 assists against SMU on Dec. 9, in Norman. She ranks fifth in the NCAA while leading the team and Big 12 Conference in assists per game with 7.5.
Dales also leads the team in scoring with 16.6 ppg and is fourth in rebounding with 4.3 rpg.
She currently ranks second among OU's all-time greats in assists and needs 145 to become OU's all-time leader. She owns 468 career assists.
DALES NAMED BIG 12 CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Oklahoma's Stacey Dales (Brockville, Ontario, Canada) was named the Big 12 Conference Player of the Week in a vote of a media panel for games played from Jan. 8-14. Dales became just the second OU women's basketball player to earn the Big 12 Conference Player of the Week award and just the 16th in school history to earn the conference honor.
Dales led Oklahoma to wins over No. 14 Texas and No. 23 Baylor as she averaged 20.5 points, 8.0 assists and 4.0 rebounds. She also shot 50 percent from the field, hitting 14-of-28 attempted shots, and nailed 78.6 percent of her free throw attempts (11-of-14).
The 6-1 junior point guard scored 13 points vs. Texas and contributed eight assists and four rebounds. At Baylor, Dales surpassed the 1,000-point plateau with a career-high 28 points, including six points in the final two minutes of action. She also had eight assists, four rebounds and shot 52.9 percent (9-of-17) from the field.
STEPPING UP THE D
Even though Oklahoma prefers a fast-paced offense, the Sooners don't lose track of the importance of good solid defensive pressure. That fact is shown in the Sooners' holding nine of their 17 opponents to 40 percent or below from the field which in return produces a 10-0 record for OU. Opponents are shooting 39.9 percent from the field against the Sooners, including just 33.3 percent from three-point territory. Oklahoma has also collected 214 steals as opposed to its opponents' 165. In addition, the Sooners have outrebounded their opponents 42.2-36.9 (+5.3) per game (717-628 overall).
JUCO ALL-AMERICANS MAKING IMPACT
Junior College All-Americans Rosalind Ross (Milwaukee, Wis.) and Jamie Talbert (Elkhart, Kan.) have made an immediate impact on the women's basketball program. Ross has played in all 17 games and averages 18.6 minutes per game while Talbert has seen action in 16 contests and plays 13.3 minutes per outing.
Ross, a three-point specialist, has hit over 34 percent (18-of-52) of her shots from beyond the arc and is shooting 41.2 percent (7-of-17) against Big 12 opponents. She also contributes 7.5 points and 2.5 rebounds per game.
Talbert, a forward, averages 6.3 points and 3.1 rebounds per game while shooting 52.2 percent (36-of-69) from the field.
SOONERS AGAINST TOP 25 TEAMS
The Sooners are 5-2 against top-25 opponents at the Lloyd Noble Center over the last two years. The wins against Texas and Stanford marked the second and third time this year that Oklahoma has accomplished the feat after upsetting then-13th-ranked Southwest Missouri State on Dec. 1. Last year, OU defeated Texas Tech (No. 13/13), 82-76, and Kansas (No. 24/25), 88-69, in Norman.
OU's only home losses to top-25 teams have been against Iowa State, 81-79, on Jan. 6, 2001 and to the 2000 NCAA champions Connecticut, 84-68, on Dec. 29, 2000.
SUNNY DAYS ARE HERE
Senior Sunny Hardeman (Norman, Okla.) hit a career-high six three-pointers en route to scoring a career-high 20 points against Iowa State on Jan. 6. The guard hit six of her eight attempts treys vs. the Cyclones.
Hardeman's performances around the arc has moved her up to No. 5 on the career three-pointers made chart with 99. She also ranks on the all-time assists list at No. 12 with 235.
For the year, she averages 5.1 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.8 assists and hits 47.1 percent of her three-point shots. Hardeman is among the conference leaders in three-point percentage and three-pointers made per game.
SOONERS INK TWO IN EARLY SIGNING PERIOD
Head Coach Sherri Coale has received commitments from Dionnah Jackson (St. Louis, Mo.) and Antoinette Wadsworth (Grand Prairie, Texas) to attend OU and join Oklahoma's women's basketball program for the 2000-2001 season.
Jackson, a 5-9 guard from Parkway West High School, averages 13 points, four assists and five steals per game. According to the All-Star Girls Report, she is the sixth best point guard in the country and ranks 37th nationally. The four-year letterwinner is a three-time all-conference and a two-time all-district pick in the St. Louis Metro area. In addition, she's the school's record holder for most career steals.
Wadsworth, a 5-11 guard-forward from South Grand Prairie High School, is currently averaging 18.0 points and eight rebounds and is shooting 55 percent from the field. She is a first team All-District 5-5A selection and was a member of the gold medal Texas Junior Olympic team from a year ago.
SOONER BRIEFS
OKLAHOMA SOONERS
Oklahoma returns four starters and 11 letter- winners from last year's 25-8 NCAA Sweet 16 team. In addition, the Sooners return 73.7 percent of their points, 79.6 percent of their rebounds, 91.1 of their assists and 88.5 percent of their steals.
Look for a more mature and experienced team to emerge this season. Head Coach Coale believes she has the right mixture of veterans and the added depth needed at each position to strengthen the Sooners' chances of going deeper into the NCAA Tournament.
Oklahoma will continue to play an up-tempo, fast break type of offense, while extending its defense and applying more full court pressure due to the added depth.
A LOOK BACK TO 2000
Last season was a stellar year for the Sooners as they captured a school-record 25 victories (25-8), won their first Big 12 Conference regular season title (13-3) and appeared in its first NCAA Sweet 16 Tournament, under the 64-team format. The Sooners ended the year with a final national ranking of No. 13 in the USA Today/Coaches Poll.
Prior to opening the Big 12 Conference schedule in early January Oklahoma hosted a school-record 10,713 fans for the OU-Connecticut game inside the Lloyd Noble Center on Dec. 29. It also marked the largest crowd ever to watch a women's sporting event in the state. One week later, Oklahoma defeated then 13th-ranked Texas Tech, 82-76, in Norman to return to the national spotlight with a No. 25 ranking. Following that win, OU raced out to an all-time best 9-0 Big 12 start, landing the Sooners atop the league. After ending January with a flawless 10-0 record, OU faced a tough February as the Sooners journeyed to national powers Iowa State and Texas Tech. Oklahoma, ISU and Tech concluded the conference schedule with identical 13-3 records.
Following an early exit from the Big 12 Tournament, Oklahoma put its energy in its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1995. Oklahoma was selected as a No. 5 seed in the East Region that featured 10 conference champions, an RPI of 12th, six teams ranked among the nation's top 25, the defending national champions, Purdue, and No. 1 Connecticut. Oklahoma picked up first- and second-round victories over BYU, 86-81, and Purdue, 76-74. The Sooners fought back from a 17-point deficit on the Boilmakers' home court to spoil Purdue's chance of a national title repeat. For only the second time in school history, Oklahoma women's basketball team worked its way into the NCAA Sweet 16. There, OU would see its season come to an end against national champion Connecticut. It took the nation's best team to end Oklahoma's best season ever.
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