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University of Oklahoma Athletics
OU Looks to Stay Unbeaten in Big 12
January 20, 2009 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 20, 2009
ASHLEY PARIS IS BIG 12 PLAYER OF THE WEEK AGAIN
Oklahoma's Ashley Paris was named the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Player of the Week, announced by the league Monday. Paris was voted player of the week for the second time this season.
Paris provided a team-leading 34 points in addition to 20 rebounds, six blocks, three assists and two steals in the Sooners' victories at home against Kansas State and Texas A&M.
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| Date and Time | Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. Central | Game Notes |
| Location | Boulder, Colo. | Coors Events Center |
| Tickets | CUBuffs.com |
| TV | Fox Sports Rocky Mountain COX Channel 7 in Oklahoma City; COX Channel 3 in Tulsa |
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SoonerSports Radio Network KOKC 1520 AM in Oklahoma City |
| Webcast | None |
| Live Stats | None |
GAME PREVIEW
No. 3 Oklahoma visits Colorado Wednesday, Jan. 21, at the Coors Events Center in Boulder. The game tips off at 8:05 p.m. Central and will be televised by Fox Sports Rocky Mountain. Fans in Oklahoma can watch the game on COX Channel 7 in Oklahoma City and COX Channel 3 in Tulsa.
• Oklahoma and Colorado are meeting for the 54th time. Colorado leads the series 33-20, including a 16-5 advantage in Boulder. The Sooners lead 12-5 since the formation of the Big 12.
• OU beat Colorado, 82-66, in Norman last year and has won the past six meetings.
• Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale is 268-129 (.675) in her 13th season.
• Colorado head coach Kathy McConnell-Miller is 49-60 (.450) in her fourth year at Colorado and 140-148 (.486) in her 10th year overall as a head coach.
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ABOUT COLORADO
Colorado is 8-7 overall and 0-3 in the Big 12, dropping three straight after entering the league season on a five-game win streak. The Buffaloes capped off their non-conference schedule on a high note, winning the 2009 Paradise Classic in Honolulu, with wins over Pepperdine and Hawaii.
All of Colorado's Big 12 losses have come at the hands of South Division teams. The Buffs fell 63-50 at home to Baylor and on the road to Oklahoma State, 79-43, and Texas, 62-32.
Sophomore guard Brittany Spears is third in the Big 12 in scoring (17.5) and sixth in rebounding (7.7). However, as a team, Colorado ranks last in the conference in terms of scoring offense (62.3), scoring defense (62.3) and scoring margin (+0.0).
Colorado head coach Kathy McConnell-Miller is 49-60 (.450) in her fourth year at Colorado and 140-148 (.486) in her 10th year overall as a head coach.
Junior guard Bianca Smith is a former teammate of OU freshman Jasmine Hartman. Both players are alumns of Bellaire (Texas) High School. Smith's stepfather, Johnnie Jackson, played football for the University of Houston and was a member of the San Francisco 49ers when they won Super Bowl XXIV.
Senior forward Hannah Skildum is the niece of NBA coach Flip Saunders.
THE ALL-TIME SERIES
• OU and Colorado meet for the 54th time.
• CU leads the overall series 33-20 and 16-5 in Boulder.
• The Sooners have won the last six meetings, the longest such streak for OU in the all-time series, with an average margin of victory of 16.2 points.
• OU has a 12-5 advantage in the series since the formation of the Big 12 Conference.
• CU head coach Kathy McConnell-Miller is 0-3 versus the Sooners.
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PREVIEWING THE OKLAHOMA SOONERS
Oklahoma begins the season with high expectations and high rankings -- No. 4 in the Preseason AP Poll and No. 7 in the Coaches' Poll. Returning for Oklahoma are 11 players, including four starters and three-time consensus All-American Courtney Paris. Big 12 Freshman of the Year Danielle Robinson will run the offense as a sophomore and teammates and coaches are raving about the prospects of Preseason Big 12 Freshman of the Year Whitney Hand.
Oklahoma again plays one of the toughest schedules in the nation with consensus No. 1 Connecticut, and top-ranked Tennessee and California as well as ranked Big 12 teams Texas A&M, Texas, Oklahoma State and Baylor on the slate.
116 GAMES, 113 DOUBLE-DOUBLES, 108 CONSECUTIVE
Courtney Paris has collected 113 double-doubles in 116 career games. She has an active streak of 108 consecutive games with a double-double. The streak began with a 22-point, 24-rebound effort versus UCLA on Dec. 5, 2005, and will be 1,147 days old when OU plays Colorado on Jan. 21, 2009.
OFFICIALLY A RECORD
It has long been thought that Courtney Paris' double-double numbers were NCAA records. Beginning with the 2008-09 season, those statements are now factual.
The NCAA has made single-season and career double-doubles as well as single-season and career consecutive double-doubles new records for women's basketball.
| Single-Season Double-Doubles 33 - Courtney Paris, Oklahoma, 2006 33 - Courtney Paris, Oklahoma, 2007 32 - Anne Donovan, Old Dominion, 1983 31 - Courtney Paris, Oklahoma, 2008 30 - Cheryl Taylor, Tennessee Tech, 1986 |
Single-Season Consecutive Double-Doubles 33 - Courtney Paris, Oklahoma, Nov. 12, 2006-March 25, 2007 31 - Courtney Paris, Oklahoma, Nov. 11, 2007-March 25, 2008 28 - Courtney Paris, Oklahoma, Dec. 5, 2005-March 25, 2006 18 - Cheryl Miller, Southern Cal, Nov. 28, 1984-Feb. 14, 1985 15 - Gail Koziara, Dartmouth, Jan. 16-Feb. 28, 1982 |
| Career Double-Doubles 113 - Courtney Paris, Oklahoma, 2006-Active 90 - Cheryl Taylor, Tennessee Tech, 1984-87 78 - Janet Harris, Georgia, 1982-85 75 - Sylvia Fowles, LSU, 2005-08 |
Career Consecutive Double-Doubles 108 - Courtney Paris, Oklahoma, Dec. 5, 2005-Active 19 - Anne Donovan, Old Dominion, Jan. 29, 1982-Dec. 29, 1983 18 - Cheryl Miller, Southern Cal, Nov. 28, 1994-Feb. 14, 1985 |
C. PARIS NAMED NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE MONTH
Oklahoma's Courtney Paris was named the National Player of the Month of December by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), which made the announcement Thursday. It is the fifth career WBCA Player of the Month for Paris. Paris averaged 17.2 points, 12.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.8 blocks in five games in December, while playing just 25.2 minutes a game. She shot 77.3 percent from the field, connecting on 33-of-44 field goal attempts.
POSTGAME LEFTOVERS
Triple Double-Double
Double-doubles by Ashley and Courtney Paris and Amanda Thompson against North Carolina on Nov. 23, 2008, marked the first time three Sooners recorded double-doubles in the same game. It's happened twice more since then as the Parises and Danielle Robinson each tallied a double-double against Tulsa (Dec. 21) and Texas A&M (Jan. 18).
Oklahoma Sets Comeback Record
Oklahoma's comeback win against Cal set the largest deficit overcome in regulation to win a game. The Sooners trailed the Bears by 26 points with 19:01 remaining in the second half and won 86-75.
New Turnover Low
Oklahoma's eight turnovers against UConn and 10 versus Creighton set a record low in back-to-back games for Sherri Coale-coached teams. Previously, no Sooner team coached by Coale had consecutive games with fewer than 20 combined turnovers.
Offensive Output
Lost in the struggle from a 106-78 defeat to No. 1 UConn was the efficiency of OU's offense. The Sooners ripped off 85 field goal attempts while turning the ball over just eight times, matching a three-year season low. OU also connected on 56 percent of its 3-point attempts,then its best mark since the fourth game of the 2007-08 season.
Courtney Paris sets OU Scoring Record
The second-ranked Sooners never trailed at home against Arizona State, winning the Preseason WNIT semifinal, 70-57. Courtney Paris scored 19 points and 20 rebounds for her 100th career double-double and passed Phylesha Whaley as OU's career scoring leader.
More on Paris' Scoring Efficiency
Phylesha Whaley scored 2,187 points in 116 career games and an OU record 4,025 minutes played. Courtney Paris passed Whaley's mark with 2,189 points in 103 games. Paris' 3,152 minutes played to reach the record -- 873 fewer than Whaley --wasn't even in the top 10 on OU's career charts.
Rebound Record on Pace
The two-time NCAA single-season rebounding leader also passed Mississippi Valley State's Patricia Hoskins for second on the NCAA career rebounding list. With 1,743 career rebounds, Paris needs 144 to match the NCAA record.
Lucky Number Seven
Whitney Hand became just the seventh true freshman under OU head coach Sherri Coale to start in her first collegiate game, joining LaNeisha Caufield, Stacey Dales, Caton Hill, Courtney Paris, Chelsi Welch and Phylesha Whaley.
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The Greatest Comeback in NCAA History
Led by Nyeshia Stevenson's 21 second-half points, Oklahoma engineered the greatest comeback win in regulation in NCAA history against then-No. 9 California in the final game of the Basketball by the Bay Classic in San Jose, Calif., on Dec. 13. Oklahoma trailed 52-26 at the half and began a 10-0 run in the second half with 19:00 remaining. The Sooners also reeled a 28-0 run from 9:00 to 0:42 in which OU made 6-of-12 field goals and Cal missed 11 consecutive. Eleven of Stevenson's 21 points came during this run, including the tying, go-ahead and, eventually, winning field goals. OU outscored Cal in points off turnovers, 20-0, in the final period.
The only team to win from a greater deficit was Texas State, which trailed UT-San Antonio 40-8 (32 points) with 2:18 remaining in the first half and won 73-71 in overtime on Feb. 18, 2006. Texas State's halftime deficit in that game was 27 points.
Stevenson...Beyond the Arc
Junior forward Nyeshia Stevenson set an OU record by making nine consecutive 3-point field goals. Stevenson was a perfect 4-for-4 in the second half versus California and 2-for-2 in the game against Tulsa and 3-for-3 at Saint Louis for a total of nine consecutive 3-pointers made.
Stevenson streak of nine straight games with at least one 3-pointer ended as she was held scoreless Sunday, Jan. 18, versus Texas A&M. However, Stevenson still leads the Big 12 Conference in 3-point field goal percentage (.429).
As a freshman, Stevenson made just 2-of-11 (.182) 3-pointers. As a sophomore, she improved to 28-of-82 (.341). Already in 2008-09, the junior has made 24 of 56(.429).
True to Point
Danielle Robinson's improved efficiency at point guard as a sophomore is incredible considering she was, statistically, the top freshman point guard in the nation last season, leading her to Big 12 Freshman of the Year honors. Robinson has 99 assists to 51 turnovers in 2008-09, a 1.9 assist-to-turnover ratio, and leads the team with 38 steals.
Robinson has also been spreading the ball around well, counting assists to eight teammates. Her only exceptions, injured forward Carolyn Winchester, reserve point guards Rose Hammond and Jasmine Hartman and reserve center Abi Olajuwon.
Percentage of Field Goals Assisted by Robinson
50% - Lauren Willis
40% - Whitney Hand
31% - Jenny Vining
29% - Nyeshia Stevenson
26% - Ashley Paris
21% - Carlee Roethlisberger
14% - Amanda Thompson
11% - Courtney Paris
Robinson...From the Charity Stripe
Sophomore guard Danielle Robinson leads the Big 12 Conference in free throw percentage (.933) and is among the top nationally.
The statistic is just one example of the point guard's remarkable improvement from her freshman season when she made just 68 of 99 (.687) free throws.
Robinson's 9-for-9 free throw shooting against Texas A&M (Jan. 18) was the best by a Sooner since Maria Villaroel made 11-of-11 versus Missouri on Feb. 26, 2003.
Robinson has made 28 consecutive free throws and 42 of her last 43. LaNeisha Caufield holds the Oklahoma record for consecutive free throws at 29.
Simply the Best
Only two NCAA Division I programs have their football and men's and women's basketball teams ranked in the Top 25 of the AP poll -- Oklahoma and Texas. Oklahoma's football team finished No. 5, while its men's basketball team is No. 6 and women's team is No. 3. Texas' teams are ranked Nos. 4, 14 and 14, respectively.
High Percentage
Oklahoma's .486 field goal percentage trails only Connecticut (.533) in the NCAA national team ranking. The Sooners have shot better than 50 percent from the field in eight of 16 games this season after doing so only seven times last year. Of course, the high field goal percentages has Oklahoma scoring on more chances, which is why OU's scoring offense (82.0 points per game) is fourth nationally.
Bench Support
Following Oklahoma's loss to Connecticut in which bench players totaled only four points, Sherri Coale issued a challenge to her reserves. They've responded in the last 10 games, providing 34 percent of the team's scoring and outscoring the opponents' bench 282-100, an average of 28-10. Prior to Coale's challenge, the backups were outscored 79-100 and provided only 21 percent of OU's offensive output.
Runaways
Oklahoma has put away opponents early by opening with large runs. The Sooners took a 13-0 lead on North Carolina Central (Jan. 4) and then a 15-0 lead on Nebraska (Jan. 10).
Those are just two of the 24 scoring runs of 10 or more points the Sooners have had this season. OU's comeback versus California featured a 28-0 run that last from 9:00 remaining to the final 30 seconds of that game.
The Sooners quickest 10-0 run lasted 2:11 over both sides of the break against No. 1 Connecticut. Oklahoma has even had three double-digit runs in one game, doing so with 12-point first half, 13-point over-the-break, and 13-point second half runs against Creighton.
PURCHASE OU BASKETBALL TICKETS
Single-game tickets for the nationally-ranked OU men's and women's basketball teams go on sale Wednesday, Nov. 19.
Tickets will first be available online at SoonerSports.com at 12:01 a.m. Phone orders begin at 8 a.m. via the OU Athletics Ticket Office at (405) 325-2424 or toll-free at (800) 456-GoOU. If supplies remain, walk-up sales at the ticket office begin at 10 a.m.
The ticket sale includes men's games against USC, Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma State and women's games against Texas A&M, Texas, Baylor and Oklahoma State.
Men's basketball single-game tickets start as low as $10 each while women's tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for youths.
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OU Basketball Single-Game Ticket Sale
Wednesday, November 19  First available at 12:01 a.m. online at SoonerSports.com, Then available at 8 a.m. by calling (800) 456-GoOU or (405) 325-2424, Then available at 10 a.m. for walk-up sales at OU Athletics Ticket Office (if tickets remain) |
OU Athletics Ticket Office
The OU Athletics Ticket Office is located on the plaza level of the Asp Avenue Parking Facility, immediately west of the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. A limited number of metered parking spaces are available on the second floor of the parking facility and on Asp Street for customer use. The OU Athletics Ticket Office handles ticketing for all OU athletics events and is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. | Map to Ticket Office
Phone (405) 325-2424 or toll-free: (800) 456-GoOU
Fax (405) 325-8500
Email outickets@ou.edu
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