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Sooners Sweep Weekly Awards
January 26, 2009 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 26, 2009
IRVING, Texas -- Sooner teammates swept the Big 12's weekly women's basketball awards after sweeping opponents last week to improve to 5-0 in the league.
Oklahoma's Courtney Paris was named Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Player of the Week and Whitney Hand earned Freshman of the Week honors, announced by the conference Monday.
Paris, who has been player of the week a record 18 times in her career, averaged 21 points and 17.5 rebounds in Oklahoma's two wins against Colorado and No. 16 Texas last week. Paris shot 87 percent from the field (20-of-23) and totaled seven blocks.
Paris scored 19 points and 14 rebounds in OU's 72-58 win at Colorado. The All-American center made nine of 10 field goal attempts and added four blocks in 29 minutes played.
Against the Sooners' 89-69 win versus Texas, Paris scored 23 points and grabbed a season-high 21 boards -- the senior's 10th career 20-point, 20-rebound game.
Paris made 11 of 13 field goal attempts against the NCAA's third best team in field goal percentage defense and also blocked three shots. Until she went to the bench with 8:40 remaining in the game, Paris had more rebounds than the entire Longhorn roster.
Hand, who was named freshman of the week for a third time, averaged 10.5 points and 4.5 rebounds in the Sooners' victories. The Fort Worth, Texas, native also shot 45.5 percent (5-of-11) from 3-point range in those games.
Against Colorado, Hand scored 13 points and grabbed a career-high seven rebounds in OU's 72-58 win. The freshman was 5-of-10 from the field, including a 3-of-6 mark from beyond the arc, and added one assist and one steal in 33 minutes of action.
Hand had eight points and two rebounds in the Sooners' 89-69 beating of Texas. She added a career-best five assists to go with two steals and two blocks while playing a game-high 37 minutes.
Oklahoma returns to action Wednesday, traveling to Baylor to play for first-place in the Big 12 standings. The game will be televised by the Sooner Sports Network (KWTV Channel 9 in Oklahoma City; COX Channel 3 in Tulsa) and tips off at 7 p.m.
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