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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Big Monday at Ford Center
February 01, 2009 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 1, 2009
Big Monday
Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt is looking for career win No. 1,000. Oklahoma is looking for its 15th straight win and a jump in the pecking order of women's basketball's powerhouse programs.
The game has a Final Four feel and takes place at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City, where the Lady Vols stormed through last season to earn the national championship.
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| Date and Time | Monday, Feb. 2 at 6:35 p.m. Central | Game Notes |
| Location | Norman, Okla. | Ford Center (19,136) |
| Tickets | OU Athletics Ticket Office | OKFordCenter.com |
| TV | ESPN2 Brent Musburger, Nancy Lieberman, Bob Knight and Holly Rowe |
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Radio
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SoonerSports Radio Network | Live Audio KOKC 1520 AM in Oklahoma City |
| Webcast | ESPN360.com |
| Live Stats | SoonerSports.com CBS GameTracker |
GAME PREVIEW
No. 2 Oklahoma hosts No. 15 Tennessee Monday, Feb. 2, at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City. The game tips off at 6:35 p.m. Central and will be televised on ESPN2. Brent Musburger, Nancy Lieberman and Bob Knight will provide the play-by-play and anaylsis for one of this year's premier women's college basketball games.
• Oklahoma and Tennessee are meeting for the fourth time. Tennessee is 3-0 against Oklahoma.
• Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale is 272-129 (.678) in her 13th season.
• Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt is 999-186 (.843) in her 35th season.
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ABOUT THE TENNESSEE LADY VOLS
Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt takes her first crack at 1,000 coaching wins Monday night against Oklahoma. With a 999-186 record in her 35th season at Tennessee, Summitt is far and away the all-time leader in coaching victories in college basketball history.
Following Tennessee's eighth national championship in 2009, a 36-2 overall record and SEC Tournament Championship, UT returned five letterwinners, a redshirt freshman and introduced six rookies.
This year's Lady Vols enter Monday with a 16-4 overall record and 5-2 mark, fourth place, in the SEC.
Freshman guard Shekkina Strickland leads Tennessee in scoring, averaging 13.8 points, assists (57) and steals (43).
Tennessee has fashioned a 5-0 record in games played in The Sooner State. The Lady Vols played OU in Norman on Dec. 21, 2003 and grabbed a 71-55 win. Three months later, Tennessee found itself back in Norman at the 2004 NCAA Midwest Regionals where the Lady Vols claimed a 71-69 win over then-No. 15 Baylor and advanced to the 2004 Final Four in New Orleans with a 62-60 win over 10th-ranked Stanford. Last season, UT picked up wins four and five in OKC in the regionals.
THE ALL-TIME SERIES
• Oklahoma and Tennessee have met three times previously. The Lady Vols have won each meeting.
• Oklahoma's margin of defeat has decreased in each previous meeting, from 26 to 16 to just three last year.
• Oklahoma is meeting Tennessee for the first time as the higher-ranked team. In 2002, Tennessee was No. 1 an OU was unranked. In 2003, UT was No. 2 and OU was No. 13. Last year, Tennessee was No. 1 and OU No. 9.
• This is OU's ninth meeting all-time with a defending national champion. The Sooners are 3-5 against teams in the year following their national title.
• The Sooners have won five straight and nine of their past 10 February openers.
• Oklahoma is 14-12 all-time on ESPN2.
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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.
120 GAMES, 117 DOUBLE-DOUBLES, 112 CONSECUTIVE
Courtney Paris has collected 117 double-doubles in 120 career games. She has an active streak of 112 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 1,159 days old when OU plays Tennessee on Feb. 2, 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 20 - Courtney Paris, Oklahoma, Nov. 15, 2008-Active 18 - Cheryl Miller, Southern Cal, Nov. 28, 1984-Feb. 14, 1985 |
| Career Double-Doubles 117 - 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 112 - 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 1,757 career rebounds, Paris needs 130 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.
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 13 games, providing 32 percent of the team's scoring and outscoring the opponents' bench 356-168, an average of 25-12. Prior to Coale's challenge, the backups were outscored 79-100 and provided only 21 percent of OU's offensive output.
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 Jan. 18 versus Texas A&M. However, Stevenson still leads the Big 12 Conference in 3-point field goal percentage (.446).
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 31 of 70 (.443).
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. 4 and women's team is No. 2. Texas' teams are ranked Nos. 4, 11 and 16, respectively.
High Percentage
Oklahoma's .491 field goal percentage trails only Connecticut (.529) in the NCAA national team ranking. The Sooners have shot 50 percent or better from the field in 11 of 20 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 (80.3 points per game) is fourth nationally.
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 121 assists to 73 turnovers in 2008-09, a 1.7 assist-to-turnover ratio, and leads the team with 47 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.
Robinson...From the Charity Stripe
Sophomore guard Danielle Robinson leads the Big 12 Conference in free throw percentage (.930, 53-of-57) and is third 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 set an OU record by making 30 consecutive free throws, ending with her third attempt against Texas (Jan. 25). LaNeisha Caufield (2002) held the Oklahoma record for consecutive free throws at 29.
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 29 scoring runs of 10 or more points the Sooners have had this season. Oklahoma has had at least one 10-0 run in three straight games.
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.
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To purchase women's basketball tickets: Single-Game Tickets: $8 - Public General Admission | $5 - Youth General Admission |
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
WBB Highlights: OU 126, North Carolina Central 54
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Jennie Baranczyk, Sahara Williams & Raegan Beers Postgame vs. OSU
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WBB Highlights: OU 92, Oklahoma State 70
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