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Bedlam Series Renews Sunday
February 06, 2009 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 6, 2009
IT'S BEDLAM
What once was a cakewalk for the Sooners has recently become one of its, and the Big 12's, most heated rivalries.
After 17 consecutive wins, the Cowgirls upset the Sooners in Stillwater last season. Oklahoma took the series' win in Norman, but the sting of a Big 12 South loss lingered.
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State renew the series Sunday.
COURTNEY PACING PAIR OF RECORDS
Courtney Paris needs just one rebound to take the NCAA Division I career rebounding record. Paris and Wanda Ford of Drake (1983-86) are tied with 1,815 rebounds. Paris could also grab the Big 12 career scoring record Sunday; she is just 17 points of passing Sophia Young's mark of 2,480 points.
VOTE PARIS FOR SENIOR CLASS AWARD
Courtney Paris was named one of 10 finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. The award honors the attributes of senior student-athletes in four areas: classroom, community, character and competition. Fans can vote for Paris once per day online at www.seniorclassaward.com.
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| Date and Time | Sunday, Feb. 8 at 12:35 p.m. Central | Game Notes |
| Location | Stillwater, Okla. | Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611) |
| Tickets | OKState.com |
| TV | Fox SportsNet | Clearance Report Brent Stover and Brenda VanLengen |
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Radio
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SoonerSports Radio Network | Live Audio KOKC 1520 AM in Oklahoma City |
| Webcast | None |
| Live Stats | None |
GAME PREVIEW
No. 2 Oklahoma meets Oklahoma State for the 82nd time Sunday, Feb. 8, at Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Okla. The game tips off at 12:35 p.m. Central and will be televised on Fox SportsNet. Brent Stover and Brenda VanLengen have the call on the television broadcast.
• Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are meeting for the 82nd time. Oklahoma is 46-35 against OSU.
• Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale is 273-129 (.679) in her 13th season.
• Oklahoma State head coach Kurt Budke is 67-47 (.588) in his fourth season at OSU and 147-61 (.707) in seven years total.
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ABOUT THE TENNESSEE LADY VOLS
Oklahoma State fell to Texas, 91-74, Thursday night in Stillwater following consecutive road wins last week, posting victories at Missouri
and Texas Tech.
The Cowgirls victory over the Sooners last year marked the first time in 17 games they had beaten their in-state rival. Oklahoma picked up the win on the return in Norman, the last meeting between the two teams in February 2008.
Junior Andrea Riley, the Big 12's scoring leader, scored 26 points in the loss and recorded 30-point outings in each of the wins, marking the fifth time in the last eight games she has eclipsed the mark. Riley now has six 30-point games on the year.
Senior Shaunte' Smith scored 13 points against Missouri on Wednesday to become the 18th player in school history to surpass the 1,000-point mark.
Smith grabbed 10 rebounds against Texas Tech to surpass 800 for her career and make her just the third player in school history to score 1,000 points and record 800 rebounds.
Oklahoma State head coach Kurt Budke is 67-47 (.588) in his fourth season at OSU and 147-61 (.707) in seven years total.
THE ALL-TIME SERIES
• Oklahoma leads the series with Oklahoma State 46-35. The last time the Sooners and Cowgirls met was Feb. 23, 2008, an 81-71 victory for OU in Norman.
• OU has won 18 of the past 19 meetings.
• In Stillwater, the Sooners reign supreme with 18 victories to 17 for the Cowgirls.
• Under Sherri Coale, OU lost its first four meetings against Oklahoma State, but since have fallen just twice in the last 21 meetings.
• Coale, who has coached the Sooners since the inception of the Big 12 Conference, is 19-6 against Oklahoma State. Her first win against OSU came Jan. 13, 1999, in her third season.
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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.
THE STREAK ENDS AT 112 CONSECUTIVE DOUBLE-DOUBLES
Courtney Paris' streak of consecutive games with a double-double ended Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, against Tennessee at 120 games. Paris' streak began with a 22-point, 24-rebound effort versus UCLA on Dec. 5, 2005, and lasted 1,159 days. Courtney Paris has collected 117 double-doubles in 121 career games.
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-Jan. 31, 2009 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-Jan. 31, 2009 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
Rebound Record to Go Down Next
Courtney Paris has matched Wanda Ford's NCAA Division I record for career rebounds with 1,815. A discrepancy in the NCAA record book was corrected this week. Ford was incorrectly previously credited with 1,887 career rebounds. Paris already owns NCAA records for single season rebounds, double-doubles in a season and career, consecutive double-doubles and for being the first player to score 700 points, 500 rebounds and 100 blocks in a single season, which she has done twice.
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.
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 15 games, providing 30 percent of the team's scoring and outscoring the opponents' bench 367-185, an average of 24-12. 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's streak of nine straight games with at least one 3-pointer ended Jan. 18 versus Texas A&M. However, Stevenson still leads the Big 12 in 3-point field goal percentage (.438).
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 32 of 73 (.438).
Stevenson...Top Scoring Reserve
Nyeshia Stevenson is the Big 12 Conference's top scoring reserve, 30th overall player, averaging 10.1 points. Stevenson has been OU's top scoring reserve in 13 of OU's 21 games this season, including being the top scoring Sooner in four of those contests.
Stevenson has reached double figures in 11 games as a junior, as many as her freshman and sophomore seasons combined.
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. 2 and women's team is No. 2. Texas'
teams are ranked Nos. 4, 16 and 16, respectively.
High Percentage
Oklahoma's .493 field goal percentage trails only Connecticut (.521) in the NCAA national team ranking. The Sooners have shot 50 percent or better from the field in 12 of 21 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 third nationally.
Point of Order
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 133 assists to 81 turnovers in 2008-09, a 1.6 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 (.921, 58-of-63) and is fourth 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 30 scoring runs of 10 or more points OU has 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.
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