Coale Aims for Win No. 300

Jan. 21, 2010


	Sherri Coale

No. 13 Oklahoma (13-4, 3-1 Big 12) vs. Kansas (11-6, 1-3 Big 12)
Date & Tip Time	Saturday, Jan. 23, at 2:07 p.m. CT
Location	Norman, Okla. \| Lloyd Noble Center \| Seating Views
Tickets	OU Athletics Ticket Office General Admission: Adults $8, Youth (K-12) $5 OU Students Enter Free with Valid Student ID
TV	Sooner Sports Network KAUT Channel 43 (Oklahoma City)
Radio	Sooner Radio Network KOKC AM 1520 in Oklahoma City, KAKC AM 1300 in Tulsa
Webcast	SoonerSports.com All-Access
Live Stats	SoonerSports.com GameTracker
Game Info	Game Notes (PDF)

GAME PREVIEW
Sherri Coale will be seeking her 300th victory on "Read to Win" Day as No. 13 Oklahoma hosts Kansas Saturday, Jan. 23, at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., at 2 p.m.
• The game will be televised on the Sooner Sports Network (Oklahoma City area on KAUT Channel 43) with Bob Carpenter and Kenny Mossman calling the action.
• The OU radio broadcast of Brian Brinkley and Kendra Wecker can be heard over the air on the Sooner Sports Network (KOKC 1520 AM in Oklahoma City) and online at SoonerSports.com through CBS College Sports All-Access.

READ TO WIN DAY
• OU women's basketball bookmarks will be available to kids as long as supplies last.
• First 2,000 kids (8th grade and younger) will receive a Sooner Mascot Build-A-Bear Stuffed animal.
• The Norman Public Library's Miss Charlotte and Miss Kim will present a special children's story at halftime. Sooner Kids Club members will be invited on the court for the story.

OU WINS, YOU WIN
• Sooner fans in attendance for Saturday's game versus Kansas at the Lloyd Noble Center could enjoy a discounted ticket rate at future home games. If the Sooners win, fans win the opportunity to purchase additional tickets to all remaining Big 12 Conference home games at a special rate of $5 per ticket. The processing fee is included in this rate and no other fees will be applied.

Women's Basketball Ticket Information

TICKET INFORMATION
• General admission tickets are available for adults are $8. Youth (K-12) tickets are $5. Lloyd Noble Center's ticket box offices will open one and one-half hours prior to tip-off.
• OU students who present a valid student I.D. are admitted free.

Kansas Projected Starters
No.	Name	Pos.	Ht.	Year	2009-10 Statistics
4	Danielle McCray	F	5-11	Sr.	20.0 ppg, 6.9 rpg
1	Aishah Sutherland	F	6-2	So.	11.0 ppg, 7.9 rpg
20	Sade Morris	G	5-11	Sr.	9.4 ppg, 3.2 rpg
21	Carolyn Davis	F	6-3	Fr.	3.8 ppg, 2.5 rpg
00	LaChelda Jacobs	G	5-10	Sr.	1.1 ppg, 1.2 rpg

Oklahoma Projected Starters
No.	Name	Pos.	Ht.	Year	2009-10 Statistics
13	Danielle Robinson	G	5-9	Jr.	16.4 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 5.4 apg
1	Nyeshia Stevenson	G	5-10	Sr.	14.4 ppg, 4.4 rpg
10	Carlee Roethlisberger	F	6-1	So.	8.2 ppg, 5.0 rpg
21	Amanda Thompson	F	6-1	Sr.	11.6 ppg, 9.6 rpg
34	Abi Olajuwon	C	6-3	Sr.	12.1 ppg, 6.6 rpg

ABOUT THE MATCHUP
• Oklahoma is ranked No. 13 by the Associated Press and No. 13 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches' poll.
• Kansas is unranked, but is receiving votes in the AP Poll.
• Oklahoma is 13-4 overall and 3-1 in the Big 12 after defeating Missouri, 62-61, in Columbia Wednesday night.
• Kansas is 11-6 overall and 1-3 in the Big 12 after falling to Iowa State, 53-42, in Ames Wednesday, Jan. 20.

The Series
• Kansas and Oklahoma are meeting for the 54th time. Kansas leads the overall series by one win, 27-26, but the Sooners have won the last 12 meetings. Oklahoma leads in Norman, 12-9.

The Coaches
• Sherri Coale is 299-136 (.687) in her 14th season at Oklahoma. She has been the Big 12 Coach of the Year four times.
• Bonnie Henrickson is 248-147 (.627) in her 13th year overall and 90-85 (.514) in her sixth season at Kansas.

PREVIEWING OKLAHOMA
The Sooners were picked by the league's coaches to finish fifth in the strong Big 12 Conference this season.

The Sooners enter 2009-10 following one of its best seasons in history. Oklahoma notched a program record 32 wins, won its sixth Big 12 regular season title and made its second trip to the Final Four. OU returns eight letterwinners from the squad, including three starters. PreseasonAll-American Danielle Robinson and senior co-captain Amanda Thompson will lead the charge.

Sooner to Watch
	Amanda Thompson \| Sr. \| Forward Amanda Thompson had her second straight game with a double-double against Missouri, scoring 13 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. It was the seventh career double-double for the Sooner who passed the 700 career rebounds mark and need only 18 more to become 10th all-time in OU's record book.

PREVIEWING TEXAS TECH
Kansas enters Saturday's game at Iowa State unranked, but receiving votes in the Associated Press Poll. The Jayhawks spent the first nine weeks of the 2009-10 season ranked in the poll, including the preseason poll.

The Jayhawks are 11-6 on the season, but have fallen to 2-3 on the road. KU is averaging 70.9 points per game 34.6 rebounds an outing.

Senior Danielle McCray is one of the top players in the Big 12 and leads the way for Kansas with 20.0 points and 6.9 boards a game. McCray is shooting 46.1 percent from the field, including 43.0 percent from beyond the arc. She also dishes 2.9 assists per game.

Sophomore forward Aishah Sutherland is registering 11.0 points and a team-leading 7.9 caroms per contest. Sutherland also leads the Jayhawks in blocks (22).

The Jayhawks recently lost guard Angel Goodrich for the season to an ACL tear. Goodrich also sat out her first season at Kansas with an ACL injury.

Coale's Next Win is No. 300
Sherri Coale will be aiming for her 300th coaching win when OU hosts Kansas Saturday, Jan. 23.

Coale's first win came in her first game as OU's head coach, a 62-50 victory over Oral Roberts on Nov. 22, 1996.

The 100th win came 170 games later on Feb. 5, 2002, a 69-60 win over then-No. 10 Baylor at Norman.

Win No. 200 came 141 games later on March 8, 2006, a 78-74 win over Iowa State in the first round of the Big 12 Championship.

Coale Winningest in Big 12
Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale has a record of 139-73 in Big 12 regular-season conference games.

Coale is in her 14th season coaching the Sooners, all since the BIg 12 formed in 1996-97. Since then, no coach past or present has more wins in league play.

Iowa State's Bill Fennelly and Kansas State's Deb Patterson are the only other active coaches who were at their respective schools when the league was formed.

Thompson Becoming One of a Kind
Senior forward Amanda Thompson, a.k.a. `The Waitress', loves to serve up people. She's only the second Sooner ever -- the other being Courtney Paris -- to record 100 blocks and 100 steals in her career.

Thompson is also nearing her 1,000th point, 700th rebound and 250th career assist, which puts her in a class of her own.

Oklahoma's Wins...and Losses...Are Quality
Oklahoma has played the nation's second-toughest schedule, behind only Stanford. Oklahoma's four losses have come to teams currently ranked in the top 10, who share a combined record of 63-6.

Strength of Schedule
Oklahoma is No. 6 in the NCAA's official RPI calculator following Sunday's win over Texas A&M and leads the nation in strength of schedule. The Sooners are 2-4 versus the Top 25 this season.

Robinson Receiving Charity
OU junior Danielle Robinson finished the 2008-09 season as one of the nation's leading free throw shooters. And this year, she is finding many of her opportunities at the line.

Robinson is 53-of-67 (.791) from the charity stripe this season, including a 21-of-22 (.954) effort in Big 12 games.

Against Texas A&M Sunday, Jan. 17, when Robinson made a career high 10-of-11 free throws en route to a 24-point performance and Sooner victory.

NEXT UP
Oklahoma travels to Ames, Iowa, to meet the Iowa State Cyclones Wednesday, Jan. 27.

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