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Coale Gets 300 as Sooners Slam Kansas
January 23, 2010 | Women's Basketball
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- Nyeshia Stevenson scored 21 of her 22 points during an 8-minute stretch as No. 13 Oklahoma opened a wide gap early in the second half and beat Kansas 81-69 Saturday to give coach Sherri Coale her 300th career victory.
Stevenson went 7-for-10 during her scoring spree that started with a layup with 5:33 left in the first half and continued into the second half. The Sooners (14-4, 4-1 Big 12) had a six-point lead beforehand and a 19-point advantage by the time Stevenson was done.
Abi Olajuwon followed the last of Stevenson's four 3-pointers with a basket inside to give Oklahoma a 49-28 edge, and the Jayhawks (11-7, 1-4) were never closer than 10 over the final 16 minutes.
Sade Morris led Kansas with 17 points while playing her final college game in her hometown, and Carolyn Davis scored 14. Aishah Sutherland added 13 points and Monica Engelman had 12 points off the bench. The Jayhawks, picked to finish second in the Big 12, have lost four of five -- and lost starting point guard Angel Goodrich to a season-ending knee injury -- in a rough start to conference play.
Coale, who is 300-136 in 14 seasons with the Sooners, was honored after the final buzzer. She took the game ball she was given and walked it over to assistant coach Jan Ross and gave her a hug before high-fiving her players at halfcourt.
Oklahoma won its 13th straight game against Kansas, evening the all-time series at 27-27. The Jayhawks had dominated the series in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s but haven't beaten the Sooners since 1999.
Freshman Joanna McFarland, a Kansas native, had a season-high 11 points and Carlee Roethlisberger scored 10 for Oklahoma, which committed only eight turnovers.
Danielle McCray, the Big 12's second-leading scorer with a 20-point average, had only seven points before fouling out. It was the second straight game she had been held to single digits after scoring at least 10 in her previous 30 games.
McCray got caught up in a flurry of fouls called against the Jayhawks late in the first half that coincided with Oklahoma taking control of the game.
The Sooners came out cold and complicated matters by fouling the Jayhawks over and over again. Starters Amanda Thompson, Roethlisberger and Olajuwon each picked up two fouls in the first 8 1/2 minutes as Kansas opened a 16-6 lead.
Robinson led Oklahoma right back, scoring seven points in a 15-0 response. She drove for a pair of layups, including one that resulted in a three-point play, and connected on a jumper from the left wing to give the Sooners a 21-16 advantage.
And then Stevenson got started.
She scored Oklahoma's final 13 points of the first half as the lead ballooned to 37-24. After the early foul trouble, the Sooners weren't called for another foul the last 11 1/2 minutes of the half while drawing 10 against Kansas -- including the second and third against McCray.
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