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Feb. 12, 2010


	Danielle Robinson

Oklahoma (17-6, 7-3 Big 12) vs. Colorado (12-10, 2-7 Big 12)
Date & Tip Time	Saturday, Feb. 13, 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
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
No. 12 Oklahoma hosts Colorado Saturday, Feb. 13, at 2 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.
• 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, KAKC AM 1300 in Tulsa) and online at SoonerSports.com through CBS College Sports All-Access.
• A webcast of the game is available at SoonerSports.com All-Access.

TRADING CARDS/AUTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE SATURDAY
• The first 2,000 fans through the doors Saturday will receive a limited edition set of Sooner women's basketball trading cards featuring all 11 players and head coach Sherri Coale.
• Following the game, the team and head coach Sherri Coale will be signing autographs in the upper concourse of the Lloyd Noble Center.

BID ON PACK THE PLACE PINK NIGHT ITEMS NOW!
As part of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) Pink Zone initiative, the OU women's basketball program, in partnership with CBS College Sports, is auctioning off several items to help promote breast cancer awareness.

A total of 12 commemorative and game-used items from Pack the Place Pink night vs. UConn on Monday, Feb. 15 are now available in the official OU Athletics Online Auction.

All proceeds generated by the auction will be donated to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund. Bidding ends on Monday, Feb. 22, one week following the game.

Bid on Auction Items

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.

Colorado Projected Starters
No.	Name	Pos.	Ht.	Year	2009-10 Statistics
14	Meagan Malcolm-Peck	F	6-2	Fr.	6.2 ppg, 4.3 rpg
34	Courtney Dunn	C	6-4	Sr.	6.6 ppg, 4.9 rpg
1	Alyssa Fressle	G	5-10	So.	6.5 ppg, 2.5 rpg
22	Brittany Spears	G	6-1	Jr.	16.7 ppg, 8.3 rpg
23	Chucky Jeffery	G	5-10	Fr.	10.2 ppg, 5.5 rpg

Oklahoma Projected Starters
No.	Name	Pos.	Ht.	Year	2009-10 Statistics
13	Danielle Robinson	G	5-9	Jr.	17.3 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 5.1 apg
1	Nyeshia Stevenson	G	5-10	Sr.	14.2 ppg, 4.1 rpg
10	Carlee Roethlisberger	F	6-1	Jr.	8.1 ppg, 5.2 rpg
21	Amanda Thompson	F	6-1	Sr.	11.8 ppg, 10.2 rpg
34	Abi Olajuwon	C	6-3	Sr.	11.0 ppg, 6.9 rpg

ABOUT THE MATCHUP
The Teams
• Oklahoma is ranked No. 12 by the Associated Press and No. 12 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches' poll.
• Colorado is not ranked in either poll.
• Oklahoma is 17-6 overall and 7-3 in the Big 12 after defeating No. 11 Baylor, 62-60, in overtime in Norman Wednesday.
• Colorado is 12-10 overall and 2-7 in the Big 12 after losing to No. 14 Texas, 74-50, in Boulder Wednesday.

The Series
• The meeting is the 55th between Colorado and Oklahoma. Colorado leads the all-time series, 33-21, but Oklahoma has won the past seven meetings. In Norman, OU holds an 11-10 advantage.

The Coaches
• Sherri Coale is 303-138 (.687) in her 14th season at Oklahoma. She has been the Big 12 Coach of the Year four times.
• Kathy McConnell-Miller is 155-169 (.478) in 11th season overall and 64-81 (.441) in her fifth at Colorado.

The Program
• Oklahoma's victory over Kansas on Jan. 23 was coaching victory No. 300 for Sherri Coale. Coale is OU's all-time wins and winning percentage leader.
• OU's all-time program record is 627-431 (.593). OU is 143-74 (.659) all-time in Big 12 regular-season play.

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 Thompson is red hot after hitting a career single-game best three 3-pointers against Baylor Wednesday. The senior scored 19 points and had 19 rebounds to lead the Sooners to an overtime victory. Thompson, averaging 10.2 boards, is the Big 12's leading rebounder.

PREVIEWING COLORADO
Colorado has lost five straight, its longest such streak of the season, and seven of its eight seven. The Buffaloes look to snap an 18-game skid against ranked opponents when it meeets Oklahoma Saturday.

Freshman Chucky Jeffery is averaging 10.2 points, 5.5 rebounds this season and is excelling defensively. She matched a career best with five steals against Baylor two games ago, a collections she's achieved four times this season.

Senior guard Bianca Smith leads the team in 3-point shooting with a .379 percentage from beyond the arc. Her 61 makes this season ranks 10th on CU's single-season list. She needs just 16 to catch Shelley Sheetz (1991-95) for CU's all-time mark of 252.

CU has lost 19 straight road games against a Big 12 Southern Division opponent dating back to a 69-59 win at Baylor on Jan. 7, 2004.

No. 23 Achieved, No. 24 and 25 On the Way.
Danielle Robinson scored nine points to become Oklahoma's 23rd player to reach 1,000 in a career against Marist, Dec. 9. She now has 1,256 career points scored.

Seniors Amanda Thompson and Nyeshia Stevenson are quickly reaching the milestone themselves.

Thompson has scored 977 points as a Sooner, leaving her 23 shy of the mark.

Stevenson has scored 950 points, 50 away from 1,000.

Courtney Paris achieved 1,000 career points in 46 career games and no other player in women's basketball since the year 2000 achieved the mark quicker than her. The NCAA record is 37 games held by three players (Maree Jackson, LSU; Carol Menken, Oregon State; and Sandra Hodge, New Orleans).

Tres Overtimes
Oklahoma has played in three overtime games this season for the third time in program history. The 1981-82 (2-1) and 2000-01 (3-0) teams also had three overtimes in a single season.

Oklahoma is undefeated in overtime this season.

Robinson Reaches 400 Career Assists
Danielle Robinson recorded her 400th career assist with her fifth and final one versus Marist.

Robinson is fourth on OU's career assist list and trails Sharee Mitchum (1992-95), who had 601, for third place.

Stacey Dales (764) and Dionnah Jackson (606) are first and second in the all-time rankings.

Robinson Breaks Multiple FT Records
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 91-of-107 (.850) from the charity stripe this season, including a 58-of-61 (.951) effort in Big 12 games.

The junior broke her own OU record (previously 30 set last season) for consecutive free throws made with a streak of 35 straight that ended with a miss on her first attempt againt Baylor, Feb. 10.

Against Oklahoma State on Feb. 6, Robinson made 16-of-16 free throws, breaking OU and Big 12 records for best single-game free throw percentage and most consecutive single-game free throws.

Stevenson Matches 3-Point Record
Nyeshia Stevenson's nine 3-pointers made versus Marist helped her establish a new career scoring high and also matched a 28-year-old Sooner record.

The only other Sooner to make as many 3-pointers in a game was Carin Stites, who did it twice -- vs. Arkansas on Nov. 27, 1990, and vs. UT-San Antonio on Jan. 21, 1991.

Thompson 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.

Against Oklahoma State on Feb. 6, Thompson reached her 750th rebound and 250th career assist, making her one of OU's most prolific players, statistically, on both offense and defense.

Block Party
Amanda Thompson is the only Sooner in history under 6-foot-2 to have 30 or more blocks in a season -- a feat she has achieved twice. Through 23 games in her senior season, she already has 23, putting her on pace to reach the mark again this year.

Amanda Thompson had 21 blocks as a freshman, 34 as a sophomore and 31 as a junior. She ranks fourth all-time on OU's career blocks charts.

Coale's Claims Win No. 300
Sherri Coale took her 300th coaching victory as OU dominated Kansas on Jan. 23 in Norman.

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 143-75 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.

NEXT UP
Oklahoma hosts No. 1 Connecticut Monday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m. for Pack the Place Pink Night in an effort to promote women's cancer awareness.

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