Pack the Place Pink Monday at 8 p.m.

Feb. 15, 2010


	Amanda Thompson

No. 11 Oklahoma (18-6) vs. No. 1 Connecticut (25-0)
Date & Tip Time	Monday, Feb. 15, at 8:05p.m. CT
Location	Norman, Okla. \| Lloyd Noble Center \| Seating Views
Tickets	OU Athletics Ticket Office General Admission: Adults $12, Youth (K-12) $10 OU Students Enter Free with Valid Student ID
TV	ESPN2
Radio	Sooner Radio Network KOKC AM 1520 in Oklahoma City, KAKC AM 1300 in Tulsa
Webcast	ESPN360.com
Live Stats	SoonerSports.com GameTracker
Game Info	Game Notes (PDF)

PACK THE PLACE PINK
OU's celebrates the WBCA's PinkZone initiative with Pack the Place Pink Night. The Sooners will wear pink uniforms and several other items will be auctioned on SoonerSports.com with proceeds going to the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.

GAME PREVIEW
No. 11 Oklahoma hosts No. 1 Connecticut Monday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.
• ESPN2 will broadcast the game on television to a national audience. Dave O'Brien, Doris Burke and Rebecca Lobo have the call.
• 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 via ESPN360.com.

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 $10. 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.

UConn Projected Starters
No.	Name	Pos.	Ht.	Year	2009-10 Statistics
23	Maya Moore	F	6-0	Jr.	18.0 ppg, 7.7 rpg
31	Tina Charles	C	6-4	Sr.	17.9 ppg, 9.2 rpg
3	Tiffany Hayes	G	5-10	So.	9.7 ppg, 2.8 rpg
5	Caroline Doty	G	5-10	So.	7.8 ppg, 2.3 rpg
32	Kalana Greene	G	5-10	Sr.	12.2 ppg, 4.0 rpg

Oklahoma Projected Starters
No.	Name	Pos.	Ht.	Year	2009-10 Statistics
13	Danielle Robinson	G	5-9	Jr.	17.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 5.2 apg
1	Nyeshia Stevenson	F	5-10	Sr.	14.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg
45	Jasmine Hartman	G	5-11	So.	1.5 ppg, 1.1 rpg
21	Amanda Thompson	F	6-1	Sr.	12.0 ppg, 9.9 rpg
34	Abi Olajuwon	C	6-3	Sr.	10.7 ppg, 6.9 rpg

ABOUT THE MATCHUP
The Teams
• Oklahoma is ranked No. 11 by the Associated Press and No. 12 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches' poll.
• Connecticut has been No. 1 in both polls for the entire season.
• Oklahoma is 18-6 overall and 8-3 in the Big 12 after defeating Colorado, 65-55, in Norman, Okla., Saturday.
• Connecticut is 25-0 overall and 12-0 in the Big East after defeating St. John's, 62-55, in Storrs, Conn., Saturday.

The Series
• The meeting is the eighth between Connecticut and Oklahoma. Connecticut is undefeated in the all-time series, 7-0, and won the only previous meeting in Norman, 84-68, on Dec. 29, 1999. UConn won last year's game in Storrs, 106-78.

The Coaches
• Sherri Coale is 304-138 (.687) in her 14th season at Oklahoma. She has been the Big 12 Coach of the Year four times.
• Geno Auriema is 721-122 (.855) in his 25th season at UConn. He has been the Big East Coach of the Year eight times.

The Program
• OU's victory over Kansas (Jan. 23) was victory No. 300 for Sherri Coale. Coale is OU's all-time wins and winning percentage leader.
• OU's all-time program record is 628-431 (.593). OU is 144-74 (.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
	Danielle Robinson \| Jr. \| Guard Danielle Robinson is leading the Sooners in scoring, averaging 17.0 points. The junior has scored at least nine points in every game this season and knows as much about UConn's top players as anyone. She spent the summer winning a gold medal with Tina Charles, Tiffany Hayes and Maya Moore at the World University Games.

PREVIEWING CONNECTICUT
Defending national champion Connecticut has been ranked No. 1 since all season and have a record 64 consecutive wins entering Monday night's game with Oklahoma.

UConn has dominated the women's college basketball landscape, winning each of its 25 games by double figures. It's smallest margin of victory was a 12-point win over No. 2 Stanford.

National player of the year candidate Maya Moore leads the Huskies, averaging 18.0 points.

Senior Tina Charles contributes an additional 17.9 points per game and 9.2 rebounds.

Charles, sophomore guard Tiffany Hayes, and Moore were all teammates with OU's Danielle Robinson on the gold-medal-winning Team USA this summer at the World University Games.
Coale Winningest in Big 12
Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale has a record of 144-75 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.

Thompson on for Game Winners
The Sooners have won nine games by less than 10 points and Amanda Thompson has shot the game-winner in half of those. Thompson's clutch shots came against South Carolina, Arkansas (overtime), Creighton, Missouri and Baylor (overtime). Nyeshia Stevenson and Danielle Robinson each have two game winners.

Career Night After Night
The Sooners fast-paced offense has seen career scoring highs set for all of its active players at least once this season. Counting only its non-freshmen, Oklahoma has played 11 games in which a total of 13 career personal bests were scored. Abi Olajuwon and Danielle Robinson have each reset their career scoring high three times this season.

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 1,265 career points scored.

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

Thompson has scored 993 points as a Sooner, leaving her seven shy of the mark.

Stevenson has scored 960 points, 40 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 94-of-110 (.855) from the charity stripe this season, including a 61-of-64 (.953) 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 24 games in her senior season, she already has 24, 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.

NEXT UP
Oklahoma is off until Sunday, Feb. 21, when it visits Kansas State. The game will be televised on Fox SportsNet at 2 p.m.

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