Women's Hoops Hosts Baylor Wednesday

Feb. 9, 2010


	Joanna McFarland

Oklahoma (16-6, 6-3 Big 12) vs. Baylor (17-5, 4-4 Big 12)
Date & Tip Time	Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 7:07 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 and COX Ch. 7 (Oklahoma City); COX Ch. 3 (Tulsa)
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 No. 11 Baylor Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.
• Sooner Sports Net (KAUT TV-43 in Oklahoma City and COX Ch. 3 in Tulsa) will broadcast the game. Bob Carpenter and Debbie Antonelli 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 at SoonerSports.com All-Access.

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.

Baylor Projected Starters
No.	Name	Pos.	Ht.	Year	2009-10 Statistics
15	Shanay Washington	F	6-1	Fr.	7.6 ppg, 3.2 rpg
20	Terran Condrey	G	5-7	So.	3.2 ppg, 2.5 rpg
21	Kelli Griffin	G	5-8	Jr.	7.7 ppg, 4.8 rpg
42	Britney Griner	C	6-8	Fr.	19.4 ppg, 8.6 rpg
55	Morghan Medlock	F	6-1	Sr.	10.1 ppg, 7.4 rpg

Oklahoma Projected Starters
No.	Name	Pos.	Ht.	Year	2009-10 Statistics
13	Danielle Robinson	G	5-9	Jr.	17.3 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 5.2 apg
1	Nyeshia Stevenson	G	5-10	Sr.	14.3 ppg, 4.1 rpg
10	Carlee Roethlisberger	F	6-1	Jr.	8.4 ppg, 5.1 rpg
21	Amanda Thompson	F	6-1	Sr.	11.5 ppg, 9.8 rpg
34	Abi Olajuwon	C	6-3	Sr.	11.1 ppg, 6.5 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.
• Baylor is ranked No. 11 in the AP Poll and No. 15 by the coaches.
• Oklahoma is 16-6 overall and 6-3 in the Big 12 after defeating No. 10 Oklahoma State, 77-66, in Stillwater Saturday.
• Baylor is 17-5 overall and 4-4 in the Big 12 after beating Colorado, 76-42, in Waco, Texas, Saturday.

The Series
• The meeting is the 35th between Baylor and Oklahoma. Oklahoma leads the overall series 23-11 and has a 9-5 advantage in Norman. The Lady Bears won the January matchup between the two teams, 57-47, in Waco, but OU has won eight of the previous 11 meetings.

The Coaches
• Sherri Coale is 302-138 (.686) in her 14th season at Oklahoma. She has been the Big 12 Coach of the Year four times.
• Kim Mulkey is 254-71 (.782) in her 10th season at Baylor.

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 626-431 (.592). OU is 142-74 (.657) 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 scored a career-high 36 points and had a career-high nine rebounds as Oklahoma defeated Oklahoma State, 77-66, last Saturday. The junior also set OU and Big 12 records for single-game and consecutive free throws with a 16-for-16 performance that extended her season streak to 35 straight.

PREVIEWING BAYLOR
Baylor comes to Norman of the second game of the 2010 series ranked one spot higher -- No. 11 -- than the Sooners in the Associated Press Poll.

The challenge again will be defending 6-9 freshman center Britney Griner, who averages 19.4 points and 8.4 rebounds and last week set the Big 12 single-season blocks record with 133.

The Lady Bears have been set back by an injury to junior Melissa Jones, the team's second leading scorer, who has missed six games due to a stress condition in her right tibia.

Freshman Shanay Washington proved to be a thorn in the side of the Sooners in their January meeting, totaling 12 points and three steals.

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 142-75 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.

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 1,237 career points scored.

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

Thompson has scored 958 points as a Sooner, leaving her 42 shy of the mark.

Stevenson has scored 938 points, 62 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).

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 90-of-105 (.857) from the charity stripe this season, including a 57-of-59 (.966) effort in Big 12 games.

The junior broke her own OU record (previously 30 set last season) for consecutive free throws made with a current streak of 35 straight. The Big 12 record is 44 by Colorado's Kate Fagan (2002-03).

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 22 games in her senior season, she already has 22, 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.

Olajuwon's Scoring Efficiency
Danielle Robinson leads the Sooners with 17.3 points per game, but it is senior center Abi Olajuwon who is the team's most efficient scorer. Olajuwon's rate is 0.5158 points per minute played, just higher than Robinson's 0.5156.

NEXT UP
Oklahoma hosts Colorado at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Saturday, Feb. 13, at 2 p.m. and 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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