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It All Begins Friday
November 12, 2014 | Women's Basketball
Washington
Oklahoma
November 14 | 7 pm | Lloyd Noble Center | Norman, Okla.
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11 Peyton Little // RS-So. // G
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• Sat out the 2013-14 season after transferring from Texas A&M. |
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21 Gabbi Ortiz // Fr. // G
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• Miss Basketball Wisconsin (2014). |
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24 Sharane Campbell-Olds // Sr. // G
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• Leading returning scorer for Sooners; averaged 12.6 points in 2013-14. |
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25 Gioya Carter // So. // G
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• Started 18 of 33 games as a freshman. |
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42 Kaylon Williams // RS-Jr. // C
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• Second leading returning scorer; averaged 7.0 points in 2013-14. |
Time To Begin The Season
The Oklahoma women's basketball squad begins the 2014-15 slate hosting Pac-12 member Washington Friday at 7 p.m. in the Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners hold a 14-4 overall record in their season opening games under 19th head coach Sherri Coale and have won and have won six-straight season-opening contests. Last year, OU opened the year with a 78-60 victory over Stetson.
About Washington
• The University of Washington enters the 2014-15 season with three-straight 20-win seasons and trips to the WNIT. Washington returns four starters, including All-Pac-12 guards Jazmine Davis and Kelsey Plum, to a squad that finished the 2013-14 season with a 20-13 overall mark and a 10-8 record in the Pac-12. The Huskies also return forwards Aminah Williams and Talia Walton, both two-year starters. The only loss to the starting lineup was guard Mercedes Wetmore.
• Head coach Mike Neighbors begins his second year with the Huskies. Neighbors was a longtime assistant coach, including two years with the Huskies under previous head coach, Kevin McGuff. Last year, Neighbors was named a finalist for the Maggie Dixon Award, an honor given to the top coach in Division I. He became the third coach in Washington history to win 20 games in his first season, joining Chris Gobrecht and Kevin McGuff on that list.
OKLAHOMA-WASHINGTON SERIES
• The University of Oklahoma and the University of Washington have faced each other twice before on the hardwood with the Huskies winning both contests. The two teams last met in the 2001 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen. UW earned the 84-67 victory over the No. 2 seeded Sooners in front of a capacity crowd at the Spokane Arena in Spokane, Wash.
Promotions
Face painting is available from 6-8 p.m. - Sign making station - Postgame Autographs.
Giveaways: Schedule cards and posters.
Oklahoma Quick Hits
• Oklahoma was picked fifth in the preseason poll of the Big 12 coaches. The Sooners received 46 votes to claim their fifth place standing.
• Redshirt sophomore transfer Peyton Little was tabbed the Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year.
• Oklahoma returns seven letterwinners from its squad that finished 18-15 and 9-9 in the Big 12 a season ago. It must replace three starters who averaged nearly 50 percent of the Sooners scoring in 2013-14, including Aaryn Ellenberg, the second leading scorer in OU history and the 10th leading 3-point shooter in NCAA history.
• The Sooners boast one four-year senior and two juniors on a squad of 15. They are led by 5-10 senior guard Sharane Campbell-Olds and 6-3 junior forward Kaylon Williams. Campbell-Olds averaged 12.6 points and 5.4 rebounds a season ago while Williams chipped in 7.0 points and 4.2 rebounds off the bench.
• OU also returns redshirt sophomores Maddie Manning and Peyton Little. Manning is returning after back-to-back season ending knee injuries. Little, a transfer from Texas A&M, is eligible after sitting out a year due to NCAA transfer rules.
• The Sooners welcome six newcomers to the squad: freshmen Gabbi Ortiz, McKenna Treece, Gileysa Penzo, LaNesia Williams, Vionise Pierre-Louis and senior Whitney Ritchie. Penzo will miss the 2014-15 season due to a knee injury suffered this past summer, while Ritchie joins the OU team after a stellar four-year tennis career at Oklahoma.
OU Picked Fifth
The University of Oklahoma women's basketball team was picked fifth in the preseason poll of the Big 12 coaches. The Sooners received 46 votes to claim their fifth place standing.
Topping the poll was Texas, followed by Baylor, who won or shared the previous four regular season crowns. Rounding out the top four was West Virginia in third and Oklahoma State in fourth.
NCAA Tournament
The next victory for Sherri Coale will be her 400th as the head coach at Oklahoma. Coale has been OU's all-time coaching wins leader since 2004. She currently holds an 18-year record of 399-194.
Looking for 400
Oklahoma reached the NCAA Tournament field for the 15th consecutive year in 2013-14. The streak is the seventh longest active among Division I teams. Tennessee (33), Stanford (27), Connecticut (26), Duke and Georgia (20) and Notre Dame (19) are the only teams with longer active streaks.
Honoring Number 21
Oklahoma will honor former Sooner great Stacey Dales at the Bradley home game on Nov. 21. Dales will have her uniform honored; the first female at OU to earn such recognition.Many of her teammates from the 2002 Final Four team will also be in attendance Nov. 21.
Campbell-Olds 1,000-pt scorer
Senior Sharane Campbell-Olds became the 30th player in Oklahoma history to reach the 1,000-point plateau. She enters into the season having scored 1,075.
Receiving Votes
Oklahoma begins the season receiving votes in both the Associated Press and the USA Today Coaches' Preseason Polls. The Sooners earned 17 votes in the AP preseason poll and eight votes in the USA Today Coaches Poll.
Oklahoma Stars
With Sharane Campbell-Olds, Gioya Carter and Kaylon Williams in OU's projected starting lineup for exhibition play, 60 percent of the Sooners on the court at tip-off will be from Oklahoma. Carter and Williams hail from Midwest City, only 5.5 miles from Spencer where Campbell-Olds is from.
Six of the Sooners 15 student-athletes hail from Oklahoma. Along with the aforementioned three, sophomore T'ona Edwards (Spencer), senior Whitney Ritchie (Oklahoma City) and LaNesia Williams (Oklahoma City) are each from Oklahoma.
Injury Report
Freshman guard Gileysa Penzo will miss the 2014-15 season after suffering a season ending ACL knee tear this past summer. Penzo, a native of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico who played high school basketball at Montverde (Fla.) Academy, twice played on the Puerto Rico national team at FIBA Americas U16 Championships. Sophomore forward Shaya Kellogg is day-to-day after suffering a stress fracture in her foot.
Welcome Back Maddie
Redshirt sophomore guard Maddie Manning is set to return to the hardwood after season-ending knee injuries derailed the previous two seasons. Manning, from Ankeny, Iowa, played six games - starting three - as a freshman in 2012-13 before an ACL injury halted her season. Last season, Manning again suffered an ACL tear - this time in her left knee - in the Sooners preseason intrasquuad scrimmage.
Little Ready to Make a Splash
Oklahoma's Peyton Little was tabbed the Big 12 Women's Basketball Preseason Newcomer of the Year, announced by the conference office. Little, a transfer from Texas A&M, hits the courts in a Sooner uniform for the first time this season after sitting out last year due to NCAA transfer rules. The redshirt sophomore played in all 35 games as a freshman with Texas A&M in 2012-13 where she averaged 4.5 points, 1.2 rebounds and 15.0 minutes per game. The 5-11 guard made 53-of-155 field goals (.342) and 25-of-98 3-pointers (.255). Little also totaled 32 assists and made 15 steals.
Basketball In The Family
Oklahoma women's basketball redshirt sophomore Peyton Little - a transfer from Texas A&M - comes from an extremely athletic family. Her father, Richard Little played basketball for Texas Tech from 197-74; her uncle David Little played basketball at Oklahoma under former Sooner head coach Billy Tubbs from 1978-82 and uncle Mike Little played at Baylor University from 1979-80.
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