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March 20, 2015 | Women's Basketball

By: Athletics Communications

Quinnipiac (31-3)

Oklahoma (20-11)

March 21 | 3 p.m. CT | Maples Pavilion | Stanford, Calif.

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Stat Comparison
Category	QU	OU
PPG	78.4	73.5
OPP. PPG	63.2	67.4
SCORNING MARGIN	+15.2	+6.1
FG%	41.2	43.3
OPP. FG%	37.2	40.0
3-PT FG%	35.3	34.7
OPP. 3-PT FG%	27.1	30.0
FT%	70.8	69.4
OPP. FT%	67.2	68.8
RPG	42.3	38.1
OPP. RPG	41.4	37.7
APG	19.8	14.0
TOPG	13.4	17.0
TO MARGIN	+4.6	+1.4
BPG	5.9	3.0
SPG	9.0	7.6

Inidivual Leaders
Category	QU	OU
PPG	Guastella - 12.9	Little - 13.2
RPG	Driscoll - 8.1	K. Williams - 6.7
APG	Abshire - 6.2	Ortiz- 3.5
SPG	Abshire - 1.3	Little - 1.2
BPG	Driscoll - 2.2	Pierre-Louis - 0.8

Player to Watch
Sharane Campbell-Olds // Sr. // G Lone four-year senior Sharane Campbell-Olds is eager to lead OU's run in the NCAA Tournament. Campbell-Olds averaged 9.0 points and 3.2 rebounds as a freshman; 10.0 points and 4.3 rebounds as a sophomore; and 12.6 points and 5.4 rebounds as a junior. As a senior, her scoring has dipped back to 9.5 points, but her rebounding has remained steady at 5.5 per game and her assists are at a career-high 56.

Player to Watch

Sharane Campbell-Olds // Sr. // G

Lone four-year senior Sharane Campbell-Olds is eager to lead OU's run in the NCAA Tournament. Campbell-Olds averaged 9.0 points and 3.2 rebounds as a freshman; 10.0 points and 4.3 rebounds as a sophomore; and 12.6 points and 5.4 rebounds as a junior. As a senior, her scoring has dipped back to 9.5 points, but her rebounding has remained steady at 5.5 per game and her assists are at a career-high 56.

NCAA TOURNAMENT ON TAP

For the 16th consecutive year the Oklahoma women's basketball team has earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Sooners, an at-large selection at 20-11, were named a five seed in the Oklahoma City Region and will play 12th-seeded Quinnipiac of the Metro Atlantic Conference in the first round in Palo Alto, Calif. Saturday, March 21 at 3 p.m. CT on ESPN2.

SWEET SIXTEENTH

This season marks Oklahoma's 16th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament and 18th overall. The Sooners streak is the sixth longest active streak in NCAA Division I women's basketball. Two program's had their streaks end this season; Georgia's streak of 20 straight years and Vanderbilt's streak of 15 consecutive. Below is the current longest active streaks:

1. Tennessee – 34 years (1982-2015)
2. Stanford – 28 years (1998-2015)
3. Connecticut – 27 years (1989-2015)
4. Duke – 21 years (1995-2015)
5. Notre Dame – 20 years (1996-2015)
6. Oklahoma – 16 years (2000-2015)

OKLAHOMA AND THE NCAA TOURNAMENT

his is the second time in school history the Oklahoma Sooners have been seeded fifth. In the first year OU made the NCAA Tournament under the guidance of Sherri Coale - the 2000 NCAA Tournament - it was selected as the No. 5 seed. That year, the Sooners made the Sweet Sixteen and fell to No. 1 Connecticut 102-80.

Since the 2000 season, Oklahoma has reached the Final Four three times (2002, 2009, 2010), including participating in one National Championship game in 2002. The Sooners have also reached the Sweet Sixteen six times (2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013), and only lost in the First Round three times (2003, 2005 and 2014).

Oklahoma has never played a NCAA Tournament game in California and has only played an opening weekend contest in the Pacific Time zone once. The last time OU played a NCAA Tournament game in the Pacific Time zone was during the 2004 season. The Sooners played in Tempe, Ariz., and won their opening round game against Marist 58-45 before falling to the sixth-seed Stanford 68-43.

OKLAHOMA, QUINNIPIAC AND THE MAAC
Oklahoma women's basketball has never played Quinnipiac before. The Sooners have however played three other teams from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) before. OU has faced Marist five times and Fairfield and Siena each ones. The Sooners hold a 6-1 record against those MAAC schools. Their lone loss came at Marist Dec. 21, 2013 by the score of 76-69.

ABOUT THE OKLAHOMA SOONERS
Oklahoma women's basketball team ended their 2014-15 non-conference portion of the schedule with a sub-par 6-5 record. The Sooners went on to place second in the Big 12 Conference with a 13-5 overall mark and are now 20-11 on the season. Oklahoma was picked fifth in the preseason poll of the Big 12 coaches.

Oklahoma returned seven letterwinners from its squad that finished 18-15 and 9-9 in the Big 12 a season ago. It has replaced 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.

OU also returned redshirt sophomores Maddie Manning and Peyton Little. Manning returned after back-to-back season-ending knee injuries. Little, a transfer from Texas A&M, was eligible after sitting out a year due to NCAA transfer rules.

The Sooners welcomed 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 joined the OU team after a stellar four-year tennis career at Oklahoma.

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BOTH OKLAHOMA WOMEN AND MEN IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
Oklahoma is one of 20 institutions to have its women's and men's basketball teams make the NCAA Tournament and one of eight to have both teams seeded five or higher. The Oklahoma men's squad was awarded a No. 3 seed. Other schools are: Louisville (W: 3, M: 4), Kentucky (W: 2, M: 1), Maryland (W: 1, M: 4), Duke (W: 4, M: 1), Notre Dame (W: 1, M: 3), Baylor (W: 2, M: 3), North Carolina (W: 4, M: 4).

SOONERS YOUNGEST IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
Oklahoma women's basketball is the youngest squad in the NCAA Tournament. Of the Sooners 15 players, 12 are either a freshman, sophomore, redshirt sophomore or a first year member with the team. OU holds five freshman, four sophomores, two redshirt sophomores and a senior who is in her first season playing basketball after a four-year tennis career. They only hold one four-year senior and two juniors. Ohio State is the second youngest in the tournament with nine of its 12 players either being sophomore or freshman and Savannah State is third with 11 of its 15 sophomores or freshmen.