Women's Hoops Set for Exhibition With Rogers State

Sunday, October 31

Norman

2 PM

University of Oklahoma

Rogers State (EXH)

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Women's Hoops Set for Exhibition With Rogers State

October 30, 2021 | Women's Basketball

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By: OU Athletics Communications

(RV) Oklahoma

Rogers State

Sunday, Oct. 31 / 2 p.m. CT / Lloyd Noble Center / Norman, Okla.

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NORMAN – The Oklahoma women's basketball team returns to the court Sunday for an exhibition vs. Rogers State. The game is slated for a 2 p.m. tip inside the Lloyd Noble Center as the Sooners look for their final tuneup before their regular season begins Nov. 9. The contest marks the program's fan appreciate game, allowing all fans to attend the game for free without a ticket.

ON THE AIR

Sunday's game will be available on Sooner Sports TV with Chad McKee and Latricia Trammell on the call.

The contest will air on the Sooner Radio Network (KOKC 1420 AM in Oklahoma City; KREF 99.3 FM/1400 AM in Norman; Varsity radio App) with Brian Brinkley calling the action.

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW

Oklahoma plays its lone exhibition game of the 2021-22 season as it hosts Division II member Rogers State, Tip-off is slated for 2 p.m. inside Lloyd Noble Center. The contest will be broadcast on Sooner Sports TV with Chad McKee and Latricia Trammell on the call.
The Sooners enter the contest under new head coach Jennie Baranczyk, who arrives in Norman after nine years at Drake where she led the Bulldogs to five MVC titles and six postseasons, including three NCAA Tournaments. Her teams ranked inside the nation's top 10 in scoring offense in five of the last six seasons.
Baranczyk will lead a roster that has combined for 421 career games played and boasts three All-Big 12 performers in Ana Llanusa, Taylor Robertson and Madi Williams. The Sooners return six players from the 2021-21 season, and add Llanusa and Nydia Lampkin who return to the team after missing last season. Those eight, matched with transfers Jordan Moser (Loyola Chicago) and Kennady Tucker (North Carolina), are paired with four freshmen to complete OU's 14-player roster.
Known for fostering high-powered offenses, Baranczyk is coming off a 2020-21 season that saw Drake lead the nation's 336 teams in assists per game (20.4) and rank sixth in the country in field goal percentage (48.1%), 22nd in scoring offense (76.4 ppg) and 24th in 3-point field goal percentage (36.4%). Her teams ranked inside the top-10 nationally in scoring offense in six of the last seven seasons.
The Sooners are led by a trio of seniors in Ana Llanusa, Taylor Robertson and Madi Williams - all who have scored over 1,000 points in their OU careers. Oklahoma is the only school in the Big 12 Conference with three 1,000-point scorers. Llanusa returns to the roster after missing the 2020-21 season due to injury and is slated to make her first appearance at the Lloyd Noble Center since March 7, 2020 (603 days ago) when OU hosted Texas Tech in the final game of the 2019-20 season. A second team All-Big 12 honoree as a junior, the Choctaw, Okla., product averages 15.0 points per game over 73 career games. Robertson, one of the most prolific shooters in NCAA history and preseason All-Big 12 selection, enters her senior season as the country's active leader in 3-pointers per game (3.83), as her 43.9 percent clip also leads the nation. She was the first player in Big 12 history to hit 100 or more 3s in back-to-back seasons as a freshman and sophomore and became the third player in the OU annals to reach 1,000 points in two seasons or fewer, joining all-time leading scorers Courtney Paris and Aaryn Ellenberg in that elite group. Williams enters the 2021-22 season as a unanimous All-Big 12 preseason selection after leading the Sooners in points (20.0) and rebounds (5.1) per game last year. The senior was a unanimous All-Big 12 first teamer as a junior and owns OU's single-game scoring record, which she set on Jan. 3, 2021 by scoring 45 vs. West Virginia. She hit the 1,000-point mark at Baylor on Jan. 23, 2021.