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badger

10/22/2012, 03:16 PM

Hey, I'm back! Yes, I need breaks from shaming the losing fanbases with football meltdowns and talking politics.

Sherri Coale once again (do all of you remember that she taught English at Norman High before getting hired?) has an awesome blog entry. read it here. (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/101412aaa.html)

And no doubt you noticed that our roster last year looks different from our roster this year. Here are our subtractions, and then we'll get to the freshmen additions before season starts:

Jacqueline Jeffcoat
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A once promising and heralded recruit (her twin brother is now starting on whorn's abysmal football team), Jackie just could not stay healthy. Usually in sports lingo that means injuries, but in Jaq's case, that also reportedly meant mono, if I recall correctly. As someone that once had that too (don't even go there --- I accidentally switched cross country jackets with another guy on our co-ed team who had it without knowing it...and when we switched back, ugggggh), I know how much that crap can impact your energy levels.

DaShawn Harden
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I wish I had a reason for her offseason transfer, but I can only speculate. Guard is a very competitive position at OU between vets and newbs, so my guess is that there was a logjam at the position and whereas many though Harden would emerge as a starter, she seemed to actually go backwards as the season went on. In any event, I wish she stayed with the team for more than one season.

Kaylon Williams
http://i46.tinypic.com/xfsp77.png
This was not the news I wanted right before the season started --- one of our best chances at pizzing off Baylor is out for the season with injury (http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/OU/article.aspx?subjectid=92&articleid=20121018_92_0_NORMAN651397). It's the infamous Jason White injury. AHHHHHHHH!!!!

Katherine Zander
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With as few times as I saw her, I was starting to wonder if (a) she was a walk-on and not a scholarship player, (b) she was redshirting, (c) she was injured or (d) in the Sherri Coale doghouse. I have no idea and now she's transferring so... it is what it is.

Jelina Cerina
http://i47.tinypic.com/33u7epu.png
Lastly but not leastly is our sole departing senior, Jelina Cerina. Our Serbian 6-5er was a presence in a league that depends on size (grrrr Baylorrrrrr) so she will be missed.

I wish the best of luck to all of our transfers and Jelina. I also wish a SPEEDY RECOVERY to Kay Kay.

badger

10/23/2012, 08:26 AM

Why Baylor sucks
1- Skeletor
This is our SF nickname for their head coach, Kim Mulkey. If you have never attended an OU-Baylor game, she stomps her heels along the side of the court, going onto the court to shout at her players and the refs during the game, not just timeouts, and has been known to make the most ugly, evil expressions that photos can capture. Seriously, just Google Image Search "Kim Mulkey" and you will see what we have all discovered.

2- Behemoth
This is their female dunker that has gotten punchy and has gotten ejected for leaving the bench. She is undisciplined, but unfortunately, also very tall in a game that is still made up of mostly under 6-feet players.

3- Fanbase
They travel, or at least they travel to LNC. We can white out 90 percent of LNC, but then 10 percent of them have to be wearing their greenie shirts with their little texas yipping during the game's silent moments (when OU is shooting free throws, grrr). Perhaps their AAU ringer men's basketball coach will cause their fanbase to follow them instead? I mean, they DO have brighter uniforms!

4- They beat us a lot
They beat everyone else too... but really, what does all of this winning do for them? Whether you win 30 games in your title year or 20, it's still a title. OU was once a 6-seed in a 12-member Big 12 for our championship tournament and we won it all. Did having more wins help seed 1-5 beat us in the postseason. NO! Does dunking the ball make a shot worth more than 2 points?! NO! Does having three titles mean jack sh!t now that we have a new season? NO.

And as such, I present to you, the lately masterpiece by Soonerpsycho, which shows exactly what will happen to Baylor this season after that they destroyed every opponent in the past, but only have a few dust collecting trophies to show for it:

http://soonerpsycho.com/spfarksandpics/oregontrailhuntingbaylor.gif

You're going down Baylor. In this season or the next. :mad:

tycat947

10/23/2012, 12:33 PM

One of Skeletor's better pics!!!

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/07/22/57/1911796/4/628x471.jpg

And another!!

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/12/44/32/2770616/3/628x471.jpg

tycat947

10/23/2012, 09:48 PM

Picture it! A 2-year old child throwing a temper tantrum!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxs1kBYWE8s

badger

10/24/2012, 08:05 AM

:eek: what has been seen cannot be unseen. i must have looked away when they initially showed that (or was having pregger issues, heh)

badger

10/29/2012, 10:46 AM

Eff Domer. HATE GREEN
http://i51.tinypic.com/2wce33s.jpg
Now that we can leave that crappy weekend behind, let's look forward to NEXT MONTH, which starts in less than a week!
We are No. 12! We are No. 12! (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/102712aac.html)
And it's not in football... sorry, sorry, I promise that game is out of my system now. HATE GREEN
http://i51.tinypic.com/2wce33s.jpg

The bad news is that Baylor, yes, THAT Baylor is the unanimous No. 1. Well, then they can just fall farther from being up so high, right? So, we are the second-rated Big 12 team, while West Virginia, who, thanks to Skeletor, we are tied for second in Big 12 preseason polling of coaches, was No. 16.

Pokes are No. 23. I didn't see any other Big 12 teams make the top 25.

I have yet to see the OU womens basketball media guide posted online, so they either didn't produce one, or they just aren't going to post it online, so I will have to find alternative pics of the newbies on the team. Or I can draw them. Nah, better not.

Anyways, I'm gonna get to the freshmen soon, hopefully before the season starts??

tycat947

10/29/2012, 12:57 PM

I HATE GREEN too, Badger!!!

Am anxious to see how this team does this year. I think they will really be improved and the 2 frosh and JC player are really going to contribute a lot, I think. Just wish KayKay hadn't been injured. Really going to affect our depth and options inside. After seeing the scrimmage Fri night, Nicole Kornet and Maddie Manning are going to be really good players for us in the next 4 years!

badger

10/29/2012, 01:56 PM

A funny thing happened when NP and I were listening to the radio en route down to Norman Saturday (came to visit family, left before the game to get back to Tulsa since we didn't have a tickets but did have an infant): Sherri Coale popped onto the Bob Stoops radio show set at Red Lobster (they were rebroadcasting it).

And Sherri mentioned that the team now had a 6'2" point guard. The women's team. A 6-foot-2 point guard. What?

And that leads me right into this year's preseason preview: One n00b freshman at a time:
Maddie Manning
http://i46.tinypic.com/2rfyec6.png
PS: SS.com, you have not posted your media guide online yet. Either post it, or Maddie's preseason photo is THIS little boring photo you posted from your Big 12 media day thingie. Yawn.

Hometown: Ankeny, Iowa
Height: 6'2"
Position: Guard
High school awards:
• Iowa Gatorade Player of the Year
• 2012 4A State Tournament MVP
• 2012 4A All-Tournament Team Captain
• 2011 and 2012 First-Team All-State
• 2010 Third-Team All-State
• No. 10 Guard (Blue Star Report)
• No. 11 Guard (ESPNU HoopGurlz)
• No. 33 Overall (ESPNU HoopGurlz)
• No. 70 Overall (Blue Star Report)

Sooner impact: Questionable-longterm

Baj's overview: I am excited about the idea of having a 6'2" point guard on our team, without knowing anything else about Maddie whatsoever, especially since Sherri took the time to mention that random tidbit on the Stoops radio show (since, you know, he had spare time due to not taking fan phone calls anymore, heh). But, it's questionable what her immediate impact will be, because...
(a) Jaz Hartman is returning from her season-ending injury of last year. She's now a redshirt senior and team captain, just like Whitney, and
(b) We have this other player that led our offense a lot last year named "Morgan Hook"
So really, I'm not sure how much she will contribute right away, but longterm? KILL BAYLOR. They're not the only team in this league that can abuse the others with a size advantage, and if our guard is 6'2", then next thing you know, our forwards might be 6'10" and our center will be more than 7 feet tall. Dunking? Pbbbth. We'll still probably all shoot 3-pointers instead :D

Please tune in before the season starts next month as I go through the rest of our Sooner n00bs (two more)

badger

10/30/2012, 09:44 AM

Part 2, beyonces.

Nicole Kornet
http://i46.tinypic.com/307q55d.png
PS: SS.com just isn't going to post their media guide this year, are they? Boo on them.

Hometown: Lantana, Texas
Position: G/F
Height: 6'1"
High school awards:
• Team MVP, 2012 WBCA High School All-America Game
• First-Team TAPPS All-State (2012)
• Area MVP, Denton Record-Chronicle (2012)
• All-Tournament, 2011 TAPPS 5A State Championship
• No. 5 Guard (Blue Star Report)
• No. 6 Guard (ESPNU HoopGurlz)
• No. 19 Overall (ESPNU HoopGurlz)
• No. 68 Overall (Blue Star Report)

Impact: Immediate!

Baj's overview: When KayKay went down, after punching things and shedding a tear for the potential to pizz off Baylor more lost, you have to remember that injuries are also opportunities for others to step up. KayKay had the opportunity to make such an impact on our roster last year because Lyndsey Cloman went down (but she will return this year, hopefully as healthy as ever). While there's a logjam at guard, if she is a "forward" instead, she could provide Joanna/Lyndsey relief... not just a breather, but when they inevitably get in foul trouble. We also have another forward to add into the lineup that I'll preview tomorrow.

One to go! And something tells me I'm gonna have to use a crappy media day photo rather than a perfect media guide photo for it :mad:

tycat947

10/30/2012, 10:00 AM

I'm not sure Lyndsey will provide much help this year. She's evidently recovered from knee injury but now having back issues and wasn't even suited up for the scrimmage the other night. I hope her issues improve but at this point it doesn't look very promising.

badger

10/31/2012, 10:30 AM

Part three... our new juco transfer!

Portia Durrett
http://i48.tinypic.com/xertk.png
Hometown: Louisville, Ky.
Position: F
Height: 6'1"
Juco accolades:
• 2012 NJCAA First-Team All-American
•2012 NJCAA Region VII Player of the Year

Impact: Immediate!

Baj's overview: When I think of recent jucos that Sherri's brought it, they have usually meant "immediate need, must fill this position NOW." For example, our Serbian sensation from last year, Jelina Cerina filled a need at center while Nicole Griffin either had foul trouble or needed a break. Thus, you can be assured that Portia has not been brought in as a bench warmer. What would be even better is if Portia were five inches taller and could help Nicole out at center... but as our team stands, I see us as a 3-forward lineup when Nicole is having foul trouble (or needs a break), so look for everyone that can be classified as "forward" to get lots of playing time.

Season starts... tomorrow! I can't believe I finished this preview on time. As per tradition, Sherri will scrimmage her alma mater to nearly 100 points as usual to open the season. You can catch our beatdown on TV (really????) at 7 p.m. Thursday on FCS Pacific. Now to wonder if we actually get that channel on our new U-verse service...

Boomer!

badger

11/1/2012, 11:50 AM

Holy cow they actually posted the media guide! (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/archive/media_guide.html)

Wait... does this mean that they actually read this? :confused:

Um... hi!

...anyways, enjoy the media guide. I will probably steal images from it later this season.

Chuck Bao

11/2/2012, 01:21 AM

My mom is very happy with the schedule since she won't have to miss church very often. Quite a few of the best conference matchups are on Saturday instead of Sunday. Also, Sunday tip-off times at home seem to have been moved back to 3pm allowing fans to get home from church and then drive to the game. Whoever is responsible, thank you.

badger

11/2/2012, 08:33 AM

118-53

A hearty EFF YOU to Fox Sports, whose seven regional channels that my ATT Uverse carried ALL showed the OSU men taking on Ottawa in a mostly-empty GIA and absolutely NONE showed Sherri's Sooners. EFF YOU, Fox Sports. EFF YOU.

As such, looking at the SS.com recap (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/110112aab.html), here's what we can take away from our annual OCU exhibition:

- Everyone got to play. It appears that Jaz Hartman is either not fully recovered, or is not being involved much in her final Sooner year, with the fewest minutes of everyone, seven. Of course, Joanna McFarland only had 12, and there's really not much doubt in my mind that she'll start, so perhaps it was just a game to give our freshmen a chance to play in front of...

- 3,000-5,000 fans. Seriously, way to go, LNC. Most womens teams would kill for the chance to play in front of a 3k (estimated attendance) to 5k (official attendance) crowd for a regular season game and we get that for an exhibition. It's probably a bunch of Norman retirees who HATE GREEN, hehe. But still, awesome jorb. OSU men didn't have that much for Ottawa, I bet, hehe.

- OMG Nicole Griffin. 23 points, shooting 8 for 9, and 7 for 8 from the line. Then again, shouldn't someone as tall as her have more than 3 boards (no typo - THREE)

Free throw dunce hat: Portia Durrett. Welcome to OU, juco transfer! Now wear this free throw dunce hat, for missing four of your eight. Everyone else was near-perfect (without her, 26 of 28) and she misses/makes half. :(

Clang clang clang went the 3-pointer: Nicole Kornet. Welcome to OU, freshman! Now, if you are going to shooting 2 for 7 from three point range in the future, expect to be benched. If you can't make your threes against an exhibition opponent, then I'm not sure what to tell you. Then again, the entire team went 12 for 30, so maybe we should not use this as our crutch this year?

Miss Foul Prone: Maddie Manning. Welcome to OU, other freshman! Why, pray tell, do you have four fouls? Was it because you were trying to get a steal after a Sooner turnover? Was it because you were afraid of them hitting an open shot, so you took a swat at their arm instead? Seriously, I have no idea why, SINCE FOX SPORTS' BILLION CHANNELS WERE SHOWING OSU MEN VERSUS OTTAWA INSTEAD!!! grrrr... whatever it was, I've seen it in freshmen early in their careers before. Please stop it by regular season, because if you don't, Sherri will bench you by Big 12 regular season, and definitely come tourney time.

Now that I've embarrassed all of our new Sooners, a player of the game award:

http://i41.tinypic.com/1zgh1h.png
Seriously, there's nothing more promising that her stat line that should make you look forward to this season more. Look past her rebounding, because the team had 6 players with at least 6 rebounds, so the ball was getting to our team somehow. I'd like to imagine that she was tipping missed shots to her teammate. Why am I imagining this because FOX SPORTS WAS ONLY BROADCASTING THE POKE MEN BEATING UP ON SOME TEAM THAT THEY CAN PRETEND WAS THE REAL OU, SINCE OTTAWA UNIVERSITY IS ABBREVIATED OU. STUPID POKES. STUPID FOX SPORTS. STUPID! STUPID STUPID!

Boomer.

badger

11/2/2012, 10:01 AM

Also, on a sad note, Lyndsey Cloman, due to lingering injury issues, had to quit basketball. From Sherri's postgame presser:

"She's 21 years old -- she's got a bad back and we would like for her to live a healthy life," Coale said. "It was a very tough decision for Lyndsey but probably the right one. I think everybody agrees with that."

http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/okla/graphics/auto/20100204_video_cloman.jpg
We all know that she will go on to great things, even without basketball. Good luck, Lyndsey!

Soonerfan88

11/4/2012, 10:42 PM

FYI: You can watch the games live online now. Scroll down and you can still find the replay of the game.

http://www.soonersports.tv/

badger

11/6/2012, 01:29 PM

Forget Election nite coverage. You know that the west coast won't stop voting till 9 p.m. Oklahoma time and they'll be declaring races all night long anyways, so why not watch your very own RANKED Sooner womens basketball team tonight instead?

Time: 7 p.m. tonight
Opponent: Henderson State
TV: COX 271 | AT&T U-Verse 648 | DirecTV 623
Radio: KREF 1400 AM in Oklahoma City

What to watch for: Will the Sooners score 100+ on their OTHER exhibition opponent this preseason? Seriously, I can't think of anything else... OH! And see if the n00b honors I dished out last game based on box score alone were warranted or not.

badger

11/7/2012, 09:20 AM

Dear Sooner Athletic Department,

You broadcast the first OU womens basketball game on Fox Sports Pacific. Pacific. If I'm not mistaken, you broadcast the next game last night on Fox Sports Central. Central. Why the hell can't you broadcast our games on Fox Sports Oklahoma or Fox Sports Southwest, you know, the channels that badger receives on this new fangled ATT Uverse that NP signed up for after Cox decided to raise our rates again.

A hearty eff-you to whoever is responsible.

I will be back later today to recap from the box score. Again.

Eff-you.

Love,
~baj

badger

11/7/2012, 10:53 AM

98-33

I love my Sooners. I really do. That's why it disappoints me so much to not-see them due to not-televised here on ATT Uverse. But, hopefully that means that some of you non-Oklahomans can get to see the team I'm grown to love during the past decade.

If you are new to SF or just dropped in by accident, here's my Sooner womens basketball fandom story: I was randomly assigned to the womens basketball pep band my freshman year at OU. I wasn't even going to do basketball band, but a director made a plea to trumpets to audition, because despite the fact that both the mens and womens teams were destined to go to the Final Four that season, nobody really stepped up to audition. So, I was like "Sure, why not, I can play Boomer Sooner a few hundred more times after football's over" and the rest is history.

Womens basketball is an easy sport to love at the college level, because unlike it's pro-WNBA counterpart, you have a reason to support your team (you already love OU) and the crowd is often made up of retired Sooners and kids that they give free tickets to.

If you are actually a professional troll and just like to distract athletes and realize you are vastly outnumbered in most college football venues, the basketball scene is easier to troll opponents in. In womens basketball especially, you will see opposing benches start little "de-fense" cheers, which you can easily change to "O-U" chants and drown them out. There are many other examples of player/opponent trolling that I've given in the past that I'll probably mention more of as the season goes on.

And now... let's see what the box score looked like to see if I can figure out what I missed last night:

Did they do anything wrong: Well, SS.com reports (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/110612aab.html) that they had an early shooting slump, but they apparently overcame that to score 98... so... shame on them for not hitting 100???

Whitney Hand is Landry Jones' better half: After LJ threw a few picks, Whitney has 11 points, 7 assists, 9 rebounds... and ZERO turnovers. Perfect from the free throw line, 3 of 7 from three... anyways, we all love our meerkat quarterback, but there's no doubt who the better Sooner is.

Everyone got to play again: Except Lyndsey, who as you all may recall, is finished playing basketball, unfortunately. Jaz Hartman continues to be the last in minutes and stats, so unfortunately, her senior sendoff will likely be a quiet one. Other than that, looks like we have a lot of potential.

Scam, opponents. This is Joanna's rebound, not yours: 13 boards. Our starting power forward pwns all.

Now, let's embarrass some players:

Turnover queen: Welcome to your second Sooner game, Nicole Korney. Now, please take the basketball and don't give it to anyone not wearing crimson and cream... well, I guess our uniforms are more white than cream, but anyways, FIVE turnovers?! Your freshman classification is showing. Glaring, really.

Team dishonor for missing threes: 11 of 27 overall, and here are some of your culprits: Morgan Le Tre (0 for 3) and Nicole Kornett again (1 for 4). My guess is they were just toying with Henderson State after awhile and had to end the shot clock in some situations. My guess.

Player of the game: Portia Durrett
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-baskbl/auto_bsi_wide/8281130.jpeg

The unquestioned player of the game had 26 pts and 9 rebounds. Congrats, juco transfer! Here's what Sherri had to say:

"They were all good shots; they were tough shots. She's one of the strongest finishers in the lane that I have ever had. She just has that uncanny ability to finish with contact and that's kind of something you have or you don't, and she has it. She showed her versatility, stepped out and made a three, made a couple jumpers. She just has a great basketball IQ. She has a great feel for the game and she's aggressive, plays hard and she cares. That's a great combination."

Next game: The Sooners will not even bother to give badger hope of seeing the game in a non-televised matchup against Creighton 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Omaha, Nebrasky.

badger

11/9/2012, 02:53 PM

Season opener (the first two were exhibitions):

1:30 p.m. Saturday
@ Creighton (it's somewhere in Nebraska, which is somewhere in the U.S., but definitely NOT in a football conference, hehe TRAITORS)
Radio: KREF 1400 AM in Oklahoma City/Norman

Owing to the fact that a majority of Sooner fans will likely be tuned into something else Saturday afternoon, this game will not be televised.

I have promised to post one Kim Mulkey photo for every point Baylor scores, unless OU scores 70 on them (the amount of pointage WVU scored on them earlier this season). Here's a preview:

Skeletor: RG3, I see that you have a heart right here where my hand is. What's it like to have a heart? Skreeeeeeeeee
http://i.usatoday.net/sports/football/nfl/robert%20griffin%20gallery/griffin9pg-horizontal.jpg

PalmBeachSooner

11/12/2012, 03:29 PM

SicEmBaylor

11/12/2012, 04:57 PM

badger

11/12/2012, 05:39 PM

I watched the HSU game and afterwards I was not all that optimistic about the upcoming season. I saw a lot of the same play as last year. We always seem to be out of control on offense. They really need to slow it down a little to limit turnovers. I can't believe some of the passes they try to make. It's really frustrating to watch.
I would evaluate probably the same way, but alas, I apparently don't get the right Fox Sports channels on ATT Uverse... grrrrr...

You owe us some Baylor pics.
Fiiiiiiine... here's a Baylor pic:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_404h/2010-2019/Wires/Online/2012-11-11/AP/Images/Baylor%20Oklahoma%20Football.JPEG-0b41f.jpg
OMG LOOK AT BAYLOR! :P

Now... let's see... was there a game this weekend? A Sooner womens basketball game?
69-48
I know that we can't score 100 (or near-100) on every opponent, especially on the road, but I can't say that I'm too impressed with the box score.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8ie6rjQpQ1qb4uaf.jpg
But I disgress. It's a win and it's the first win of the season, a season that I hope is full of winning and since Sherri seems optimistic about this group this year, I'll try to put on my awesome face as well.
http://images.wikia.com/central/images/5/5a/Awesome_face.jpg
Seriously... why the eff is Jim Traber still my avatar here? I am totally making myself a Sooner awesome face avatar sometime this week and sticking that up there instead.

Half-half three-three: 7 of 14 from three-point range. That' snot terrible, but that' snot earth shattering by this team's expectations either. Yes, I just wrote out "snot" twice in one sentence.

Near-perfect frees: You know what's better than going 8 for 9 from free throw range? Making more than 8. Seriously, I love that we're almost-perfect, but I'd rather us get to the line more, even if it means bonking more shots.

The RETURN of Four-Foul McFarland: Oh Joanna, I thought that we never would see "Four-Foul" after your freshman year, except on special occasions. Seriously, you're too important to this team to be in foul trouble. Please refrain from future foul troubles, or I may have go off on a crazy fan-rant.

Six-turnover Whitney: I wonder what punishment Sherri inflicts for excessive turnovers. Then again, I recall her describing one of her freshmen high-speeding the offense to the point of the ball ending up all over LNC in practice, so perhaps things aren't normal when there aren't turnovers. Derp.

New rule: I only name player of the game if I like the outcome. I can't say that I like this outcome. It is as much of a "meh" win as the OU-Baylor win on Saturday. I don't like seeing us attempt only 8 free throws. I don't like seeing us have more turnovers as a team (19) than assists (14). I don't like seeing a so-so rebounding effort (44 total, no player in double figures). And finally, I don't like seeing us shoot 48 percent overall from the field. Yes, you're shooting lots of threes so that percentage is gonna be lower, but as noted, we shot 50 percent for 3s... so we actually shot worse from inside the line than outside?!?!?!

But, I'm probably being picky. Here's what Sherri had to say:

"I was really pleased with how we guarded. We shot it well, but that was not surprising. Just really proud of their effort and performance on the road. It's really hard to start your season on the road, especially against a team the caliber of Creighton.

"I thought our second four-minute interval of the first half was really where we got some distance. I think that comes from being able to rotate fresh bodies."

So, there you have it. I'm a picky badger. And if you don't like it, you must be a Baylor fan.

Next game: 7 p.m. Wednesday at LNC versus UCLA. TV coverage on FS Oklahoma+/FCS Central and radio on KOKC 1520 AM. I can't wait to see how ATT Uverse keeps me from watching this game.

ATT Uverse: Thank you for subscribing, new subscriber! We are going to put Lamar University versus Texas State on ALL 20 of your sports channels simultaneously!

:mad:

badger

11/14/2012, 09:34 PM

Maybe i shouldnt complain when att uverse doesnt broadcast sooner womens games.

I am punching this boppy pillow repeatedly (dont worry, baby badger went to bed already) and i am really pizzed at everything im seeing.

More tomorrow. Will ou make up a 15 pt deficit? Or will baj epicly meltdown before your sf.com eyes?

Rabble rabble rabble. :mad:

8timechamps

11/14/2012, 11:28 PM

Had the game on, but brought some work home so I didn't focus on the entire game. I watched a good part of the second half, and they made a good run...but it was just too little too late. It hurts losing to an unranked team, but UCLA is not a bad squad (they kept talking about how they were the third best team in the PAC). I'm thinking they'll make some noise before the season's over.

Anyway, I'm not sure how well our women played the first half, but they looked pretty darn good when I was watching. Plus they kept showing Landry, and he looked focused on WVU...

badger

11/15/2012, 09:07 AM

Plus they kept showing Landry, and he looked focused on WVU...

Landry looked as focused on stuff as he always does... which is to say not at all :P

I'll grouch about the game later this morning. :(

oudanny

11/15/2012, 02:53 PM

According to the box score I saw, we were out rebounded by 22 and gave up 24 offensive rebounds. That would seem to be a problem.

badger

11/15/2012, 04:03 PM

Let's just get this out of the way... despite the fact that we went to the Final Four last season...
http://i47.tinypic.com/wa6gpy.png
^^^actual image from this year's OU womens basketball media guide^^^
We are not going this year. We are doomed. We are absolutely rebuilding and there's nothing our poor depleted roster can do about this year.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080630083509/doom/images/4/4b/Doom-1-.gif
I watched the entire game, thanks to DVR and baby badger fussing at church last night (the perfect excuse to get her home and in bed!) so let me give my first impressions on each aspect of the game:

OU home crowd: Came alive when the team needed them, like when we finally got UCLA's lead back to single digits after being down by close to 20. Even if there's empty seats, we're sound louder than the football Notre Dame game crowd on TV. Kudos!

Billy Tubbs: He's awesome and I hope that he does more broadcasts in the future. He sounds like he's sipping bourbon the entire time, or at least he's just having too much fun doing his job. Lots of fun to listen to, especially when he rambles on with Sherri Coale postgame (she's always cordial and smiling, no worries).

Bob Carpenter: ELLENBERG. NOT BURGER! BERG! ELLEN-BERG! Now... learn the difference between HarTman and Campbell and we'll be all squared away. Seriously, you expect non-OU announcers to screw up player names, not one of our own :(

UCLA: Grudgingly respect how physical they played us. It's exactly the wakeup call we need before we face punchy teams like Texas A&M... oh wait! Well, before Skeletor and Co, I guess.

And now, our roster:

The n00bs: Nicole Kornet and Maddie Manning, our freshmen, really didn't do anything to stick out this game IMHO. Portia Durrett, our juco transfer, has potential to be like another Amanda Thompson, but is still coming off the bench.

Aaryn Ellenberg: As quick as our past point guards (Danielle Robinson comes to mind) but with a three-point shot. The only problem is her tendency to try to make up for team turnovers (not necessarily her own) by trying too hard to steal, often resulting in needless foul calls. Still, she's the one that kept us in the game in the first half (6 for 6 from three in the first half?!?!?!??!) and helped us return to the game in the second.

Nicole Griffin: I had higher hopes for her junior year. She simply missed too many close shots (3 for 7 overall) and too many free throws (6 for 12) and didn't get enough rebounds (4 total). Very disappointing if this is what her junior season is going to be like. She has the potential to be so much better, if for no other reason than she's taller than everyone else out there (6'6")

Morgan Hook: Positive first - the stat sheet said she had 8 assists. But the negative in this game for both UCLA as a whole and Morgan in particular was all of the close missed shots. 4-14 overall, 1-5 from three. Uggggggggghhhhhh

Sharane Campbell: When Bob Carpenter wasn't confusing her with Jasmine Hartman (angry face), she was a solid little worker bee. She didn't mess up terribly, she was consistent (12 pts) and didn't have too many turnovers (2).

Whitney Hand: Sometimes when she's out there turning the ball over and missing shots, I wonder if perhaps her freshman hype reputation has carried her through these iffy moments... and then, she goes to the bench and everything falls apart. Everyone's lost, a bunch of mindless zombies letting easy layups go by on defense, and easy turnovers on offense. So, Whitney continues to hold our fragile team together. Yay? She had 19 points and only missed four of her shots, shooting 3 for 4 from three.

Jasmine Hartman: The reason she doesn't have a lot of stats is because she does a lot of stuff that doesn't get you stats --- playing solid defense and not taking a lot of shots, but keeping the ball moving on offense and providing help during opponent traps. So, I wish she had the chance to do more, but we have a huge glut of guards right now. Too bad she's not taller. Then she could rebound and play forward/center :(

Joanna "Four Foul" McFarland: Remember Blake's final OU season where he took endless abuse (from judo throws to nut punches) from opponents and didn't seem to care? Well, Joanna doesn't have to worry about either of those yet, but she is taking tons of abuse from opponents and usually doesn't get the calls (or gets the calls against her instead) and it doesn't seem to bother her in the least! Simply amazing and to her credit. Alas, she had four fouls and was relegated to the bench most of the game because of it.

Sherri Coale: Much like Joanna, she is very good at controlling her emotions in public. She took that entire postgame interview with Billy and Bob cordially, even though it had to be disappointing beyond disappointment that her team was down by nearly 20, to cut that lead to 2 (I think) with a minute or so left, only to end up losing off some missed shots and opponent free throws.

Where we go from here: We need tons of improvement everywhere...

Defense: UCLA was missing waaaaay too many shots to have us not take advantage of that. We should have seen all of their misses and been like BOX OUT TIME! This shot is likely gonna miss! And gotten the board. Nope. Boo.
Rebounding: Please let there be more of this on both ends of the court, especially offense but ESPECIALLY defense.
Shooting: Threes, frees and every point value in between, we either need better shot selection or better shooting, period.
Fouling: Figure out how the refs are calling the game and adjust. If they're letting the Lady Bruins bully you, bully back!
Turnovers: I love moving fast, but if we're moving too fast to be catching passes, or end up getting trapped in the middle, then we're moving too damn fast.

Sherri? What say you?

"I'm disappointed with our effort and our response to the physical play. If that's the way they're going to play then we have to adjust to it, and we have to fight back and be just as physical as they're being. I didn't think we responded in the right way. You don't beat anybody when you give up 24 offensive rebounds; it's just a number that's unheard of. At halftime, 23 of their points were from offensive rebounds, that is us beating ourselves. All of this stems from the physicality, on the ball and away from the ball. We couldn't make a pass; we couldn't enter to the post. We just didn't adapt very well and it affected every phase of the game."

Next game: Day: 2 p.m. Sunday against silly mascoted St. Louis. TV FS-OK/FS-Atlantic (billy tubbs!) and radio KOKC 1520 AM

BOOM***** ****ER :mad:

PS: We were evicted in the second round of the tournament last season, which is why you don't remember us going to Final Four.

Sooner Born Sooner Bred

11/15/2012, 06:04 PM

We got out hustled last night. Ridiculous.

badger

11/16/2012, 09:16 AM

We got out hustled last night. Ridiculous.

When we were hovering around a 15-pt deficit early in the second half (we were only down one at halftime!) and we were letting too many easy layups by, I took a break, kept the game running, and took a shower.

After I washed myself of our sloppy lazy play... we started cutting the lead! Alas, not so much that we had the lead, but dag nabbit, maybe I should've showered sooner so we wouldn't have run outta time :(

PalmBeachSooner

11/16/2012, 01:49 PM

I'm in total agreement with the Badger that they push too hard (fast) which leads to costly turnovers and poor shooting. If the fast break ain't there run your half-court offense. This coast-to-coast crap on every possession isn't necessary.

We also missed a schmitt load of free throws. That's unacceptable at any level.

badger

11/19/2012, 01:44 PM

Some days are just bad hair days.
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But at least we won the game, even if we *only* scored 68 doing it.

68-33
I have know no idea what a Biliken is, but that's who we beat (Univ. of St Louis).

Nicole leads scoring: She must have really taken to heart all of the missed free throws and other shots against UCLA, because she only missed three total this game (7 for 10 from the floor, 1-1 free throws).

Off-day for Aaryn: After solely keeping us in the UCLA game, Aaryn only shot 2 for 8 from three, missing more 3s than the rest of the team combined (who went 4 for 8 without Ellenberg).

Assists outnumbered again: By turnovers (16, compared with 14 assists). At least we weren't as bad as Billy-kin (4 assists, 23 turnovers).

Trying to guess: Which players are on short leashes, in Sherri's doghouse, injured, or just can ill afford to screw up lest they get playing time minimized more? Here's my guesses after this game:

Joanna "Two Foul" McFarland: She did not have her usual four fouls, but only played 18 mins, ending with 0 pts and 3 rebounds. I am going to guess "injured" based on how much UCLA beat her up.
Morgan Hook: I used to call her "Le Tre" based on how many threes she took and made, but this game, she went 0 for 0, but shot a paltry 2 for 6 from the field, and also only played 18 mins. I will guess "short leash," because she ran a lot at the basket against UCLA and missed a lot in the process. Might as well have turned the ball over with those misses, alas.
Sharane Campbell: 13 minutes?! She was behind everyone else in this stat against St. Louis. I am definitely going to guess Sherri's doghouse. With as capable as she showed she was last year, it's way too early to declare "sophomore slump" and bench her. Hmmm...

Usually this is the point in the entry where I quote Sherri, but I like opposing coach Lisa Stone's quote better... sooo... Lisa?

Sherri (Coale) was nice to us and I appreciate that and she shook my hand and said we both have a long way to go and there's no question about that. I respect her and her staff and this program a great deal. We'll learn from it, we'll watch, we'll learn from them, we'll learn from ourselves and move on. It's a non-conference game, it's a loss, and it hurts but, again, credit Oklahoma they're a really really good team. They're only going to get better, they can really shoot it."

We really do need to get better, especially in the Big 12. At least Baylor got Stanford'ed (http://scores.espn.go.com/ncw/recap?gameId=323210024) and also sits pretty with one loss too :D

Next game: Untelevised, unradio'ed Friday in Hawaii versus Arkansas.

boomer!

badger

11/28/2012, 11:05 AM

Sorry, been preoccupied with being a single mom this week (NP outta state), so here's a pic of Morgan Hook's tongue to make up for it:
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-baskbl/auto_bsi_player/8353793.jpeg
100-61
In what will hopefully not be our losing score to the Football Quacks in the Fiesta Bowl (d'oh!) we beat the Lady Quacks in Hawaii on Saturday. Here are the key stats:
Scoreburger: Aaryn Ellenberg(er) scored 27, mostly because she went 7 of 12 from three-range. Maybe now the announcers will get her name right(er).

Assists, not TO: 26 assists to 18 turnovers. Thank goodness. Sherri, you SURE you still don't wanna go to the Pac conference? (and yes, I remember that we lost to UCLA recently)

I would do more, but SS decided that the box score doesn't exist :mad:

73-70
OU followed up its Quack victory by beating the Lady Sooies (hey, at least I didn't call them Lady Pigs or Lady Backs!). Alas, Aaryn couldn't have two good nights in a row, so here's the OTHER key stats:

19 points to Griffin-dor: Take that, Hwerflepurff, Ravenslaw and Slithersnape - we are gonna win the Housh Carp! (just had to type that to make Potter fanatics scream at their computer screens) She shot well from everywhere on the floor, expect threes (0 for 0) and frees (3 for 8?! seriously?!?!)

Eff the TOs: 19. Gah. Who really cares about assists (there were 15), there is still too many. And yes, I'm going to repeat this until there aren't.

Five Foul McFarland: Oh Joanna, I don't want this to be a new nickname for you. She only had 12 minutes, probably due to foul trouble. Too bad, too, because she had 9 boards and shot 2 for 3 from three.

The n00b starter: Maddie Manningham was one of our starting five, while our other two n00bs, juco Portia and froshie Kornet, hardly played (5 and 3 minutes, respectively). Will be interesting to see if this lineup continues, or if it was a Lady Razor killer.

Now... let's end me talking and listen to Sherri instead:

Night and day. They'll be completely different (than Arkansas). That's what I love about our pre-conference schedule. It puts us in a position to have to adapt to things. We'll have to play a different type of basketball tomorrow. They get out and run. One of their games, they shot 45 3s. So, entirely different. What you want to make sure you do is utilized your strength, maybe, against them. So Nicole Griffin might have a great opportunity to have a big game tomorrow as well.

Next game: 7 p.m. Thursday at home vs. Northwestern State (it's in Louisiana). TV is FS Oklahoma/FS Southwest+

Boo - oah'u - mer!

tycat947

11/28/2012, 03:37 PM

Sorry, been preoccupied with being a single mom this week (NP outta state), so here's a pic of Morgan Hook's tongue to make up for it:
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-baskbl/auto_bsi_player/8353793.jpeg
100-61
In what will hopefully not be our losing score to the Football Quacks in the Fiesta Bowl (d'oh!) we beat the Lady Quacks in Hawaii on Saturday. Here are the key stats:
Scoreburger: Aaryn Ellenberg(er) scored 27, mostly because she went 7 of 12 from three-range. Maybe now the announcers will get her name right(er).

Carpenter calls her Ellenberg(er) every year! If he can't get OUR names right then he shouldn't be doing the games!

Assists, not TO: 26 assists to 18 turnovers. Thank goodness. Sherri, you SURE you still don't wanna go to the Pac conference? (and yes, I remember that we lost to UCLA recently)

I would do more, but SS decided that the box score doesn't exist :mad:

73-70
OU followed up its Quack victory by beating the Lady Sooies (hey, at least I didn't call them Lady Pigs or Lady Backs!). Alas, Aaryn couldn't have two good nights in a row, so here's the OTHER key stats:

19 points to Griffin-dor: Take that, Hwerflepurff, Ravenslaw and Slithersnape - we are gonna win the Housh Carp! (just had to type that to make Potter fanatics scream at their computer screens) She shot well from everywhere on the floor, expect threes (0 for 0) and frees (3 for 8?! seriously?!?!)

Eff the TOs: 19. Gah. Who really cares about assists (there were 15), there is still too many. And yes, I'm going to repeat this until there aren't.

Five Foul McFarland: Oh Joanna, I don't want this to be a new nickname for you. She only had 12 minutes, probably due to foul trouble. Too bad, too, because she had 9 boards and shot 2 for 3 from three.

The n00b starter: Maddie Manningham was one of our starting five, while our other two n00bs, juco Portia and froshie Kornet, hardly played (5 and 3 minutes, respectively). Will be interesting to see if this lineup continues, or if it was a Lady Razor killer.

Now... let's end me talking and listen to Sherri instead:

Next game: 7 p.m. Thursday at home vs. Northwestern State (it's in Louisiana). TV is FS Oklahoma/FS Southwest+

Boo - oah'u - mer!

Actually, the Lady Pig (I'll use that name! LOL!) game was the day BEFORE the Orygun game, not the other way around so it looked like we improved instead of regressed! They played The Lady 'Bows (Hawai'i) the 3rd night and won too.

badger

11/28/2012, 03:40 PM

Actually, the Lady Pig (I'll use that name! LOL!) game was the day BEFORE the Orygun game, not the other way around so it looked like we improved instead of regressed! They played The Lady 'Bows (Hawai'i) the 3rd night and won too.
i'm firing myself, lol.

baby badger is going to play for sherri someday --- too much energy. alas, she may contribute to the turnover problem --- she regular drops toys that don't hold her attention :eek:

tycat947

11/28/2012, 05:21 PM

i'm firing myself, lol.

baby badger is going to play for sherri someday --- too much energy. alas, she may contribute to the turnover problem --- she regular drops toys that don't hold her attention :eek:

:highly_amused:

tycat947

11/28/2012, 05:22 PM

http://i.usatoday.net/sports/football/nfl/robert%20griffin%20gallery/griffin9pg-horizontal.jpg

I thought Brittany was taller than that?

JJ24OU

11/29/2012, 07:41 PM

Freshman Maddie Manning tears ACL and is out for the year. Man, we seem to have so many of these injuries year in and year out. :-(

http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/archive/112912aae.html

badger

11/30/2012, 10:45 AM

Time to play KNOW YOUR INJURED SOONER:

Sooner #42: I was a freshman last year who was starting by the end of the season. I am this chick pictured here with all of the post-it notes. Who am I?
http://i44.tinypic.com/9q9pxy.png
Sooner #23: I was one of three newcomers to the team this year and got my first OU start out in Hawaii. I am this pictured here. Who am I?
http://cdn1.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/4136575/8273376.0_standard_352.0.jpeg
Sooner #44: I had my career ended with back injuries but was going to have my senior season this year after having previous seasons derailed due to injuries. I am pictured here my freshman year outta San Antonio. Who am I?
http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/okla/graphics/auto/20100204_video_cloman.jpg

A: With Kay Kay Williams (#42), Maddie Manningham (#23) and Lyndsey Cloman (#44) out for the season, we have nine players left. NINE! No wonder Skeletor didn't pick us as the first overall Big 12 team... she cursed us with injuries!

http://i43.tinypic.com/2ynjm2h.jpg

Joke's on her - HER preseason #1 pick just lost AGAIN. To Iowa.
http://sporthangover.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/iowa.jpg

Anyway, we had a game last night, but since I had flashbacks to my mono year in high school where other basketball teams were beating us 70-10, I admit that I tuned out in the second half. But, I got the gist of it, so here goes:
96-35
Teams in high school would basically press our undermanned tiny roster of no-talent (I can say that because I was a member of the no-talent squad myself... but then again, recovering from mono meant that I wasn't allowed to play more than a minute per game and also fortunately got me out of the post-loss punishment wind sprints afterwards, hehe), would tower over us by half a foot and we'd repeatedly miss shots and throw the ball away while the other team would recycle new players to press us unendingly as the score got more and more lopsided. Gah.

That fortunately is not what I saw last night. Sherri is a merciful, cordial lady, unlike the b!tch that coached us and or the men that coached our opponents (seriously, once that locker room door shut at halftime, the curse words were flowing. b!tch described her perfectly... and she was a kindergarten teacher also, mind you). We just simply hit shots that we usually didn't hit. We dug deep in our bench to give our starters a break (just before dead week, that starts Dec. 3 before finals week, that starts Dec. 10!) and have mercy on poor Northwestern State.

Commentary: They were talking about some random river in Louisiana midway through the first half. That's how lopsided it was. Give Billy Tubbs more bourbon :D

Kornet started: Not sure what Sherri's doing, other than perhaps testing out certain lineups on the court work together. I hope this doesn't mean McFarland's benched, but she was one of the final ones to come in to this everybody-gets-to-play game.

7 to 24, 23 to 12: This was when the flashbacks to HS really started to occur, as Northwestern could not stop turning over the ball (they're the 7 to 24, that's assists to turnovers). We, on the other hand, had no problem moving the ball. It was like watching the San Antonio Spurs or something. Pass, pass, pass, pass... it was like they were trying to burn clock or give teammates the chance to score or something

Something for everybody: Everyone scored, everyone got at least one rebound, everyone but Morgan shot free throws... poor Northwestern. I hope we gave them a nice check for showing up.

Got anything to say, Sherri?

"I'm proud of our team. Obviously, we shot the ball well and things look really pretty when the ball is going in the basket like that. I thought we shared it well, evidenced by our high number of assists. Fairly low number of turnovers and a lot of guys got in on the action once again so I was pleased with our effort. "

Next game: 2 p.m. Sunday versus Marist. I hope they don't get embarrassed -- they went to the tourney with us back in the early aughts and had a nice traveling fanbase. Their coach is apparently a big Sherri fan. So, let's just play nicely, shall we? TV will be FS Southwest Plus/FCS Atlantic.

Boom! ...er.

PalmBeachSooner

11/30/2012, 01:21 PM

Badger, can we have a separate thread for each game?

badger

11/30/2012, 02:10 PM

Badger, can we have a separate thread for each game?
a few years ago it was clogging our mens basketball discussions, so i just consolidated into one neat little thread package.

i probably won't be here to start them (baby badger duties) but i may chime in via my phone every so often if game threads are started

PalmBeachSooner

12/3/2012, 02:01 PM

Did you watch the Marist game? I didn't want to spend the $8.99.

badger

12/3/2012, 02:13 PM

Did you watch the Marist game? I didn't want to spend the $8.99.
no, last week was rough on the badger house and not just because we're Hwerfleperf:
http://sharkrobot.com/images/shirt_vgcats_hufflepuff.jpg

i'll recap sometime... sometime... argh

badger

12/4/2012, 03:10 PM

Before I begin (belatedly, sorry), a question for you all:

When did womens basketball shorts get longer and baggier than the men's?
http://i48.tinypic.com/2jg07pl.png

That is an image from the 2012-13 OU media guide. Now, let's look back a few years ago...
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_full_width_scaled/hash/0d/a4/0da412c30bf72a4737139c7f6789c0da.jpg

Before that...
http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0909/this.day.sports.history.sept21/images/courtney-ashley-paris.jpg
And a few years before that...
http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/wash/sports/w-baskbl/00-01action/a-pimley-dales-032401.jpg

I dunno... maybe it's my imagination. Maybe players these days would rather go back to the days of female ballers wearing skirts and baggy, long shorts is the closet they can come without going to skirts. In any event, I think they look sillier than Skeletor's fashion statements:
http://www.baylor.edu/content/imglib/185740.jpg

OMG! SO HIDEOUS! :eek:

Anyways... there was a game this past weekend...
68-55
I did not order the PPV or whatever, because whenever I order Sooner PPVs, they barrage me with ads. Go ahead and remind me that you're Max with Bluetax and that your name is Sherri Coale and that gambling is a big huge problem in Oklahoma, but DON'T EXPECT ME TO PAY EXTRA FOR IT. Cable's already taken two arms and a leg. I am NOT the monty python "invincible" knight!

Oh yeah... game... let's constructively criticize, because we all know that we love all Sooners, but you can always love your Sooners more if they play better and win more... not really, but yes really... just kidding (perhaps).

Not good to start: Nicole Korney once again got to start, but didn't get starter minutes(13) after shooting 0-4 from the floor. Starting spots will be easier to earn on a nine-player rotation, but if you get the ball in your hands, you better make the shots!

6 turnovers and 5 rebounds: Nicole Griffin joined other-starter Nicole in having an off night, probably because she also had four fouls.Uggggggh

Solid little minutes: Portia only played 7 minutes, but shot 2 for 2 (including a three), and had four rebounds. Now to earn more minutes in practice (unless you're injured, in which case, speedy recovery!)

Just little minutes: Jaz isn't going to have a very productive final Sooner year, unfortunately. I can see it already, when Sherri's only giving her 12 minutes and once she's out there, she's just work horsing withing getting box score stats.

Four Foul McFarland: Nine boards, but 0 for 3 from three and three turnovers isn't great.

If you're wondering how in the hell we won with all of those awful stats, it was from three solid performances from...

Aaryn Ellenberg(er): 8-20 from the floor, but just 1-5 from three and 1-3 from free. Still, 18 pts, 6 boards and 4 assists to 1 TO is nothing to sneeze at.

Morgan Le Tre Hook: 5-12 from the floor, including 2-7 from three (it was bad night for threes in case you can't tell) and perfect 4-4 from the line.

Whitney Mrs. Landry Hand: 4-10 from the field, including 2-6 from three and perfect 2-2 from free. THIRTEEN REBOUNDS and 12 pts, as well as a 5 to 2 assist to turnover ratio.

Next game: 7 p.m. Thursday against the team I like to call PUNT (UNT is North Texas' abbreviation) in football. TV is FSSW+ nad FS Central. They have by far the best generic fight song in all of college. Who cares what the real lyrics are, I modified them to "We got a first down. Ha ha, HA HA" during our home game a few years ago when we were shutting them out late.

Sherri, isn't this still supposed to be a womens basketball thread?

Good win. All wins are good. It wasn't quite as pretty as we would have liked for it to be, but give them credit, Marist plays really hard. Very well-coached and they're hard to guard and we didn't shoot it very well. So a double-digit win, shooting it as poorly as we did, we'll take that and run with it.

So there you go.

BOOMER!

PalmBeachSooner

12/5/2012, 02:23 PM

badger

12/5/2012, 03:28 PM

I'm very concerned that we are only shooting 71% from the free throw line and averaging close to 20 turnovers per game. That does not bode well. It's the difference between winning and losing in close games.

those are both fatigue mistakes... but we are making them at the beginning of the game/half too :mad:

badger

12/6/2012, 08:43 PM

Oh gawd fat female keiton page (double zero) is killing us. Save me from sooner misery sherri... :(

badger

12/6/2012, 08:52 PM

Whitney hand is clutching her left knee after north texas repeatedly punched her in the face.

I feel like crying. I see people in the crowd crying

TanTanFeil

12/6/2012, 09:16 PM

Hope that injury is not the end of Whitneys season.....

cleller

12/6/2012, 10:00 PM

Whitney hand is clutching her left knee after north texas repeatedly punched her in the face.

I feel like crying. I see people in the crowd crying

What's the scoop?

Salt City Sooner

12/6/2012, 10:44 PM

Last report was that she was on her way to the hospital for a MRI. Sherri couldn't hardly say 2 words together when she was asked about it by Carpenter post-game. She did manage to get out that it doesn't look good. I've seen that certain "quake" happen a gazillion times, & if she didn't blow that ACL somebody's going to have to pick me up off the ground.

JJ24OU

12/7/2012, 12:46 AM

Confirmed ACL tear for Whitney Hand on the Soonersports twitter feed. My heart breaks for her and the whole team.

https://twitter.com/SoonerSportscom

cleller

12/7/2012, 08:39 AM

Blast! Terrible news. You just don't expect that.

oudanny

12/7/2012, 08:48 AM

Reading the story this morning about Whitney's injury brought tears to my eyes. I pray that she makes a full recovery. I can't begin to imagine how hard this is.

badger

12/7/2012, 09:15 AM

This was the scene last night:
http://blog.newsok.com/ou/files/2012/12/hand.jpg
Jan Ross (short hair due to cancer fight) gave her a kiss on the forehead, Sherri held her hand as the trainer talked to her on the court floor after she fell, the crowd was just in shock, some teammates patted her on the shoulder or said encouragement to her as she left, Landry met her at the tunnel entrance. By the second half was when they mentioned that Whitney was no longer in the building, but en route to get an MRI.

The refs finally got the message from the crowd (loudly booing them by mid-second half) that punching our players repeatedly in the face was unacceptable. I do not blame them for this injury (Whitney was driving and then all of the sudden without contact her knee collapsed in the paint), but this game was more physical than it should have been.

Anyways, Sherri and team (according to her in postgame interview, which was the shortest one ever, even shorter than post-loss interviews) didn't discuss basketball at halftime, but rather how they can be the story of the season, winning and succeeding despite only having eight active players on roster.

Win for Whitney, girls.

:(

Boomer.....

12/7/2012, 09:20 AM

Horrible. :(

badger

12/7/2012, 02:02 PM

I plan to do tons more on Whitney Hand on the separate thread, but since we had a game last night...

WHY WE ARE DOOMED

NCAA allows each womens basketball team to have 15 scholarship players. Scholarships cannot be partial, so each team can have up to 15 players.
http://i50.tinypic.com/13yuk2.png

A certain 2010-11 roster freshman named Alexann Yancey was kicked off the team before the 10-11 season really started. (http://newsok.com/ou-freshman-alexann-yancey-dismissed-from-basketball-team/article/3522150)

Another freshman from that class, Jacqueline Jeffcoat, decided to transfer in this past offseason (http://newsok.com/ou-womens-basketball-reserves-jacqueline-jeffcoat-katherine-zander-to-transfer/article/3660645) due to bouts with mono, injuries and other things that cut into her perspective playing time this season (oh the irony).

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Katherine Zander, who would have been a sophomore this year, hardly saw the court last year. So, she also transferred in the offseason. (http://newsok.com/ou-womens-basketball-reserves-jacqueline-jeffcoat-katherine-zander-to-transfer/article/3660645)

DaShawn Harden, who would have also been a sophomore this year and had tremendous promise and upside much like her recuiting classmate Sharane Campbell.... left the team to be closer to her family. (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crimsonandcreammachine.com%2F 2012%2F3%2F28%2F2909249%2Fou-womens-basketball-loses-their-third-player-to-transfer-this-week&ei=6DbCUK3-DsWbyAGm2IGACA&usg=AFQjCNG8PWfu2jR8-u9BcgLMjGHI6CbaKQ)

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We were able to add a juco player to the mix this offseason, so instead of 11, we have 12. And THEN... the season started.

Kaylon "Kay Kay" Williams, who was likely to be a starter and someone who could bully back the more physical teams with her post presence... is out for the season with an ACL. (http://blog.newsok.com/ou/2012/10/18/kaylon-williams-ruptures-achillesends-season/)

Freshman hotshot Maddie Manning, who just got her first start of the season out in Hawaii... is out for the season with a knee injury.
(http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8692210/maddie-manning-oklahoma-sooners-season)

Lyndsey Cloman, due to back issues and past injury problems, had to give up basketball in the offseason.

And now... Whitney Hand is out with an ACL tear.
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So, we are about half as strong roster-wise as other teams. We have a 8-player rotation, assuming nobody else gets injured and carried out the court to a standing ovation (*tear*). We are really, really, epicly, unquestionably DOOMED.

Why to still pay attention anyways
This team and coaching staff is incredibly likeable. A lot of hustle, academic achievement, overcoming cancer, being from Oklahoma, all rolled into one program.

So, don't give up on this team. We are going to lose a lot, we are probably going to plummet out of the top 25 in a few weeks (or right now, despite winning last night) and we may even miss the NCAA tourney for the first time since Sherri's early years. BUT... is winning all that important? Can't you just love your Sooners for being great people?

71-68
Check out Sherri's postgame presser video. (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/archive/120612aaa.html) She's very emotional about this win and what the team is going through.

This is going to be similar to 2009 OU football, where our first round draft picks dropped early (along with many other players), so don't set your sights on postseason glory, just be happy for any successes you get to witness as the team fights through everything they can't control happening over and over.

I thought we were the aggressor.
No sh!t you were the aggressor, UNT guy. Your team was repeatedly punching our players in the face (no exaggeration) and I was surprised that when Whitney went down it was her ACL, not her eye or her nose or her teeth! Fortunately for us, the refs finally caught on after immense crowd booing and Sherri stomping (thank you for that LNC, btw). The refs did not call the game fairly until the second half. You'd think Whitney's carrying off would change how they were calling the game? No. It took crowd and Sherri intervention for them to finally call the constant "hand checks" that were making contact with Sooner faces! :mad:

Awesome performances that wouldn't be awesome to overlook:

Nicole Griffin: 9 for 10 on free throws, 9 boards, 15 points
Joanna McFarland: When the team needed someone to be a leader and step up in Whitney's absence, Joanna did. 31 minutes (second most on the team, even off the bench) 12 pts and 11 boards. I fully anticipate a return to the starting lineup. She's earned it.
Jasmine Hartman: For drawing a late foul when the game was on the line (we trailed much of the first and second halves) by trying to get around a pick/screen on defense. The box score doesn't always show it, but she's very important to this team off the bench.
Portia Durrett and Nicole Kornet: I don't think these newbies signed up for a season like this when they decided to come to OU. But, they've fought along with our vets and have really matured fast... as they need to.
Sharane Campbell: Like Nicole Griffin, sank free throws when we needed her to. Going 7 for 9 from the line got her to 11 pts, one of four Sooners scoring in double figures.
Morgan Hook and Aaryn Ellenberg: Sherri really hit a homerun when she got these two in the same class. They've been key to our rotation ever since they arrived and it's hard to believe they're already juniors.

Sherri?

"I don't know if I've ever been prouder of a team in 17 years of doing this. Unbelievable determination and they revealed their mettle and their character. I talk about their character all the time. It's one thing to talk about it, it's another thing for however many people got to witness it tonight.

"I have no words. I don't even know how they could think, much less change defenses and run sets and change matchups. They revealed their strength. They are a bunch of great kids. As tough as it is for our basketball team, it's tougher because it's devastating for Whitney."

Next game: 2 p.m. Sunday hosting Vanderbilt. TV is FS Oklahoma+/FCS Central.

During the next week or so, I will be recapping some of the past Whitneyisms from SF.com over the years on the womens basketball blog and around the form on the separate thread. I invite you all to contribute your own Whitney memories, photos, etc.

Boomer.

badger

12/17/2012, 12:18 PM

OK folks -- baj is suffering from a cannot-breathe-at-night congestion/cough/sneeze sickness, so let's make this short and suite:
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Yeah, I put less effort into my already-shoddy work when I'm ill. :P

Due to illness and overall pessimism (illness tends to bring that outta ya even if you are pumping sunshine out your eyeballs), I decided to forego the womens basketball game and finish a video game entitled Assassin's Creed 3 instead. This is basically how it goes:
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So, I might as well have been watching the game. :(
76-63
Every win from here on out is a gift. Y'hear me? GIFT. I project us to be favored in ZERO of our remaining games, for absolutely no other reason than depth.

You might think I'm exaggerating. However, we have exactly TWO non-conference games left (UC Riverside and Cal State Northridge) before we start the gauntlet of hell that we call the Big 12 Conference. This is not the men's side, where you have two ranked teams and a lot of WTF. This is the women's side, where a majority of teams are either ranked in the top 25, or are at least receiving votes. If it isn't Skeletor screaming her death incantations in your direction (no wonder I feel so ill), it's our longtime Sherri nemesis Iowa State. Or a suddenly resurgent Kansas. Or a never-experienced-a-drop-after-Coach-Budke's-death Pokette. Or Sheryl Swoopes' alma mater Tech. Or those West Virginia girls that Skeletor voted first over us in her preseaon poll (baj: "You b!tch."). Need I go on? Take it from me.

Things that might make you laugh after I took any remaining seasonal optimism outta ya:

Vandy's leading scorer's name is Foggie.

We actually made our free throws (14 of 18)

We only had 20 turnovers!

I give up. Sherri?

"I am really proud of these two guys sitting on either side of me [Morgan Hook and Joanna McFarland]. I thought they fought like crazy the entire 40 minutes. I though Vanderbilt played really well. They shot the ball extremely well from behind the 3-point line. Some of them were open looks, but some of them were contested. We just had a hard time overcoming that."

Next game: 7 p.m. Thursday vs UC Riverside. May be one of our final wins of the season. Tune in to FS Oklahoma+/FCS Central if you can!

Boomer.....

12/17/2012, 12:33 PM

It isn't going to be a pretty season with this many injuries.

PalmBeachSooner

12/19/2012, 03:44 PM

Oye vey!

badger

12/21/2012, 01:34 PM

Sometimes I wonder if we could get away with someone from our bench suiting up to give up a ninth active player...
http://blog.newsok.com/ou/files/2010/06/Sherri-Coale.jpg
Alas, it isn't gonna happen.
70-46
After witnessing the Stoops brothers do it on many occasions, I have decided that great coaches will continue coaching their players regardless of what the scoreboard says, always looking for improvement, always ready to get the most of their athletes. Sherri was definitely doing this right through the end of the game, especially when we let a UC Riverside player miss a free throw, grab the miss's rebound, then miss THAT shot and rebound THAT miss.

Another mark of a great coach is not seeing the players roll their eyes, get indignant and point at the scoreboard (we were up about 20 at that point) or get an attitude of some sort. No, our players went out and didn't let that happen the rest of the game. Suddenly, they had the spark to get them through the final few minutes of the game, and not make the score look closer than it had any right looking.

And that's why Sherri now makes nearly a million bucks a year... unless we pay her by the active player at the end of the season :D

We were only up 10 at the half: Due to baby badger issues (she has decided that bedtimes are optional), I only caught about half of the first half, but OMG do we like to miss our threes. Vegas was about the only one I saw make a three in the first half, and everyone else, even Jaz, was attempting them (although the box score doesn't reflect it... either their mistake, or the refs saw her toe on the line). Clunk clunk clunk. As Gordon Ramsey would exclaim, "Oh, **** me!"

What do you say???: Remember when your parent glared at you to force you to have good manners, or to say "thank you" for the ugly sweater? Sherri and Vegas had one of those moments during the postgame presser. After answering a question about scoring, Sherri/Vegas had this happen:

Sherri: Tell them the statistic you are most proud of today.
Vegas: Um.... OH! No turnovers!!!

Hahaha. Screw saying "please" and "thank you." Coach, I am SOOOO proud of not having turnovers! I don't care about scoring 27! NO TURNOVERS!!!!!!

Everyone has a role: I think there is a sense of urgency and desperation among our team now that you usually don't see until actual tournament time. It's like Sherri has said "Ok, our tournament starts NOW, win or go home" and it is bringing out the best in everyone. Let's give a few examples:

Jaz for the assist: What started as a season that seemed to be headed for a non-productive, unmemorable senior year has suddenly been elevated to a first-off-the-bench role where she leads the offense.

Joanna the starter: She was benched earlier this season due to struggles or even matchup issues. Who knows, but suddenly she was not starting anymore. However, she is back starting and continues to one-hand rebound us out of trouble. Seriously, some of those rebounds just come out of nowhere. It is clear and neither Jaz nor Joanna want their senior seasons to be unmemorable no-postseason years.

Dat bump dat gasp dat sigh of relief: When you are down to eight, your only blessing left is that you aren't down to seven, but scary moment of da nite came when sophomore sensation Sharane Campbell...
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...did I mention that people who like dogs are awesome? Anyways, Sharane Campbell drew a moving screen foul and then stayed on the floor a few seconds afterward. It's dat moment were you're like "Awwwwwwww four-letter word." Fortunately, Sharane got up and continued playing.

Dat other moment: Vegas, why do you scare us like that? Some UC Riverside player (who probably was insanely jealous of her awesome shooting night) decided to get cat scratch fever and went for Vegas' eye during a rebound scrum. Vegas even got a moment to wipe her teary eye afterward from the ref before shooting (and missing) her first free throw.

Sherri?

"I thought we settled down a little bit today and found a little bit more rhythm about us. I thought our guards did a great job of keeping a hand high, meeting them early, getting through flare screens and guarding the curls. They really took away Riverside’s strengths and that’s what we tried to do with our game plan. I’m really pleased; I thought we were focused and ready to go."

Next game: 1 p.m. Saturday versus Cal State Northridge. TV is FS Oklahoma+/FCS Central.

Boomer!

Chuck Bao

12/24/2012, 05:51 AM

They're certainly not in a good shape to start conference play. The remaining 8 will have to step it up because you know that BigXII coaches are gonna tell their players to get rough (and that's not only Coach Mulkey). Missed the last 2 home games but I will be there cheering for the Sooners every home conference game (except Baylor of course).

badger

12/24/2012, 01:09 PM

Since we're off 'till Saturday, a Christmas story:

Does this video link still work? (http://www.cstv.com/allaccess/player/07-oas-mediaplayer-okla.html?content=mms://a1981.v8108e.c8108.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1981/8108/v0001/cstvcbs.download.akamai.com/8108/open/okla/08-09/video/w-baskbl/12dec/20081221_willis.wmv&school=okla&)

Since most sites have removed their links by now (perhaps even our own SS.com with that video), here's baj's retelling.

'Twas December 2008. Walk-on sophomore Lauren Willis had been with the team for about a season and a half and came from out of state (the mythical land of Kans ***) to be with Sherri's awesome program.

Lauren Willis’s father, Steve, was a kicker at Kansas State. Her mother, Lois, was an all-American quarter-miler in the 4x400-meter relay at Iowa State and the 1984 Big Eight Conference champion in the triple jump.

So, Lauren herself had scholarship offers, just not to her favorite school, OU. Her father reportedly was miffed after some recruiting visits (I think Colorado State was one of them), because Lauren refused to even discuss the possibility of going anywhere but OU.

So, at the team's holiday party, where they sing Christmas carols and even exchange small gifts, Sherri announced to the team that she had one final thing to give that wasn't a gift, because it was earned.

The team suspected what was about to happen when Sherri announced that it was Lauren. And lo and behold, in the small white envelope was a scholarship. She teared up as she got team-hugged. She called her parents with the good news immediately, the video ended up on SS.com, the rest is history.

Alas, Lauren didn't go on to be an All-American or star in the WNBA, but she did go on to finish her senior year at OU a few years later, when she retold her story again:

This is a kid who wanted desperately to play for the University of Oklahoma, she wanted to be a part of this institution, she wanted to be a part of this program and she was willing to do that in any way that she could. She was a great, great high school basketball player and there are a lot of great, great high school basketball players who won't go somewhere and walk on. They want a full scholarship, that's the only way they want to play.

Lauren Willis has bigger dreams.

It was OK for her to come here and walk on for a while because she wanted to be a part of something that was really special. So she came here, and she walked on, she came to practice every single day and worked just as hard as everybody else in the gym. And after a little while, I made the decision that we weren't Oklahoma without Lauren Willis, so we put her on a full scholarship.

What she has done is something that you don't see a lot these days. She's been incredibly selfless. She comes to practice every day and competes from start to finish typically with a smile on her face from start to finish. They can attest to it. Doesn't matter if we ask her to play defense all day. Doesn't matter if we ask her to be on scout team all day. Doesn't matter what we ask her to do. She accepts the responsibility and does whatever we ask of her as well as she can possibly do it. There aren't a lot of players out there who have that type of selflessness. Because whatever we ask Lauren to do for the University of Oklahoma she did. And she did it as well as she could possibly do it.

She's affected us in all kinds of intangible with her spirit, with her enthusiasm, with her effort. She's also affected us in tangible ways. You saw on the highlight video the screen she set against Arkansas that opened D Rob up to make a layup to send us to overtime to give us a chance to win the game. You saw the three she hit against Creighton, without which we would not have won the game last year. And you saw her tonight do what she does best - put the little orange ball inside that basket.

"I'm not going to promise any national championships. I'm not going to say I'm going to pay my scholarship back, because I already paid part of it. But honestly, we have a remarkable group of girls here and I think we have the potential to do something special," said Willis as she closed her remarks to the crowd.

Anyways, go Sooners. Merry Christmas y'all

badger

12/31/2012, 10:24 AM

I can't believe I'm doing this mid-season. Usually the new-player intros are a preseason tradition... but HERE GOES!

Tara Dunn
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She's a sophomore on the volleyball team, but a redshirt freshman for the basketball team. I think that "OH" stands for outside hitter. Most of her stats say "kills" repeatedly. Heh. She's 6'2", and height cannot be emphasized enough in this game... or volleyball too, I guess.

Eden Williams
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She is a redshirt sophomore on the basketball team, but a junior defensive specialist for the volleyball team. I thought that meant that she would be one of the players that try to make the net taller by jumping high to block everything, but every photo I saw of her on SS.com (I admittedly looked really fast) was of her diving for bumps (bump-set-spike... I am sure there's a technical term for what she does). She's 5'3". Hooray short athletes!

One of the concerns with a move like this is that we're getting volleyball's leftovers in order to make our bench look slightly more intimidating a little bit less injured reserve. But, that doesn't seem to be the case. With Tara, she seems like a key contributor to the volleyball team (22-time starter, All-Big 12 freshman in 2011), and Eden seems more like a special situational player. So, should be interesting.

I'll review the weekend win later today, but for now, here's what Sherri had to say on Tara and Eden, who both recorded 4 minutes:

"All the way down to Eden and Tara coming in and fight for rebounds and diving for loose balls, it was awesome," Coale added. "Again, all of that is an extension of practice. Sharane played really hard. Jas [Jasmine Hartman] played hard. You can go all the way down the roster. I thought the effort was complete from top to bottom."

Extreme kudos to these two and to Coach Santiago too, who has developed OU volleyball into a postseason program since arriving. Way to support Team Sooner!

PS: In case you're wondering WTF is going on, here's what was announced Dec. 26. (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/archive/sooner_report.html)

badger

1/3/2013, 11:45 AM

I really need to do an update, don't I?

Let's skip over the final non-conference game and go straight to...

WEST VIRGINIA 68, OU 71

Oh Skeletor? Wasn't this your preseason No. 1 pick? Bwahahahahahahahahaaa! What's that Sherri?
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I think she's telling me to slow down. We're still only 8(plus two volleyballers) strong, with a bench full of injured reservists. We're only one game into the conference season, and we should be happy that it's a win, but the Big 12 is always tough and this season will be no different, conference reallignment or not.

Speaking of... a hearty HA HA to the traitors, all of whom are ranked behind OU (http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/rankings), including Colorado (20), Texas A&M (24) and Nebrasky (25). I'm sure there's a fourth traitor out there somewhere, but one place they are not is RANKED! Pbbbbbth (internet raspberry blowing)

Key stats:

Trailed at half: We were down 3 at halftime to Lady Mountie. We were down 9 at one point and didn't get our first lead until 5 minutes left in the game.

Selective shots: It is promising to see that we are not lobbing as many threes as usual, only attempting 8 (going 2 of 8)

Selective frees: If there are any WVU womens basketball fans out there, they have to be FUMING at the free throw disparity (although some likely game in the final minutes). We shot 39 (31 of 39), they shot 13 (9 of 13).

Joanna "Four Foul" McFarland: Shot 5 for 5 from the floor, 3 for 4 from free, but most importantly THIRTEEN REBOUNDS. And yes, four fouls, hehe

Sharane "Is no longer a freshman" Campbell: 17 points and 12 boards. I still don't like that the other stud freshman left, but Sharane is not having a sophomore slump (not that we can afford for her to have one).

No, the volleyball players did not play: All eight of the others did though.

Player to watch next time we play WV: Taylor Palmer scored 30, mostly off threes (8 of 12). Team depth will be an issue as well (they played 11 to our 8), but stopping Palmer will be key to beating WV next time we meet.

Sherri?

Wow, that was a fight. That was a fight for 40 minutes, and I thought it was a great show of character by our team just grinding their way back, fighting back and getting to the hump time and time again and not being unable to get over it. Finally, once we got over it, hanging onto it. I thought our execution late in the game was really, really solid. Defensively we adhered to the game a little bit better in the second half. We did a great job on the boards, getting some separation. That’s the only way you survive turning it over 21 times with only eight assists. We did what we had to do to win the game, and I’m really, really proud of this team.

And because I like the quote... Joanna?

This is my last go-round, and I am just trying to enjoy every single minute I have with my teammates and with the team I am playing with. I am trying to show that so everybody else can see we can play with a lot of joy instead of getting down on ourselves.

I love that SS.com is now putting videos of postgame on their site. You can view this game's here. (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/010213aaa.html)

Next game: 12:30 p.m. Saturday at lady whorn. No, not televised by Bevo TV fortunately, but on FSN.

Hate Texas! Wait... BEAT Texas! Hook em

PalmBeachSooner

1/3/2013, 02:09 PM

badger

1/3/2013, 02:21 PM

When I first looked at the stats and saw that WVU had 25 more FG attempts than OU I thought there must have been a mistake because we won by 3. Then I saw the disparity in FT attempts and was like WTF?

according to the chatters over at ouhoops (the active sooner basketball board, heh), there was a lot of hard hits by WVU in this game, but the big 12 refs were calling everything apparently, not just in our game, but also other big 12 games.

good! had enough of taking punches in the past from the likes of A&M and whorn and baylor, etc.

MsProudSooner

1/3/2013, 03:04 PM

WVU thought it was perfectly OK to run through and over screens. Even after they got several players in foul trouble, they continued to be extremely aggressive on defense. If it hadn't been for one player who had a career night from the 3 point line, they would have lost by 15. Bizarre game.

badger

1/4/2013, 12:43 PM

In prep for "BEAT TEXAS" Saturday, a few stories of forgotten lady whorn lore...

- I usually don't particularly like all of womens basketball national pieces, but this 2007 ESPN thing from Michelle Voepel is still memorable. (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/story?columnist=voepel_mechelle&id=2934147)

- Our pep band used to play "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" when the UT team came running out of the tunnel at Lloyd Noble. Alas, the last time I remember that little joke being employed was 2002.

- In perhaps the greatest Big 12 tournament upset-streak ever, sixth-seeded OU defeated Texas in the finale of the 2004 Big 12 tournament (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/031304aaa.html). The only time we wore the home jerseys was the first game, as we had to go through (I think) the tourney's top three seeds to get to that championship match. It was a kick arse game. It was probably Sherri's greatest victory to-date (until we beat UConn, heh) that doesn't involve the NCAA tournament.

- In typical Texas sports fashion, UT lures Duke's Gail Goestenkors away with a big stack of money. Getting more than she was bargaining for with the likes of Sherri Coale, Skeletor and the rest of the cutthroat competitive Big 12, Gail G resigns last March, (http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7710524/texas-longhorns-coach-gail-goestenkors-resigns-says-tired) citing fatigue.

- Texas is one of only three (stupid Baylor, Texas Tech) to win the national title in the Big 12 (1986, undefeated 34-0 record). However, they have been exodus'd from the first round each of the past FOUR postseasons.

Also, I'm sure that I've shared this story before, but as it gets older and because I was oblivious to it happening near me as I was watching the game instead, this should be taken as not 100 percent factual, but at the same time, definitely true:

In the early aughts, OU was playing in the Big 12 tournament, I think at KC's Municipal Auditorium. Since Texas was likely facing us in the next round (and I think they beat us, stupid whorn), former lady whorn coach Peggy Hill (Jody Conradt) brought her team in full-on burnt orange warmups to sit and watch... next to the OU band.

Why she decided to park them next to us I don't know, because this was the Big 12 womens basketball tournament. Seats were open EVERYwhere in Municipal Auditorium.

Anyways, another band member a few seats down from me was talking about something else and apparently, while talking about SOMETHING ELSE, used words that would be construed to be insulting if they were directed at any particular whorn player, which again, THEY WERE NOT.

So, Miss Attitude Whorn Player gets up out of her next-to-OU-band seat and confronts this guy:

Miss Attitude: Excuse me?
Band member: What?
Miss Attitude: Ex... CUUUUUUUSE MEEEEE?!
Band member: I didn't say anything to you.

(the best part...)
Miss Attitude: Y'ALL'S B!TCHES! I'M GONNA WIPE THE FLOOR WIT' YO SOONER SH!T!
(Peggy Hill steps in to stop the confrontation that never should have been)
Peggy Hill: For the next 15 minutes, we are going to be ALL. CLASS.

That was the end of it, they left at halftime, probably to go prep for their own game.

There is a sense of arrogance and attitude that emits from Austin, especially with all things Bevo. This story, which once again I promise is true even if details are sketchy after a decade or so away, is just another example of that.

BEAT TEXAS Hook em

tycat947

1/4/2013, 12:56 PM

Selective frees: If there are any WVU womens basketball fans out there, they have to be FUMING at the free throw disparity (although some likely game in the final minutes). We shot 39 (31 of 39), they shot 13 (9 of 13).

Player to watch next time we play WV: Taylor Palmer scored 30, mostly off threes (8 of 12). Team depth will be an issue as well (they played 11 to our 8), but stopping Palmer will be key to beating WV next time we meet.

Every one of those free throws were deserved and the officials (term used lightly!) still missed (or didn't call) a lot!

Palmer, going into the game, was a 10ppg scorer and averaged shooting about 29% on 3-point shots. She had the game of her life. She was open on a few of the 3's but well guarded on some others and still nailed them. If she continues to shoot like this we'll know she had her coming out party on Jan 2 in Norman, Oklahoma. However, I'm guessing she won't have a night like that (or many) again.

badger

1/7/2013, 11:30 AM

Welcome, football board refugees. So nice of you to join us several months into the basketball season. This is for you:
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Next year, resolve to join the rest of us in November, or at least after our first football loss. Saves you the mind-numbing experience to trying to figure out the BCS, the SEC media bias and all of the other sh!t that basketball does not make you deal with. Why?

http://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-tournament/NCAA-Bracket-Picks-2012.jpg

And now, for Saturday's game...
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Texas 70, OU 78
Don't believe that final score for one d@mn minute. Much like the Packers were all "meh" by the end of the opening playoff game, the Sooners were very "meh" by the end of this blowout. Sherri will probably make them pay for this in practice this week.

18 points: This is how much we led by at one point. We led by 5 at the half.

"Beat" the Sooners: I wonder if opposing coaches are telling their players to "beat" us, but the players that literally instead of scoreboard-wise. Once again, a scary moment with a hard foul, this time Morgan Hook's face was on the receiving end. She returned shortly after a timeout to wipe her eye.

More minutes: The ground level for minutes on our main eight continues to go up, which might have been a reflection of our big late lead. All of our main eight got at least 10 minutes each.

THREEEEEEE!: We shot 11 for 17, whereas they shot 3 for 13 from three. This reflects our improving shot selection (taking them if they're open), as well as Texas' lack of it (shoot it if you're frustrated how well OU is rebounding... BONK!)

Out-everything'd but shooting: If scoreboards kept track of things other than fouls, it would have leaned heavily in lady whorn's direction for assists (15 to 8), rebounding (48 to 25), and steals (10 to 4). Our shooting (and their poor shooting) saved our arses.

Sherri?

Obviously, I was really pleased with the way we shot the ball. We have really, really good shooters, but those numbers are pretty impressive. You enjoy it when it happens. Some nights it’s going and some nights it’s not. And tonight it was. I thought our resilience was fantastic. We just fought them off. We had early foul trouble. We fought our way through it. And we had lots of contributions from Sharane Campbell, Portia Durrett and Nicole Kornet. Their minutes were huge. Just a great team win.

Next game: 7 p.m. Wednesday at TCU. TV is FS Southwest Plus .

Boomer!

badger

1/9/2013, 09:26 PM

Yes i am watching and yes, it doesnt look good.

Will hopefully tell a heroic comeback tale afterward

tycat947

1/9/2013, 10:49 PM

Badger, waiting for that heroic comeback tale!!! Good to win on the road in Big 12 even though it wasn't secured until way late! Will take it anyway we can get it! Boomer Sooner!

Salt City Sooner

1/10/2013, 02:43 AM

McFarland was HORRIBLE tonight; she only had 2 fouls. :P Of course, that 24 points & 11 boards did help offset things a bit.....:D

Boomer.....

1/10/2013, 08:28 AM

This team has regrouped and been playing good since Hand went out and the Vandy loss. I've been pleasantly surprised.

badger

1/10/2013, 09:27 AM

Before going into yesterday's game, I just have to say this:

I AM GOING TO FIND THE BIG 12 WOMENS TOURNAMENT TV SPOT VIDEO.

And when I do, I am going to make you all watch it too.

And then you, too, will see the horror of Whitney Hand morphing into Britney Griner.

At least you won't see it every timeout and commercial break like I did last night :mad:

badger

1/10/2013, 01:42 PM

Yes i am watching and yes, it doesnt look good.

Will hopefully tell a heroic comeback tale afterward

I held out for a hero till the morning light :D

TCU 79, OU 85
After being down at the half, and being down at least half of the second half, a hero stepped forward, and the team followed. We held on when things looked hopeless, knowing that eventually TCU had to turn back into the frog instead of the princess, and miss all of these shots they were inexplicably making.

I think we have to get used to this. Every team that doesn't have anything else to fall back on, or wants to get to that next level needs a signature win. Pretty much all of the Big 12 (except Sherri of course) has written off dunking Skeletor Baylor as a loss this season. Thus, the only way you can get the attention in this sport if you aren't already good is to... beat a good team. OU, down to 8-10 active players and currently ranked Sweet No. 16 in the country, seems like an easy target.

To them, I say: "Foolish fools who foolishly dream of foolish dreams."

Hero: Joanna "Two Foul" McFarland, who scored 24 points and had 11 rebounds. She has really held this team together in Whitney's absence.

Heroic moment of LOL: After Nicole Griffin missed a rebound (like usual, sadly), Joanna snuck in and grabbed at the ball against the TCU rebounder, going to the ground as the ref blew the whistle. Grinning at the ref with two thumbs up and the ball, the ref indeed confirmed that it was jump ball. :)

Wrong stat of the box score: 2078 in attendance. NO. That thing was sooo empty that the TCU-centric broadcast on Fox Sports even showed a group of OU fans in attendance (thank you, OU fans in Fort Worth, btw. we heard you on TV many times!)

Sherri's "Bob Stoops press conference" moment in postgame (I paraphrase, but you can view the video of it on SS.com here (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/010913aaa.html), start at about 3:15)

Media dude: You play 6 players a lot of minutes and a few others, not so many... probably not what you want to do. Is that a concern?

Sherri: (shrugs) What are you gonna do? You got what you got, the situation is what it is. (rests head on one hand) These guys are 18, 19, 20 years old, I mean, come on. It's basketball, it's college basketball. (by this time Morgan and Joanna are giggling next to her at the postgame presser).

She said something at the end that I didn't catch, because SS.com cuts of the conference there. But, I imagine it was further disdain for the question :)

Here's something else Sherri said postgame:

"For anybody who thinks women’s basketball isn’t pretty, that was pretty. A lot of players hitting shots; that was really sound basketball. I was really proud of our second half effort. We were flat early on, give TCU credit they hit a bunch of shots, but I’m not sure we made them very difficult. I think our discipline to go inside late in the game was impressive. So I’m very proud.”

Next game: 7 p.m. Saturday hosting Texas Tech. TV is FS Oklahoma/FCS Pacific and radio KREF 1400 AM/KOKC 1520 AM.

BOOMER!!!!!!

PS: If you need help getting over football season, or just want a reason to like college basketball again, check out the brand new football forum-inspired "College basketball meltdowns 2013 (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?175345-College-basketball-meltdowns-2013)" thread. The focus is primarily Big 12, so if you already hate the rest of the conference, you will not hate this thread.

SicEmBaylor

1/10/2013, 06:48 PM

Your women's volleyball...err...basketball team are a feisty little bunch. How cute.

FaninAma

1/10/2013, 08:47 PM

Your women's volleyball...err...basketball team are a feisty little bunch. How cute.
Inquiring minds want to know.....will Britney play for the WNBA or NBA?

badger

1/11/2013, 09:22 AM

Your women's volleyball...err...basketball team are a feisty little bunch. How cute.

I am going to start calling you guys "Beatable Baylor," because, you know, your LOSS.

I don't give a sh!t if you all beat us by 30 a few times. You will have to likely beat us THRICE this season, and a Baylor loss to OU will mean far worse things than you guys doing what everyone expects you do against a depleted, injured Sooners roster.

In a nutshell, Baylor is setup and there is doomed, to failure. It might not be against OU, although I certainly hope it is. Beating Big 12 teams by billions of points is not going to anything except setup fans to thinking that the gravy train of wins is never going to end.

But Baylor's reign is coming to an end: In this season or the next.

Oh, and this is for you for your little insult of our awesome team:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/01/07/Sports/Images/s121357596496.jpg

SicEmBaylor

1/11/2013, 10:54 PM

I counter with this: Take notes Badger...take notes.

http://vimeo.com/51281719

badger

1/12/2013, 08:24 AM

well at least she acts like she has a sense of humor for once... even during this part:

ESPN: Look how pretty Sherri Coale looks in her stylish clothes!
Skeletor: (eyes burning in hatred) gasdlfjaksldfjlasdf
ESPN: Look how ugly Coach Hoodie is in his homeless attire!
Skeletor: Ooooo, me likey!

I'm going to call it now: A Big 12 team is going to beat you this season. I want it to be us :)

badger

1/14/2013, 10:46 AM

Aaryn Ellenberg says we are 3-0...
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-baskbl/auto_bsi_player/8470955.jpeg
However, after Saturday, we are actually now 4-0 in the Big 12!
Tech 55, OU 65
In yet another we-were-down-at-halftime-but-we-found-a-way-to-win game, the Sooners trailed 28-29 at half at home to the Lady Red... Raiders... Lady Raiders... whatever.

Credit where it is due:

Aaryn "Vegas" Ellenberg(er): Our guard is faster than your guard. She is constantly using her speed to get quick twos, or get open for threes. If she can avoid getting silly fouls after one of our many turnovers (you know, trying to get steals after turnovers), she would be perfect (I am sure OU coaches would disagree, but this is a fan perspective).

Joanna "Four Foul" McFarland: She is definitely keeping Whitney's leadership spirit alive on the court through Whitney's season-ending injury. She continues to be our leading rebounder and scores a lot too. Would be interesting to see how long she can keep a double-double streak going. Her little flaw is her foul trouble, hence her nickname here.

Morgan "Le Assist" Hook: While she doesn't throw up the "Le Tre" stats that she used to, she seems to be the one that helps keep our offense moving. An improvement to her shooting percentage away from the line (where she was perfect Saturday) will help us during our more troublesome games.

Nicole "Toothpick" Griffin: If she could only hold onto all of her tall-girl rebounds, she would be first-team all-conference. She shot 5 for 10 from the floor and added a few free throws to score in double digits, but her rebounding is lacking due to teams being able to slap the ball away from her after she gets her hands on it first.

Sharane Campbell: While her stats lacked Saturday, she has played like a veteran, not a sophomore during these harsh injury times.

Soooo... how in the hell did we get to 4-0, Sherri?

"No I'm not surprised. I love these guys. I'm proud of them, I'm happy about it, we've got a lot of room for growth, a lot of improvements to make but I just love their spirit. I love the way they fight together and their belief in one another and themselves and the way they represent our program. I couldn't be more proud of them, they are an absolute blast to coach because they are always reachable and they are always receptive and try to do whatever we ask them to do and that's fun."

Bonus Sherri presser moment:

Sherri: You're kidding me. YOU'RE KIDDING ME!
http://i46.tinypic.com/2ziajw4.png
Watch the SS.com clip starting at about 9:30 (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/011213aaa.html) to see what made Sherri say that... and this:
Sherri: Dad gummit!

Next game: 7 p.m. Tuesday at... Iowa State. TV is FS Southwest Plus/FCS Atlantic and radio is KREF 1400 AM/KOKC 1520 AM. I love our Sooners, but we may be looking at our first conference loss, unfortunately.

Boomer!

badger

1/15/2013, 08:58 PM

Down by 6 at half due to turnovers silly fouls and, most of all, bricklaying.

Cool halftime segment with team visiting maddie manningham's iowa home before the game.

Will recap tomorrow or at same point, hopefully victory, but we cant live off of second half miracles forever.

badger

1/16/2013, 10:34 AM

Well, at least we can away with this game without any injuries?
ISU 82, OU 61
The extreme lopsidity of the score was due to us trying extra-hard to make this a game late, with fouling, presses, and lobbed (and sometimes airballed) threes.

There's no postgame video online on SS.com, so straight to the stats:

Three throws: We shot 3 for 14 in the second half, 9 for 31 overall. Amesies girls, on the other hand, shot 41 percent in the second half. Hard to come back from a halftime deficit with that going on.

Free points: We were almost perfect from the line, shooting 14 of 15. Alas, so were they, going 19 of 22.

Sharane "Nickname TBD" Campbell: She had 19 points, 4 steals and 4 boards. Alas, she also fouled out.

Joanna "Five Foul" McFarland: Despite a Sherri protest over her fourth with about 18 minutes left in the game, McFarland had foul issues pretty much the entire game. Thus, Portia "The Juco transfer" Durrett logged more minutes than usual, 13.

Out-boarded, out-painted: 47 (them) to 27 (us) overall. They also could consistently hit whatever shots in the paint they wanted... not because we weren't guarding them, but because they were especially good at that and nobody came over to double-team... possibly due to three range worries.

Sherri, what say yo... WHAT THE HELL IS THIS, SS.com?!?!?!
http://i50.tinypic.com/jz9pfr.png

Gag. Well, to the Internet!

“I thought Iowa State was really ready to play and fired up and played really hard,” OU coach Sherri Coale said. “And I thought we were flat … We battled back from the early deficit, just missing shots, and then let it get away from us.”
Thanks to these guys (http://normantranscript.com/sports/x730428931/Sooner-women-fall-to-Cyclones) for the quote.

Next game: 2 p.m. Saturday hosting Texas. TV is Sooner Sports TV, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean... maybe it means "Longhorn Network?"

Boomer

PS: LHN actually does not suck for TV watching. They rebroadcast a lot of Bevo, which has been a lot of losing lately in football/basketball, so it's really not much of a service to their fans... more to the rest of the us, heh

tycat947

1/16/2013, 11:07 AM

Bad game. The key is to forget this game and move on to playing the way they were. The odds weren't good playing a good I-State team in Ames so a 20 point loss doesn't count anymore than a 1 point loss. They have to re-focus and get ready to play this weekend and not let this poor game cost us another game.

oudanny

1/17/2013, 02:29 PM

It looked a lot like the UCLA game. Getting out rebounded by 20 is not a good thing. Of course, neither is shooting under 30%. It wasn't lack of effort.

badger

1/22/2013, 01:30 PM

Beating Texas never gets old, so sing along if you know the words:
feeVFtMYWdo
Psst! The words are "I hate Texas. I hate Texas. Texas... SUCKS!"
OU 69, Texas 56
While the loss earlier in the week at Sherri's nemesis Iowa State sank our ranking down to No. 20, the Texas win was a good win. It simply amazes me how far UT athletics has sank, at least in the big three (football and both basketballs) in the past five or so years.

Don't be mistaken: We needed Texas to be mediocre in order to win, because our free throws sucked (16 of 25?!) our three pointers are meh (7 of 21) and they outrebounded us. So, we needed heroic efforts once again from...

Aaryn "Vegas" Ellenberg(er): 22 pts

Morgan "Le Assist" Hook: 9 assists and 7 rebounds

Joanna "Two Foul" McFarland: 15 pts

Postgame presser moment (not verbatim, I paraphrase):

Reporter: Are you aware that you are 5-0 on your birthday and three of those are against Texas?

Sherri: I did not know that. Thank you for that factoid.

Reporter: Would you like to schedule Texas more on future birthdays?

Sherri: No no no, do you have any idea how old I am? No more birthdays! One a year is plenty!

For the record, Sherri is 48 years young... and here's an SS.com-approved postgame quote:

"All wins are good wins. I don't think this was necessarily a pretty win by either team but I though we made plays when we needed to. The guys gutted it out. I thought our post defense was really good. We didn't shoot it real well but we didn't let it affect us the way we let it negatively affect us at Ames this week. I was really pleased by the improved commitment to the process in terms of rebounding. We really probably spent twice as much time rebounding the last two three days since Iowa Sate. We have spent twice as much time rebounding as anything else. Maybe offense suffered a little bit, maybe defense suffered a little bit, I'm not sure it really did we just didn't shoot it very well, but I thought rebounding improved. Maybe it's when you're a little bit tired and you work on block outs in practice, but we had to do something to change the tide there and I thought we did. It's too bad they ended up out-rebounding us there right at the end."

Next game: 11 a.m. Saturday at Baylor (sucks), televised by FSN. As per pre-baylor tradition, I will be posting all of Soonerpsycho's masterful anti-Baylor works from this and previous seasons beforehand once again.

Boomer!

badger

1/25/2013, 01:03 PM

A reminder that we play tomorrow at 11 a.m. Saturday. I usually remind you all of Soonerpsycho's fabulous gif work before our first Baylor win (knock knock), but RufNek has graciously already started a thread for us to hate Baylor on. (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?175668-Baylor-can-suck-it!)

Whether you feel negative or positive about this game, I highly recommend you check out vBookie (http://www.soonerfans.com/vbookie.php). I have posted an event for this and OU's other No. 1 opponent away game on Saturday.

Since pretty much everyone is writing this game off as a loss, a little bit of history via SS.com (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/012413aac.html):
• Oklahoma and Baylor are meeting for the 40th time.
• Oklahoma leads the overall series 25-15. (Oklahoma counts a disputed scheduled meeting in 1981 as a win by forfeit).
• The Sooners also hold a 9-8 series advantage in Waco, Texas.
• Baylor has won the last four meetings. The Sooners were swept 89-58 in Norman and 81-54 in Waco last year.
• Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale is 372-171 (.685) in her 17th season. She has been the Big 12 Coach of the Year four times.
• Kim Mulkey is 355-80 (.816) in her 13th year at Baylor.

We nearly beat them in 2011: I was there to witness the heartbreaking 82-81 loss at home. It was a white-out and was a very full LNC. Skeletor was stomping the sidelines most of the game and it was a gut punch to lose that close game against such a highly ranked opponent.

Baylor may like to forget, but there was a time when Sherri had Skeletor's number (before their dunking center pretty much guarantees them every game over the shorter, less athletic opponents). We won 59-54 in the Big 12 tournament and 60-62 at home (but lost by 10 at Baylor that year).

I am not sure how hardcore OU mens basketball fans feel about KU, but here's how I feel about Baylor: There is no opponent I want to beat more in the Big 12 every year. It used to be Texas, it's now Baylor. They have won two national titles, they've been to several Final Fours... but have only won the Big 12 thrice. So, we still have that on them, I guess.

Boomer Sooner :(

Soonerjeepman

1/26/2013, 02:04 PM

once the woMAN is gone, griner, they'll drop back below OU. They have a once in a lifetime player...hell St. Mary's would be #1 with her.

SicEmBaylor

1/26/2013, 05:42 PM

once the woMAN is gone, griner, they'll drop back below OU. They have a once in a lifetime player...hell St. Mary's would be #1 with her.
Drop back to what, precisely?

This is Mulkey's record at Baylor BEFORE Griner ever stepped foot on campus

2000–2001 Baylor 21–9 9–9 6th NCAA First Round
2001–2002 Baylor 27–6 12–4 2nd NCAA Second Round
2002–2003 Baylor 24–11 8–8 7th WNIT Runner-up
2003–2004 Baylor 26–9 10–6 T–4th NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2004–2005 Baylor 33–3 14–2 1st NCAA Champions
2005–2006 Baylor 26–7 12–4 2nd NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2006–2007 Baylor 26–8 11–5 3rd NCAA Second Round
2007–2008 Baylor 25–7 12–4 2nd NCAA Second Round
2008–2009 Baylor 29–6 12–4 2nd NCAA Sweet Sixteen

Her win % is .811

So, please, tell me more about how far we're going to "regress."

tycat947

1/26/2013, 11:00 PM

Here's hoping Sulkey Mulkey will leave Hypocrite U and go to WNBA so she can continue to coach Griner!!!

Chuck Bao

1/27/2013, 03:42 AM

There were 4-5 (for OU) to 1 (me for Baylor) in my mom's house today. My 10-year old nephew equivocated just enough to see if there would be any gifts/bribes possible either way. Smart kid: I think he should be a Baylor Bear.

Anyway, even I was jumping up and cheering when Joanna McFarland drained her three threes and pumped her fist up running back down the court. Jo is our favorite for spirit, for heart, for hustle. Regardless of school loyalties, ya gotta love that.

Soonerjeepman

1/28/2013, 12:37 AM

Drop back to what, precisely?

This is Mulkey's record at Baylor BEFORE Griner ever stepped foot on campus

2000–2001 Baylor 21–9 9–9 6th NCAA First Round
2001–2002 Baylor 27–6 12–4 2nd NCAA Second Round
2002–2003 Baylor 24–11 8–8 7th WNIT Runner-up
2003–2004 Baylor 26–9 10–6 T–4th NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2004–2005 Baylor 33–3 14–2 1st NCAA Champions
2005–2006 Baylor 26–7 12–4 2nd NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2006–2007 Baylor 26–8 11–5 3rd NCAA Second Round
2007–2008 Baylor 25–7 12–4 2nd NCAA Second Round
2008–2009 Baylor 29–6 12–4 2nd NCAA Sweet Sixteen

Her win % is .811

So, please, tell me more about how far we're going to "regress."

lol, prob know more about women's bball then you think, but no worries. Quit commenting on the reputation, say it on here...or to chicken #hit to do it?

regress behind OU. Check OU's stats, just as good if not better...reading comprehension?

http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/yearly-results.html

SicEmBaylor

1/28/2013, 03:57 AM

lol, prob know more about women's bball then you think, but no worries. Quit commenting on the reputation, say it on here...or to chicken #hit to do it?

regress behind OU. Check OU's stats, just as good if not better...reading comprehension?

http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/yearly-results.html

My reading comprehension is just fine -- the fact is, I didn't actually read the post of yours that I quoted above. I assumed it was identical to the post you made in the other thread; therefore, I responded likewise. I never commented on or attempted to make any sort of comparison with OU's program.

badger

1/28/2013, 10:57 AM

OU: 65 Baylor: :mad:

I don't need to say anything, since much has already been said. Here's some sh!t from SS.com:

Joanna McFarland: 12 pts, 16 rebounds and about 50 trips to the floor. I hope she's all right. What a trooper. She deserves many standing ovations on senior night.

Ellen Burger: 33 pts and single-handedly kept us in the game for most of the first half.

42.3 percent: Mostly off Ellen Burger's 6 for 11 three shooting, we almost shot 50 percent for our threes. Pretty impressive.

I'm really proud of our guys. I thought we competed and fought every step of the way and did some really, really good things, attacked them, went after them and shot pretty well from the three. We did not shoot it well from two, but there's a big reason for that and her number is 42 (Brittney Griner). Baylor is just really, really good. The difference in the game was layups. We gave them a lot of layups, and it's easy to say `don't give them layups' but it's a lot harder to do. They're fast and they're athletic. We were worrying about how to keep the ball out of Griner's hands and we forget to just guard when it comes back out to the other side, and so some things to learn from. But overall, I'm really proud of our kids and thought we fought.

Our bench and coaches and even the on-court players were smiling a lot during our 17-point loss, because they knew what they were up against, just like all of the fans. They played hard and still lost, so it's time to move on.

Next game: 7 p.m. Wednesday hosting TCU. TV is FS Southwest/FCS Central.

Boomer!

badger

1/31/2013, 02:54 PM

Starting down 11-0 at home (first four minutes), you'd think that the outcome would have been a lot more :mad: but no, this is Sooner basketball:
OU 74, TCU 54
Sherri joked that she let her assistant coach the first few minutes and then decided that it was a bad idea. Billy Tubbs lol'd in the postgame at that. :)

It is moments like that where I remember back to Bob Stoops screaming at his players in the fourth quarter "It's Utah State!" where we're all wondering why we aren't blowing out this opponent at home. But, we ended up doing that. It just took longer than expected.

Scary moment of the game: Right around the time the OU men finalized their Baylor beatdown, Aaryn "Ellen Burger" Vegas had her right ankle worked on the sideline before going back to the lockerroom for x-rays. She did not return to the game, but did return for the alma mater and she is reportedly fine.

Bench celebration: Tara Dunn sank a free throw in the final minutes and Morgan Hook ran a lap around a cheering bunch of benchers at the end of the game. She's one of our volleyball transplants.

Joanna "Two Foul" McFarland: 12 rebounds and 7 points, including 2 for 3 from three. Yes, she's a senior.

Sharane Campbell: 23 pts, including 4 for 4 from free and 5 for 8 from three. She's the one that stuck around and didn't get injured of our stellar freshmen trio last season. (Kay Kay out for season and DeShawn Harden transferred). So hooray for our super sophomore.

Freshman moment: Nicole Cornett had at least one bad three shot (I think an airball) but still ended up 3 for 5 from three in 17 minutes. LOL at her coming in for other-Nicole (Griffin) and thinking it was time to inbound. The ref pointed to the other side of the sideline. No, freshman, it's TCU's turn to have the ball now :)

Sherri?

I just continue to be proud and impressed with these ladies that are on my basketball team. They move ahead unfazed. When (Aaryn Ellenberg) goes down in the second half, they did not panic they just turned up the intensity. They paid attention to detail and had a tremendous run in the second half. I keep saying this, but, these guys are fun to coach. No matter what happens they believe that they can win games. That proved to be true tonight.

If you are just lurking here and not really a Sooner basketball fan, both teams have earned your viewership and fandom with their games last night, and everything they've done this season so far. Tune in, you (likely) won't regret it!

Next game(s): The men host KSU 5 p.m. Saturday, while the women go to Morgan(hook?)town to take on WVU noon Sunday. The men's game will be televised by ESPN2, the women's by FSN.

Boomer!

badger

2/5/2013, 05:35 PM

We lost to WVU 82-63
NEXT GAME: 7 p.m. Wednesday at Kansas State. TV is FS Southwest Plus/FCS Atlantic

BOOMER!

badger

2/10/2013, 12:29 PM

Sorry I've been slacking lately but to be fair, ****ty Uverse decided that I didn't get the OU-KSU game. :mad:

Today:
4 p.m. at Norman hosting Pokette.

TV:
FSN
COX 722 | AT&T U-Verse 1754 | DirecTV 679

FCS Central
COX 271 | AT&T U-Verse 648 | DirecTV 608/623/626

Radio:
KOKC 1520 AM in Oklahoma City

This game will likely determine which of our teams gets to stay in the top 25 and which one of us has to take a week's vacation

Boomer!

badger

2/11/2013, 12:00 PM

Our mens team has become the cool bandwagon to jump on lately, but my first Sooner basketball love at OU was, and still is today, our scrappy short-benched ladies team.
OU 80, Poke 61

Don't be fooled by the score. Pokette was leading us throughout much of the first half, and we had a thin three-pt lead at the half. This was our first Poke game of the year, which means we are still going to have to try to pull off another "830LAM" victory in Stilly. Before then, I hope a few things get cleared up:

Nicole Griffin: She had 21 points, but only 5 rebounds and 2 blocks. I feel like I'm nitpicking, but it seriously pains me to see her get out-rebounded by people my size (I'm the size of one of our replacement volleyball players. GO EDEN WILLIAMS!) and even get blocked by some of them. I know she is capable of doing better on blocks and rebounds and I hope she gets there. Still, hard to complain when you lead the team in scoring.

Sharane Campbell: She had 15 points and 12 rebounds. The pride from Sherri was very evident in the postgame presser (which you can view at SS.com here (http://www.soonersports.tv/video/play.jsp?content_id=25557695), btw). Sophomore slumps are put to shame with her accomplishments this season. Now... can she do even more? I say yes. And she will need to be one of the players who step up when another has a slump

Joanna "Three Foul" McFarland: "You know Jo's going to get 15. How awesome is that? To have a player on your team where you can go, 'I know she's going to get 15 boards.' What? I haven't felt like that since Courtney Paris was here. So that's a luxury. I'm not taking that for granted." -- Sherri Coale in postgame. As for me, I'd say that she needs to live up to that now. She needs to get the rebounds that others aren't, because that is the expectation now. Go Jo!

Ellen Burger: 17 points on 3 for 7 three shooting, 6 for 12 from the floor and 2 for 2 free throws. but five turnovers. I would challenger Aaryn to get more assists or more steals than turnovers without the silly fouls that usually come with her ball thief antics. I would also challenge her to be the one the team can rely on to hit that big moment three. She's usually good for that :)

Sherri?

"We beat a really good basketball team today and I was proud of our guys' poise. At the start of the night we didn't shoot it very well, obviously, but we didn't let it affect our energy level. We didn't let it affect our confidence. We continued to defend and rebound. This team is growing. They're still getting better; every day they're getting better. Just a huge second half, and I'm so happy for Nicole [Griffin] to have the kind of performance she had today. On this stage, it was so appropriate, and I'm happy for her. And Sharane [Campbell] getting all the rebounds that she got. Just growth across the board, growth with our team. I'm just really proud of them."

Speaking of Sherri, I understand that there was a request on Lost Ogle for a bikini photo (http://www.thelostogle.com/2013/02/08/mailbag-jim-traber-sherri-coale-and-tatros/), so let me tell you a Sherri Coale bikini story. We were in Tempe, Ariz. for the NCAAs (Satanford would once again end our season, because they're pretentious ****wads, the lot of them) and they put the cheer, band and mascot in the same luxury awesome hotel that the team is staying in. So, we don't play games everyday, so we get to hang out at the pool a lot like the team, and Sherri (this being mid-March in Arizona) was tanning by the pool... and the guys in the pep band couldn't stop staring at her. I think she gets sick of this staring so she eventually just leaves. Or she has anti-Stanford gameplan to design. I don't know, but I suspect it was all of the staring.

I can't believe I just shared a Sherri Coale bikini story with you all. Would you like to know when the next game is instead?

Next game: 7 p.m. Thursday hosting those d@mn Cyclones. You know, the ones that beat us earlier this season in Ames. Jerks. TV is FSN.

Boomer!

FaninAma

2/11/2013, 12:09 PM

I can't believe I just shared a Sherri Coale bikini story with you all. Would you like to know when the next game is instead?

Do you have pictures? The girl's are doing great and really showing some mental toughness. I think it will be a good springboard for next year.

badger

2/11/2013, 12:19 PM

Do you have pictures? The girl's are doing great and really showing some mental toughness. I think it will be a good springboard for next year.

No. And I would probably ban myself if I ever shared such photos on the Internet. I don't think anyone else was brave enough to take any (they were too busy staring).

I think that the adversity they're facing now will serve them well come NCAA and Big 12 tourney time. Some days I feel like we can beat Baylor. Other days I want to fetal position in a corner and bemoan our bad injury luck.

SicEmBaylor

2/11/2013, 12:29 PM

No. And I would probably ban myself if I ever shared such photos on the Internet. I don't think anyone else was brave enough to take any (they were too busy staring).

I think that the adversity they're facing now will serve them well come NCAA and Big 12 tourney time. Some days I feel like we can beat Baylor. Other days I want to fetal position in a corner and bemoan our bad injury luck.
Crack is a hell of a drug.

badger

2/11/2013, 12:36 PM

Crack is a hell of a drug.
Sicko, you may recall that we kept the game competitive in Waco during the first half before our shooting fell off and other factors. Don't think that we can't keep up with you if we shoot lights out, which we are capable of.

It's how our men beat your men in Waco.

badger

2/18/2013, 11:05 AM

Well, this is the type of run that you had to be a uber fan or extremely naive to think that our injured, depleted roster could avoid, especially deep in the conference season. But at least we have these pink shirts and uniforms???
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-baskbl/auto_bsi_player/8571667.jpeg
We have not lost two in a row all season until now.
72-68 and 81-71 are not our worst losses to date, but they are definitely among the most discouraging, as we played terri-bad in both games (the Iowa State loss at home on Thursday, the Kansas loss on the road Sunday). The one yesterday got so bad that I flipped to ESPN's broadcast of bowling... did you know that Jerome Bettis and Terrell Owens both own bowling teams? (http://deadspin.com/5979420/here-is-an-image-of-terrell-owens-and-jerome-bettis-bowling-together)

I hope you all have that "baby if you give it to me, I'll give it to you" song echoing in your heads now. Bowling on ESPN, people. THAT is how bad that game was, and how bad the Thursday game was!!!!

Reasons for optimism:

Fouling McFarland is still rebounding well: I do not look forward to the day when I don't have Joanna's game foul stat to kick around anymore, since it's kind of been the joke since her freshman year that she'd get in foul trouble and then get yanked. But regardless, she has been a reliable rebounder, win or lose.

Nicole Griffin is starting to not just look like a tall toothpick out there: Scoring???? Some rebounds??? Is she actually not just our tall player after all but a solid contributor? Someone give her coach a raise and give her a big hug!!!!

Ellen Burger will score: I don't care to look up whether this statement is always true or not, but in general, she is usually one of our leading scorer, if not our leading scorer and I don't think has ever fallen out of double digits any games this season.

Sherri, how frustrating is it to lose at home while wearing pink?

"We shot better from 2 than they did. We shot better from 3 than they did. We shot better from the free throw line than they did. We had more rebounds than they did. We had more assists than they did, and we lost. That doesn't happen very often."

For those of you that are worried that I'm abandoning the team in favor of our trendy men's team, please be assured that as a fan since our first Final Four appearance when we dominated the Big 12 (and tourney), had three first round draft picks and were beating our opponents by severe double digits, I am not a fairweather fan! I just fit the definition of one, heh.

Next game: Hosting KSU 7 p.m. Wednesday. TV is FS Oklahoma Plus/FCS Central, unless you are U-verse like me, in which case they will probably block the game out. ****ers.

Boom boom boomer

Soonerfan88

2/18/2013, 06:34 PM

I thought this was a better ISU postgame quote by Sherri:

"We tried to run our shooters off screen and got called for illegal screens, so that didn't work. We tried to throw it in to the post and got called for illegal post-ups, so we couldn't do that anymore. We were a little bit handcuffed in what we could do. Shots are hard to come by when you can't create them for one another."

Somehow I don't think Sherri, staff, or players suddenly forgot the rules of the game so I'm very curious why all those calls were made.

MsProudSooner

2/18/2013, 07:49 PM

I thought this was a better ISU postgame quote by Sherri:

Somehow I don't think Sherri, staff, or players suddenly forgot the rules of the game so I'm very curious why all those calls were made.

If you look at the box score, we had better stats in every single category - except free throws. Iowa State lost to WVU at home yesterday. They shot 29 free throws, making 23. WVU shot, 20, making only 10. In Norman, Iowa State was 27 of 34. We were 12 of 14. They got a better home court advantage from the officials in Norman than they did at home.

badger

2/19/2013, 10:02 AM

I thought this was a better ISU postgame quote by Sherri:

Somehow I don't think Sherri, staff, or players suddenly forgot the rules of the game so I'm very curious why all those calls were made.

My theory: We were both wearing pink and the refs were confused which team was home and thus, didn't know who should get the calls... or they were blinded by the pink.

NO MORE PINK! BAN PINK.

badger

2/21/2013, 01:43 PM

So apparently we have 700 program wins now! Sweeeet.
72-57

One of the cool features of having an increased media emphasis on Sooner sports other than football is that you're seeing more postgame and highlights on SS.com via their little Sooner TV thingie. You can check out that stuff on the game recap via SS.com here. (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/022013aaa.html)

As the refs of the mens game and the baby baj preoccupied me last night along with our crazy area weather (****ing hail! don't you DARE wake that sleeping baby!!!!) so I admit that I wasn't fully paying attention to our game last night. So, let's skip right to some key stats:

Joanna "Double Double" McFarland: All right Jo, so long as you continue to minimize your fouls (only 2) and maximize your double (11 rebounds) doubles (15 points), you get a new nickname. However, should the fouls either go up or double-doubles disappear, I'm reverting back to what I've (endearingly) called you since your froshie near-foul-out days.

Nicole "Is Taller Than Most Opponents" Griffin: She used her height to her advantage to get 14 pts. Now if only she'd use it to get a rebounding (3????) or blocking (1???) advantage.

Ellen Burger: Vegas continues to score more than everyone else (18) while getting the assists (5) over the turnovers (3). Life is good. Maybe someday, announcers will resolve to never mispronounce her name.

6 of 16, or 8 of 34: I am very pleased with this stat, because there have definitely been games when we've been the 34-three shooters instead of the 16-three shooters. If the shot isn't there, find ones that are. We did, kind of...

44.4 percent versus 52.5 percent: Which one of those is our free throw percentage and which one is our field goal percentage? Answer: It doesn't matter which one is the free throw percentage, because it should NEVER be that low!!!!! Then again, we only shot 9 total...

Sherri?

Basketball is not a very complicated game. It's a simple game, but it's hard to teach that and it's hard to learn that because so many things change so rapidly...

I just thought her delivery on this one was funny because she was surrounded by several of her players. Here's a different one...

"We were certainly better. I remember early in the second half I thought, 'Ah, I recognize you. I remember that.' We were just sharing the ball and playing with great poise and great cadence, and that is exactly what we needed to see tonight. I thought our sureness with the basketball was just critical with 14 assists and 10 turnovers. Those are great numbers. We will take those any night."

And in honor of her new nickname, Joanna:

"Tonight was fun and that's what we were trying to do. We were trying to take a deep breath and go back to having fun because that's what got us here and that's what we were really thinking about."

Next game: 2 p.m. Saturday at Poke (I will be able to dump this avatar hopefully). TV is FS Oklahoma.

Boom- shakalaka -er!

badger

2/25/2013, 09:27 AM

After watching Saturday's game (until I couldn't take it anymore), I have given up any and all optimism for Monday's home matchup with Baylor:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OByxkuQ3_K0/TBo-m25vlDI/AAAAAAAABEc/aCsJqu_7VWg/s1600/abandon+all+hope+ye+who+enter+here.gif

But, that doesn't mean I cannot try to be optimistic.

If you choose to vBet on vBookie in OU's favor and we actually pull out the upset of a lifetime, I will vPayout 500 to 1. If you are an asshat and choose the easy option, I will vPayout 1 to 500, which I think roughly translates to a 0.2 percent return.

So, badger is ready for her torture session.
FRFkCIQAjBU
And if you are too, you can find more info on SS.com here (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/022413aaa.html). Then, tune in at...

6 p.m. tonight on ESPN2
And don't get too cocky, Baylor lurkers. We totally pwn3d you in mens basketball this year and made Scott Drew hit your Waco floor:
http://i.imgflip.com/ic1e.gif

Bawwwwwwwwwww... and there's football too.

PS: I fully intend to make your fanbase pay in advance of tonight's game. To the meltdown board!!!!

MsProudSooner

2/25/2013, 10:40 AM

Considering the weather, there may not be anyone there but the announcers, the referees and the teams.

badger

2/25/2013, 11:47 AM

Considering the weather, there may not be anyone there but the announcers, the referees and the teams.
Maybe they can call it a draw if the Baylor team can't make it into town? :D:D:D:D:D:D:D

badger

2/26/2013, 11:36 AM

I bet you all wanna hear some optimism. Well, this guy said it pretty well (http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/OU/article.aspx?subjectid=92&articleid=20130226_92_B1_CUTLIN200601):

Oklahoma can beat Baylor next season. That became clear Monday night at the Lloyd Noble Center, when senior center Brittney Griner missed the last 12 minutes of the first half with two fouls and OU took advantage with a 24-16 run.

Until Griner graduates? No chance.

We lost by 22.
Don't let me be misunderstood - we wanted to beat Baylor and we didn't. But, we actually got a highlight on Sportscenter this morning (under a Britney Griner tagline but of course) and we actually p!ssed them off a bit before Griner Griner Griner Griner Griner.

More reasons for optimism:

Postgame presser reporter: You get a pretty good stretch off here...
Sherri: (singing) Hal-le-lu-jah.

We are off until Saturday when we face KU at home. This is a very winable game and hopefully, some time off will help us get another W. I'd sure hate to go on a KU men-like (tee hee) three-game losing streak.

Technically a freshman: Nicole Kornett is showing rebounding ability, grabbing 6 in 24 minutes yesterday off the bench.

Super sophomore Sharane: Also getting 6 rebounds, Sharane added 14 pts and 3 steals. Alas, five turnovers too.

Nicole "might have some rebounding in her after all" Griffin: Also amassing 6 rebounds (wtf...) with 12 pts too was stringbean toothpick 6-6 Nicole.

"Foul Foul" McFarland: She had an uncharacteristic night off from double-doubling (so bad to your old nickname, heh heh) but also added... wait for it... SIX ****ing REBOUNDS. I fully expect her to be back to double-doubling come Saturday.

Ellen Burger: Aaryn once again can be relied on to be our primary scorer, having 19 pts.

I am just going to skip past the fact that we had 19 turnovers and go straight to Sherri:

"I thought we really fought for 40 minutes. I am proud of our guys. I thought we played hard. You have got to be able to make a few more shots than that against a team like Baylor. When you can't get to the rim you have got to make some 3s. We had some good looks that we missed and we had some layups that were pretty good looks too. That is what all that speed and athleticism can do to you. I was really proud of us I thought we fought really hard and battled and did some good things."

I...I...I... we...we...we... no badger, you're not going to find any quotes that give any credit to OU or its players because I am a b!tch. I'm a big fat b!tch. I'm the biggest b!tch in the whole wide world

She's a stupid b!tch! If there ever was a b!tch she's a b!tch to all the boys and girls!

Seriously... just reading that postgame makes me imagine fingernails down a chalkboard... and she was Bieber hairing last night too so **** Baylor once again.

Next game: 7 p.m. Saturday hosting KU. TV is FS Oklahoma/FCS Pacific

Also: Kudos to Whitney Hand to being named to the...um... I'll just copy/paste: "Inaugural Allstate WBCA Division I Good Works Team, announced by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Tuesday. (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/022613aaa.html)" Because I know there's mostly football fans here, previous Good Works selections include Jacob Gutierrez (2006), Nic Harris (2007), Gerald McCoy (2008) and Quinton Carter (2010). Yay! Go us.

I searched... none from Baylor. :P

Boomer Sooner anyways... :)

badger

3/3/2013, 07:55 PM

I'll recap Saturday's game later, but I must say that this senior game was kind of bittersweet, because this whole "start a womens basketball thread so that we don't interfere with the mens team" idea started with one of our departing seniors. Which one? It's not Mrs. Landry, so I think you realize who it must be. (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?137583-Blogging-wimmens-basketball)

So, for four straight seasons on the Internet, since she didn't ever get a season-ending injury and medical redshirt unlike Whitney Hand and others, I have been Internet-taunting this poor girl, giving her nicknames like "Four Foul" or "Five Foul" or even being a borderline semi-bad fan by being less than impressed when she wasn't getting the double-doubles that she is now.

Sadly, that first blog season turned out to be our last little powerhouse run before a lot of players graduated, got injured or BaylorBaylorBaylor. But, through it all, the player formerly known as "Four Foul" has been there improving, getting more minutes, and turning into the team leader we needed this year when Whitney went down (again).

So, it was very sad to see a reminder that I won't have poor "Double-Double" to cheer on and Internet-kick around anymore. But, as our constant academic superstar, I am sure that she going on to much greater things than even Sooner basketball, which is pretty great to begin with.

Goodbye and good luck, Joanna McFarland. Please kick Baylor's arse on your way out this postseason :)

NMSooner'80

3/3/2013, 10:26 PM

http://cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/r620-57f8cc368d079d9207870f068bc99d72.jpg

I thought this was a great shot of Whitney and Landry from about 24 hours ago, on the DOK site. Hope they don't mind my borrowing it.

SicEmBaylor

3/3/2013, 11:09 PM

badger

3/4/2013, 09:16 AM

Obsession is duly noted and I'm not talking about your obsession with McFarland.

I've got a brilliant idea -- why don't one of us start a BAYLOR womens basketball thread here and we see how well that goes over. Here's a hint: Everyone will love it if I take it on and everyone will hate if you do. :P

badger

3/4/2013, 11:03 AM

I've got a brilliant idea -- why don't one of us start a BAYLOR womens basketball thread here and we see how well that goes over. Here's a hint: Everyone will love it if I take it on and everyone will hate if you do. :P

I think I actually will do that just to spite SicEm... next season. Right now, Sooners got their 20th season win and I wanna write about it:
85-77
Goodbye, seniors. Let me run down the reasons (from left to right in this photo) I will miss you after this season is over:
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-baskbl/auto_bsi_player/8632924.jpeg
Lyndsey Cloman: I'll miss the chance to brag about someone from NP's hometown (San Antonio) being the awesome player we all knew you would be had you not had so many injury issues :(

Joanna "Double Double" McFarland: I will miss having a player to nickname after each game based on the stat box. At least it was from the stat box and not the TV announcer butching your name.

Jasmine Hartman: I will miss that we didn't get to see more performances like the one she had against KU... more on that below.

Whitney Hand: There's nothing I won't miss, from Bobby Knight's gushing, to seeing her on the bench next to Sherri during her first ACL outage, to all the dorky Landry TV shots during the games, to the team-firing-up threes since her first year there.

Sadly, the only senior to not get the injury bug was Joanna, so she had to put up with my Internet **** more than the other three. I suspect that nobody on the team reads this, so I think I'm safe.

If you have five free minutes, here is the senior video via Sooner TV (http://www.soonersports.tv/video/play.jsp?content_id=25652283). It is not tear jerking, but it is still a nice tribute.

Now... there was a game...
Jaz has the game we were waiting 4-5 years for: 18 pts, 5 assists. When she came to OU with Whitney Hand five years ago, expectations were high for both. And now that we know what she's capable of, what a great way to leave LNC for the postseason (soon... I know we technically have one more reg season game).

Joanna "Double Double" McFarland: So, she had four fouls, but she also had a double-double, so I'll be nice today. 13 pts and 10 boards in 31 mins.

Ellen Burger leads scorers again: 22 pts Saturday. Not too shabby.

Take free throw lessons from the guys, please: After the guys tied an NCAA record shooting 34 of 34, the women follow up by going... 21 of 28. Gag. This game was much closer than the score implies (we had 3-itis in the final minutes to make it look more lopsided) and this is going to be key come postseason.

20 turnovers: I have pretty much ignored this stat all season because of how annoying it is, but now is as good a time to remind everyone why we will not be winning the Big 12 or going to the Final Four this season (prove me wrong!!!!!) and it is turnovers (and missed free throws).

Sherri, what did you think of Jaz's senior day performance?

"It is one of those deals where you just push and push and push and you never quit pushing because you know it's in there, you know she can do that. For her to get to experience that moment and have her coming out party tonight on senior night, I am not sure it gets any better than that.

"And you know what, this senior class deserved that. They deserved a night like this."

And the rest of senior day?

"As you can tell, these kids are so close and we really are a family. I think a lot of programs say they are a family and put it on their gym shorts and put it in their media guide and we really are. I think senior night reflects that."

Final regular season game: 7 p.m. tonite at Tech. TV is FS Oklahoma Plus.

Our first Big 12 tourney game will be either March 8 or 9. I'm not sure how the Big 12 tourney is setup with 10 as opposed to 12 teams.

Boomer!

PS: If you are begging for meltdown fun, I'll try to get to it later today. KSU/Bailure probably euthanized BF.com

NMSooner'80

3/4/2013, 11:50 AM

I've got a brilliant idea -- why don't one of us start a BAYLOR womens basketball thread here and we see how well that goes over. Here's a hint: Everyone will love it if I take it on and everyone will hate if you do. :P

Just say NO to any Baylor threads that don't have to do with OU. There are plenty of those from the Mulkey-worshippers on another alleged OU site.

badger

3/4/2013, 12:22 PM

Just say NO to any Baylor threads that don't have to do with OU. There are plenty of those from the Mulkey-worshippers on another alleged OU site.

Don't knock it till you see it... let's see how Baylor turns out this postseason before a final verdict. I really wouldn't mind making this thread a baylor-free zone in the future

SicEmBaylor

3/4/2013, 12:24 PM

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-baskbl/auto_bsi_player/8632924.jpeg
x,2,x,1

badger

3/4/2013, 03:04 PM

btw, if anyone is curious, here's the previous three blog threads:
2009-10: Blogging wimmens basketball (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?137583-Blogging-wimmens-basketball)
2010-11: Oklahoma womens basketball blog (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?146888-Oklahoma-womens-basketball-blog-2010-11)
2011-12: OU womens basketball chatter (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?161281-OU-womens-basketball-chatter)

MsProudSooner

3/4/2013, 04:16 PM

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-baskbl/auto_bsi_player/8632924.jpeg
x,2,x,1

I'm sure that x, 2, x, 1 means something to someone, but it doesn't mean anything to me.

badger

3/4/2013, 04:24 PM

hehehehe... i just realized that my blog thread last year abruptly cut off right around this time last year. tee hee, i wonder why

Hint: NP took baj to the hospital, but returned home with an extra :eek:

Salt City Sooner

3/4/2013, 05:51 PM

I think I actually will do that just to spite SicEm... next season. Right now, Sooners got their 20th season win and I wanna write about it:
85-77
Goodbye, seniors. Let me run down the reasons (from left to right in this photo) I will miss you after this season is over:
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-baskbl/auto_bsi_player/8632924.jpeg
Lyndsey Cloman: I'll miss the chance to brag about someone from NP's hometown (San Antonio) being the awesome player we all knew you would be had you not had so many injury issues :(

Joanna "Double Double" McFarland: I will miss having a player to nickname after each game based on the stat box. At least it was from the stat box and not the TV announcer butching your name.

Jasmine Hartman: I will miss that we didn't get to see more performances like the one she had against KU... more on that below.

Whitney Hand: There's nothing I won't miss, from Bobby Knight's gushing, to seeing her on the bench next to Sherri during her first ACL outage, to all the dorky Landry TV shots during the games, to the team-firing-up threes since her first year there.

Sadly, the only senior to not get the injury bug was Joanna, so she had to put up with my Internet **** more than the other three. I suspect that nobody on the team reads this, so I think I'm safe.

If you have five free minutes, here is the senior video via Sooner TV (http://www.soonersports.tv/video/play.jsp?content_id=25652283). It is not tear jerking, but it is still a nice tribute.

Now... there was a game...
Jaz has the game we were waiting 4-5 years for: 18 pts, 5 assists. When she came to OU with Whitney Hand five years ago, expectations were high for both. And now that we know what she's capable of, what a great way to leave LNC for the postseason (soon... I know we technically have one more reg season game).

Joanna "Double Double" McFarland: So, she had four fouls, but she also had a double-double, so I'll be nice today. 13 pts and 10 boards in 31 mins.

Ellen Burger leads scorers again: 22 pts Saturday. Not too shabby.

Take free throw lessons from the guys, please: After the guys tied an NCAA record shooting 34 of 34, the women follow up by going... 21 of 28. Gag. This game was much closer than the score implies (we had 3-itis in the final minutes to make it look more lopsided) and this is going to be key come postseason.

20 turnovers: I have pretty much ignored this stat all season because of how annoying it is, but now is as good a time to remind everyone why we will not be winning the Big 12 or going to the Final Four this season (prove me wrong!!!!!) and it is turnovers (and missed free throws).

Sherri, what did you think of Jaz's senior day performance?

And the rest of senior day?

Final regular season game: 7 p.m. tonite at Tech. TV is FS Oklahoma Plus.

Our first Big 12 tourney game will be either March 8 or 9. I'm not sure how the Big 12 tourney is setup with 10 as opposed to 12 teams.

Boomer!

PS: If you are begging for meltdown fun, I'll try to get to it later today. KSU/Bailure probably euthanized BF.com
I'm betting there are 3 spots on her jaw that would take major issue with that statement. ;)

SicEmBaylor

3/4/2013, 06:06 PM

I'm sure that x, 2, x, 1 means something to someone, but it doesn't mean anything to me.
This is the numerical order in which I would "do" them. The 'x' indicates that they are not in the running and that I would not hit even with a 50' pole while blindfolded and on drugs.

SoonerMarkVA

3/4/2013, 07:46 PM

That make Griner triple X?

Salt City Sooner

3/4/2013, 10:42 PM

Big win for the gals tonight: OU 77 Tech 73

MsProudSooner

3/4/2013, 11:05 PM

They end up as the 3rd seed in the Big XII Tournament. Pretty good for a team that lost 3 starters to injury before the Big XII season even started.

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/4/2013, 11:21 PM

Just say NO to any Baylor threads that don't have to do with OU. There are plenty of those from the Mulkey-worshippers on another alleged OU site.The Skeletor has a following?

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/4/2013, 11:23 PM

That make Griner triple X?Griner's voice is SCARY!

badger

3/5/2013, 09:18 AM

This is the numerical order in which I would "do" them. The 'x' indicates that they are not in the running and that I would not hit even with a 50' pole while blindfolded and on drugs.

He's doesn't want them because they've all said "no" repeatedly. He only ranked two of them because they were nicest about it instead of just laughing in his face. ****, SicEm, do you really think you have a chance here among all these Sooner fans? You'd find more allies on Obamafest.

77-73
I'm giving Tech that ugly off-gray color for their number in honor of those weird Under Armour unis they had last night. Sherri used to talk about Tech as having one of the best places to play in the Big 12. I guess their national title from 1993 gets older every year, though. Still, I couldn't help feeling sorry for the way everything seemed to go wrong for Tech ref-wise (even if the Sooners fouled enough to put Tech in bonus and double-bonus waaaaay before they were). I know it's usually loser talk to bash officiating, but seriously now, Big 12. OU does not need your help to win. You call these games even, y'hear?

We only played 7 players: I looked at the box score and I was like "really?" But then I couldn't remember seeing Portia or the volleyballers out there at all... and even though our injured reserve were in warmups, I doubt Sherri has anything crazy up her sleeve.

Ellen Burger: MY GAWD ANNOUNCERS! IT'S NOT LIKE SHE'S OUR LEADING SCORER IN HER THIRD YEAR IN THE BIG 12 OR SOMETHING! LEARN TO PRONOUNCE HER NAME! Our OU broadcast team fortunately does not make this mistake, but it seems like anytime we get the other guys (Tech had Sheryl Swoopes and some Tech dude last night), it's "Ellenburg-er." Am I missing something? Is there a famous "Ellenburger" that I haven't heard of? Anyway, I think her real nickname is "Vegas," so VEGAS got 25 pts last night.

Joanna "Almost double-double" McFarland: 9 board, but also 18 pts. I think the announcers said she's had 17 double-doubles this season. Not bad for someone who (if I recall correctly) didn't start a few games back at the beginning of the season.

FINALLY: Nicole is 6'6" and finally acted like it, getting 10 boards, 10 pts and 6 blocks. I think Tech's tallest was 6 feet. That really hurt them insider the paint. Their box score shows five guards started the game. Lol.

One game wonder?: If Jaz waited till senior night to finally do what she was capable of, and what she was reportedly showing in practice, cool. But please, let it happen again before your eligibility runs out. in 11 mins, the box score shows 1 assist, 2 turnovers and 1 steal. :(

Points off turnovers: If you are wondering why we will not win the Big 12 tourney or go to the Final Four (PROVE ME WRONG!!!!) here's another stat for you: Tech had 20 pts off of our team's 15 turnovers.

Free throws: They must have taken some shooting tips from the guys. 11 of 12, 91 percent. Phew!

Sherri?

"There were lot of heroes in the last four minutes...Tech made big plays and we had to score. And every time we had to score, we scored.

Next game: As many of you have eluded to already, we have secured the No. 3 seed in the Big 12 tourney with this regular season finale win. So, according to SS.com, the Sooners will play either Pokette or Couch Burnette in the Big 12 tourney quarterfinals at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas... 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Yes, THIS Saturday. TV is FSN reportedly allegedly probably. As soon as our opponent is finalized, I'll try to come back for a preview of sorts.

Boomer!

tycat947

3/5/2013, 12:54 PM

Joanna "Almost double-double" McFarland: 9 board, but also 18 pts. I think the announcers said she's had 17 double-doubles this season. Not bad for someone who (if I recall correctly) didn't start a few games back at the beginning of the season.

Best I can tell, almighty Griner only has 13 double doubles this year. Pretty outstanding job by Joanna!

Soonerjeepman

3/5/2013, 05:34 PM

This is the numerical order in which I would "do" them. The 'x' indicates that they are not in the running and that I would not hit even with a 50' pole while blindfolded and on drugs.

The good news is none of them would even think of "hitting" you unless it was to kick your butt..which I'm sure they all could~

have a great day...

SicEmBaylor

3/5/2013, 05:37 PM

The good news is none of them would even think of "hitting" you unless it was to kick your butt..which I'm sure they all could~

have a great day...
I'm sure they could a well. Nonetheless, the point of the exercise was not to speculate as to which, if any of them, would reciprocate.

badger

3/5/2013, 10:25 PM

I'm sure they could a well. Nonetheless, the point of the exercise was not to speculate as to which, if any of them, would reciprocate.

Before anyone gets offended, I would just like it to be known that SicEm is the only one on SF.com to have publicly outed himself as someone who finds Kim ****ing Mulkey attractive. Yes, I'm referring to Skeletor herself.

http://www.baylor.edu/content/imglib/185740.jpg

soooo... anyone have an Xs they'd like to place with this photo????

Chuck Bao

3/6/2013, 04:48 AM

Monster Zero

3/6/2013, 09:12 AM

Who knew that women college athletics had evolved into a player/coach beauty pagaent? Maybe that was Sic'em's point...or maybe not.

Anywhooo, OU plays West Virginie at 8:30pm this Saturday at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. If OU wins, they play 3:30pm Sunday.

Never been to a conference b-ball tourny before. Looking forward to being around some fans who love the sport and follow their team.

I think not. I think anytime something like that comes out of someone's keyboard it's also coming out of their heart. There's something wrong in there. Maybe it'll get better if he grows up someday.

olevetonahill

3/6/2013, 10:31 AM

I think not. I think anytime something like that comes out of someone's keyboard it's also coming out of their heart. There's something wrong in there. Maybe it'll get better if he grows up someday.

Hell I'd Hit most of em, I dont cull anymore. If they Ugly ya can turn em Face down.
Oh and I dont wanta grow up cause
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBAd0wNbs7e3GoDhmEzPQKjhRslIZJ6 XjprEIMweTMjUZ2F2Vf4g

badger

3/6/2013, 10:49 AM

Who knew that women college athletics had evolved into a player/coach beauty pagaent? Maybe that was Sic'em's point...or maybe not.

As much fun as it would be to go into how terrible of an example I'm setting for my infant daughter once again, let's call a spade a spade --- there's been a lot of sh!t talking to some SF.com that have questioned Britney Griner's femininity in the past by a certain poster. If Baylor and its fans don't like people commenting on Britney Griner's voice, appearance and everything else that isn't quite feminine, then Baylor has set themselves up for critique when the tables are turned.

So anyways, I am definitely going to make this a Baylor-free zone next year. Hell, I may even use my "moderator" status for the first time ever to enforce this policy. I am sooooo sick of ****ing Baylor and can't wait for the entire Big 12 to revenge them when their dunker's gone next season

SicEmBaylor

3/6/2013, 11:37 AM

Who knew that women college athletics had evolved into a player/coach beauty pagaent? Maybe that was Sic'em's point...or maybe not.

Anywhooo, OU plays West Virginie at 8:30pm this Saturday at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. If OU wins, they play 3:30pm Sunday.

Never been to a conference b-ball tourny before. Looking forward to being around some fans who love the sport and follow their team.

It wasn't my point at all. Do you know how many times I've read **** about what Mulkey and/or Griner look like? I just figured that if looks were what everyone was so damned caught up with then I'd just start ranking them myself. Might as well because evidently discussions about Mulkey's looks/wardrobe and Griner's looks are far more important than an actual basketball discussion.

SicEmBaylor

3/6/2013, 11:39 AM

I think not. I think anytime something like that comes out of someone's keyboard it's also coming out of their heart. There's something wrong in there. Maybe it'll get better if he grows up someday.

It's like I'm living in bizzaro world. EVERY damned time someone mentions Baylor (Badger) it comes with a plethora of comments about Mulkey and Griner's looks. EVERY. DAMNED. TIME.

I never ever criticize the looks of players until that previous post. Some of you people truly disgust me with the **** you say about Mulkey and Griner and then you turn around and 'tsk tsk' my ranking post? I'm choking on the hypocrisy.

SicEmBaylor

3/6/2013, 11:40 AM

As much fun as it would be to go into how terrible of an example I'm setting for my infant daughter once again, let's call a spade a spade --- there's been a lot of sh!t talking to some SF.com that have questioned Britney Griner's femininity in the past by a certain poster. If Baylor and its fans don't like people commenting on Britney Griner's voice, appearance and everything else that isn't quite feminine, then Baylor has set themselves up for critique when the tables are turned.

So anyways, I am definitely going to make this a Baylor-free zone next year. Hell, I may even use my "moderator" status for the first time ever to enforce this policy. I am sooooo sick of ****ing Baylor and can't wait for the entire Big 12 to revenge them when their dunker's gone next season

So, you're going to abuse your mod powers just to get your way? Sweet, thanks for the warning!

badger

3/6/2013, 11:45 AM

OK, that does it.

THIS THREAD IS NOW A BAYLOR-FREE ZONE.

Unless it directly relates to the Big 12 tournament, the Big 12's chances in the NCAA tournament, or OU playing Baylor, you are NOT allowed to discuss Baylor, its players, its fans, or its hideous new highlighter adidas mens uniforms.

VIOLATORS WILL BE SUBJECT TO PUNISHMENT.

First infraction: Warning.

Second infraction: Warning via neg spek message.

Third infraction: badger gets so fed up that she requests full mod status for the basketball board... and if approved, bad things will follow.

Fourth infraction: Eff it, I've already got carding status as a modador, might as well exercise it.

There will not be a fifth infraction.

This thread is for discussing the OU team. **** Baylor.

SicEmBaylor

3/6/2013, 11:49 AM

The Skeletor has a following?

According to CBS sports, Geno claimed Skeletor was checking out his ***. When he called her on it, he offered to check hers and she obliged.

So. It is what we think it is.

I just threw up in my mouth.

Who's that dude wearing a hot pink coat?

Kim Mulkey has no non-bizarre photos. Ever. Go ahead and google image search her. Your eyes will melt a la Indiana Jones

Too dayum Ugly to get her a man huh?
Prolly gonna hook up with that dude Whats his name Oh yea griner er some shat.

lol.

Why didnt he get on the women's usa basketball team? Cant tell me he isnt worthy.

I honestly believe Griner is a undeveloped male.

Why does Griner wear a T-shirt under the jersey? Is it to keep everyone from seeing his armpit hair?

Sorry dude. I couldn't help it.

That's just from the last couple of weeks.....

SicEmBaylor

3/6/2013, 11:49 AM

FaninAma

3/6/2013, 11:54 AM

Hey, there's a rowing regatta going on at the Oklahoma River this weekend. OU's squad looks pretty strong. Their toughest competition should be Minnesota from the Big1G. It should be entertaining and the team that shall not be named doesn't even have a rowing program. :D

MsProudSooner

3/6/2013, 11:55 AM

Oh, okay...I pointed out your hypocrisy and you're shutting things down. Color me shocked.

SicEm, this is an OU board, not a general basketball board. As an OU fan, I wouldn't expect fair administration from a Baylor Board. You shouldn't expect to be treated the same here as you would be on a Baylor Board or a general board that doesn't support a particular team.

SicEmBaylor

3/6/2013, 11:59 AM

SicEm, this is an OU board, not a general basketball board. As an OU fan, I wouldn't expect fair administration from a Baylor Board. You shouldn't expect to be treated the same here as you would be on a Baylor Board or a general board that doesn't support a particular team.
I expect to be able to defend our players and coaches when someone posts something idiotic and offensive. I'm a poster here just like everyone else. Do I expect everyone to agree with me? Certainly not, but I'll continue to defend us whenever I can.

olevetonahill

3/6/2013, 12:02 PM

Oh, okay...I pointed out your hypocrisy and you're shutting things down. Color me shocked.

Hate to say it but Im with Sic on this. Since when CANT we Jack a thread and or Talk about Ugly assed wimmens?

badger

3/6/2013, 12:02 PM

I think I've been more than fair.

The OU's team has had too good of a season to be associated with this Internet pettiness.

olevetonahill

3/6/2013, 12:03 PM

I expect to be able to defend our players and coaches when someone posts something idiotic and offensive. I'm a poster here just like everyone else. Do I expect everyone to agree with me? Certainly not, but I'll continue to defend us whenever I can.

Cant blame ya Bit bro. Hell look how much shat Lid spewed over the years and Nary a word hardly to him about it.

SicEmBaylor

3/6/2013, 12:05 PM

I think I've been more than fair.

The OU's team has had too good of a season to be associated with this Internet pettiness.
Aside from that one photo, point to me when I've ever made fun of the looks of OU players. I have not. I have not and would not. Now go back through this thread and read all the petty statements directed at us to which I was simply responding.

Tell me which side is petty and who is degrading women's basketball in this thread. What you and others don't seem to understand is that attacking the looks of our coach and players degrades the game for the Sooners as much as it degrades us.

olevetonahill

3/6/2013, 12:07 PM

Heh, I dont GAS about wimmens basketball hell Mens either , But I shore do like me an internet bitch/whine /slap fest

SicEmBaylor

3/6/2013, 12:18 PM

And let me say one last thing, for the record.

As an OU fan, I have always tried to defend OU on Baylor boards or elsewhere whether it be in football, basketball, or other.

badger

3/6/2013, 12:30 PM

OK, I gave myself a mandatory cooling off period. I don't really care to be an actual moderator of anything except vBookie, so before I go ballistic again, here are a few kindly requests:

1- This thread should primarily be about the OU womens basketball team.

2- This thread should do nothing to taint the inspiring, modestly successful season that the OU womens team has had this year.

3- Discussion of other teams, unless directly related to an OU game or the Big 12's chances in the postseason, should be kept to a minimum.

I have had these threads going for four seasons now and it pretty much started as posting nothing but Sherri Coale photos just to get more posters interested in the team. As such, there is going to be photo sharing and commenting on this thread. I can appreciate that.

However, I don't want mean spirited sh!t to plague the discussion. I will especially get p!ssy if it involves our own players. The coaches? They're well-paid and adults, so I'm sure they don't care about the Internet. Opponents? Some sh!t talk should be expected in the spirit of rivalry and competition. Too much is probably a bad reflection on the fanbase and should be avoided or dampened if it becomes too excessive.

As I was the one that started this thread, I have the right and ability to lock/close/delete the thread at anytime (remember a football forum thread entitled "delete me?") but I will only use that as a last resort

FaninAma

3/6/2013, 12:33 PM

And let me say one last thing, for the record.

As an OU fan, I have always tried to defend OU on Baylor boards or elsewhere whether it be in football, basketball, or other.

I actually agree with you. Griner is great player. The Baylor coach is a great coach. If they were at OU we would be defending them like you do. But that is the nature of competition. Your opponents are always going to find fault with those that beat them in competition and I am suprised that you are suprised by that. Just be happy with their accomplishments on the court and don't worry about what fans of other teams say.

oudanny

3/6/2013, 12:35 PM

Let it go Sic. Life's too short. You've been a good soldier.

Monster Zero

3/6/2013, 12:39 PM

IOW you can't take it yourself so you dish it out here.

I'm not sure that I'm above having a little fun at Mulkey's expense, but I'm pretty damned sure I've never posted any thing about Griner here or anywhere else. Nor to my recollection have I ever posted anything to you.

I'm sorry if you're pissed off about some of the stuff directed at them around here that's probably unfair, 'specially in Griner's case. (Mulkey's a big girl, she knows that some unfair bs comes with the job.) Problem is, if it ain't right for us around here, it ain't right for you neither.

A decent person wouldn't be taking that kind of stuff out on four young ladies, no matter where they go to school. It ain't funny, no matter which one of those young ladies' mom or dad you might be seeing it here. And it don't have any more class or decency here than the hsit you complain about that's directed at Griner. (Mulkey can take up for herself for all I care.)

Now I know you're gonna have something else to say to me so I'll let you have the last (predictably rude, classless, profane) word with me.

StoopTroup

3/10/2013, 08:51 PM

It seems to me that Vet and SicEm could take whatever they feel is right or wrong on this board and take it over to Vet's Board and discuss anything they want, however they want and be as rude or nasty about it is they want and nobody's feelings will be hurt over it.

Hell....it's a free Country.

SicEm could even open up a Skeletor Board with a V-Bulltin Site.

Funny thing is that Lid is gone. I'm not sure why you would bring him into this? Heck even most Non-Sooner Posters don't last long here. SicEm has lasted quite a while but I don't think he knows his place when it comes to OU vs Baylor.

C&CDean

3/12/2013, 09:21 PM

badger

3/19/2013, 09:40 AM

Sicem,

In the kindest sense, eat dog****. Griners dick is bigger than mine, mulkey is a skank ho, and Baylor will always be just Baylor. No offense to chuck who loves the lady bears + 1 penis having freak.

Yes, blame only me for disparaging remarks about griner. Leave everyone else alone. I think they draw blood from her to make that super T testosterone **** you need to be taking.

I love Dean. He's the law here, in case you haven't heard. I'm just a little imposter modador.

The Big 12 has 7 teams in the NCAA womens tournament.

This is especially awesome since I think we have just one ranked team in the top 25... not that the top 25 matters, actually yes, it does in the womens game, where upsets are few and far between in these brackets. More on that later if I can survive the end of this season.

As per tradition when I am not hospitalized in March, I will now give a rundown of my fearless predictions on how each Big 12 team does. The predictions have been fairly accurate in the past, everything from OU's Final Four runs to Texas being repeatedly ousted in the first rounds, even when they played at home (yes, as funny then as it sounds today). But really, I'd rather be wrong and OU win it all, just once.

View the entire 64-team bracket (remember, this is WOMENS) here. (http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/tournament/bracket)

THAT TEAM (1-seed, OKC region)
In accordance with my own request to not mention THAT TEAM by name the rest of this thread, I will from this day forward be referring to them as THAT TEAM in this thread. They are not infallible and in fact have already lost this year. That is why despite having arguably the best player in the history of the college womens game, she will end her career with only one national title. Well, that's one more than we have.

Prediction: Final Four loss to Satanford

ISU (5-seed, Spokane region)
Iowa State got the unlucky draw of being in the same side of the bracket as 1-seed Satanford, but fortunately, they will not meet them until the Sweet 16 (assuming no slipup before then on that d@mn tree's part). Iowa State is a solid program and a longtime nemesis of Sherri Coale's, much like Satanford. But, there's one nemesis that is clearly more talented.

Prediction: Sweet 16 (loss to Satanford)

OU (6-seed, OKC region)
Don't get too excited -- the NCAA has typically given OU the best draw that it can only to have OU make badger cry. I am having flashbacks to our talented little scrappers of 2004, who if they won their first two games, would be playing for the Final Four in the next two rounds AT HOME. Not just Oklahoma City, AT HOME. So, what do we do? Lose to Satanford in the second round. Gaaaah. There are too many similarities to that year to ignore. It's going to sadly happen again and I really want to be wrong, even if our reward is having to face THAT TEAM yet again in the Sweet 16.

Prediction: Second round (loss to UCLA, who we previously lost to by 6 in Norman back in November)

Texas Tech (7-seed in Spokane region)
They get to have the first two games at home. But, remembering how few turned out when we visited town during the closing game of the regular season (which determined who got the higher Big 12 tourney seed right behind THAT TEAM), will that even matter? No. Sorry, Tech.

Prediction: Second round loss to Cal

OSU (7-seed in Norfolk region)
Congrats to the 2012 WNIT champions! Your reward? A second-round exit against Duke! Wait, that's too predictable. I'm going to go out on a limb and say...

Prediction: First round exit against DePaul

West Virginia (11-seed in Bridgeport region)
Poor WVU. They join the Big 12 and we embarrass them in football. Then we embarrass them in their beloved mens basketball. Now they have to open the tournament against Elena Delle Donne of Delaware. Yes, that player they talked non-stop about last year. You know how this one ends...

Prediction: First round exit against Elena Delle Donne/Delaware

Kansas (12-seed in Norfolk region)
Oh boy, an ex-Big 12 matchup against Colorado! Sure, let's shout "eff the traitors" just out of tradition.

Prediction: Upset of 5-seed Colorado in first round. Did I mention that game is in Boulder?

My predictions are fearless. I'll preview the OU game later this week maybe.

SicEmBaylor

3/19/2013, 11:07 PM

I predict the good guys, BAYLOR!!!, will win their third national championship title.

I think OU, also the good guys just slightly less so, makes it at least to the second round.

Chuck Bao

3/20/2013, 01:32 AM

Planning on driving up to OKC because at least one of the Big XII schools and quite possibly both make it that far. If OU does, my family has pre-ordered the tix.

badger

3/22/2013, 03:47 PM

We play 11:10 a.m. Saturday

There's not really much I can say about Central Michigan since I know very little about them. They are the Chippewas are went part of that infamous trifecta of "directional michigan" that was weekly lampooned by ESPN's Bottom 10 football poll a few years ago.

The winner of this game likely earns the right to lose to UCLA, the team we lost to at home back before Whitney Hand got retired via injury. :(

So, here's Coach Coale:

Our team understands if we don’t show up and present the best version of ourselves, we are in trouble
no matter who we face. Central Michigan can score. They are a tough matchup for us. They’re big on the
perimeter and there are mismatches all over the place. There is nobody who is looking beyond Saturday
morning at 11 a.m.”

So, let's just pretend they're any opponent in the Big 12 not named THAT TEAM. Here's how we win against 8 out of the 9 other teams in the Big 12:

Hit lots of threes: We are capable of this, meaning we are capable of beating practically everybody out there. If this isn't working, we are going to need to go with set shots inside the arch, dribble driving to get to the free throw line and solid defense on the other end (usually involves taking charges and stealing the ball... both done by Ellen Burger first and foremost).

Make our damn free throws: Isn't this usually a mens basketball problem, not womens? Seriously, let's be stereotypical and make our free throws as well, if not better than our Sooner men. PLEASE!!!!! If we don't, we are going to have to make up the difference on defense by not giving the other team foul shots. That way, the foul line points will be equal-ish.

Minimize turnovers, but keep a faster tempo: We are going to lose the turnover battle. We are going to. We just need to realize that going in. But, that doesn't mean we are going to lose, because we won many games this season while still committing turnovers into the teens and 20s (don't think we hit the 30s, but could be mistaken). If we become too turnover happy, we just have to slow the game down to stop the bleeding.

Fast break points: Ellen Burger (it's a better nickname than Vegas! IT IS! Don't tell me it isn't! ELLEN BURGER! HA!) is best at this, especially after one of her ball thief acts. We have some other speedy players in there, but even the slower ones can help by passing the ball down court fast (NOT by heaving the ball over our players' heads, please).

How we lose:

Well, let's just look at other other Sherri Coale exoduses...

2011: Second round, St. John's: We shot well, 48% percent, but we had foul troubles (especially Morgan Hook) and missed some key shots down the stretch to lose by 4.

2010: **** Notre Dame.

2009: **** Stanford.

2008: **** Louisville.

You know, this was a bad idea to look back at those disappointing season ends because now I have a sad video of sad Whitney Hand sobbing after the St. John loss. Thanks a lot, video autoplay on NewsOK.com :mad:

So, let me just summarize what are tourney experience will be this postseason:

WE WILL WIN OR LOSE BASED ON HOW WELL AARYN "VEGAS" ELLEN BURGER PLAYS.

Sherri, do you agree?

“I’ve reminded her repeatedly that the line between good and great is the way you impact the people
around you. You’re not great unless you make the other four people on the floor with you better players
too. Sometimes it’s not always giving them the ball where they need it to score, but it’s also emotionally
lifting them to the best version of themselves.”

The game is televised by ESPN2.

Boomer!

Salt City Sooner

3/22/2013, 09:32 PM

FWIW, that's 11:10 Eastern.

hawaii 5-0

3/22/2013, 11:08 PM

Zero dark thirty in Hawaii.

5-0

texaspokieokie

3/23/2013, 10:57 AM

it's whup around.

pphilfran

3/23/2013, 11:11 AM

IF you have Dirctv it is on 731

C&CDean

3/23/2013, 12:55 PM

Girls won first game. Yay.

badger

3/24/2013, 10:40 AM

OU 78, Chippewomen 73

I hope tourney wins never get old, even if we're consensus No. 1 going up against consensus No. 64. Central Michigan brought a nice-sized fan contingent (they were apparently very close to home at tOSU) but we just wouldn't stop making shots. So, it's onto a rematch with UCLA. Oh boy...

Key statz:
"Double Double" has a Double Double: Hooray for Joanna earning her (probably) more desired nickname (than "Four/Five Foul McFarland"). She had 18 pts and 17 rebounds. Stat line says she had only one block, but I swear she had more. She was everywhere out there yesterday.

Ellen Burger leads scoring: 22 pts, 7 rebounds. Can we negotiate a few more years of eligibility for our awesome junior pretty please, NCAA?

Nicole, oh dear: My patience or her eligibility. Which will run out first? The junior tall girl played 30 minutes, but only recorded 6 pts, 3 rebounds and a block. NP commented that being tall doesn't make you good at basketball. I snapped back that she'd probably be worse if she was short like me. Alas, she is running out of time to become the player we all hoped she'd be when we signed her 6'6" self outta Milwaukee. :(

24 turnovers: Can we go for 30 against UCLA? Seriously, I've given up on this stat. It's a miracle if we keep it under 20 on any given game against any form of respectable opponent (sorry Sherri, your alma mater doesn't count).

They had a girl on Central Michigan with 36 pts: Well, at least we kept the other Chippewomen under 12 each?

I'm gonna end it here because baby baj really wants to play with the computer.

NEXT GAME: 6:15 p.m. Monday vs UCLA on ESPN2.

badger

3/25/2013, 10:31 AM

UCLA preview:
Being with some OU sport support group like band (and likely cheer, Ruf/Neks, Soonermen and the others) means you have stories on a lot of teams out there. Such is the case with UCLA...

The year was 2005. We were in the middle of the Rhett Bomar/Paul Thompson reloaded-not-rebuilding travesty that failed. We had already been upset at home by TCU, we barely beat Tulsa and now we were going to lose at UCLA in the Rose Bowl. Well, at least they flew us pep banders out there (about 100 of us) and promised us steak on the flight back.

Pregame: Our bus driver was blaring her horn at a bunch of slutty bleach blond haired UCLA girls who are trying to land trophy husbands with MRS degrees or something... even though our bus is clearly trying to pass through this road, they are constantly crossing in front of us, with no signs of anyone stopping to let us through. Finally a police officer takes mercy on us after about 5 minutes of no movement. We proceed to take a wrong turn and get stuck surrounded by pedestrians. Gah.

Halftime: Oh god, they have an Aggie yell leader (Guy: "Who does America want us to be?" Crowd: "THE BRUINS!" No joke that's verbatim). And since their school is not yet in session, their halftime performance is not a marching band... it's a frisbee-catching dog.

Postgame: The trashiest of the trash fans remind us that we lost all the way to our bus. Our band director, who had been for years coaching us on dealing with this trash, finally got to put his instruction into practice:

Bruin fan: **** the Sooners! **** the Sooners!

The director attempts to shake his hand and congratulate him on his team's win. He had previously coached us into believing that this will stop trash in its tracks, because it's hard to continue mocking a classy fan.

Bruin fan: (even louder) **** OU! **** THE SOONERS!

Epilogue: They lied. We didn't get steak on the postgame flight.

So, it pains me to know that we are going to lose to this big collective of Pac 12 trash know to its equally trashy Cali rivals as "OOO-CLAH" or something. They have one of the most talented female players to come out of the Tulsa area (Alyssia Brewer) who originally was at Tennessee before transfer. She is likely going to be the one to beat us.

But really, much like it was single trashy fans that I remember, I don't write it off as "every fanbsae has trash, I'm sure that they're good as a whole," because that's not the truth. THIS ENTIRE UCLA COLLECTIVELY IS TRASH.

Proof from this weekend! (http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9094379/ucla-bruins-fire-coach-ben-howland-10-seasons)

And I want to beat them.

If you want a real preview, check SS.com here. (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/032413aab.html) Otherwise, just know that the tipoff is 6:15 p.m. tonight on ESPN2.

Boomer!

soonercastor

3/25/2013, 07:39 PM

She's making 3s rain!

Ruf/Nek7

3/25/2013, 08:20 PM

And yet again, Sherri Coale's team is over-achieving in the tourney. This is seriously the only OU sports team that does more than what is expected in the post season. (Excluding gymnastics)

Blue

3/25/2013, 08:22 PM

And yet again, Sherri Coale's team is over-achieving in the tourney. This is seriously the only OU sports team that does more than what is expected in the post season. (Excluding gymnastics)

Amen to that. Great shooting performance. for a bunch of girls...;)

badger

3/25/2013, 08:30 PM

She's making 3s rain!

I love being wrong :D more fun to recap tomorrow...

tycat947

3/25/2013, 08:57 PM

I love being wrong :D more fun to recap tomorrow...

MEEEEEEEEEEEEE TOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

:congratulatory:

OU68

3/25/2013, 09:05 PM

What's the deal with the Swine B**ch UCLA cheerleader announcing OUr game????

Bourbon St Sooner

3/26/2013, 07:38 AM

So can we overachieve again and beat skeletor so I have a reason to go to the Final 4 down here?

badger

3/26/2013, 10:17 AM

SF.com womens thread flashback: Do you remember the last time Sherri's Sooners made the Sweet 16?
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Danielle Robinson pictured here crushing the hopes and dreams of every Cane.
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Badger used to play with Microsoft Paint more in this thread.
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We ended up losing to ND in the Sweet 16, but at least we took down one football foe.
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Our last run also spawned this photo of the Sweet 16 sendoff, who from that day forward, became badger's personal hero.
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Joanna McFarland was just a sophomore, but she still willed her team to win come tourney time.
And now, a sweeter 16 than ever before...

85-72

There was so much to love about this game. Our bench was fired up the entire time, singing along to school songs during timeouts, Ellen Burger just couldn't miss from three when Lady Broohaha left her open, Joanna McFarland had yet another senior moment game, and then postgame, the entire team celebrated with every Sooner in attendance, from the cheerleaders to the mascot. I just couldn't believe how well things turned out.

fLrpBLDWyCI

Oklahoma played the better game tonight. We did pressure them and try to force them into out‐ofrhythm‐
shots. We had some mistakes defensively, but they spread us out a lot. They made plays

There was one moment where UCLA was the better team, and it was the closing minutes when they were pressuring and trapping (cue "It's a trap!" clip in keeping with the Star Wars references) to the point that Sherri had to blow our last several timeouts to keep from turning it over. speaking of...

Key statz:
7 turnovers: No typo, no joke, we had a total of seven. And here I thought UCLA was supposed to be one of the more academically challenging schools on the West Coast. I guess their tough admissions standards don't apply to athletes, heh, because there is NO reason why Ooo-clah shouldn't have been forcing us to the turn the ball over (as they attempted to late in the game) throughout the entire game. Not trying to insult UCLA (yes i am) but there is no excuse for this obvious scouting oversight.

Foul trouble: We had 6 Sooners with at least 2 fouls at the beginning of the second half. In keeping with the "what are you thinking UCLA" theme, there is no reason for them not to try to capitalize on this. But, to our benefit and their discredit, they did not. Even when Sharane Campbell came in with foul fouls, they were not trying to force to pick up her fifth, or at least try to play tough against her when they knew she couldn't play hard defense without fouling out. Seriously, where is your brain UCLA (heading home since we ousted you from the tourney, tee hee).

Joanna McFarland is unquestioned queen and supreme ruler of the court. All your rebounds and points are belong to us: 20 points and 16 rebounds. On at least one occasion I saw her pull a CP3 (where you miss your own shot so you can up your rebounding stats) and pull a CP3 mini double-double (grab two misses for 2 rebounds, then sink your own shot for 2 points on a single possession). She was the Bruin's bane last night, sneaking in for rebounds off our missed free throws when they lazily forgot to box out, drawing blocking fouls on dribble drives, even getting a few blocks. They are going to have nightmare flashbacks whenever they see someone with red hair for the rest of their lives thanks to last night.

Ellen Burger put defensive schemes to shame: Let's trap Morgan Hook since she's the Sooner point guard... oh crap they just passed to Aaryn who just sank a three. Well, let's triple team whoever has the ball... dammit, just left Aaryn open for another three. OK! This time we're just going to guard Aaryn and make sure she doesn't hit a three DAMMIT SOMEONE ELSE SANK A SHOT WHAT THE HELL ARE ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO?!

Sherri?

“I don’t know in my entire year of coaching if I have ever been more proud of what they’ve done. Their
belief, their resilience and their perseverance all came to a head tonight. They were in sync with one
another, determined and absolutely refused to lose that game.”

“Tonight was so fitting because the way they are with one another off the floor was the way they played
on the floor. They want to be together and want to spend time together. We began yesterday by talking
about having one more week together – we didn’t talk about winning the game or going to the Sweet 16
– and you could see it bubbling within them that they were going to make that happen.”

And so, not for the first time, Sherri will be facing Tennessee in OKC.

Whitney Hand Whitney Hand Whitney Hand Whitney Hand

Maybe they can get him to come back now that Whitney's a senior (she was a freshman that game) and he can fall in love with Aaryn or Joanna instead. Seriously, I'd love it if ESPN would do it, because no matter how much the other ESPN guys tried to talk about the celebrities in the crowd (such as Courtney's and Ashley's dad), Bobby Knight would have none of it and direct attention back to the game... especially Whitney Hand.

Next game: Sunday, tip TBA, television TBA.

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Beat the rush: Jump on the fan bandwagon now :)

NMSooner'80

3/26/2013, 01:03 PM

badger

3/26/2013, 02:15 PM

Two added reasons why I enjoyed this win all the more:

1. I hate everything SoCal, especially in LA (that also comes from going to grade school up the coast in the Bay Area for 4 1/2 years).
2. A girl who rejected OU (Brewer) got to be on the wrong end of a score against us. By the way, what is up with those Sapulpa girls? Did Sherri look at one of them wrong when she was still at Norman High?

I haven't had the displeasure of meeting the Cal-Berkeleys yet, but I have experienced the other Pac 12 Cali schools and they have never exactly been classy or friendly, with one exception: The Stanford band would send freshmen members over to us with nachos from the concession stand. However, due to Stanford's what-you-would-say reputation, especially with their "marching" band, most of us were not brave enough to touch the nachos, let alone eat them.

As for why an Oklahoma high school star would choose Tennessee, it's the same gripe that our hardcore football fans have had in the past, where we've lost players like Robert Meacham to Rocky Top. Some kids just want to get outta state. It usually works in our favor though, as we've had tons of imports from the state of Texas Hook em

NMSooner'80

3/26/2013, 05:43 PM

That reminds me: Cal-Berkeley was an awful place to be on the losing end of a football game in 1997. I still hate them because of how they acted as we were leaving on foot for the city bus back to our hotel.

Sapulpa has also sent girls to Texas, Colorado and K-State in the recent past. That's why I wondered if their coach hated Sherri or something. There was scuttlebutt that some in-state prep coaches were holding grudges over beatings they got from NHS when Sherri was there. It also happens out here in New Mexico more than you'd think - some "legend in their own mind" coach got bent out of shape because an ENMU-level recruit didn't get a UNM offer in football or hoops. So they resort to back-stabbing and general sabotage.

SicEmBaylor

3/26/2013, 05:51 PM

Aggie lost. This pleases me.

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/26/2013, 06:02 PM

Seeing Griner expose her REAL genitalia in public would also be a pleasing act.

SicEmBaylor

3/26/2013, 09:08 PM

George and Laura Bush are at the game tonight watching us roll FSU.

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kevpks

3/26/2013, 09:38 PM

I've got nothing against the Bears but it sure would be nice to see someone give them a game.

birddog

3/27/2013, 11:17 AM

Forget coaching skills for one minute. Suzy merchant or Sherri coale?

tycat947

3/27/2013, 01:05 PM

Forget coaching skills for one minute. Suzy merchant or Sherri coale?

You mean Cheryl Hines???

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L9vrnT7AX1k/Tqj12nQAyUI/AAAAAAAASxY/Bd1uE_iOP6Y/s1600/Cheryl_Hines_005.jpg

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birddog

3/27/2013, 09:23 PM

Certainly worth tossin in the mix. Couple er 3 bball beauties

Chuck Bao

3/28/2013, 08:22 PM

Heard today that the OU ticket office is warning of very long queues at will call before the OU-Tennessee game at Chesapeake Energy Arena this Sunday. They've opened up will call at the ticket office on campus this afternoon and all day tomorrow.

badger

3/29/2013, 08:30 AM

Oh man here's hoping that the Sooner show up Sunday so that they can also show up Tuesday :)

badger

3/29/2013, 01:57 PM

Previewing Rocky Top:

At 3:35 p.m. Sunday in Oklahoma City, we will once again try to defy Einstein's theory of bracketility and prove that seedings mean nothing if you don't water them properly. We will try to show that intangibles like home field advantage, playing for our injured and uninjured seniors and proving doubters wrong, are incapable of being perceived by the senses, incapable of being realized or defined, incorporeal.

Yes, I stole that from the dictionary, but we have our backs against a wall here against a shade of orange that is NOT America's brightest. What the hell are we going to do.

What the hell we are going to do:

- Let Vegas score lots. Cute feature in today's paper here. (http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/OU/article.aspx?subjectid=92&articleid=20130329_92_B1_ULNSUj285928) We need to let her make as many threes, fast break shots and free throws that she wants. We need her to score in the 20s if not the 30s. And, we also need to hope that she doesn't get too many silly fouls by ambitiously trying to steal the ball back.

- Joanna needs to double the double-double. 10 and 10 is no longer an option, we will need closer to a 20/20 from Joanna McFarland. Any assists, blocks and steals she can throw in would also be much appreciated.

- Nicole needs to step up majorly. Please, Nicole, pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease step up majorly. Double figures in anything except for turnovers is all I'm asking. Rebounds? Fine. Points? Sure. Blocks? Now THAT would major kick arse.

- Sharane needs to be Aaryn-in-training. She has about one season after this of job shadowing and then it's all on Sharane to be the Vegas sequel. I really, really believe that she is capable, so by no means am I heaping UCLA men's basketball-sized expectations on her (Three Final Fours in a row?! FIRED!!!!). Thus, she is our safety net should Aaryn not score 30, but rather, "only" 20 or so.

- Morgon Hook: Just... don't give me any reason to scream at my TV in a profanity-laced way. It's gonna be Easter after all.

While I set the vBetting line at 10.5 in Rocky's favor, looking at their inconsistent performances this season, this team can be beatable if you catch them on the right night (kind of like we did with UCLA tee hee). I am not sure how else you explain a team beating Mizzou by 45, then losing to them by 17. This type of inconsistency is very promising. It tells me that they don't have depth. It tells me that there is a chance in hell.

Alas, their record also shows me that they lost to Satanford by a mere 13, and THAT TEAM by only 23. Our luck is likely about to run out.

But, on the oft chance that it doesn't, Oklahoma's (via OKC) economy is going to get a hearty boost on Sunday and Tuesday. Sherri, what say you?

“They’ve been really good. Even when they’ve not been good, they’ve been good together,” Coale said. “There’s an energy that’s circulating among them … That synergy that we saw in the UCLA game, I have seen on a constant basis since we’ve gotten home.”

So, as Oral Roberts would suggest, "expect a miracle!"

Boomer!

badger

4/1/2013, 10:33 AM

In 2002, as our pep bands preparred for possibly the most memorable pep band ever (they sent us down San Antonio's Riverwalk in a boat toward fans waiting on the other end), the Final Four bands mixed and mingled... well, three of us did (the uppity Dukies stuck to themselves, followed by us Sooners sticking it to them in the Final Four game, tee hee).

Tennessee was among the others (UConn of course beat us in the title game). Both Tenn and UConn were really nice, we exchanged email addresses, talked about how awesome our teams and our seasons were, then they sent us out in separate boats.

So, it was quite touching to see the Tennessee and OU teams 11 years later mixing at center court for a postgame prayer and I wish them nothing but the best, especially in their next game against the trashiness (more on that later)

Recapping the Sweet 16 loss:
Sadly, this game kind of exposed how much we rely on Aaryn Ellenberg's shootingness, so when she went 1 for 10 from 3, 5 for 21 from the floor overall, we were kind of screwed. When Morgan Hook went down in the first half with concussion-like symptoms, we were furtherly doomed, even if Jaz did well in her 36 minutes of her final senior year game. Sad that the season's over, but there are many reasons to be optimistic about next year:

1: Kay Kay Williams and Maddie Manningham return: There's two (potential, but likely) starters that we missed this year. Maddie started for us for a game right before her season-ending injury, and Kaylon was a starter for us late last season.

2: Nicole Griffin is tall: Jokes aside, she showed yesterday that she could contribute in ways other than being tall, diving for balls about to go out of bounds, bailing out trapped players, etc. Since it will be her senior year, her breakout year will be next year or never!

3: Aaryn has to endure an entire offseason of remembering a terrible shooting day: And she doesn't seem like the kind of player to let it bother her in a bad way, but rather a good way. Beware, opposing teams. Beware.

4: Sharane Campbell skipped having a sophomore slump: And will become a junior, which by definition, can't be a slumpy season, right?

5: Sherri Coale will still be our head coach: Thank goodness she declined the UCLA men's basketball job and will be returning to coach the Sooners next year. I would have hated for her to get fired for only taking UCLA to the Sweet 16 or some sh!t like that.

Sherri?

First of all, I just want to congratulate a very, very good Tennessee team. I thought they played extraordinarily well today.

First half they really made a bunch of baskets early, kind of punched us right at the beginning.
But I am incredibly proud of our basketball team. Thought the final five minutes of the game they just fought with a passion and spirit that defines our program.

Even though we didn't win the game, the season is over, I could not be more proud of a group of kids.

These guys have done amazing things this season against really unbelievable odds. To lose Mo in the first nine minutes of the game, a kid that plays 40 minutes for us, to survive, hang around, keep fighting, just depicts the character of this
team.

I have loved coaching them and I am so
sad that I don't get to coach them tomorrow.

Here is the postgame presser video if you want to be sad. (http://www.soonersports.tv/video/play.jsp?content_id=25928063)

In conclusion: Go Tennessee. Yes, they just beat us and ended our season, but there's no reason to hate them. Louisville and Baylor both were playing dirty, their coaches were absolute BRATS and both teams had players that received a technical for absolutely uncontrolled and embarrassing moment. I challenge anyone to find a time when a Sherri Coale player got a technical at OU. It just doesn't happen here, and it shouldn't happen elsewhere.

I'll be back later with final season grades.

Boomer!