Sooner womens basketball thread 2014-15 [Archive]

badger

10/13/2014, 03:49 PM

It's almost that time of year.
http://image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com/pics33/400/CG/CGSXWNSHUSYBIIF.20141001213721.jpg
In about three weeks, the OU womens basketball team will embark on a quest to prove they are the best in the Big 12 once again, or at least try to prove they're not the fifth-best (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=750397&SPID=127261&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209703715).

For the past six or so seasons now, I've tried to recap games, share photos and links and all of the above about my own favorite Sooners team. Last year was probably the most difficult one, but hey, nowhere to go but up.

We have five count em FIVE freshmen on our roster this year, not to mention our Big 12 preseason newcomer of the year (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=750397&SPID=127261&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209690087) Texas A&M transfer Peyton Little, not to mention we may actually get to finally see Maddie Manning for her first entire season for once. Please stay healthy, Manning (says NFL fantasy football owners nationwide).

If this devolves into a cesspool of baj depression again, I also intend to do a mens basketball meltdown thread (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?175345-College-basketball-meltdowns-2013). ;)

Boomer!

Boomer.....

10/13/2014, 03:56 PM

Sherri Coale makes too much money!!!

badger

10/13/2014, 04:39 PM

Sherri Coale makes too much money!!!

But she only makes $100,000 a year, according to SoonerSports.com (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=208398481)

:P

tycat947

10/13/2014, 05:04 PM

Thanks Baj! I'm ready! Time to kick some Hypocrite U a$$!!!

badger

10/14/2014, 09:14 AM

Thanks Baj! I'm ready! Time to kick some Hypocrite U a$$!!!

Maybe in football. Probably in men's basketball. Much like last year, I'd say our season's success depends on if Maddie is as good as billed a few years ago when she was our top recruit and if she can stay healthy.

Collier11

10/14/2014, 08:47 PM

Ill keep track of the team during the year, but nothing really pre the season starting. Are we supposed to be pretty good this year?

badger

10/15/2014, 08:58 AM

Ill keep track of the team during the year, but nothing really pre the season starting. Are we supposed to be pretty good this year?

While the Big 12 is usually a fairly strong conference, even without those worthless Tigers, Huskers, Beefaloos or Aggs, we are picked fifth (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=750397&SPID=127261&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209703715), which should be good enough for a first round NCAA exit again if it holds up :mad:

But don't take my word for it... let me prep for the season by quoting Sherri over and over!

“Our league is full of great teams and great coaches, and we are young and a bit of a mystery to everyone I am sure...We have to replace a tremendous point guard, a 6-6 shot blocker and the most prolific 3-point shooter in our program’s history and we have to earn our way. I can’t tell you how excited I am about shepherding this group through that process.”

She's in her 19th OU season now. It's been that long. And yet, her hair's still as blonde as ever:
http://image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com/pics33/640/SQ/SQUJCIDECAVQLFA.20140908223415.jpg

You know who really stink stank skunks at Big 12 basketball? Texas Tech. I know they have Tubby on the men's side now and shouldn't be as sheeeeeety as they were under their previous two buffoons, but Tech is the new Baylor. Crappity crap crap. Football, basketball, you name it, about the only thing they add to the conference these days in proving that there's a western half to Texas and it's not all I-35.

SicEmBaylor

10/15/2014, 01:54 PM

I'll say this, by and large, the OU players are consistently better looking than ours.

badger

10/15/2014, 02:21 PM

I'll say this, by and large, the OU players are consistently better looking than ours.

The coaches too. Check out the sexy strength and condition of strength and conditioning coach Jozsef Szendrei:
http://mork.bb1.hu/Scopes/bb12014/var//improxy/RangadoWXGAPicture/33042_szendrei_jozsef.jpg

See, this thread writes itself. Rant a bit about baylor sucking, quote sherri and post hot pics of basketball players/coaches :D

SicEmBaylor

10/15/2014, 04:31 PM

The coaches too. Check out the sexy strength and condition of strength and conditioning coach Jozsef Szendrei:
http://mork.bb1.hu/Scopes/bb12014/var//improxy/RangadoWXGAPicture/33042_szendrei_jozsef.jpg

See, this thread writes itself. Rant a bit about baylor sucking, quote sherri and post hot pics of basketball players/coaches :D

That's one ugly chick.

badger

10/16/2014, 10:02 AM

That's one ugly chick.

Baylor fans are experts on ugly chicks. :D

Soonerjeepman

10/16/2014, 11:09 PM

i'll with sic, we do have some hawt bball girls and the coach is pretty nice as well.

At least no top ranked expectations....

*was ANYONE really surprise when good ol BG popped the big question to her fellow wnba star? ugh~

badger

10/17/2014, 12:12 PM

*was ANYONE really surprise when good ol BG popped the big question to her fellow wnba star? ugh~

I was because I thought she had dated a Baylor student for a long time and lo and behold, she was engaged to a Tulsa Shock player. See, I follow womens basketball waaaay too much if I knew stupid personal stuff like that

SicEmBaylor

10/17/2014, 02:51 PM

I was because I thought she had dated a Baylor student for a long time and lo and behold, she was engaged to a Tulsa Shock player. See, I follow womens basketball waaaay too much if I knew stupid personal stuff like that

Well, sometimes you have to upgrade when you make it big. Just ask Carrie Underwood.

Collier11

10/17/2014, 07:30 PM

the guy coach standing next to Sherri in the coaches pic has that look on his face "ya, I check out all the girls in their undies"

badger

10/21/2014, 03:34 PM

All right hotshots. I debated going through the grieving process by trolling opposing message boards for meltdown material, but then I decided it would be better to do my first pre-pre-preseason pre-preview here instead... and dag nabbit, if you tear your third knee's ACL, you are NOT getting another preview next year!

I am of course, referring to Jason White... no I'm not...

Maddie Manning, sans two ACLs:
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Maddie Manning was our stellar touted recruit of two season ago, who was projected to start on what would have most assuredly been another Final Four Baylor-killer squad... until an ACL tear in an October intrasquad scrimmage.

And then, in what surely will be a moody, mystic "What if I told you" 30 for 30 soundbyte someday, Maddie had to go and tear her other knee's ACL last year.

So, while listed as a reshirt sophomore this year, I am NOT going to count last year's 6 piddly squat scrimmage-equivalent non-conference games as a season.

She is a 6'2" guard from a vastly overrated cornfield in the middle of a Iowa's greatest metroplex, Ankeny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankeny,_Iowa).

She started three games last season (which I remind you, NCAA clearance waiver deciding committee, do NOT count toward her four years of eligibility) showing promise in the ball thievery, elderly assistance and scoring categories. And, because she's a Sherri Coale Sooner through and through, her turnovers outnumbered two of those categories. Boomer freakin' Sooner baby. Check out her SS.com profile here (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=208409487).

badger seasonal projection: Surefire starter. Who the hell needs ACLs when all you have to do is stand still to shoot 3s

There's a lot of n00bs to make it through on this team so I'll try to do another tomorrow.

badger

10/22/2014, 12:01 PM

We have a ton of n00bs to get to... continuing on...

Vionise Pierre-Louis is 6'4"
http://image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com/pics33/1024/FD/FDQFQOZRJNYMCUZ.20140715195008.jpg
With a name as cool as that, it almost seems unfortunate that she's probably going to become "VPL" very quickly to TV announcers that don't dare try to pronounce her name correctly (her parents are native Haitians).

SS.com did a profile on Vionise here. (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209602095) She is from Boca Raton, just like Howard Schnellenger's FAU. FAU offered her a scholarship after she was born. The infant future-star baby-giggled in the coach's faces. FAU sucks.

She is the latest addition to the Sooner torn ACL club, but fortunately, will be medically cleared to rejoin basketball fun in October... hey, that's this month!

In high school, she averages 22.1 points and 13.2 rebounds. Coincidentally enough, those are also the total points and rebounds averaged in all of her high school games. I guess that's a benefit to being 6'4" (full disclosure: only 5'2" and therefore glare at everyone not cursed with shortness by default).

HS highlight reel here:
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baj's seasonal projection: Assuming that ACL troubles are behind her, I see a lot of one-handed ball handling en route to a lot of off-the-glass easy closeup shots. Seriously, that youtube video makes her look a lot like a budding CP3 (sans the misses to up the rebound stats, heh). Can we please put a moratorium on ACL tears?

tycat947

10/22/2014, 02:05 PM

badger

10/24/2014, 01:06 PM

Let me introduce you to every male SF.com's future girlfriend that you will be begging me to post more pics of all season...

Peyton Little
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/c6/8d/c68da9945d6729464394a3e9c2f13950.JPG?itok=xbymQFNW
As you can see, Peyton was very depressed and sad to be dressed in :rcmad: Texas A&M Aggie grab. The collie worshiping, hospital orderly cheer boys, the fake army vs the old army and the new army and endless ball squeezing... it was too much. So now, Peyton is a Sooner:
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000742050580/85436d87de02e57aea3652239469d684_400x400.jpeg
And doesn't she look happy to be in Norman instead of Aggieland!

The 5'11" guard from Abeline, Texas played sparingly for the stupid aggies last year, averaging 15 minutes, 4.5 points and 1.2 rebounds. Her 25 of 98 3-point shooting is a very un-Sooner .255, but since OU players shoot 3s, expect those numbers to climb immediately upon setting foot on campus.

Her uncle is former Sooners hoopster David Little. Read his (OSU buzzer beater!) story here. (http://newsok.com/where-are-they-now-david-littlebrjumper-at-buzzer-beat-osu-in-83/article/2884507) Her father went to Tech and her other uncle went to Baylor... and look! Everyone's glaring now that I mentioned those two abysmal programs, so moving on!

baj's seasonal projection: She sat out last season, as per NCAA transfer rules. I have high hopes, as she was a highly touted recruit out of high school and just seemed to run into rotten aggie luck in College Station. I really suspect that Gioya Carter and Nicole Kornet will start at guard based on previous play, BUT... who knows what she looks like in practice?

And now... Peyton Little takes the ice bucket challenge with Sherri Coale and Kornet (with ice bucket dumping cameos by Trevor and the football team):
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badger

10/27/2014, 01:10 PM

Moving right along... the latest edition of Sherri's other-OU-sports-pipeline to basketball...
Whitney "Tennis Player" Ritchie
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/w-tennis/auto_action/5762751.jpeg?1334940173
Or, as her Taylor Swift-filled twitter account (https://twitter.com/whittyrenee) says: "OU tennis player trying to keep up on the basketball court || live so they'll clap"

Was jersey #40 taken? Or 30? Or 15? It would have been wonderful to say Love-something all season, but alas, not meant to be. I know nothing else about tennis so if you do here's her SS.com bio. (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=750396&SPID=127261&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209609348&Q_SEASON=2014)

She's a 5'8" guard from Bishop McGuinness in OKC that has played four years of OU tennis. She qualifies for one more year of another sport under NCAA rules and she chose basketball. Cool.

baj's seasonal projection: We'll probably see her in the non-conference early stuff in the closing minutes a la those volleyball players on loan a few seasons ago. I have nothing really clever to add to this, because tennis player turned basketball player kind of speaks for itself. I'd really love it if there's some trick shot thing she could work up with Fraschilla involving a tennis racket for youtube???
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First game countdown is on: Nov. 5!

badger

10/28/2014, 12:09 PM

While the first exhibition game is Nov. 5, there will be free public scrimmage on Thursday. Details here at SS.com. (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209736612) Perhaps you'll be able to pick our your favorite new player in-game as opposed to in the photos/videos I'm posting here :D

Onto another n00b Sooner...
Gileysa Penzo
http://image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com/pics33/0/YO/YOUBQHAXJLFVRXA.20131112170812.jpg
The jersey-pull makes her look like another 7-foot center, but actually Gileysa (please don't ask me to pronounce it please please please) is a 5'9" guard from Puerto Rico, but played most recently in some Florida academy named Montverde... as I read that I get a strange Italian accent going in my head.

I think initially looking at her stats on SS.com's profile (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=750396&SPID=127261&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209451869&Q_SEASON=2014) you might wonder wtf is going on... shooting guard? Really? But, as ouhoops.com thread points out (http://ouhoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29431) (along with the correct pronunciation) she was on the FIBA team, so she must be awesome.

Plus, that 7.6 ppg stat was from 2011 FIBA, not against HS buffoons like me :P

Check this video at about 35 second mark... a missed three she runs in and gets an easy two. Definitely reminds me of stuff our recent guards have done like D-Rob and Vegas-burger:
MyKzbVFGUes

baj's seasonal projection: I have no idea if Peyton will be our starter at this position or if she's gotten beat out by this hotshot freshmen, but either way, I have reason to have hope that this year will be better than the last. Please please please

tycat947

10/28/2014, 02:08 PM

Badg, not sure if you're aware, but Gileysa blew out her knee a few weeks ago and will be a sideline warrior this year. Guess we gotta have someone!!!

badger

10/28/2014, 02:15 PM

Badg, not sure if you're aware, but Gileysa blew out her knee a few weeks ago and will be a sideline warrior this year. Guess we gotta have someone!!!

badger before reading that:
http://hootingyard.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/baby-badger.jpg
badger after reading that:
http://static.planetminecraft.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1209/fuuuu-rage-guy1_1596246.jpg

dammitdammitdammitdammitdammitdammitdammit did any of those actually make it by the word filter?

badger

10/30/2014, 02:20 PM

After being virtually embarrassed with not knowing team injury news, I have consulted the real Sooner basketball experts at ouhoops on any other team injury issues. Shaya has a screw in her toe and will be out about 3 weeks, but Vivi appears to be the only other injury bug at this point.

BUT, just to be safe, let's skip the usual n00b profile today (it's scrimmage Thursday after all) and jump right to this shocking, earth shattering news:

Geno's girls are No. 1 again. (http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/rankings)

For Valentine's Day, I should ask NP if I can go to the Feb. 21 UConn @ Tulsa game so I can mercilessly heckle them. Four years in basketball band means I have tons of practice. Alas, I will not have basketball band protection against heckling (it's not as acceptable for non-student grown ups, especially women) so I would probably get kicked out after a few mins. Joke's on them... if mommy gets kicked out nothing holding her daughter back from running onto the court. Bawwww, your entire starting lineup just tripped over a toddler and is now out for the season with torn ACLs.

As Stoops would say, UConn's schedule is filled up with "a bunch of toughies" with the AAC conference now omitting the Catholic 7, namely Domer, and having an eternity ban on meeting Tennessee in the regular season again. Sure, they're still meeting Notre Dame, but they're not meeting them home-and-home and again in the conference tourney.

Oh, and since I should probably at least give a glancing mention of OUr own team... we are unranked and I cannot remember the last time we started a season unranked. Pre-Stacey Dales probably.

Here's the other noteables:
8 Baylor
9 Texas
17 West Virginia
21 Oklahoma St

This season suddenly feels longer. Boomer?

badger

10/31/2014, 09:43 AM

Scrimmage recap on SS.com! (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209741590)

Seriously, go ahead and try to decipher the "box scores" from the two intervals... or give up and just check out the baseball team's Halloween costume photo gallery. (http://www.soonersports.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?PALBID=1257762&DB_OEM_ID=31000)

badger

11/10/2014, 02:54 PM

I've had womens basketball threads derailed by post-postgame loss depression, pregnancy and more, but have yet to stop threads due to football mourning even before the season started... and don't intend to start now.

Thursday exhibition: OU 106; SE Okla 56
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Perhaps we just left our should-be starters in longer, or perhaps we just have really good depth at shooting, but I recall days during the heyday of Sherri Final Four/top ten in polls teams (early aughts) where scoring 100 was not a given, even against exhibition opponents or some team they imported from Sweeden. As such, do not take the "106" number lightly --- the century mark is difficult even if you're playing against the lowliest of competition and after Saturday's Owen Field debacle... GIMME SCORING SOONERS GIMME THREE BAJILLION SCORES MORE

Sooner statz:

Other Nicole is now only Nicole: After at least one season nyucking it up that there was Tall Nicole and Other Nicole, Kornet is now the team's leading scorer after one (exhibition, yes) game, with 18 points. 7 for 12 from the field; 4 of 8 from three. All in just 17 minutes.

Fill my eyes with double figures: Peyton Little (12 points); Kaylon Williams (15 points); Sharane Campbell-Olds (12 points); Gioya Carter (12); and LaNesia Williams (11 points).

Gabbi for the rebound: Led all Sooners with 10. The game's box score sucks so I really have no idea how each player's rebounds breakdown on offense and defense, so I'm basing this fun on the SS.com recap (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPID=127261&DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209751603).

Sherri, what say you?

Well, first I just want to express appreciation for Southeastern for coming up and for the way they competed. They gave us a lot of problems with their dribble attack off ensively. We had a hard time staying in front of them and we did a poor job of rotating and recovering. They played really hard and competed.

We needed to be put in that situation. It was a little bit abnormal and something we don’t see in practice. I appreciate them and their eff ort and I am really proud of our guys’ effort. I thought everybody who played competed and played really hard. They did some really good things. There is plenty to work on but we did some really good things so I am pleased.

Next game: 7 p.m. Friday vs Washington. TV is Sooner Sports TV so they might actually show it on Fox Sports Oklahoma/Southwest/Insert Regional Channel Here. Seriously, I've seen OU womens games on all regional channels before, even those east/great lakes areas. Tee hee.

Boomer...

PS: Yes, Sharane Campbell now is married to her longtime boyfriend Terance Olds. I know nothing about the guy, but with them the best.

hawaii 5-0

11/16/2014, 02:17 PM

Nice opening win vs. Washington. Great team effort. A deep team this year and no 'superstar' attitudes. Actually there never were on Sherri's teams.

5-0

badger

11/17/2014, 03:08 PM

Sherri 400; OU-Wash 90-80
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I really have nothing bad to say about the Washington (Lady?) Huskies. When OU traveled up there for football a few years ago and bent Jake Locker's head around like a Pez dispenser (or an action figure, it was 180 degrees in some photos (http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/2008/09/13/2008178217.jpg)) those poor Husky fans were en route to an 0-12 season, but for some reason still showed up en masse and waved their hats for kickoffs and pretended like they were the team that could have been the 2000 National Champions*

*Trophy not included; you lost to Oregon, nyah nyah.

While not as big-time as Pokette's next foe (at #11 UNC on Tuesday, OUCH) the (Lady?) Huskies are legit Pac 12 competition and it's a good way to start the season. We're not ranked yet (No. 26 in AP poll released today (http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/osusportsextra/osu-women-no-ou-th-in-ap-basketball-poll/article_9e702074-d1ef-5a34-b151-5845fb40175c.html)) but we keep racking up wins they won't be able to ignore us forever.

Sooner statz:

Doubling up for double doubles: Sharane-Campbell-Olds-Is-Awesome and Kaylon "Kay Kay" Williams both got double double with 26 and and 23 and 10 respectively.

Assist to turnover plague: We spread it to UW! While we had an abysmal 15 to 17 assist-turnover ratio, UW had an utterly atrocious 10 to 20! Haha, it's contagious!

F***ing free throws: Maybe if I start cursing about it our curse will end on this? 19 for 37, compared to UW's 17 of 20. To quote Cartman, "**** ****ity **** **** ****."

1 for 10: That was our three-point shooting during the second half. It's a good thing U-Verse decided I wasn't subscribed to this channel, or things would have been thrown in my living room.

Sherri?

I have a fabulous team. I love who they are and tonight I really loved how they played. You can tell they love each other, they have a ball, they told me I had to keep this on [400 crown], so I am going to look ridiculous but I am going to keep on it because they said I had to. They did what I said during the game so I’m going to do what they say now. I appreciate the recognition for the 400th win but I haven’t made a basket or gotten a rebound in 19 years. It’s the players doing it. I have a phenomenal staff. Jan Ross has been by my side for 19 years, for every single one of them. Lots of great coaches, lots of great players do that. I told our team in the locker room, the exclamation mark for me tonight is that we played the way I believe the game is supposed to be played. We played it with full out effort, we played it together, we helped each other, we shared the ball, we moved around as one, our behavior was championship in every way, shape, and form and that’s the most rewarding part of this to me. That’s the exclamation point of the night, the way we performed.

Why yes, it WAS Sherri's 400th win! Would you like to see everything SS.com did for Sherri? Here you go. (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209769294)

Next game: Lamar at home, 7 p.m. Tuesday. TV is once again FCSC so I don't get it, but check here to see if you do. (http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209226355)

Booommmerrrrrr...

hawaii 5-0

11/18/2014, 02:49 PM

I'll be watchin' it.

5-0

badger

11/19/2014, 12:27 PM

OU 100, Lamar 73
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/640/BV/BVRONHNKOCOOYIG.20141119032511.jpg
During one of Billy Tubb's billy-on-commentary moments, he mentioned that when he coached Lamar that students would chant "we want tacos" as the team approached 100 points... it was a promotion or something. That was a few seasons ago, back when I could watch every game on Cox cable. NP switched us to U-Verse, so I didn't get to watch us beat Lamar, but w00t for us winning.

LaNesia Williams last off the bench: But first in team rebounding with 8. Also added 13 points, because when OU scored 100 everyone has to log a lot of points.

**** you, badger: After complaining last game about everything from assists/turnovers, threes and frees, OU responds with 35 percent (11 of 31) three shooting; 70 percent free throws (7 of 10) and an 28-to-15 assist to turnover ratio.

Sharane-Hyphenated-Name-Cuz-She's-Married-Now: Seems to have separated herself as the bona fide team leader this year only a few games in, yes. 16 points and 6 rebounds in 26 minutes.

Sherri?

“I was really pleased with the way we shared the ball. Twenty-eight assists is a number that I love. I was really not pleased with how many times they drove right past us to the rim. We didn’t do a great job containing the dribble at all. Our help in recovery was not as good as it was in the opening game. I think we lost our focus a bit. You have to give Lamar credit. They hit some tough shots and they played in a sort of atypical way. Our big was having to run around the perimeter and chase somebody and that extends the length of that help a little bit. They hit those early threes and we were little gun shy. Nobody wanted to leave and get into help. All of those at the end of the day are just excuses and we have to get better at that.”

Next game: 7 p.m. Friday hosting Bradley. TV is... FCSC. :mad::mad::mad:

Boooommmerrrrrrr

PS: Yes, I'm gonna fire up the basketball meltdown thread soon, just not sure when. Surely UConn women cried after Stanford beat them. I should know, they've beaten us way too many times over the years :mad:

badger

11/21/2014, 01:53 PM

Y'know what I like about this part of the basketball season? This is the part where reality doesn't need to *quite* set in yet and the sky is the limit for your world beating team that is scoring 100+ and making all foes look inferior... and Baylor looks quite inferior right now from their basement view of the conference:
http://i57.tinypic.com/3090l05.png

I do not believe that the 7 p.m. tonight game against Bradley televised by some channel I don't get on U-verse will cause reality to sink in... but for the time being, there are four Big 12 teams with a loss already and OU is not one of them.

Booooommmeerrrrr...

badger

11/24/2014, 11:33 AM

OU 104, Bradley 55
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/640/CG/CGKCXZYCMBQFHNU.20141122042820.jpg
Well girls, I'm glad you got to watch the game at least. FCSC issues notwithstanding, we upped our 100-point game streak to two and beat some team that I think made the men's tournament at some point or some other random claim to fame. Make your own silly jokes, but our women are headed to the Virgin Islands next for a tournament where some tougher competition is expected.

Sooner statz:

Stacey Dales: She nearly helped us dethrone almighty UConn and I was happy to witness such a feat as a freshman in college. Even though she's had her issues with ESPN and hyphenated names since those glory days, it's good to see OU honoring her for her OU accomplishments. I think she also had a 4.0 GPA. Go Stacey!

F***ing free throws: 9 of 16 is nothing to brag about unless it's your three pointers made/attempted. Maybe we should start jump shooting them like that Wisconsin guy did last season?

Threethreethree3333treetrestrees: We improved our three from first to second half, about 36 percent up to 45 percent, making 9 of 22 overall.

Sharing the minutes: Only two players logged 20+ minutes and the most got 12+. Only exception was Whitney Ritchie with 6.

Sherri?

It’s a historic day for our program and for women’s athletics at the University of Oklahoma. It was just a tremendous ceremony tonight. I want to publicly thank Charlie Taylor and the marketing staff for everything they did to put together a first class ceremony and President [David] Boren and Joe Castiglione for being here to help recognize Stacey [Dales]. I thought that Stacey was the consummate point guard at the podium deflecting the praise and honor to her teammates, the administration and to me and anybody and everybody except herself. That’s what point guards do; they defer and set everybody else up. Even in the honor, she was what she was for four great years here. It was a big night. There was a lot of emotion. I’m really proud of our team because they reflected a great deal of maturity tonight by being able to focus on what they needed to do in the midst of all of the hoopla. I thought they played in such a way that every alumnus who has been through here can be proud. There was great joy on the court, great intensity, great passion and great unity. All of those things trademark our program and make us special so I couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome and everything that happened.

Next game: 7:15 p.m. Thursday Paradise Jam Tournament vs South Florida, with games vs Kentucky and Illinois on Friday and Saturday. No TV or radio mentioned so I promise to limit FCSC griping for at least a week.

Booomerrrrr...

badger

12/1/2014, 12:49 PM

Nevermind.
http://www.isciencemag.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/badger-found-4.jpg
Anyone thinking that one down season would be all OU needed to return to Final Four and Big 12 championship talk might as well listen to Mack Brown's whorncrap after the 5-7 season.

“There were some drastic changes that were made,” Brown said. “Those measures have improved a lot of areas going forward.”

“Our fans know we’ll be back. When? I don’t know. I’m planning on it being next year. If it’s not, I’m not going to panic because I understand we took a dip.”

Well, at least there's overtime...

Thursday: OU 68, South Florida 83
Friday: OU 88, Kentucky 90 (OT)
Saturday: OU 78, Illinois 76 (OT)

OU will be playing Sundays only the next few weeks, so please don't confuse me with a fairweather badger if I'm not giving updates ;)

Boomer Sooner anyways!

badger

12/8/2014, 02:25 PM

OU 68, pUNT 39
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I really have no idea which Sooner team will show up game to game, but perhaps the bigger question is which opponent are we facing and in this case, on Sunday, we traveled just south of our border to our perennial non-conference football cupcake. As the Nice (not Mean) Green are now 0-6, it appears we have found ourselves a womens basketball cupcake as well.

Sooner statz:
40-16: That was the halftime score, so it could have been worse but it appeared that we tapped the brakes... or this...

31 turnovers: ****ity **** **** ****!!!!!! But the usual cause for cursing...

13 of 18: For free throws. That's not terrible, but not great I guess... not as bad as...

2 of 10: Second-half three point shooting. Haha, I bet it was painful to watch. 3 of 13 in first half. Uggggh.

There are no postgame quotes on SS.com so I'll just google for a Sherri Coale quote...

"I think that Baylor is clearly and you guys gave me all kinds of grief for saying this during Big 12 play but clearly they are the second-best team in the league. They finished in second place and they separated themselves, is my point, from the guys that where behind them."

HAHA! And quite timely! Texas is now ranked ahead of Baylor in this week's AP poll, where OU got a measly 3 votes (http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/osusportsextra/osu-women-no-in-basketball-poll-ou-receiving-votes/article_4a2dcff0-9927-5286-9854-48d3105de2f8.html). That's what we get for losing twice in the Virgin Islands tournament. Ah well.

Next game: 4 p.m. Sunday at Arky Little Rock. I don't think anyone's bothering to televise this.

Boomerrrrrrrrr

Soonerjeepman

12/8/2014, 08:37 PM

caught the last 10 minutes maybe, yes...Sherri expressions told it all...lol. It's good to frustrated with a 30 point lead.

Now, ku might be for real......haven't really looked but they just knocked off #10.

badger

12/9/2014, 09:41 AM

Now, ku might be for real......haven't really looked but they just knocked off #10.

KU has seemed to make a passable effort in recent years to try to make their womens bball team less mediocre, but not so much that they're willing to go out and hire a big name highly paid coach like UT tried a few years ago :P

KU is another reminder what happens to your college program if adidas gets ahold of your uniforms. Ugly womens basketball uniforms!

tycat947

12/9/2014, 11:16 AM

KU has seemed to make a passable effort in recent years to try to make their womens bball team less mediocre, but not so much that they're willing to go out and hire a big name highly paid coach like UT tried a few years ago :P

KU is another reminder what happens to your college program if adidas gets ahold of your uniforms. Ugly womens basketball uniforms!

Bonnie was pretty highly paid when KU brought her in and took her a long while to produce any results, which seem to be sporadic. She's been there 10 years and any where else would probably have been fired for the high salary and low results. She might make it now though.

Soonerjeepman

12/9/2014, 12:20 PM

Bonnie was pretty highly paid when KU brought her in and took her a long while to produce any results, which seem to be sporadic. She's been there 10 years and any where else would probably have been fired for the high salary and low results. She might make it now though.

the ONLY think ku cares about is men's bball...the rest can go in the toilet for all they care...or so it seems.
Although their baseball field is pretty nice.

badger

12/9/2014, 01:26 PM

the ONLY think ku cares about is men's bball...the rest can go in the toilet for all they care...or so it seems.
Although their baseball field is pretty nice.

They've been dumping a lot of money in football failures lately. That to me suggests that they want better non-MBB sports, they just don't know how to get there.

As tycat mentioned, they did about the same thing for WBB, but weren't as mediocre as football in that regard, so no firing after 2 seasons a la Charlie Weis/Turner Gill.

tycat947

12/9/2014, 06:13 PM

They've been dumping a lot of money in football failures lately. That to me suggests that they want better non-MBB sports, they just don't know how to get there.

As tycat mentioned, they did about the same thing for WBB, but weren't as mediocre as football in that regard, so no firing after 2 seasons a la Charlie Weis/Turner Gill.

The AD's at KU should be fired for hiring Weis/Gill! I can't think of any two worse coaches!

badger

12/10/2014, 01:45 PM

The one (that was just as fat as Weis) that fired Mangino and hired Gill was gone before Weis. I am fairly certain that the AD responsible for both Bill Self and Mark Mangino hires is long gone. I am also fairly certain that fatso that fired Mangino was not the one that hired Self/Mangino, but did provide both contract extensions... I think

badger

12/15/2014, 10:32 AM

Little Rock: 66, OU: 62
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Comeback? Oh no no no, the word we are looking for is "setback," because at 5-3, we really didn't need to drop this road game to UALR. When you're down 14 points at halftime, there is no coming back, even against what should be considered a lesser opponent, but at the place our program is now, we are not too good for UALR. We are not too good for South Florida or Kentucky or anyone else that doesn't have the success our coach has had since being hired that we will end up also losing to this year.

Sadly. This year is going to downhill fast. At least Oklahoma might get some snow and we could sled down the hill instead of fall. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee

Sooner statz:

Nicole has 20 points: Hooray Nicole Kornet. Shooting 4 for 7 for three will get you more points faster.

23 turnovers: Compared with 13 assists. I'm gonna be sick...

No postgame quotes at SS.com, so I'm going to be a jerk and google search an old Sherri quote again :P

"I think that the best teams don't always just have the best players, but the players who play the best together."

Next game: 5:30 p.m. Weds at Duke. God help us they're da debil!

Boomerrrrrrrrrrr...

hawaii 5-0

12/15/2014, 02:47 PM

23 turnovers can kill any team's win chances.

I hope Sherri goes back to some team fundamentals.

5-0

badger

12/15/2014, 05:04 PM

Hawaii's logic is as sound as aloha means hello and goodbye, but longtime OU WBB fans may note that turnovers is a staple of Sherri teams.

What usually saves us from derpy derp fundamental issues is the fact that we can score all of our problems away. Missed free throws? Hit a few more threes. Turnovers galore? Hit a few more threes. Turnovers and missed free throws? Good thing you have four players in double digits and two scoring 20+ (mostly from threes, yes) to cover for that.

Alas, we just didn't hit enough shots last night... and our shooting percentage didn't suck, so I guess this means we just didn't take enough shots... probably because we weren't holding onto the ball long enough :(

badger

1/5/2015, 12:33 PM

We're now on the other side of things... and it's the winning side so I guess I'll take it.

OU 71, #21 West Virginia 60
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/400/JK/JKPETPYBKUUQOBN.20150104223328.jpg

Yes, the Sooners were the unranked underdogs and we beat the ranked team. Rather than continue to pout (it's been weeks since I've posted on this thread and yes, I've been pouting) over another down year of my beloved Sooners WBB team... let us rejoice for what it is: A win we stole from a better team off stellar performances in front of a more loyal home crowd than we probably deserve (thank you, by the way).

Sooner statz:

Halftime lead: 34-32 but I'll take it. Much easier than coming out from a big halftime hole. We shot 5 of 13 (38 percent) from three during the first half, which probably helped a lot!

Gioya Carter: The woman of the hour (actually, 40 minutes) had a career high 24 points in 35 minutes, adding 8 rebounds and 3 assists as well.

11 of 20 or 13 of 20: While not the margin of victory nor defeat, that's what WVU and OU shot for free throws yesterday. WVU has the suckier stat. Haha Neers.

6 of 17 or 6 of 13: Once again, not a great stat on either side, but WVU was once again the suckier of the two sucky stat lines (for three pointers). Haha Neers.

18 or 21: Which abysmal turnover stat would you like your team to have? Neither??? Too bad, OU had the suckier stat for once, but it didn't cost us our victory. Nyah nyah Neers.

Sherri? Are we still on speaking terms?

Every win in the Big 12 is a great win. You have to take care of your home floor and we did that today. I’m just proud of the poise that our players showed. You could tell that we played a very challenging pre-conference schedule because we didn’t come unwound, which we easily could have. We had a lot of guys step up and make plays at very timely junctions in the game. It was just a really good win and a good way to start conference play.

WVU Coach Mike Carey, I know I just laughed several times at your team, but what say you?

Give Oklahoma credit. They outhustled us to the ball. They play a lot of people and we just don’t play a lot of people. I told my players in there, I’d like to stand in here and yell, but I really can’t because when you’re playing 38 or 40 minutes it’s going to affect your shots and your defense. It’s going to affect everything. We have to do a better job getting some other players in there and a better job recruiting. It’s a shame. We lost five seniors, but we have people coming off the bench just not playing hard, and that makes Bria Holmes and Linda Stepney and Averee Fields play all those minutes. It’s not fair to them, but that’s the situation we’re in right now.

Next game: OU travels to KU 7 p.m. Weds. The game will be "televised" by ESPN3 and something called "JTV."

Boomerrrrrrrrr

Soonerjeepman

1/5/2015, 01:06 PM

almost tempted to drive over...good win for Sherri and the team.

tycat947

1/6/2015, 11:40 AM

Carey did his best Mulkey imitation on the sidelines! Spittin', yelling (at officials AND his players) and basically ran thru the handshake line like there was no tomorrow! Classless!

badger

1/6/2015, 11:47 AM

You should never go full Mulkey.

Soonerjeepman

1/14/2015, 10:45 PM

Congrats to the women....4-0 beating #4 horns....tied for 1st with the bears.

ouflak

1/15/2015, 03:41 AM

Nice. Very very nice.

Boomer.....

1/15/2015, 08:25 AM

What a turnaround. Impressive!

badger

1/15/2015, 11:43 AM

While it doesn't mean as much as it would on the men's side, the women also beat KU since my last rant.

I'm sorry I'm not giving my beloved Sooner team more love. It's sickly season in freezing Oklahoma and badger's household was not spared. I'll try to get something up later today because after last night, the girls deserve (a better fan than baj) it!

Soonerjeepman

1/15/2015, 11:54 AM

Yes, good win against the hawks as well.

At least 1 OU team is going up rather than down~

badger

1/15/2015, 01:42 PM

1. I will never doubt Sherri Coale and her Sooners ever again.
2. I will never doubt Sherri Coale and her Sooners ever again.
3. I will never doubt Sherri Coale and her Sooners ever again.
4. I will stop copying and pasting the same sentence over and over and pretend that I'm writing punishment sentences.

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Sadly, about the only other fanbase board out there that case when their team gets embarrassed is Baylor, so there will be no meltdown fun... this game. I look forward to beating Baylor many times this season, because why not. If we can beat Texas, then Skeletor and her minions are on notice. We might not be He-Man after one big win (two if you count WVU last week) but we can always be the He-Man-Baylor-Woman-Haters-Club :P

Sooner statz:

Maddie Manning is no longer injured: She's off the bench and scoring 14 points, including 12 off free throws. Wow, where has my free throw savior been these years (on injury reserve Jason White-ing her ACLs)

Peyton Little can tell the Aggies to go to hell: Because unlike those SEC traitors, we get to play our rival whorns over and over every year via Big 12 conference play, so go ahead and score 13 points and rebound 10 times for us instead of A&M. Aggroid only cares about it's middle-of-the-pack football team anyways

Gioya Carter you go girl: Because I largely credit scoring more points than Texas in our 70-59 victory, here's our third double-digit scorer, who logged 11 points in only 9 minutes.

They missed HOW many shots?! Oh so many. 35 shots (not free throws, but from the field) were made by both teams this game, but out of HOW many? 117 total, which gave UT an overall shooting percentage of 26.2 (compared with 34.6 for us). If shaggy cared about WBB, they would have been going through their usual f*** you list over and over. Here, let me do it for them: F*** you Mack Brown, F*** you Rick Barnes... ;)

Stop fouling so much, please: Kay Kay Kaylon Williams and Gioya both fouled out. Sharane-Campbell-Olds-Married-Hyphenated-Name-Now had four...

If I ever beat Texas personally, I will also do the we-beat-Texas dance:
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/1024/YE/YEKLZWETOMBBJAI.20150115050052.jpg

Sherri?

It was a really big win for our program for a number of reasons. Obviously, Texas is a very talented basketball team. A conference game on our home floor, we have to make sure we control our own destiny in that regard. I thought we just competed with great toughness tonight. That’s probably the thing I’m most proud of. I think we can play a lot better than we played. I don’t really think offensively that was one of our premier performances. Defensively, we made them uncomfortable, we fought on the boards, and we made toughness plays. We got 50/50 balls and we created some luck for ourselves and I just love the fact that everybody contributed. I love our bench and how involved they are regardless of who is in at what point in time. I’m just really proud of a young team. It looks like we’re really pulling together.

Whorn coach Karen Aston, don't you agree that your poor shooting led you to scoring fewer points than OU?

They did tonight. I thought we took some really ill advised shots. It’s rather frustrating because we would call some things and we would try to get the ball inside. You can’t take every open shot. I think Coach Conrad told me that a long time ago. I didn’t quite understand that at the time as an assistant, but you really can’t take every open shot. You have to move the ball and be more patient; especially if you have an advantage you have to take. We just didn’t do that today.

Next game: 1 p.m. Saturday at TCU. There will be live audio but that's it. If I take hiatus this weekend (I will) the one after that is 3:30 p.m. Monday hosting Pokette. TV is FS1.

Boomerrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Soonerjeepman

1/17/2015, 05:15 PM

actually game was on Okla sports....the team looked good. They were up by 20 at one point in 2nd half. Good win. 5-0

badger

1/19/2015, 11:48 AM

I, too, found the game by accident on FSOK. The collegiate I wanna be a pro games were boring and the men's game was hours away... lo and behold, Fox Sports is showing TCU's kids-in-crowd-heavy broadcast from their equivalent of a high school gym.
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/tcu/sports/w-baskbl/auto_player/10696747.jpeg
Seriously, I'd be stretching if I were to say there were a dozen rows there... I think TCU is renovating their real basketball place so it wouldn't surprise me if the men end up in their intramural palace later this year as well.

OU 97, TCU 81
There are so many ways I could speak lowly about the way this game went aside from the Class D broadcast in a Class F gym. Y'know, stuff like the baby sleeping behind TCU's first year coach; the way they showed the family texting together during a break in action when they weren't even trying to adverse a phone app... but there's a lesson in all of this:

Refs: Don't favor the home teams. You're actually hurting them.

Basically, TCU was allowed to get away with everything, and absolutely no fouls were called. However, TCU died and died (there was no life to be spoken of) by the three, so by the end of the game, they needed to foul us to stop the clock. Derrrrrrrppp whoopsies, the refs forgot to call fouls earlier in the half, so instead of sending us to the free throw line where baj will complain like she does every week about percentages... you're sending us to inbounds the ball instead!

So, ref favoritism bit TCU in their purple froggy arses. Tee hee.

Sooner statz:

Shooting spreeeeeeeee: We only shot 15 threes, but we made 9 of them. Most of our abuse was in the short range, because they just didn't know what to do on defense. We shoot on offense! Yes, froggy. After you shoot on offense, what do you do on defense? We shoot on offense! Le sigh. You are a WNIT team at best, frog.

Free throws are free: We shot an acceptable 18 for 22. Most of em came at the end of the game, so no box score whining froggy, even though you only had 5 for 8.

Kay Kay don't take no froggy crap: Seriously, nobody guarded her it seemed on either end. 25 points and 12 rebounds, including 5 on defense. Ribbit ribbit

Her name is Gioya Carter: Remember it later this season when you're wondering who will save us from almightly Baylor, annoying Pokette or nemesis Iowa State. 24 points, 5 assists and 2 steals.

Sherri, what say you about our post play?

That requires patience from everyone against the pressure. It's one thing to have somebody down there that has an advantage but getting to her is another thing entirely. A share of the credit goes to the guards who composed enough to get it to the post players who were able to do what they did today.

TCU coach Raegan Pebley (yes, I had to look that one up), what say you about our superior Sooners?

It was a physical game the entire game. That's how OU plays and I feel we're pretty physical and up-tempo. In the end, their three-point shot we didn't defend that well enough throughout the game. They were definitely comfortable in the post. We got better defending that in the second half and forced more turnovers as well as taking away those post looks. We just didn't open up the game defending the three point line as well as we should have to make them uncomfortable in our gym.

Next game: 3:30 p.m. today hosting Pokette. TV is FS1

Boooommerrrrrrr

tycat947

1/19/2015, 02:34 PM

I, too, found the game by accident on FSOK. The collegiate I wanna be a pro games were boring and the men's game was hours away... lo and behold, Fox Sports is showing TCU's kids-in-crowd-heavy broadcast from their equivalent of a high school gym.
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/tcu/sports/w-baskbl/auto_player/10696747.jpeg
Seriously, I'd be stretching if I were to say there were a dozen rows there... I think TCU is renovating their real basketball place so it wouldn't surprise me if the men end up in their intramural palace later this year as well.

OU 97, TCU 81
There are so many ways I could speak lowly about the way this game went aside from the Class D broadcast in a Class F gym. Y'know, stuff like the baby sleeping behind TCU's first year coach; the way they showed the family texting together during a break in action when they weren't even trying to adverse a phone app... but there's a lesson in all of this:

Refs: Don't favor the home teams. You're actually hurting them.

Basically, TCU was allowed to get away with everything, and absolutely no fouls were called. However, TCU died and died (there was no life to be spoken of) by the three, so by the end of the game, they needed to foul us to stop the clock. Derrrrrrrppp whoopsies, the refs forgot to call fouls earlier in the half, so instead of sending us to the free throw line where baj will complain like she does every week about percentages... you're sending us to inbounds the ball instead!

So, ref favoritism bit TCU in their purple froggy arses. Tee hee.

Sooner statz:

Shooting spreeeeeeeee: We only shot 15 threes, but we made 9 of them. Most of our abuse was in the short range, because they just didn't know what to do on defense. We shoot on offense! Yes, froggy. After you shoot on offense, what do you do on defense? We shoot on offense! Le sigh. You are a WNIT team at best, frog.

Free throws are free: We shot an acceptable 18 for 22. Most of em came at the end of the game, so no box score whining froggy, even though you only had 5 for 8.

Kay Kay don't take no froggy crap: Seriously, nobody guarded her it seemed on either end. 25 points and 12 rebounds, including 5 on defense. Ribbit ribbit

Her name is Gioya Carter: Remember it later this season when you're wondering who will save us from almightly Baylor, annoying Pokette or nemesis Iowa State. 24 points, 5 assists and 2 steals.

Sherri, what say you about our post play?

TCU coach Raegan Pebley (yes, I had to look that one up), what say you about our superior Sooners?

Next game: 3:30 p.m. today hosting Pokette. TV is FS1

Boooommerrrrrrr

They had a total of 1,350 crammed into their crackerbox University Rec Center! Raegan Pebley was Raegan Scott and played at CU under Ceal Barry in old Big 8 days!

badger

1/20/2015, 12:14 PM

Whenever I inevitably retire from this OU WBB thing here I will defer to tycat. However, most recaps will probably include at least 20 mentions of Baylor and Kim Mulkey, even if they're referred to as "Hypocrite U" and "Skeletor" instead ;)

Till then, here's an additional middle finger to the fanbase that got our mascot fired... http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepage2/ou-sports-oklahoma-fires-mascot-for-unsportsmanlike-behavior/article_1ffe5cad-423a-5c51-8b2f-095a5a7aa715.html

Happy XXth birthday, Sherri Coale!
I don't dare put in big, bold letters that she turned 50 on the day we defeated Pokette at home for the 17th straight time by a score of 73-54, but this is not the first time she's birthday'd it up on Bedl@m. I remember former OSU coach Goodenough (Kurt Budke's predecessor) gave her birthday balloons/flowers during pregame... and then we beat them by a wide margin. Goodenough was canned that offseason.

OU has a very lengthy and awesome history of defeating OSU. My favorite was during the 2001 Big 12 tournament when I was part of the WBB pep band. OSU won the right to face our No. 1 seeded selves in our opening game... and we crushed them by a wider and wider margin as the game went on. However, because it's supposed to be neutral, our bands had to split timeouts. So, we just go on a monster scoring run and extend our lead out to 30ish... and OSU's band is forced to play. While we have lost a few times since than (thanks to the late Kurt Budke and his top recruit Andrea Riley, may that orange blazer'd Cowboy 4 ever rest in peace), we won last night and it's worth repeating the score...
OU 73, Pokette 54
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/1024/NY/NYVDQAKDCOFKZOQ.20150119235750.jpg
Sooner statz:

Her name, once again, is Gioya Carter: 18 points! Did you learn her name yet?! If you haven't, at least recognize her face (she's pictured above)

Kay Kay and Peyton too: 16 and 13 points and 4 and 7 rebounds respectively. Our rebounding was actually very meh according to the scoreboard, but I attribute this mostly to making a lot of shots.

11 to 11: Assists to turnovers. If teams are to beat us, they must wait for us boneheadedly speed up and pass errantly and watch the ball go back to them via outta bounds or just having it land in their hands by accident. If we can keep turnovers down, beware rest-of-the-Big 12.

Sherri, was this a defensive effort?

Yeah, I thought the thing we did the best job of was limiting (Liz) Donohoe and (Brittney) Martin’s touches. They are both a handful to guard so what we tried to do was deny as much as possible and make the ball go somewhere else. It felt like they had very few catches, especially in the first half. Then, I think Maddie’s (Manning) length bothered Liz a little bit. I thought early in the second half Martin made a basket and I thought ‘Uh oh, here we go’, but then again we came back and denied her the opportunity to receive it and it kind of took them out of what they like to do.

Jim Littell, would you like our fired mascot to dump popcorn on your head now, or later?

We’re obviously going through a difficult time here. We’re having some difficulties scoring the basketball. Give OU a lot of credit. They’re a team that has a lot of pieces to the puzzle. They’ve got a good post player that finishes well inside, has nice moves, they can kick it in there. They’ve got an assortment of shooters. They do a good job of playing transition basketball and obviously they’re hitting on all cylinders right now. So we just got to go back to work and realize that this conference is a marathon and not a sprint. There’s a lot of basketball games left. We have 12 games left. We have to get back on the practice floor and do better and find a way to score the basketball better. For the most part in the five games we’ve been pretty decent defensively, but some of our key people aren’t making shots right now and that makes it difficult on us to score the basketball.

Next game: 3 p.m. Saturday hosting Tech. It may be televised, but they aren't listing anything on SS.com yet. Check Fox Sports the day of and you may be surprised.

Boomer!

Soonerjeepman

1/20/2015, 12:25 PM

yes, happy 50th...oh, and of course she looked good in her blue dress...pic?

tycat947

1/20/2015, 02:05 PM

Badger! Can't wait to see your standup routine! Are you making the casino rounds! YOU make this board! LMAO!

badger

1/20/2015, 02:08 PM

None from the game on twitter or SS, so here's a screen capture from NewsOK video:
http://i57.tinypic.com/2rg2e5x.png

Here's what OU posted to twitter pre-game:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7ukT6JCYAAjlJW.jpg:large

50 is a closely guarded secret. Don't tell any opposing fans! ;)

Soonerjeepman

1/20/2015, 02:20 PM

guess I see a woman who is comfortable being her age as a great thing...lol, course I'm her age~

yes, that shot does not do it justice. Sorry, but I think it's great our coach is a very good coach and good to look at...I'm a guy~

badger

1/20/2015, 02:28 PM

badger

1/30/2015, 01:59 PM

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Double OT Furk.
http://texassports.com/common/controls/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&image_path=/images/2015/1/29/webou1.jpg
Our friends over at ouhoops have a few threads going on officiating complaints. So, that about sums it up. Just know that we had a 3-point halftime lead, but lost to Lady Whorn in 2OT. The undefeated streak in the Big 12 had to end eventually, the turk had to come, and furk the turk.

Sooner stats:

Four fouled out: When they extend the game an extra 10 minutes this is bound to happen, but it doesn't make me any happier. Maddie, Kay Kay, Sharane and Gioya were reffed.

Well balanced rebounding: That's a nice way of saying nobody got more than six... but five players had at least five.

Sherri, what the hell happened in 2OT compared to the rest of the game?!

I'm not really sure. The second overtime is a bit of a blur to me right now. I liked the way we jumped out to a lead, and maybe we should've let them score first. We had a little more success with that it seems like.

Next game: 1 p.m. Super Bowl Sunday at West Virginia. Is it time to invite BYU to the conference so that we don't have to play on (Super Bowl!!!!!!) Sunday anymore?

Booomerrrrrr

SicEmBaylor

1/30/2015, 03:35 PM

[i]Nature’s first green is gold,
Word

badger

1/30/2015, 04:56 PM

Oh I'm sorry. The poem isn't "Black's first black is black" so there is no possible way this is referring to Baylor:
http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/images/photos/002/588/431/BX_aZ7PCEAAYV4M_crop_north.jpg?w=759&h=506&q=75

Clearly a Packer reference, who have never worn black in their entire football existence

SicEmBaylor

1/30/2015, 05:00 PM

badger

1/30/2015, 05:15 PM

I am not! I have Baylor friends! ...oh wait no I don't so I guess I am.

I'm sorry, I can't help myself. I just find black uniforms to be pointless and a stupid recruiting ploy and I'm glad OU hasn't gone that way (yet)

rock on sooner

2/1/2015, 05:21 PM

As long as we're all here and discussing Sherri, anyone have any fun Sherri stories over the years?

For jeep: You can see her in her blue dress in the video posted with this article if you must:
http://newsok.com/sooners-rout-cowgirls-in-bedlam-73-54/article/5386045

Not really a fun story but, Sherri and I graduated from the same high school...Healdton, OK,
although "several" years apart...

badger

2/2/2015, 09:57 AM

First of all, congratulations to the men's basketball team. If you haven't started vBookieing this season, I recommend checking it out.

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?24-The-Sports-Book

Out of sheer laziness, I'm basically rewarding everyone when the Sooners win and just taking vCash away when they lose. Fortunately, OU has been winning more lately... the men, not the women :mad:

Mountie 78, Sooners 69
http://image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com/pics33/1024/UP/UPYVBZYNCVWMYCH.20150201224358.jpg
Goodbye, top 25. I'd like to think that a few quality losses would not result in a tumble out of the rankings, but we just haven't done enough early in the season to warrant that benefit of the doubt we've gotten in the past (read: most seasons up till last year's debacle). And the losses were both road losses. And we've beaten both UT and WVU already this season. Doesn't matter; we have 7 losses this season (and two Big 12 losses this week alone) after starting 7-0 in-conference. Ah well. It was a nice run while it lasted.

Sooner statz:

Let's turn over the ball: Let's not next game, please. After a few less abysmal turnover stat lines recently, I've stopped poking fun at this. Then, we log 21 against Mountie. Well, at least WVU had more (22).

Let's lob 3s: First of all, please know that badger's three (not free) throw percentage is zero percent. But, OU's should be higher than 23.5 percent. We're better than that and if we're going to shoot 17 of them, we should make more than four.

Credit where it's due: After years of pulling hair over missed free throws, we shot an acceptable 19 of 22 (86.4 percent) overall, including 14 of 15 in the second half. Once again, badger's free throw percentage is zero. I'm just putting that out there so there's no grand illusion that Stacey Dales is typing at you right now.

Three scorers: Only three Sooners entered double digits, which is probably why we scored less than WVU. They were Kay Kay (10); Peyton (15) and Gabbi (11). When you shoot 23 of 60 overall (!!!!) there's not a lot of points being scored all around. Gah.

Hey SoonerSports.com... I can get postgame quotes from the opposing sites. Why don't you? Is it because you're sick of losing and don't want to rub it in more? Well eff that, here's a Sherri quote even if you don't want me to see it!!!

It’s hard to win on the road. That makes the home stand so important. We have a couple of home games next week, and we have to make sure that we take care of those. This is a hard place to play, and Coach Carey has done a really good job of getting his players to stay with it. They have gotten a lot better. They didn’t handle our zone well at Norman and they handled it much better today.

Yes, I had to pull the Sherri quote from UT last game as well. Hopefully they won't be snooty if we should falter in the next game... who do we play next anyways?

Next game: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday vs. Iowa State. Seriously?! 10:30 a.m. on a Wednesday?! Dear lord what is going on with scheduling. I hope that's a typo on SS.com.

Boomer

badger

2/2/2015, 04:46 PM

From our friends at ouhoops who also post here occasionally: Baylor coach Kim Mulkey got a technical last weekend.

The Jayhawks didn’t score again until Baylor’s Khadijiah Cave was called for a blocking foul, and coach Kim Mulkey got a technical for protesting the call. Aldridge and Boyd each made free throws, cutting the deficit to 52-45.

With Mulkey still upset, Davis and Johnson did their best to hold back the coach to avoid a second technical and an automatic ejection.

Johnson said she and Davis told Mulkey, “It’s not worth it, Coach.”

“Most leadership they’ve shown all year,” Mulkey said. “That’s the most they’ve talked all year.”

Warning: These videos are not safe for anybody.
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SicEmBaylor

2/2/2015, 05:09 PM

Don't mess with The Mulk.

tycat947

2/3/2015, 10:15 AM

From our friends at ouhoops who also post here occasionally: Baylor coach Kim Mulkey got a technical last weekend.

Badg, why are you posting videos of a 2 year old spoiled brat making a scene? Send her to bed without her dinner!

SicEmBaylor

2/3/2015, 04:05 PM

Badg, why are you posting videos of a 2 year old spoiled brat making a scene? Send her to bed without her dinner!

You better believe, I'd send her to bed.

badger

2/3/2015, 04:16 PM

Sherri Coale's tribute to UConn's Geno... a great read from our English teacher at heart:
http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12271259/connecticut-huskies-coach-geno-auriemma-voice-always-strikes-right-tone

If I wanted to spiteful, I could have entitled that "Things Kim Mulkey would not, nor could not ever write" but I think I've Baylor bashed enough... hell we haven't even faced em this season yet surprisingly. Saving our auto-wins for February I guess lol

rock on sooner

2/4/2015, 02:23 PM

Welp, even it was a 10:30 A. freakin' M. tip, the ladies did win, Whitney Hand Jones
doing color analysis....I guess the early tip was for a gym full of kids...middle school
and younger (?)....Sherri was all business in the post game!

hawaii 5-0

2/4/2015, 02:54 PM

Good to see us in the win column again.

5-0

Soonerjeepman

2/4/2015, 03:40 PM

yup...weird time, and a good win.

badger

2/5/2015, 02:26 PM

Yesterday, while the rest of campus was off checking fax machines and twitters for LOIs and such, Sherri's Sooners decided to tip off at 10:30 a.m. on a weekday... a ploy to catch nemesis Iowa State sleeping, most assuredly.
ISU 66, OU 75
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/1024/RW/RWFGAWPDZXXPOXC.20150204194020.jpg
omg i have a new avatar image. here's another...
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/1024/GJ/GJLMEFHFRBZTGGF.20150204194020.jpg
Ok, ok, a basketball image for realz this time...
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/1024/DG/DGJYOLSWGPRXSWI.20150204194020.jpg
Hi, Whitney Hand-Jones! whoops... basketball image... right... ok, here you go:
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/1024/RG/RGNIRNGSKQZFQGP.20150204194020.jpg
I remember back in the aughts when no matter how good OU was, Iowa State could waltz in and beat us laa dee dah. Fortunately we seem past that and instead have gone on to lose to Baylor over and over. Not sure I like this turn of events. Can Courtney Paris have some more sisters play center for us please?

Sooner statz:

33 percent for 3: For both halves for an average shooting percentage of... 33 percent. There's so many ways to describe the devastation of going up against a good shooting team... let's call them daggers today. Stabby stabby stabby...

10 of 13 for free: They really must have taken to heart this once-bad stat because it thank goodness we're a bit more sure shotted at the line now. It makes me think that if we're blowing out a top-15 team at home and can send our walk ons/end of benches in, that perhaps one of our women would make their gift free throws at the end of the game (glares are men's bench)

Meh rebounding: Campbell-Olds got 10 of our total 30, but I'm much more accustomed to this number being higher. Maybe we just don't get the opportunity to rebound as much when making so many shots? Surrrrreee let's go with that

Sherri, please convince me that 10:30 a.m. tipoff was a good idea.

First, I would just like to express my appreciation to Bill Fennelly and Iowa State for agreeing to play this 10:30 tip on a Wednesday morning. It’s a little bit odd. It’s a tough circumstance, I know, for a team that travels. It’s even more bizarre than it is for us. We just appreciate him working with us to help grow the game and get future generations of little girls excited about women’s basketball. It’s always a challenge to compete against an Iowa State team. They are so well-coached and they play their strengths so well and that was our gameplan, to try to take away their strengths. That’s easier said than done. I thought for the most part we adhered to the gameplan and tried to limit threes and until late… early and late… in the middle we were fantastic. Early and late, not so good but that’s the difference in the game.

Next game: 2 p.m. Saturday hosting KSU. I expect much win, much like the men tipping off at the same time at TCU. Go over to vBookie and stake your free vCash claim now... if you're a true fan. I also expect a trip back to the top 25 after beating KSU by 20 or so... maybe 30 if we can rebound better.

Boomer

tycat947

2/5/2015, 04:45 PM

Didn't we play at I-State last year under the same circumstances? Morning tipoff?

Edit: Was in Austin against the whorns!

http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=750397&SPID=127261&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209361853

badger

2/6/2015, 09:58 AM

Much like the whorn thing, this was all about the elementary kids:

morning’s matchup with Iowa State was the inaugural FANS Field Trip Day. An estimated 4,000-5,000 elementary school children from around the state attended the game. Total attendance on the afternoon was 6,042.

They've done elementary days as far back as I can remember, but they usually landed on Saturdays. I don't have anything bad to say about those games, because kids tend to be quite vocal and fun sports fans even if they don't always understand what's going on

badger

2/11/2015, 10:27 AM

So we won last weekend... but more importantly, we travel to Baylor 6 p.m. tonight. TV is Fox Sports Southwest I think.

http://soonerpsycho.com/spfarksandpi...tingbaylor.gif
http://soonerpsycho.com/spfarksandpics/mulkeygrineralien.gif
http://soonerpsycho.com/spfarksandpics/kingkongbriner.gif
http://soonerpsycho.com/spfarksandpics/mulkeyhulk.gif
http://i.picasion.com/pic74/cc5a106a278c949a94eed3e55f0c58f3.gif

I wish I still had the photo of the old lady OU fan with the "HATE GREEN" sign, which was actually in reference to Notre Dame, but let's face it: There's many green teams out there worthy of hating.

Boomerrrrr

SicEmBaylor

2/11/2015, 10:29 AM

Better bring lube.

badger

2/11/2015, 10:32 AM

ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION

SicEmBaylor

2/11/2015, 10:40 AM

ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION
ONE TRUE CHAMPION

Indeed, you're right. The one true champion the last four years in a row, five of the last six, and six of the last ten. ;)

badger

2/11/2015, 11:13 AM

Baylor: We had the best player in womens basketball history and only got one true (national) champion(ship) out of her

I volunteer my staple gun to ensure Kim Mulkey does not remove any clothing tonight

SicEmBaylor

2/11/2015, 11:35 AM

Baylor: We had the best player in womens basketball history and couldn't get one true (national) champion(ship) out of her

I volunteer my staple gun to ensure Kim Mulkey does not remove any clothing tonight

We won the National Championship in 2012 with Griner.

badger

2/11/2015, 02:13 PM

I retract my previous insult and have edited to reflect your lonely, single status in the Griner-championship category. *sigh* do i just need to pull out the Ann Richards got you in the Big 12 card to get a rise out of you. No, I'll just save you the trouble:

Ann Richards did not get us in the Big 12! Ann Richards did not get us in the Big 12! Ann Richards did not get us in the Big 12! Ann Richards did not get us in the Big 12! Ann Richards did not get us in the Big 12!

Soonerjeepman

2/11/2015, 02:54 PM

I'll take OU's National Championship in Softball over bu's bball. Gym continually in top 3...so I'd say OU's women's sports are above bu, if ya want to compare...just sayin.

SicEmBaylor

2/11/2015, 08:09 PM

I'll take OU's National Championship in Softball over bu's bball. Gym continually in top 3...so I'd say OU's women's sports are above bu, if ya want to compare...just sayin.

LOL. Weak. You'd take a softball championship over two national championships in basketball? Lolz...well, okay, then. We don't compete in gym, so that's hardly a fair comparison; however, you don't compete in equestrian so let's consider those two a wash.

Our Women's Tennis team is also better than OU's historically. Uh...you guys have us in women's golf so uh...that's something, I guess.

badger

2/12/2015, 09:32 AM

Baylor allowed us to score 66 on them.
And as you can see, Skeletor is furious.
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/bay/sports/w-baskbl/auto_player/10771520.jpeg
But that picture does not do her hideous gameday attire justice. Here's a wider shot:
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/bay/sports/w-baskbl/auto_player/10771527.jpeg
Around now is the time I openly suggest we dump Baylor and pick up a more championship-getting women's basketball program, so once again, let's get UConn because unlike Baylor, they actually are a legit No. 1 year in and year out. But badger! Baylor got a Fiesta Bowl berth recently! They might not have won, but they were still invited. Never fear, Big 12 loyalists. UConn is a Fiesta Bowl loser too:
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/1024/LG/LGJOAYIYXRDMPOV.20130613202852.jpeg
OU women's basketball related, because that's Mr. Whitney Hand holding the trophy :P

Ummm... do we even need to discuss the game? Sherri Coale is a much better sport and far more classy than I will ever be, so have it coach...

"I thought Baylor played terrific. I thought we made them look really good too. They were hitting on all cylinders obviously, but our help defense was very poor. We weren't connected defensively at all. Early we didn't make a lot of shots and we let it snowball, we let not making a shot on offense carry into the defensive end. They're the type of team that if they smell you being weak or they smell you being frustrated then they come at you even harder. We were the recipients of that tonight."

Next game: 3 p.m. Saturday hosting TCU. I'll get vBookie updated eventually to reflect this. Check a Fox Sports channel around then and you'll likely see the game.

Boomerrrrrrrr

SicEmBaylor

2/12/2015, 02:09 PM

Baylor allowed us to score 66 on them.
And as you can see, Skeletor is furious.
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/bay/sports/w-baskbl/auto_player/10771520.jpeg
But that picture does not do her hideous gameday attire justice. Here's a wider shot:
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/bay/sports/w-baskbl/auto_player/10771527.jpeg
Around now is the time I openly suggest we dump Baylor and pick up a more championship-getting women's basketball program, so once again, let's get UConn because unlike Baylor, they actually are a legit No. 1 year in and year out. But badger! Baylor got a Fiesta Bowl berth recently! They might not have won, but they were still invited. Never fear, Big 12 loyalists. UConn is a Fiesta Bowl loser too:
http://www.soonersports.com/pics33/1024/LG/LGJOAYIYXRDMPOV.20130613202852.jpeg
OU women's basketball related, because that's Mr. Whitney Hand holding the trophy :P

Ummm... do we even need to discuss the game? Sherri Coale is a much better sport and far more classy than I will ever be, so have it coach...

Next game: 3 p.m. Saturday hosting TCU. I'll get vBookie updated eventually to reflect this. Check a Fox Sports channel around then and you'll likely see the game.

Boomerrrrrrrr

Sherri looks good on and off the court. Unfortunately, she isn't half the coach that Mulk is but at least she has looks going for her.

badger

2/12/2015, 02:27 PM

It's all in good fun, dear SicEm. I'll go back to being cordial right up till our next matchup in Norman. ;)

Our colleagues over at ouhoops are not very happy about last night though. It's hard to have the Big 12's best rivalry when it's so damn lopsided since 2010. Ah well. Comeuppance after years of torture has served Baylor football well against OU, I'm sure you would agree. When you fall to OU, it will be mighty and it will be embarrassing... maybe not WHY THE HELL DIDNT BOOBY STOOPID NOT RUN OUT THE CLOCK AND TAKE IT INTO OVERTIME level of embarrassing, but let's just say it would be a bad day to be Kim Mulkey's pantsuit jacket ;)

SicEmBaylor

2/12/2015, 02:48 PM

Eielson

2/12/2015, 05:53 PM

LOL. Weak. You'd take a softball championship over two national championships in basketball? Lolz...well, okay, then. We don't compete in gym, so that's hardly a fair comparison; however, you don't compete in equestrian so let's consider those two a wash.

Our Women's Tennis team is also better than OU's historically. Uh...you guys have us in women's golf so uh...that's something, I guess.

In general I would rate women's basketball championships over softball championships, but our softball champion team was widely regarded as the best of all time, so that adds a lot to it.

SicEmBaylor

2/12/2015, 06:01 PM

In all honesty, I really like the Baylor-OU rivalry in WBB. It's been a lot of fun over the years.

Eielson

2/12/2015, 06:10 PM

Eielson

2/12/2015, 06:11 PM

In all honesty, I really like the Baylor-OU rivalry in WBB. It's been a lot of fun over the years.

It was a lot more fun in Mulkey's early years.

SicEmBaylor

2/12/2015, 06:17 PM

And Mulkey is probably the better coach, but it's not by THAT wide of a margin. Mulkey has owned the last 4-5 years, but Coale has dominated other 4-5 year stretches, so let's not get caught up in the moment.

Sweet Sixteens:
Coale - 6
Mulkey - 4

Elite Eights:
Coale - 0
Mulkey - 1

Final Fours:
Coale - 2
Mulkey - 1

Regular Season Conference Championships:
Coale - 6
Mulkey - 5

The big difference is ultimately that Mulkey won it all twice, while Coale has been unable to. Other than that, it's pretty similar. Right now Baylor has the strong edge. Will it last? Maybe. We'll see.

Coale also has a 3 year head start on Mulkey, and the Baylor program was in pretty bad shape when Mulkey showed up ALTHOUGH she did immediately turn it around. Mulkey has taken Baylor to the big dance every year she's been coach.

But let's also not forget that Mulkey has a national championship as a player, as an assistant head coach, and she has an Olympic gold medal! But there's also something about Mulkey that OU can never understand -- something that no other university could possibly understand. Baylor's athletic department from top-to-bottom was as bad as it could get. There was even talk of abandoning football entirely, and in the midst of this succkage we had the men's basketball scandal. There was real talk of abandoning athletics entirely.

Mulkey was our light at the end of the tunnel not just because of her success, but how absolutely devoted she is to Baylor and how much she loves the school. She went around and talked to all of the other teams in the athletic department in order to give them a boost of confidence and make them believe they could win. Think about that for a moment, the WBB coach talked to the football team...basketball team...you name it in order to give them confidence. And I'll tell you this: Regardless of what sport at Baylor you're talking about, EVERYONE respects Mulkey. She demands it and she has most certainly earned it. Mulkey talked to the student body and gave everyone hope that things would get better. I was a student and on campus at the time, and Mulkey gave us something to be proud of. I'll never forget that. She PROMISED that we were on the cusp of something great.

And you know what? Damned if she wasn't right.

Eielson

2/12/2015, 06:44 PM

Don't get me wrong...Mulkey is an amazing coach. She might even be #2 behind Auriemma. For just about everything you say about Mulkey, though, Coale is just as good, better, or not far behind. If I'm not mistaken, OU's program was pretty awful before Coale arrived. The only real difference is that Mulkey has finished the season with a W, and Oklahoma isn't dependent on women's basketball to get championships.

Salt City Sooner

2/22/2015, 01:07 AM

It was the Stu show tonight. 30 points on 8-10 from 3 point land as The Guys won by 9. She's now 22-38 from behind the arc in the last 4 games.

badger

2/25/2015, 02:59 PM

So...um... there's a game tonight, and I concede defeat. We lose. 7 p.m. TV is FCS if you really care to witness.*

*It's time to try something new. We haven't beaten them since 2010 so this may be the only way to muster victory: Cede defeat.

And now, enjoy the following photos and captions:
http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20121025-big005.jpg.ece/BINARY/original/big005.JPG
Kim Mulkey: "You're not Whitney Hand. And I hate your hair."

...and that appears to be the only time they've been photographed together, according to Google. So, eff it, have some other photos of the two not pictured together:

http://cdn-jpg.si.com/sites/default/files/2013/02/mulkey-auriemma.jpg

Nevermind, that was a terrible idea.

Once again, we are LOSING tonight. L-O-S-E losing.

Siiiiiiic Emmmmmmmm

rock on sooner

2/25/2015, 03:19 PM

yeah, you're prolly right but I still vbet on the ladies!

SicEmBaylor

2/25/2015, 03:40 PM

badger

2/25/2015, 05:07 PM

Yes, I incredible concede defeat. I'll even sing that Baylor song...

That good old Baylor free throw line!
That good old Baylor free throw line!
They'll shoot forever down the years,
As long as stars shall shine.
We'll fling basketballs afar
To get three points sometimes,
Because three's greater than measly two;
That good ol' three point line!

aurorasooner

2/25/2015, 08:51 PM

Sooner wimmens playing tough. Up by 8 with about 30s left in the half. We'll see if they can keep it going in the 2nd. Baylor/ISU mens is on the U at 8 cst as well.

Didn't get to watch the 1st part and I don't know how that Baylor gal got a T but they said she was on the bench with 3 fouls.

birddog

2/25/2015, 10:14 PM

Great w tonight. They deserved to win. That was a good time.

Soonerjeepman

2/25/2015, 11:22 PM

great win...I'm sure ol kim was just pissin vinegar. I really tried to be honest about the fouls...but then I thought...screw it..

SicEmBaylor

2/25/2015, 11:55 PM

I knew we were doomed when Badg conceded defeat.

Eielson

2/26/2015, 12:39 AM

Badj, please concede defeat in the Big XII title race in mens basketball.

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

2/26/2015, 01:21 AM

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

2/26/2015, 02:27 AM

http://i.imgur.com/xhqYz0o.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1y3Pjnl.jpg

badger

2/26/2015, 10:58 AM

First of all, let me explain yesterday's post a bit...
http://i62.tinypic.com/oaq7v8.png
I let Baylor have defeat and they took it. Suckers.
http://image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com/pics33/0/JR/JRNTNKVAUWEXHMQ.20150226032406.jpg
OU 68, Baylol 64
U upset, bro? There's really not much else I can add that is clever and whatnot, so take it away Skeletor*

*SF.com created this nickname on this here thread a few seasons ago, so when you see it on the twitters or the facebooks or over at our friendly friend site ouhoops.com, be proud that we have created the nickname for the scariest coach in college basketball that has stuck and will never be topped! I wanna say my husband thought it up, but I am not sure' I'd have to search back on previous season threads... :P

Skeletor, madam?

We scored in all positions in Waco. That is what happens when you play at home. Give Oklahoma credit; this game meant a great deal to them

Now, now, don't give us too much credit. Baylor shot about 40 percent overall, while we shot 38ish percent... they were 90 percent from the line compared to our 75 percent. We just made more threes (35% compared to 28%) and shot 13 more free throws than they did :D

I missed the technical; I did not see it. I had gone down to the end of the bench to say something to a post player and I had no idea. They said she through the ball slant, I really do not know. But yes, it hurts when Sune (Agbuke) and Alexis (Prince) both come out.
Yes, a Baylor WBB member other than Skeletor got a T; Alexis Prince for protesting a call and then throwing the ball a bit too hard at the ref afterward. She was doing very well in the first half, but the T gave her three so she had to sit down. Haha. Our halftime lead was 8 so this was very important.

I thought that when we went up six that we let them score too easily. Sune (Agbuke) fouling out, Sune is our best defensive post player. I was trying to guard them with a freshman and a sophomore, Niya (Johnson) is a sophomore, and they just took it right at us. Couple of inbounds, we were not ready. Imani (Wright) got scored on quite often on inbound plays; she just was not alert

Via the Tulsa World's Guerin Emig: "OU made the difference in the last 3½ minutes, after falling behind 62-56, on the back of senior guard Sharane Campbell-Olds. She set up Kaylon Williams in transition. She scored in transition. She grabbed a rebound ahead of Peyton Little’s go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:49 remaining. She took a charge with 46 seconds left, the game tied at 64-64."

I usually also include a Sherri quote, and today will not be an exception. Sherri?

Yeah, for this team, we are so young. We try not to talk about that a whole lot because I don’t want them thinking they’re not supposed to do things like this, but it’s a significant step forward especially the way we played the first time there (in Waco). It’s night and day. Our approach, our mentality, you could just see the growth as much as anything. Obviously, the win is huge but regardless of what the final score would have been, the way we handled ourselves tonight was the way Oklahoma team is supposed to handle themselves. I was just so proud of our growth. We had a freshman point guard out there battling the whole night. We had one senior on the floor and she was unbelievable tonight. That’s what a team is. You take those different parts, you screw them together and you become. I felt like tonight was a becoming for us.

Next game: 7 p.m. Saturday hosting Kansas. Our season finale is 7 p.m. Monday at Pokette.

And let me tell you all, I sooooo concede defeat to every single future opponent of both the men's and the women's teams. ;)

Boomerrrrrr

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

2/26/2015, 01:23 PM

http://oklahoma.247sports.com/Article/Oklahoma-Sooners-upset-Baylor-Bears-68-64-Wednesday-evening-35870438?utm_source=247Sports+Newsletter&utm_campaign=290126f405-150226_Oklahoma+Sooners&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5300ae947-290126f405-222662321

ouflak

2/26/2015, 02:21 PM

Woohoo!

badger

3/2/2015, 09:47 AM

Thank you Lady Sooners. If one of our bball teams had to lose to KU in the closing week of the regular season, I'd prefer it be you and not the one fighting for the Big 12 championship.
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Yes I know Sherri dislikes the term Lady Sooners, but let's face it... there's a lot to dislike about losing on Senior Night to an unranked, usually bad program (in WBB, not MBB). I say "Senior" Night and not "Seniors" Night, because DaShawn Harden is off doing this:
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncw/recap?gameId=400595011
And Sharane Campbell Olds and OU, whom I am going to be a fan of forever regardless of how many games we lose in S'March, is doing this:
http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209915685
And yes, I know Whitney Ritchie got honored too, but I'm talking four-year here... and not tennis team transplant. Yes, in case you hadn't heard, we're not just borrowing from the volleyball team anymore.
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But, if you check their page at SS.com, they're still trumpeting the UPSET of last week. Woot woot we beat Baylor still and... really? Is that the way we're going to end our season??? A month early? Sherri, help.

I think there is just a lot riding on this game for a young team. Again, these are not excuses by any stretch of the imagination, but explanations. With a young team, senior night for girls is always hard. Most of these guys have never gone through a senior night. Then you have the crazy weather and you have the earlier tip which messed with our shoot around time. You have to be able to handle all of that. Things are going to happen. We played a game at 10:30 this year. We played a game at 11 o’clock at night. Stuff happens. I think everything coupled with the high that we were on after the Baylor game…we didn’t handle this opportunity the way that we should have. I share that responsibility. It goes back to me. I have got to do a better job of getting them to move on.

Last game of the regular season: 7 p.m. tonight on Fox Sports Southwest versus... Pokette. Yes, it is time to break out the Kurt Budke memorial orange blazer. Check Travis Ford's closet. I think Coach Kurt willed it to him*

*I am saying this out of respect to our recent rivalry, Poke lurkers. Nothing but respect to Kurt and making OSU legit in WBB. You have the state WBB attendance record, not us, despite us going to more Final Fours and winning more Big 12 crowns, and I'm not gonna forget the coach that got you there: Kurt Budke. And that bright, bright, America's-Brightest-Orange blazer. I concede defeat. :stunned:

Boommerrrrr

Soonerjeepman

3/2/2015, 11:26 AM

yup...really blew the bu win by losing to ku.

To me those are excuses...I don't think Sherri moved on...she was a bit over the top after the bu win...but it is what it is.

badger

3/2/2015, 11:45 AM

We had an outside chance at being a NCAA tourney host site, no joke. The selection committee has been top 20ing us for the past month even when the AP voters haven't (and the selection committee is the one that matters, as SMU men can attest to last season).

How bout this for Senior Night motivation: Win tonight and keep wining to give Sharane and Ms. Tennis another chance to play at LNC in the postseason.

Do I need to post another angry, frustrated smiley face? Sure why not.
https://kenyanmom.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/angry-face.jpg

Melt that Oklahoma snow, angry face steam. ;)

tycat947

3/2/2015, 11:51 AM

I guess Skeletor couldn't get thru to her minions that #1 seed was on the line either! Losing 2 in a row! KU is the best last place team in history of Big 12. If you didn't know their ranking in Big 12 and saw them play, you'd never guess they were holding last place. They are no MIZ....ZOU! of old times! OUr young team learned something Sat night. We'll be fine!

badger

3/3/2015, 02:12 PM

OU 66, OSU 56
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Don't get me wrong. I am much happier with beating unranked, fourth-place-in-Big-12 Oklahoma State than not beating them. I'm also happy that SS.com has finally removed that "UPSET" banner from the women's basketball page. There is just a lot of unknown headed into the Big 12 tournament and later, the NCAA tournament. I would have felt much better about our postseason prospects had we been on a winning streak coming into Stilly rather than coming off a loss to one of the lowliest worms of Big 12 basketball. At home. On Senior Night.

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What a good lead in for the game stats...

22 percent: Our FG percentage overall for the fist half, helped along by our 1 of 10 shooting from three. But heeeeeeey at least our free throws were 6 for 6 that half, amirite? *groan*

17 percent: OSU's first-half shooting, which, as Sherri suggested, probably had Henry Iba himself rolling his eyes and facepalming for the abysmal, awful first half. OSU signs "anything you half-arse I half-arse worser..."

No complaints about frees or turnovers: While we're unranked, second to Baylor and probably not getting ready to print more Final Four t-shirts, at least we had this staple of Sherri's past teams conquered. Only 12 turnovers and 17 for 22 free throw shooting overall, including perfect in the first half 6 for 6. Yay?

Rebounding woes: No, NO yay for OU! 35 rebounds overall compared to OSU's 52. Holy cow that's bad.

In a nutshell, this was a bad game and if you thought OU men's game was bad, about the only way this one was better was that OU managed to not lose. Sherri?

I thought, in the first half, Mr. Iba was watching and he was so disappointed. Then I thought he really liked defense, so maybe he was super excited about what was occurring. I didn't think either team was going to be able to put the ball in the basket. Fortunately the second half was better basketball and we got a few more shots to go in than they did. It wasn't a very pretty 40 minutes from either of us.

Next game: Big 12 tourney in Dallas. Likely 6 p.m. Saturday opener. I dunno if there's TV or not. First one to hear reports back here, mkay?

Booomerrrrr...

herecomedajudge

3/5/2015, 04:13 PM

Sooners play @ 6 on Saturday v winner of Friday's late game between WVU and TTech. According to Big 12 App, friday games are on FCS (Fox College Sports) and Saturday games are on FSN (Fox Sports Network). Sunday (semifinals) and Monday (championship) games are on FS1.

badger

3/5/2015, 05:39 PM

Thanks judge. I might come back and preview both or just be angry at KU for winning the Big 12 crown again... or replace "KU" with "BU" for the women's side. Gah. No trophies for second place, especially since that's where OU likely will be for both. Kinda cool that we have good WBB and MBB programs, kinda not cool that neither can be the best :(

Boomer Sooner anyways

badger

3/6/2015, 09:57 AM

I would love to play Texas Tech.
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Perhaps you are surprised and haven't seen the Big 12 standings lately (dead last). Perhaps you confuse them with the program that won a national title with Sheryl Swoopes decades ago. Perhaps you are worried that somehow, somewhere, Mike Leach is ready to upset you when your national title hopes least need it. Perhaps you think back to that season where Tech MBB got its only conference win against OU. Perhaps you are worried that if you transfer, Kliff will not let you get eligible at your new school despite never being on scholarship, or perhaps, Knight and Son are ready to choke you or throw you all under the bus in a postgame presser.
https://nesncom.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/texas-tech.jpg?w=400&h=225
Well, Tech sucks on and off the field in so many ways and since it's basketball season, maybe I should say on and off the court. They would be a wonderful team to defeat again (already beat them twice this season) and would be almost a sure-fire way to make it past our first Big 12 tournament game at 6 p.m. Saturday.
But we are going to play West Virginia.
http://www.wvusports.com/galleryPhotos/GetFileAttachment-1.jpg
Awww, aren't they cute... wait a sec. Where' the WVU we know and hate?
http://cardsandcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/West-Virginia-Mullet.jpg
On Feb. 1, they defeated us by 9 points in Morgantown. However, we beat them by 11 at home on Jan. 4. So, this could go either way, depending on if the team that beat Baylor at home shows up, or the team that lost at home to KU (ON SENIOR NIGHT!!!!) shows up.
http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/big-west-virginia-fan.jpg
Or we can expect something in the middle: The team that showed up at Stillwater earlier this week. An abysmally awful first half, but a win on the road nonetheless. I'd never hope for that again, but it's likely what we're going to get going up against a fairly good opponent at a neutral (Dallas) site.

And now, a random Sherri quote:

"The absence of Marsha on the Texas Tech sideline is a blow to the university, it's a blow to our conference and it's a blow to women's basketball. It has been an honor and a privilege to coach against Marsha for the past years."

Wait a sec... WVU, not Texas Tech, remember?

"I think that Baylor is clearly -- and you guys gave me all kinds of grief for saying this during Big 12 play --- but clearly they are the second-best team in the league. They finished in second place and they separated themselves, is my point, from the guys that where behind them."

Oh that quote is soooo old but I'd love for her to say something similar after we win the tourney against them in a few days. A girl can dream, can't she?

Boomer

badger

3/9/2015, 11:56 AM

Whorn 59, OU 46
http://community.ubnt.com/ubnt/attachments/ubnt/Lounge/24685/1/bth_bangHeadAgainstWall.gif
The team we beat by 11 at home and took to 2OT in Austin had our number Sunday bloody Sunday as we took a close game mid-second half down to a bad final score margin. Bye bye chances of hosting the opening rounds. Bye bye top 25 poll mentions (let alone an actual ranking). Bye bye any hopes of getting a memorable postseason run.
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At one point the whorns were on a 14-0 run late in the second. Second. Half. Meltdown. I get that there's a lot of newcomers. I get that we've had a lot of seasons derailed by injuries. I get that we have one true senior and the other senior is a tennis transplant. Gahhhhh
https://occasionalpiece.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/banging_your_head_against_a_brick_wall_sticker-p217367976180528591z8j38_400.jpg
Sherri, shall I stop beating myself up?

Well, I'll start by congratulating Texas, and I apologize for my voice, I've been sick. I thought Texas played really hungry. I thought they were very aggressive, very physical, and they really played like they wanted to be in the championship game and I thought we played bad basketball for 40 minutes. It was just bad basketball. We didn't execute, we go 15 of 58 from the field, and you've got to score points to win basketball games, you've got to put the ball in the basket
http://www.clipartbest.com/cliparts/bTy/rkk/bTyrkk8TL.gif
There, that wasn't so hard was it?

Next game(???): The first round of the womens NCAA tournament is March 20-21. If we want to set our expectations uber low, WNIT opening rounds are March 18-20. Selection shows *I think* are March 16.

Don't let negative badger get you down. We are a tournament team. We are going to play again in a week. We are going to have a solid showing come hell or high water and dammit, there will be OU basketball this postseason! And they are going to win! Win lots! So much winning! YES! Final Four! YES! National title possibly? YES!!!!!! OU BASKETBALL WILL RISE THIS MONTH!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_iIaMNUsAA-4K5.jpg:large
You all saw that coming, didn't you? ;)

Boooooomerrrrrr...

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/9/2015, 01:41 PM

I have been squeamishly looking in, realizing we have been VERY inconsistent lately. Noticed we aren't in the top 25. Are we even going to the NCAA tourney(women)?

oudanny

3/9/2015, 02:26 PM

I thought it was very poor execution of a very poor game plan.

badger

3/12/2015, 10:04 AM

Are we even going to the NCAA tourney(women)?
If we made it in last year, we will make it in this year. The Big 12 has the highest RPI on both mens and womens sides last I checked, so we are looking at a good number of bids even if we don't have more than one ranked team.

However, I suspect we will be in a very undesirable location against a very undesirable opponent and go out in one or two rounds.

aurorasooner

3/12/2015, 02:21 PM

Just my impression but our wimmen's BB team looks like a bunch of special olympics athletes. That's perhaps a little too harsh. I guess a bunch of water gnats making herky-jerky motions on the water surface would be a better description. You see this from the lesser D-1 Women's teams quite a bit on TV when there's nothing else on and we're just looking for grins and giggles, and you wonder htf their players got a scholly. A lot of wasted motion, hands constantly wringing back and forth, a bunch of uncontrolled dribbling drives and then a bunch of dribbling around the perimeter with their heads down to the floor and not looking where to pass the BB and it's just a bunch of individual movement without a purpose. Our players have to be standing still flat-footed and wide open before anyone will pass the ball to them. Sort of reminded of our football QB play last year. Just no anticipation where the receiver is going to be.

Geezus, they're just not smooth and it sometimes looks like they've got basketball velcro on their hands before they throw up an NBA range 3 pointer before the clock expires after maybe one outside pass and that shot barely draws iron. It just looks uncoordinated and slow for college athletes, even women.
That game against the whorns was a pitiful display for college athletes. Hopefully it was because they were tired from their effort the day before, couldn't get to sleep for fear of catching the Dallas ebola, the whorns had an excellent defensive game-plan coming in and the staff didn't adapt, or they were up all night Saturday studying for midterms. Baylor probably would've won by 40 against us that night.
This off-season instead of constantly shooting in the gym, our women BB players need to do some workouts with our cheerleaders, a dance team, or perhaps the gymnastics team to develop some basic coordinated body movement type athletic skills.

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/12/2015, 02:31 PM

That we're not in the top 25 is prolly an indication of serious deficiency.

badger

3/18/2015, 10:29 AM

It just had to be Satanford, didn't it.
http://cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/w300-0a8a8fb12469abb9a5b03bda56e735b9.jpg
NewsOK wrote about the rivalry a few years back here if ypu're just now tuning in:
http://newsok.com/ou-vs.-stanford-feud-no-longer-so-bitter/article/3451343
Cliff's Notes version: One of their trees got injured in our first NCAA tourney meeting in 2000. Coach Crypt Keeper whined to the media; Sherri produced a tape to show media no ill intentions. Trees have won every meeting since, including most recent Final Four trip. Gah.

But, we don't meet Satanford immediately. No, we meet Quinnipiac, which I have to copy and paste from elsewhere because I won't spell it right otherwise. We get by a team that's had only 3 losses all season, we get Satanford. At Satanford. Gah.

And now, my annual fearless Big 12 NCAA bracket predictions, which are surprising accurate:
OU: After an underwhelming first half by both teams, The Sooners are slightly better in the second half to stave off QuinnipiacQuinnipiacQuinnipiacQuinnipiacQuinnipiac Quinnipiac (whoops I copied/pasted too many times, sorry), only to lose by 30 to Satanford. It will force fans to test out which team they hate the most in OKC... Notre Dame??? Satanford??? Or... Baylor. Gah.
Prediction: Second round ouster to Satanford.

Texa$: You cannot write "Texa$" without a dollar sign when you include them in the NCAA tournament when they are a borderline team at best. So they are the 5-12 matchup against Western Kentucky? Then behold as the giant red blob mascot devours everything that enters his giant fake mouth. Om nom nom.
Prediction: First round ouster to the Hilltoppers.

Iowa State: Why does Dayton get to host the men's First Four every year? If you need some random city with a basketball court, I volunteer Tulsa. Also, even if ISU makes it past Dayton, they're losing to Kentucky. Because screw Dayton and their annual First Four hosting, I pick ISU. Good for Kentucky for caring about womens basketball too... but will someone please beat their men?
Prediction: Second round ouster at Kentucky.

OSU: Remember when Florida Gulf Coast was Lob City and then OSU thought they could be clever and call itself Lob Stilly? Well, their female counterparts meet in the opening round. OSU is the 10-seed, but I will be nice and pick them... to go on and lose to Lady Nole.
Prediction: Second round ouster at FSU.

Baylor: The Big 12 might have the top RPI in both men's and women's basketball, but getting only 5 of our 10 teams in the NCAA tourney shows that the committee's not buying it. Baylor flubbed against us and we cost them a 1-seed, but they will bring boatloads of fans to the OKC regional after easily handling Northwestern State and Northwestern without the State at home. Then, Skeletor will cackle her way past 3-seed Iowa in OKC in front of more Baylor fans than you knew exisited. However, even the most fatal death incantations she utters at the refs will not be enough to top Notre Dame. Ignore BU's first three. That Elite Eight game will be the one to watch as she throws an epic tantrum to end all tantrums. It is sooooo nooooot faaaaaaaair
Prediction: Elite Eight ouster to Notre Dame.

A lament: I wish we could have kept the Big 12 semi-together. We'd still be the best conference in WBB but we'd have annual matchups with Nebrasky now that they're good and Texas A&M... not that I liked getting beat by Lady Aggie/Laggie, but it was funny watching Baylor miffed at their fellow recent nat'l champ.

But... there you go. That's what's going to happen. No doubt.*

*But I'd love to be wrong and see another Sooner Final Four.

Boomer

ouflak

3/21/2015, 05:10 PM

Nice 27 point victory by the women to open their tournament!

BoulderSooner79

3/21/2015, 08:24 PM

Now they play Stanford. Both teams wear red and white and I attended both schools - seems like a no-lose situation to me.

:P

Eielson

3/21/2015, 08:49 PM

Get him, Badj!

badger

3/23/2015, 08:55 AM

Now they play Stanford. Both teams wear red and white and I attended both schools - seems like a no-lose situation to me.

Get him, Badj!

I ain't got nuthin and when I ain't got nuthin I quote Simpsons:

[When the Simpsons are in jail]
Lisa: Thanks a lot, everybody. Now, I'll never get into an Ivy League school.
Bart: [taunting] You're going to Stanford, you're going to Stanford ...
Homer and Bart [taunting]: You're going to Stanford!
Lisa: Take it back! Take it back!
Homer: Stanford.
Marge: This family has hit rock bottom.

I guess we also beat them in some random bowl a few years ago.
http://cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/r620-eb564ae3539be621f8e766ea7bd1558d.jpg
Finally, could the Stanford coach please raise her hand and be recognized?
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/may2/gifs/title_tara.jpg

5:30 p.m. tonight on ESPN 2, beyonces. The winner here gets to go to the OKC regional, because we are damn well attended... and there will be tons more butts in seats if we win, so NCAA shenanigans suggests that if reffing is indeed biased and unfair, it will be biased and unfair in our favor :D

Booommmerrrrr

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/23/2015, 11:51 AM

5:30 p.m. tonight on ESPN 2, beyonces. The winner here gets to go to the OKC regional, because we are damn well attended... and there will be tons more butts in seats if we win, so NCAA shenanigans suggests that if reffing is indeed biased and unfair, it will be biased and unfair in our favor :D

BooommmerrrrrThat's some heavy optimism, for sure. Playing Stanford in Palo Alto will Shirley give the Sooners a home court advantage, and the refs will be sympathetic to the visitors at Stanford. That much is expected. At least Stanford isn't as highly esteemed as they usually are. Hey, maybe we DO HAVE a chance!

birddog

3/23/2015, 05:47 PM

C'mon wimmins!!!

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/23/2015, 05:48 PM

Well, the ESPeNis2 channel here in PHX is not picking up the OU game. Instead we have non-OU playing another same.

birddog

3/23/2015, 05:50 PM

5-5

birddog

3/23/2015, 05:50 PM

8-5 us

birddog

3/23/2015, 05:53 PM

10-6 us

Eielson

3/23/2015, 05:58 PM

10-6 us

Yeah! F*** (half of) you, Boulder!

birddog

3/23/2015, 06:01 PM

Boulder will get his comeuppance when we lose to msu. :)

birddog

3/23/2015, 06:03 PM

14-14

aurorasooner

3/23/2015, 06:16 PM

Well, the ESPeNis2 channel here in PHX is not picking up the OU game. Instead we have non-OU playing another same. It's not on the deuce here either or on ESPN-U. We've got 4 eastern teams on here out west, Princeton/Maryland and, or all things, Fla Gulf Coast/FSU plus great sports classics like the "Battle of the Network Stars" on the classic channel and their kindergarten training program for future taking heads---SpinCenter on their news channel. ---who GAS. I know why so many people are cutting cord or splitting the bill by slinging anything they want to watch.

I thought it might be on the PAC network, but I guess the mouse figured that the dozen people, or so, that would've have watched it with a deal with the PAC-Network would probably cough up the PPV money to watch it, and they'd make more than sharing half the advertising proceeds from some lame infomercial company.

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/23/2015, 06:24 PM

Stanford is PAC 16 AND A WESTERN TEAM. Here in PHX, one would think they would be shown, instead of the Maryland-Princeton thing. horses*it, I say!

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/23/2015, 06:54 PM

Have they played more after 14-14?

rock on sooner

3/23/2015, 07:04 PM

Stanford is PAC 16 AND A WESTERN TEAM. Here in PHX, one would think they would be shown, instead of the Maryland-Princeton thing. horses*it, I say!

Welp, I'm in Iowa....Big XII country and it's the same dayum thing...must be
all about the perfect team///

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/23/2015, 07:20 PM

saw on ESPeNis.com that we are 10 down with 7:50 left in regulation..

aurorasooner

3/23/2015, 07:33 PM

Welp, I'm in Iowa....Big XII country and it's the same dayum thing...must be
all about the perfect team///It's amazing to me how many of those ""suits that work for these sport's broadcasting companies are so out of touch with the population. They're like those idiot bean counters who manage and set the ridiculous prices for the grocery store's "hardware aisle" or to a slightly lesser extent their over the counter drug section. You think, hell I'll just get it here and it'll save me some time. Then you look at the price and realize you'll have to stop by the bank and make a deposit (or rob it), to pay for it.

At least CBS/Tru-TV and TNT/TBS do it right on the men's side of the 64. I guess CBS owns Tru-TV and I think that the only thing that keeps them on most cable/sat expanded tiers is that one week a year when they show the NCAA men's tourney. Was somewhat surprised when I still had that channel in the sport's favs.

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/23/2015, 07:37 PM

10 down with 2:12 left

birddog

3/23/2015, 07:37 PM

Solid effort. Stanford up by 11ish with 2 mins to go.

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

3/23/2015, 08:00 PM

In retrospect, glad I didn't see it..."We are better than most"

aurorasooner

3/23/2015, 08:09 PM

Yep. Not sure about the morale victory though, since we were supposedly up at HT. Don't know what happened to us in the 2nd, as it wasn't on any of the sport's tier channels. It looked like we were attacking the lane and not taking any 3s to try and cut their lead in the last min of the game, so I'm guessing our outside shooting went in the dumper, we had a bunch of TOs early in the 2nd, or using Goatweeb's analysis, we just ran out of gas.

rock on sooner

3/23/2015, 08:16 PM

Not gonna read the entire thread, but, just my opinion here, NCAA
needs to do something about scheduling on team's home court. Sooners
have had advantage in the past, Stanford tonight. Iowa had two games
at home, etc etc....don't know the answer but need to find one....home
court means a lot in BB....

BoulderSooner79

3/23/2015, 08:50 PM

I ain't got nuthin and when I ain't got nuthin I quote Simpsons:

[When the Simpsons are in jail]
Lisa: Thanks a lot, everybody. Now, I'll never get into an Ivy League school.
Bart: [taunting] You're going to Stanford, you're going to Stanford ...
Homer and Bart [taunting]: You're going to Stanford!
Lisa: Take it back! Take it back!
Homer: Stanford.
Marge: This family has hit rock bottom.

I guess we also beat them in some random bowl a few years ago.
http://cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/r620-eb564ae3539be621f8e766ea7bd1558d.jpg
Finally, could the Stanford coach please raise her hand and be recognized?
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/may2/gifs/title_tara.jpg

5:30 p.m. tonight on ESPN 2, beyonces. The winner here gets to go to the OKC regional, because we are damn well attended... and there will be tons more butts in seats if we win, so NCAA shenanigans suggests that if reffing is indeed biased and unfair, it will be biased and unfair in our favor :D

Booommmerrrrr

So, did a red and white team win or not?

ouflak

3/24/2015, 03:19 AM

Stanford won. Would have been nice to get this team to the Sweet 16 after such a rough start to the season. But I think some of our late season stumbles revealed weaknesses that will have to be shored for next year's run.

SicEmBaylor

3/24/2015, 05:07 AM

I'll tell you what -- follow our Lady Bears in the Sweet 16, and I'll follow your Sooner men in the Sweete 16!

badger

3/24/2015, 01:10 PM

A funny thing happened last night. And since it's always sad when your season ends suddenly, I'll share that story after the usual big score with photo lead-in.
Satanford 86, Sooners 76
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Ok, now after seeing that photos again (top Google image return for her) I have to share where that photo came from too: Me. Here. Four years ago. Back when I was a bit more involved in this annual thread, I did freshmen previews while stealing media guide photos of them. Since then, OU's been less apt to sharing media guides online(at least at last check which admitted was awhile ago) and I've been more lazy in my preseason previewing. BUT, four years ago, here's what I wrote about now-senior Sharane:

The best way to tell if I want to talk to whoever is knocking on my front door is how they react to me "restraining" my dogs. These dogs don't need to be restrained, but if the person at the door is acting like they're going to lunge through the glass at them, I know that they don't deserve a lot of time and thankfully, they usually seem quite eager to get away from my dogs as fast as possible.

Thus, when I saw this pic of Sharane in the media guide, I knew it had to be one to introduce her to you all with --- a dog person is a good person! And she wants to be a vet apparently, so she's now a GREAT person in my eyes

How could you not want to see Sharane to have a successful end to her pretty solid four-year career at OU. Well, now it's time for my funny story: AT&T Uverse decided I would not be tuning in for the second half of the game (why does every ESPN channel work except the one OU is on. whhyyyyyyyy) so I missed most of the meltdown. I got to believe that there was a chance they'd finally chop down the trees and make matches out of them so that they could burn the trees next time instead and instead, the hippie tree hugger trees remain standing. Gah.

Sooner statz:
Let's lob threes: Right around the time AT&T decided that it was a telegraph company not a cable company, OU was in the midst of lobbing the most awful, contested long range shots possible to allow Satanford to come back in the second half. They shot 14.3 percent in the second half from three. One of the final shots I saw was an airball.

Errbody gets a turnover: I also got to witness a lot of sloppy passing between both teams before the feed cut out. 20 turnovers total for Satanford and 13 for us. It was not a good game to watch... and AT&T just couldn't bear to let me watch the end. :(

Satanford nor OU wish to provide postgame Sherri quotes, so I'll sign off by saying: Happy graduation, Sharane. I have no idea if you're still in pursuit of being a vet, but whatever you future endeavors are, I'm glad that you're a dog person. And your freshman year media guide photo was one of the best ever.

I'll be back with end of season grades later maybe. In the meantime... haha to ESPN for having to televise the remainder of this tournament which nobody has any interest in watching now that OU's out. CBS and affiliates for men's tournament, here I come!

Boomerrrrr