Oklahoma, Louisville are in it to win it.

Louisville versus Oklahoma feels like the consolation game of the Women’s Final Four. Good reason. Both semifinalists have been drubbed by top-ranked Connecticut. Twice in the Cardinals’ case. Louisville coach Jeff Walz, whose team lost by 28 and 39 points, joked that it was all part of the plan to lull the unbeaten Huskies into [...]

Successful vision: Coale has built OU program into a power.

Sherri Coale has always had a vision for the Oklahoma women’s basketball team. At the press conference announcing her hiring on April 7, 1996, Coale said with the university’s help she could turn “this program into a national power.” Pretty brash words for a young coach with no college coaching experience. But it [...]

Paris, Oklahoma doing fine in role as favorite.

Watching her son Colton’s high school team make an unexpected run in the state playoffs gave Sherri Coale a reminder of the exhilaration of being the underdog. It’s not a feeling she gets to experience much anymore as the coach at Oklahoma. Her Sooners (31-4) take much more than the No. 1 seed into tonight’s [...]

Healthy Hand has Sooners clicking again.

On a team brimming over with veterans, the freshman guard from Texas has been one of the key players in getting the Sooners only their second No. 1 seed in school history and pushing them to the round of 16 in the NCAA tournament. It never showed more than when she was dealing with a [...]

The $64,000 question: Will Courtney Paris’ big bet pay off?

Bill Veeck had nothing on Courtney Paris. The man who sent a midget to the plate and signed off on Disco Demolition night in Cleveland would stand up and cheer — were he not deceased — the promotional instincts of Oklahoma’s wide-bodied, 6-foot-4 Superwoman. What has Paris unleashed? She has given her teammates — including [...]

Paris’ title pledge works beautifully on many levels.

By any measure, she has already fulfilled her obligation to Oklahoma 10 times over. Paris may be the best college center in the history of her sport. In the WNBA, she can expect to parlay that talent into a salary that will be capped at close to $100,000 – a nice sum, but not enough [...]

Courtney Paris: A career to remember.

A year before Paris arrived in Norman for the 2005-06 season, the Sooners averaged 5,695 fans at home. With one home game remaining on the current schedule, they are averaging 10,128. The 6-foot-4, three-time consensus All-American will take her final bow at 7 p.m. on Wednesday when Texas Tech visits the No. 3 [...]

Ashley Paris is no longer second fiddle to sis.

“Better late than never, but I finally feel like I’m coming into my own,” said Ashley, who is averaging 14.2 points and 9.8 rebounds per game this season, a significant bump from last year when she averaged 11.3 points and 7.9 rebounds. “I’m playing with a lot more confidence.” That confidences stems from a grueling [...]

Danielle Robinson a big piece of puzzle for Oklahoma.

“I definitely think I’ve elevated,” Robinson said of her game. “I attribute a lot of that to just the confidence my teammates have in me. But I definitely embraced this leadership role, and I’m trying to lead this team to where I think it can go.”http://newsok.com/danielle-big-piece-of-puzzle/article/3342392

Oklahoma, Baylor set for Big 12 women’s showdown.

With a nation-best six teams ranked in the women’s Top 25, big games are part of the norm in the Big 12. That reaches a new plateau Wednesday night. When No. 2 Oklahoma (16-2) plays at No. 4 Baylor (17-1) in a showdown for first place, it will be the highest-ranked conference matchup ever in [...]