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Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale reacts to a missed Sooner goal Monday, March 19, 2007, during a second round game against Marquette in the NCAA tournament in Austin, Texas. Transcript photo by Jerry Laizure
JERRY LAIZURE / The Norman Transcript


Published March 23, 2007 11:45 pm -

On a roll


Clay Horning
The Norman Transcript

By Clay Horning

Transcript Sports Editor

DAYTON, Ohio — The Oklahoma women will meet the media at Dayton Arena today. They’ll be asked questions about themselves, about their opponents and about their season. Of course, they will be diplomatic.

The day before their arrival in the Buckeye State, they were given the opportunity to explain, all things being equal, why they might have advantages the other 15 teams still playing in the NCAA Tournament do not. They weren’t undiplomatic, but perhaps a little more forthcoming.

Numbers game

“Our depth,” Sooner coach Sherri Coale said. “Our quality depth.”

Surely, the rest of the teams still dancing love their personnel, but Coale may be right on with her evaluation.

Through two games, or 80 minutes of basketball, eight different Sooners have played at least 25 minutes.

Leah Rush and Jenna Plumley have played more than any other starter at 62 minutes. Chelsi Welch has played 49 off the bench and Ashley Paris has played 42 off the bench.

Mississippi — the Sooners’ Dayton Regional semifinal opponent at 1:30 p.m. Saturday — can almost make the same claim, with seven players going for half an hour through two games.

OU, however, is getting a lot more production off the bench than Sunday’s opponent. While Ole Miss has received 35 points and 10 rebounds off the pine through two games, the Sooners’ numbers are 53 and 35.

Momentum

Sooner shooting guard Erin Higgins is actually able to look at it from a pundit’s perspective. But why not? She’s living it.

“I look at the past five or six games,” she said. “Baylor (at home), I thought we played really well. And then you take the Big 12 tournament and I thought we sustained it, and then I thought we played well in Austin.”

The Sooners enter Sunday afternoon’s game on a 10-game winning streak, but Higgins is right about the more recent contests being the most impressive. The run has included two victories over Baylor, by 27 and 14 points, a Big 12 tourney title victory over Iowa State, which was itself on an eight-game winning streak and, after last week, NCAA Tournament victories by 14 and 31 points.



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