Sooner Ladies Are Marching To The Final Four
by ccmachine on Mar 30, 2010 11:53 PM CDT
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What has been a magical post-season for Oklahoma's ladies just got even more so. Most analysts didn't give the Lady Sooners a chance to move past Notre Dame in the Sweet 16 round and then pretty much wrote them off against Kentucky in the Elite 8. Instead, the team that run ruled Nebraska on Sunday night was shown the door by a Nyeshia Stevenson's led 88-68 rout.
Things didn't start out well for OU though as Kentucky jumped out to a 17-4 lead. Like they've done all season, the OU ladies fought back and turned a 13-point deficit into a 4-point halftime lead thanks to a 21-6 run.
"Well I don't know what that was for the first five minutes, these kids have fought back all year. It's sort of their identity," Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale said. "Their confidence was unwavering. I give them credit for keeping their head and getting out of it."
After Sunday night's upset of Notre Dame I had decided that what ever happened beyond that point was just a bonus because the Sooners had just made it further than they were supposed to. In contrast to the men's season where attrition, injury and adversity brought disappointment and ruin the women have been driven to success by the exact same factors. I'll take the same mindset into Sunday night's game against Stanford as I did Tuesday night's game against Kentucky. No matter what happens, the season has already been a success.
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Bringing PRIDE to the SoonerNation in what has been a long and dreadful sports year for us. That said I sure would like them to route Stanford like the football team did in their Bowl win setting up a rematch with UCONN from earlier in the year.
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
In his defense, you are a retarded cuntbag by LiamP on Mar 4, 2010
Boomer!
Lady Sooners getting it done! I like how she said they had “intestinal fortitude.”
You got my boy's trophy; he want it back. - Torrance Marshall
Well done CC!
I couldn’t have summarized it better than you did. If you had told me we started like that, I would have guessed that the final score was pretty ugly. Oddly enough, it actually wound up that way but obviously in our favor.
I said it last night in the game thread, but it warrants saying again and again. UCONN gets all the attention and deservedly so (I suppose), but the coaching job done by Sherri Coale this season has been beyond outstanding. Again outside of UCONN, women’s basketball doesn’t get much attention national or otherwise so Sherri will never get the recognition she so rightly deserves which is a shame.
I couldn’t be happier for and prouder of these women and the entire staff!!!
"We call him The Hammer." - Bob Stoops
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