OU at Nebraska

[Jennifer]

Well, it's 3:05 and I'm getting the last 3 minutes of the UNC/FSU men's blowout on FOXSW. This is just beyond exciting.

[MsProudSooner]

And they'll probably wait until 10 minutes after it's over to switch over.

[Jennifer]

http://www.huskers.com/liveStats/liveStats.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&DB_LANG=&KEY=

Live stats. The link says Mens BBall, but that's the one you need.

[YCN]

They actually caught the start of the game here. I don't know about what's going on where you are, but it's 4-2 NU right now.

[ISUbballfan]

It is now Neb 16 OU 12 10:48

[ouconster]

I am in the chat room, worrying all by myself about this game, does anyone want to join me?

[Jennifer]

I'm really doubting OU's chances to make the NCAAs, and Chipper--I think if Nebraska finishes strong, they are in.
OU needs more than Leah and Dionnah to score. Maybe a WNIT appearance would do the young ones some good, as much as I'd hate to see Dionnah go out that way.
As mentioned previously, I just don't think OU has the talent to consistantly compete with the top of the Big 12. They have some good role players, but need more go-to players.

For whoever said they like Danielle Page on the favorite players thread--I agree. Chipper, you and Nebraska fans really have something to look forward to in her next 3 1/2 years.

Congrats Nebraska on your win today.

[swok34]

Congrats.......Nebraska, Chipper, Row6, Skerfan and all the Husker fans!! Didn't see you on the camera today, Chipper.

Could we please quit fouling and sending Nebraska to the line when they have a 15 point lead.... :mad:

I'm not so sure the NIT is such a bad thing for this group...
for the past 2 1/2 years they've had the carry the weight of a pretty heady bunch. Don't you OU fans think we would have a good chance of hosting a couple of games in the WNIT?

I just think we have no true upper classmen carrying a load except for Dionnah.........that's what I mean when I say we are young.

Now, that said........bring your buckets to practice tomorrow, you are gonna need 'em. I recall a game in Ames, Iowa that the heady bunch went and played like a bunch of zombies........Sherri had 'em up at 6 the next morning packing Meals on Wheels :eek:

[DblT81]

Ouch.





This added to have 10 words so it post.

[ouconster]

At least Dionnah got to go to the final four and championship game. So if they do go out this year via WNIT, she will still have a lot to look back on. I just hate to see us play that bad. I doubt we can pull another tourney shocker.

Congrats to Nebraska, they really outplayed us. Sherri said it in her post game radio broadcast. She said they outplayed us in every phase of the game.

[Jennifer]

Sherri was really hard on the bench in her postgame as well--not following the defensive game plan, not hitting shots, etc. She was actually hard on everyone except D. I don't think practice will be fun for them tomorrow.
She really gave kudos to Nebraska and Kiera Hardy, too.

[Bball Girl]

Could we please quit fouling and sending Nebraska to the line when they have a 15 point lead....

Thanks, I thought it was just me...they looked like "deliberate" fouls and I couldn't figure why foul when you're down by 15?

The lasses in red were fantabulous today! Congrats Chipper and Row6 and everyone else in Nebraska land. I hated to see the Sooners lose...D worked her butt off as always!

[catladyok]

This really didn't surprise me at all. OU hasn't been able to shoot for squat all season, and the Huskers have been improving by leaps and bounds for the past 2 seasons. A weird sort of 'stagnation' has set in at OU, and I seriously doubt that the Sooners will make the NCAA tourney this year. Maybe that's not such a bad thing. It might be much better to go to the WNIT than to go to the Big Dance and have to face a team like LSU or North Carolina in the first round and get blown out by 50 or 60 points!!!

The Sooners have had losing seasons before and everyone (fans included) have survived. I hope that the kids won't lose heart, that they'll be able to step back and look at this year as something to build on.

Congratulations, Huskers - and Husker Fans! Y'all done GOOD!

[spooky]

Don't you OU fans think we would have a good chance of hosting a couple of games in the WNIT?


If your AD is willing to pony up the dough, OU would have a great chance to host them all. Baylor has hosted every WNIT it has ever played, including both championship games, and OU has a much more prestigious name and strong attendance history than we did. Ya'll have also had much experience in hosting post-season games. All it takes is a willingness to open the wallet a bit.

That said, don't start planning WNIT just yet. A strong finish (starting after Wednesday night, of course) and a strong tourney run a la last year aren't out of the question just yet.

[bigred]

I didn't make the game, had to watch it on TV, not so bad.

Did OU just give up at times? It looked as if NU set the pace of hustle in the game and OU didn't or couldn't stay up.

Proud of the NU fans! They appreciate the players winning.

Coach Yori looked and sounded good on TV with her comments about game play and plan. Congratulations Coach and Coaches!!

And of course the players, they took real ownership of their court today.

I look back to the MU and Baylor wins, big wins that propel a team like NU to the confidence level necessary to win a game like today. OU is no pattycake.

Do we have some more big wins ahead of us? TX? KSU? ISU?

[Gator]

Two good things out of tonight's game: 1) Chipper is happy and when you travel that far and look forward to a game that much, it is a VERY good thing to be rewarded. 2) The other Husker Hoopers are happy and they should be - your gals beat the bejesus out of us fair and square.

One bad thing for me: I didn't see Chipper but then I didn't see much at all - it was sort of like a horror movie: most of the time I was looking towards the tube with my hand over my eyes, spreading my fingers only when I thought I could take it. (Ok - a bit of an exaggeration - but not much)

Was it only 3 or 4 games ago when Coale said she didn't understand why we weren't in the top 25? At the time I tossed it off as "coach speak" as I thought I could figure out why we weren't in the top 25. But still, I thought it a bit strange.

I think the frustration for me is the feeling that there is this POTENTIAL everywhere and ...... Another frustration is how sorry I feel for D. LeahleahleahleahRUSH has another couple of years to make history and I don't doubt that she will be a large part of a potentially powerful Sooner team. But D? I REALLY like that kid - of course as a player, and, as much as you can really know someone by public reputation, as a person.

The awful truth is that I think I knew this was coming. I was crushed by the Texas game, sadden by the Iowa game, and now, just resigned. WOW - hats off to this team which keeps playing HARD with the disappointment THEY must feel. (I know Coale said she was disappointed with the intensity in the first half - but what do I know.) What was it a Texas fan asked a couple of games ago? What can you do it help the team? The answers were all a variation on the theme of "just keep supporting them". Fortunately for me, that isn't at all hard to do. These are good hard working kids with a lot of developing talent and I'll cheer just as loud and as long as I can every time they make one of those beautiful plays they are capable of on both ends of the court. And if the break through doesn't happen this year: just WAIT until next year! :)

[Skerfan]

Had a great time at the game today. I got to meet Chipper for the first time. For those of you who don't know, he was the one shooting free throws at half time. I think he needs a shooting coach :D.

I was really proud of the Huskers today. I thought they played hard and never gave up. Jelena Spiric played very good defense against Jackson (who reminds me a lot of Maurtice Ivy).

Games balls to Kiera, Danielle (can you believe she's a freshman) Page, Spiric, LaToya Howell, and JJ (she had four turnovers, but made some critical plays at critical times and kept our players in the game at key points in the game. Can't forget Chelsea Aubry with her 11 rebounds.

I was really wondering what was going on at the end of the game with the 15 point lead and all the quick fouls.

Does anyone know if Fox is going to replay the game?

On to Texas!

[swok34]

You know......I'm starting to wonder if those fouls and free throws were Sherri's way of hmmmmmm, how shall I put this?

Putting them in the position of getting absolutely blown off the planet perhaps for some motivation. I'm guessing, I have seen OU foul deep into a game on a lot of occasions, but not with a team having this kind of lead.

[Row6Seat10]

2,858 Husker fans battled the elements outside and witnessed a great game...(that is if you were a Husker fan). Great game plan and well executed play by the Huskers this afternoon. Chelsea Aubry played her best game to date....very dominate on the boards and played great defensively. Danielle Page just keeps getting better and better giving us 15 big points. Keira H just played tough on both ends of the court as did Jina. Spiric and Diaz stepped up big time also.

You would have to look long and hard to find any faults committed this afternoon by the Huskers. Well maybe a couple of questionable passes but that is minor when you beat the Sooners by 19. Even with the Huskers having a 8-10 point lead toward the end, one still got an uneasy feeling that Oklahoma was very capable of making a run at the Huskers. Every Husker got to see the court if only for a minute and played hard. When the Huskers play like this it's fun to watch.

I can see why Sooner fans are so high on Leah Rush that girl came to play as did Jackson. Coach Coale looked to be very frustrated with her team throughout the game. She might of had a legitimate beef with the refs the second half though. I think there were only 2 or 3 fouls called on the Huskers opposed to something like 15 or so on her girls.

It doesn't get any easier for the Huskers now, they have to travel to Austin to face a Longhorn team that's chomping at the bit to get a victory after that brawl they were in at Ames last Saturday.

[Jennifer]

Quotes:
“We did not deserve to win this game,” said OU coach Sherri Coale. “They (Nebraska) out hustled us, out rebounded us and simply out worked us in every phase of the game.”

"Nebraska dominated us in every phase of the game," Coale said. "They simply outplayed us. You are not going to win many games in the Big 12 by scoring 51 points, but the credit goes to Nebraska. They deserved to win today."


Note:
Senior Dionnah Jackson was the only other Sooner to score in double digits as she added 12 points. She also had nine rebounds, seven assists and two blocked shots. Once again, the St. Louis, Mo., native was solid across the board in both halves. With five defensive rebounds, Jackson came up one shy of tying OU great Phylesha Whaley for second on the program’s all-time defensive rebounding chart.

[YCN]

The margin was significantly padded by the unnecessary fouls at the end, as Nebraska finished with 20 more FT attempts than the Sooners. It seems to me that this Sooner team doesn't really play with a strong sense of urgency for the here and now until it's too late to make a difference. Just my perspective.

[swok34]

I think it's an issue of cohesiveness.....

Sherri must be pulling her hair out by now :eek:

We lose the game to Texas because she didn't play the bench....so she plays the bench and they just didn't contribute today.

It kind of goes back to the earlier issues with starting lineups and who to sit and who to start and who to sub.
At Kansas the other nite, Sherri changed her lineup again and she changed it again today. OU has Dionnah Jackson, Leah Rush and Erin Higgins. The other two is pick and choose; many times it's situational. Chelsi rarely played against TAMU, she doesn't have the athleticism for a team like TAMU. Most cases, I think Sherri is just looking for the right combo.

At Kansas, she found one of those in Kendra Moore......had a great shooting nite for Kendra. Lauren Shoush seems to me to have disappeared just as she was starting to really hit some shots. Tonite.......did Kendra take a shot? Did she hit anything? I'd say the same about Laura Andrews as I did about Shoush. Some days she's on offensively, some days she's not.

So, mostly I think we have the 3.........and then there is not a huge gap between the next 10. Just depends on who has the hot hand......who's NOT going to turn it over (we seem to have several that are turnover prone) and if Sherri doesn't find that right mix or that mix is not there for a particular game.......voila'.

I thought Nebraska played outstanding defense in that they kept switching defenses and confused us.

I went back and watched that Big XII champ game tonite (there's a reason I tape 'em all....moments like these)...
and we truly had 5 set positions on the court. I'm not sure we will ever see another Maria V...that girl had such a combination of talent in speed and body contortion that few have. Now that said, the starting lineup was set, everyone knew exactly what their job was....and one piece couldn't have done it alone. It was truly a team's team last year in February and early March.

I just don't see that same cohesiveness with this current OU team.....they will get there, but I'm not sure I believe that will happen this year.

Dionnah is having to carry a huge load and I think that is affecting her defensive game as opposed to last year. If the perimeter shooters aren't hitting.....then defenses can pack the lane and Leah Rush really has to fight that much harder.

[swok34]

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/02/07/sports/doc4206f8ea87c5a644148383.txt

Husker women get super victory against Sooners
BRIAN ROSENTHAL / Lincoln Journal Star

excerpted:
For the Nebraska women's basketball team, Sunday sure was super.

And it had nothing to do with a certain football game set to kick off after the Huskers' pivotal Big 12 Conference game with Oklahoma.

Although, members of the NU pep band kindly reminded Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale and game officials that many in the Devaney Sports Center crowd of 2,858 had immediate postgame plans.

They were yelling "Super Bowl! Super Bowl!" every time the Sooners, trying to prevent the inevitable in the waning seconds of Nebraska's 70-51 victory, purposely fouled.

Or so it seemed.

Oklahoma fouled eight times in the final 90 seconds and Nebraska made 11 of 14 free throws, turning what had been a tight game into a deceptively lopsided score.

"We weren't trying to foul! We weren't trying to," said Coale, whose team, down 15 points, was called for four fouls in the final 37 seconds. "We were just trying to get loose balls, and all of the sudden, it became a whistle fest. I don't know."

[Press]

Coach Yori looked and sounded good on TV with her comments about game play and plan. Congratulations Coach and Coaches!!

I really like Yori. I think she'll have a heck of a team in a couple years that will give everyone fits. She seems to get a lot out of her teams and shoots straight without a log of fluff and coach speak, which I like as well.