Dream scenario for Sooners

If Oklahoma wants a blueprint for success this postseason, all the Sooners need to do is pull out the film of Thursday’s game against Kansas.

The Sooners throttled the Jayhawks 76-59 in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 women’s basketball tournament, and while Courtney Paris’s 27-point, 14-rebound performance will be all the talk, OU blew out Kansas because of its balance.

Great outside shooting and dominant inside play.

Paris was fabulous, enthusiastic and energized. She played inspired basketball, like a senior who realizes her college career is winding down. Heck, she kind of played like someone who’d promised to repay her entire scholarship if her team failed to win the national championship. 

(More about that later on NewsOK.com and in the Saturday Oklahoman.)

But as Paris was quick to point out, she had a much easier time of it Friday because of what her teammates did. Amanda Thompson and Danielle Robinson hit a barrage of mid-range jumpers to start the game and continued to have hot hands, which opened up the inside.