Oklahoma women's basketball: OU will need extra spark to win at Baylor

Sooners coach Sherri Coale said: “I see bounce coming back in their steps. They're a lot fresher than they were five or six days ago.”

 
By Jason Kersey | Published: January 25, 2013    Comment on this article Leave a comment

photo - OU: Oklahoma's Aaryn Ellenberg (3) drives to the basket as Marist's Leanne Ockenden (11) defends during the women's college basketball game between the University of Oklahoma and Marist at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.,  Sunday,Dec. 2, 2012. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
OU: Oklahoma's Aaryn Ellenberg (3) drives to the basket as Marist's Leanne Ockenden (11) defends during the women's college basketball game between the University of Oklahoma and Marist at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., Sunday,Dec. 2, 2012. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman

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“This is the best game to come after we got the chance to work on it for a week,” said junior guard Morgan Hook, a team captain who's averaging 10.5 points and 4.9 rebounds a game.

“Our practices have been shorter, and it's just been a recovery week.”

The Sooners' main concern, of course, will be Baylor's two-time All-America senior center, Brittney Griner, who averages 21.8 points and 8.1 rebounds per game.

Griner — described by Coale as, “An incredible talent, the likes of which our game has not seen and may not see again” — is 5-2 against Oklahoma over her career, but hasn't lost to the Sooners since her freshman season. She's averaged 19.6 points and 7.6 rebounds against OU.

“That's always exciting to play somebody really good,” Ellenberg said. “But we really need to be focusing more on ourselves. I think if we focus so much on them and who we're playing, it's gonna mess you up. I think that's what happens to a lot of people when you play them.”

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