Thursday, January 31, 2008
NORMAN, OKLA. – When a team is in dire need of a Big 12 victory, the Lloyd Noble Center is just about the last place it wants to be.
Kansas learned this Wednesday night as a rowdy crowd and No. 11 Oklahoma played unkind hosts, out-muscling coach Bonnie Henrickson’s team for a 67-51 victory.
The Sooners (14-4, 4-2) turned the ball over an astounding 25 times, but the Jayhawks (12-8, 1-6) matched that turnover for turnover with 25 of their own.
“The difference is Oklahoma scored on our turnovers and we didn’t score on theirs,” Henrickson said.
Senior forward Taylor McIntosh said, “We have to be smarter. A lot of it isn’t because of pressure; it’s just us making a dumb mistake.
“We’re beating ourselves up a lot more than the other teams are.”
Kansas took an early 3-2 lead with a three-pointer from sophomore guard Danielle McCray. Then Oklahoma guard Jenna Plumley answered with another three-pointer and Kansas would never again own the lead.
“In the beginning we killed ourselves with turnovers,” McCray said. “Lately we haven’t been giving ourselves chance to stay in the game.”
Freshman center Krysten Boogaard, who has a habit of getting into early foul trouble, picked up her first foul just 35 seconds into the game while guarding Sooner center Courtney Paris. However, Boogaard re-gained her composure and settled into the flow of the game to the tune of 11 points, eight rebounds and four blocks.
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I thought at times our game plan to dig and double and crowd the paint was good, but their shooters stepped up and made some shots. Still, it was good for us to battle for some minutes in the second half and fight back.
-coach Bonnie Henrickson
“I thought she played big around the rim and I liked her confidence to try and get a piece of the ball,” Henrickson said. “I thought coming in that her length might bother their bigs a little.”
Boogaard’s performance, as great as it was, wasn’t nearly enough to offset the power from Oklahoma’s lineup.
Sophomore guard/forward Nyeshia Stevenson went off for a season high 15 points.
Also, the Sooners’ three starting post players, forwards Ashley Paris and Amanda Thompson and center Courtney Paris, each finished with 10 points and combined for 24 rebounds.
“That’s where the game was given away,” said McIntosh of being out-rebounded 37-28.
Oklahoma cruised through the waning minutes of the first half and opened the second half with a 15-5 run. The Sooners lead blew up to 26 with 9:15 remaining, but the scrappy Jayhawks refused to take the loss lying down.
Freshman guard Chakeitha Weldon provided some fire off the Kansas bench and energized the offense to a 14-4 run.
“She sparked up everyone else and that’s the pace we need to play at consistently, just get it and go,” McCray said.
With 3:07 left Boogaard picked up her fifth foul to foul out of her first collegiate game.
Overall though, the team was happy to take away some positive things after playing in such a hostile environment.
“I thought at times our game plan to dig and double and crowd the paint was good, but their shooters stepped up and made some shots,” Henrickson said. “Still, it was good for us to battle for some minutes in the second half and fight back.”
Kansas returns to Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday for a 7 p.m. tipoff against Iowa St.
McINTOSH STREAK ENDS
Taylor McIntosh’s streak of starting 58 games straight came to an end in Lloyd Noble Center Wednesday evening as the senior forward watched the opening tip from the bench.
Including last night’s game, McIntosh has started 106 of the 109 games she’s appeared in.
Henrickson said the change was because McIntosh was “in the dog house” a little bit and her replacement, senior forward Jamie Boyd, was the only Jayhawk to look good in practice on Tuesday.
MORRIS COMES HOME
Wednesday night may have been a road game, but for sophomore guard Sade Morris it was also a homecoming.
Morris had 18 game passes for her various family members to come watch the game from behind the Kansas bench.
“It feels really good to see her back home,” said Victoria Morris, Sade’s mother. “We’re a close family and I know she likes being here.”
In 2006 Morris was named Oklahoma Gatorade Player of the Year, the same year she graduated from Norman High School. In her junior season, Morris led the Tigers to the 6A state championship.
—Edited by Nick Mangiaracina
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