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GAME PREVIEW
Oklahoma opens the 2012-13 season with an exhibition game versus Oklahoma Christian Thursday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman. Sooner Sports TV's broadcast will be live on FOX College Sports Pacific (COX Ch. 273), which debuts to COX Cable subscribers with a Sports and Information Pak addition on the day of the game. Chad McKee and Billy Tubbs have the call.

The radio broadcast airs on KREF Sportstalk 1400 AM with Brian Brinkley on play-by-play and Colton Coale providing color analysis.

FOX COLLEGE SPORTS ADDED TO LINEUP
Beginning Thursday, Nov. 1, COX Cable customers in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa metro areas with a Sports and Information Pak subscription will begin receiving FOX College Sports channels as Sooner Sports TV expands its coverage base to the entire nation. OU's women's basketball exhibition games are live on FCS Pacific (COX Ch. 273) on Nov. 1 and FCS Central (271) on Nov. 6. Those games will also replay on FS Oklahoma and on the web on SoonerSports.tv.

TICKETS AVAILABLE
• Season tickets are available for a low as $119. Tickets may be purchased online at SoonerSports.com or by calling the OU Athletics Ticket Office at 1-800-456-GoOU.
• Single-game tickets are available with prices beginning at $5 for general admission seating.
• OU students receive free admission when presenting a valid ID.

NOTABLE
• After a one-year hiatus, Oklahoma and Oklahoma Christian meet in exhibition play. The Sooners and Eagles have met in preseason play in 10 of the previous 12 years, missing only 2006-07 and 2011-12.
• Oklahoma Christian is the alma mater of OU head coach Sherri Coale (1987) and assistant coach Jan Ross (1986). Findley was the head coach at OC for Coale's final two seasons.
• OC head coach Stephanie Findley is 512-314 () in her 27th season. She has the state's record for most women's basketball wins.
• Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale is 357-168 (.680) in her 17th season. She has been the Big 12 Coach of the Year four times.
• Oklahoma plays its second and final exhibition game Tuesday, Nov. 6, versus Henderson State at 7 p.m.

OKLAHOMA'S SEASON IN REVIEW
Oklahoma had a 21-13 overall record in 2011-12 and ended its season with a 74-70 loss to St. John's (N.Y.) in the second round of the NCAA Championship. It was OU's 13th consecutive NCAA tournament appearance, a record for a Big 12 Conference team. OU was 11-7 in Big 12 play and finished second to 2012 national champions Baylor. Reverse center Jelena Cerina (3.9 points, 3.6 rebounds) was the lone graduate. Head coach Sherri Coale completed her 16th season with a career record of 357-168 (.680) and passed a milestone 500th career victory as a head coach in both the high school and college ranks.

	Player to Watch  Nicole Griffin | Jr. | Center  • Third-leading scorer for Sooners during Australian tour, averaging 8.8 points as OU went undefeated in four games.  • Considered OU's most improved player in the offseason by teammates.  • Totaled 16 points and five rebounds in intrasquad scrimmage.  • Led Sooners with .542 FG% in 2011-12.  • At 6-foot-6, is the tallest player in OU history.

SOONERS CHOOSE CAPTAINS
Seniors Lyndsey Cloman and Whitney Hand and junior Morgan Hook are co-captains of the Sooners this season. The captains were voted by their teammates. It is Hand's fourth season as a captian and Cloman's second.

FRESH FACES
The Sooners return their top seven scoring and rebounding leaders from 2011-12 as well as two veterans who missed the past year with injuries while introducing three players to NCAA Division I basketball. Freshmen Nicole Kornet (Lantana, Texas) and Maddie Manning (Ankeny, Iowa) join junior college transfer Portia Durrett (Louisville, Ky.) as newcomers in 2012-

ALL HOME GAMES TELEVISED
Coverage of the University of Oklahoma women's basketball team will reach a record number of viewers this season as Sooner Sports TV powered by FOX Sports will broadcast at least 16 games on its network.

All of Oklahoma's home games, including two exhibition games on Thursday, Nov. 1, and Tuesday, Nov. 6, will be televised during the 2012-13 season. Games not selected for a national broadcast on FOX Sports Net or ESPN2 will be produced by Sooner Sports TV for broadcast on FS Southwest, FS Oklahoma or FOX College Sports.

Additionally, OU's three games of the Rainbow Wahine Showdown played in Honolulu, Hawaii, during the Thanksgiving weekend, will be available to fans via live webcasts on SoonerSports.tv.

All televised games will also be archived for replay on SoonerSports.tv.

ABOUT OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN
Oklahoma Christian has had only two women's basketball coaches in the program's history, Max Dobson and Stephanie Findley. Dobson recruited Sherri (Buben) Coale to OC and she played for him for two seasons, then played for Findley for two seasons. Jan Ross also is an OC alumna, graduating in 1986, one year before Coale in 1987.

Stephanie Findley has recorded more wins than any women's college basketball coach in Oklahoma history, entering this season with 521. Last season OC was beset by injuries (six players missed all or large chunks of the season) and finished 9-20.

Coale was a starting guard on OC's best team ever, in 1985-86. OC advanced to the NAIA quarterfinals, beating Wisconsin-Green Bay along the way in the national tournament. In the NAIA District 9 title game played at Cameron University in Lawton, OC set a still-standing NAIA record by shooting 79.6 percent from the field (39 of 49). Needless to say, OC won 92-68 over Cameron that night.

OC left its longtime homes in the NAIA and Sooner Athletic Conference after the 2011-12 academic year. OC now is a member of the Heartland Conference (which has members in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Arkansas) and is in the first year of the NCAA Division II membership process. OC hopes to be a full Division II member by the 2015-16 academic year.

Katy O'Steen is OC's only returning All-Sooner Athletic Conference player, having received honorable mention the past two seasons.