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	Nicole Griffin

GAME PREVIEW
• Oklahoma ends its preseason with an exhibition game versus Henderson State Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman. Sooner Sports TV's broadcast will be live on FOX College Sports Central (COX Ch. 271), which debuted to COX Cable subscribers with a Sports and Information Pak addition on Nov. 1. 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 analysis.

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 at Oklahoma home games when presenting a valid ID.

NOTABLE
• Oklahoma and Henderson State are meeting in the preseason for the first time since Nov. 1, 2007, the collegiate debuts of former Sooners Danielle Robinson, Carlee Roethlisberger and Lauren Willis.
• Oklahoma defeated Henderson State in its Nov. 2007 matchup, 110-40, as Courtney Paris led with 19 points and 18 rebounds.
• Chris Oestreich is in his second season at Henderson State. The Lady Reddies were 14-13 overall and reached the Great American Conference tournament for the first time since 2006-07.
• 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.

NEXT GAME
• Oklahoma opens its season on the road at Creighton Saturday, Nov. 10., at 1:30 p.m. Central. The radio broadcast will be available on KOKC 1520 AM and live on SoonerSports.com.
• The Bluejays received a vote in the preseason AP poll and are the favorite to win the Missouri Valley Conference title after finishing the 2011-12 season in the NCAA first round with a 69-67 loss to 3-seed St. John's at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.

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 Kornet | Fr. | Guard  • Match game-leading totals for rebounds (8) and steals (3) in OU's exhibition win over Oklahoma Christian on Nov. 1. • Added 14 points in 23 minutes off the bench. • Averaged 8.0 points and 4.0 rebounds in team's four-game Australian tour in August. • Hit four 3-pointers in OU's intrasquad scrimamge en route to 16-point performance.

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.

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 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.

SOONERS POST PERFECT APR SCORE
For the third straight season, OU women's basketball recevied an NCAA Public Regonition Award. This honor is bestowed on teams with an NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate in the top 10 percent of all squads in their respective sports. For the second straight season, bsaed on the 2010-11 academic year, Sherri Coale's Sooners had a perfect Academic Progress Rate (1000).

OU LOSES TWO POSTS IN PRESEASON
Sophomore forward Kaylon Williams will miss the season after rupturing her left Achilles tendon while junior forward/center Lydnsey Cloman's career has ended due to recurring back issues.

Williams suffered her injury during OU's Oct. 16 practice at the Lloyd Noble Center and underwent successful surgery Oct. 18. The recovery period is expected to be six months.

Williams averaged 4.8 points and 5.2 rebounds last year, making 16 starts in her first collegiate season. The Midwest City, Okla., native was the Big 12 freshman leader in rebounds per minutes played and blocks per minutes played in 2011-12.

Cloman averaged 3.2 points and 2.6 rebounds in 50 games as a Sooner.

HAND A SENIOR CLASS AWARD CANDIDATE
Whitney Hand is among the 30 women's college basketball candidates for the 2012-13 Senior CLASS Award.

An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.

The women's Senior CLASS Award winner will be announced during the 2013 NCAA Women's Final Four in New Orleans.

SOONERS PICKED SECOND IN BIG 12 PRESEASON POLL
The University of Oklahoma was picked second in the Big 12 Women's Basketball Preseason Poll released by the conference Wednesday, Oct. 10.

Oklahoma and West Virginia tied for the runner-up spot behind defending national champion Baylor in a vote of the league's coaches.

Baylor was selected as the preseason favorite for the third consecutive year. The Lady Bears received nine of 10 first-place votes. West Virginia received the remaining first-place vote. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own team.

The Sooners have finished the regular season at or better than the preseason prediction in six of the last seven seasons, including four straight years.

Kansas was picked fourth, Texas fifth and Iowa State sixth. Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Kansas State and TCU, respectively, completed the poll.

ELLENBERG AND HAND GAIN PRESEASON RECOGNITION
Oklahoma's Aaryn Ellenberg was named to the five-member Preseason All-Big 12 Women's Basketball Team and Whitney Hand was an honorable mention among awards announced Wednesday by the conference.

Both Sooners were honorable mentions to the preseason team last year and finished the 2011-12 season as All-Big 12 First Team selections.

Ellenberg joined Baylor's Brittney Griner and Odyssey Sims, Iowa State's Chelsea Poppens and Kansas' Angel Goodrich on the preseason team voted by the league's head coaches. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own players.

Asya Bussie (West Virginia), Brittany Chambers (Kansas State), Carolyn Davis (Kansas), Chassidy Fussell (Texas) and Destiny Williams (Baylor) joined Hand as honorable mentions.

Griner was selected the preseason player of the year.