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	Portia Durrett

GAME PREVIEW
• No. 12 Oklahoma opens the regular season on the road Saturday, Nov. 10, against Creighton at D.J. Sokol Arena in Omaha, Neb. Tip-off is 1:30 p.m. Central. The radio broadcast with Mark Kraynak on play-by-play and Colton Coale as color analyst begins at 1:15 p.m. and airs on KREF 1400 AM in Norman.

TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR OU HOME GAMES
• 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 Creighton are meeting for the fourth time. The Sooners are undefeated in the series, picking up wins in the 1985-86, 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons. OU's last matchup with Creighton resulted in a 67-58 win in Omaha on Dec. 20, 2009.
• Creighton received one vote in the preseason AP women's basketball poll and is the favorite to win the Missouri Valley Conference. The Bluejays return four starters from its NCAA tournament team that finished the 2011-12 season with a 69-67 loss to 3-seed St. John's in the first round at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman.
• Jim Flanery is 190-129 (.596) in his 11th season at Creighton.
• 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 hosts UCLA at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. The game will be televised on FS Oklahoma+ and FCS Central. The radio broadcast will air on KOKC 1520 AM.

ABOUT OKLAHOMA
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. Reserve 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  Portia Durrett | Jr. | Forward  • NJCAA First-Team All-American from Walters State (Tenn.) College.  • Led OU in preseason with 21.0 points per game.  • Scored game-high 26 points against Henderson State on Nov. 6.  • Shot 18-for-24 (.750) from field in two exhibition games, including 2-for-3 on 3-pointers.

SCOUTING CREIGHTON
Coming off a 20-13 season, Creighton's fourth in the last five years, the Bluejays are the preseason pick to win the Missouri Valley Conference.

Junior guard Carli Tritz, the 2012 MVC Preseason Player of the Year, is expected to lead the Bluejays this season after posting team highs in points (462), assists (121), steals (64) and field goals (170) last year. Tritz and senior Ally Jensen were named co-captains this season.

Junior Sarah Nelson returns to anchor the posts for the Jays. She led Creighton with 251 rebounds in a breakout sophomore season. Nelson was a two-time MVC Player of the Week and led the Bluejays. She led Creighton in scoring nine times last season and led the Jays in rebounding in 22 contests ... CU's 2012-13 roster includes three freshmen, including local product Brianna Rollerson (Central HS).

Creighton defeated Southwest Minnesota State 90-60 in its lone exhibition game.

OKLAHOMA-CREIGHTON SERIES HISTORY
Oklahoma and Creighton have met three times previously with the Sooners taking all three victories. Coincidentally, all three victories have occured in three of OU's best seasons. The 1985-86 season marked the Sooners' first conference title and trip to the Sweet 16 while OU advanced to the Final Four in the back-to-back seasons of 2008-09 and 2009-10.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Though the Sooners have played 21 of their previous 38 season openers away from home, they have rarely done so in a true road game outside of their home state. OU's trip to Omaha marks just the fifth time the team has opened the season on an opponent's court outside of Oklahoma.

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.