Sherri Coale
Sherri Coale
Sherri Kay Coale is the current head coach of the University of Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team...
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The Big 12 Conference lost a lot of talented players to graduation, but there are a lot of new names. It's kind of a changing of the guard. It is a very talented freshman group.
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It's a tough field. Obviously there's a lot of tradition and a lot of prominence in women's basketball represented here. It bodes well for high-caliber games.
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It's a called play. It makes the defenders chose between Courtney and our 3-point shooter. We know we're not just Courtney. That's why we were 16-0 in the conference.
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It is perhaps a new turn for our game, but I've never been enamored with it. In terms of the game, you just get two points for it. I'm not discounting the dunk. It's just that there are so many other fantastic things that can happen on a basketball court.
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What a great preparatory environment for postseason play. We're going to get all the energy and passion and emotion from an Elite Eight game that sends you to the Final Four or the atmosphere of a Final Four. It will be absolutely alive in there.
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We're quite different. When these guys are getting a rebound a minute ... it changes everything.
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Was I afraid of losing? Not so much, I thought we had a good lead. Our bench play is better than what we showed today.
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Today we had a combination of playing really, really hard and the ball going in the basket, particularly from 3-point range. When you do those two things together, scores can blow up pretty quickly.
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We don't have people who just come in and maintain the status quo. They create something, and that's a bonus.
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We probably set the game back about 15 years with our turnovers.
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That's what makes you a good team. I feel like we have a lot of guys who can answer.
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You don't think you're going to win by that kind of margin going into the Sweet 16. More than sending a message to other teams, it sends a message to us.
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This might have been our best team effort.
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There isn't a physical prototype that preceded (Courtney). You have to look at the men's game and talk about comparisons to Shaq, how his frame and his ability transcended the game as we know it. She has the potential to have that kind of impact.