This has been a disappointing season for Oklahoma’s women’s basketball team. The question that will be answered in the next week is has the year been a total disaster?

     A couple of year ago everyone was talking about Courtney Paris. In fact, people are still talking about one of the most dominating players who has been a part of the women’s college game. She is simply amazing.  However,  if you look back now, OU coach Sherri Coale should have been able to recruit some of the top guards in the country when Paris was a freshman.

     Why wouldn’t you want to be a guard and play with Paris? Opponents are always putting two or three defenders on her. If you are a guard, you’re going to get wide open shots. But the big=time shooting guaard never came to OU.

     Well, the Sooner became more athletic in their recruiting class. But the players they brought in just weren’t that talented of a basketball player. You may be a great athlete, but it means little if you can’t shoot the ball.

     And that’s the problems the Sooners have had most of the season. They just don’t have players that can hit a jump shot. Other teams are going to let Paris do her thing, but they believe it’s a pretty easy job to shut down everyone else.

     You’re not going to beat a lot of good teams if you can’t hit an open jump shot. This Oklahoma team can not hit the perimeter shot. It’s been a glaring weakness most of the campaign.

     It will help Oklahoma in NCAA play that it will go against teams that it hasn’t faced before. Still, every scouting report will say, let Courtney have her points and just shut down the rest of those players and you win.

     Let’s see what happens to this Sooner team in NCAA play. The expectations can’t be real high right now. If you can’t shoot the ball, you’re not going to beat high quality teams. And that’s a major problem OU faces at this moment.