Summitt was an icon and an institution in women’s basketball. She coached for 38 seasons and won 1,098 games and eight NCAA championships during her legendary coaching career.
The Sooners played Summitt’s Volunteer teams a number of times over the years, but perhaps the most memorable in Coale’s 20 seasons at the helm of the OU women’s program occurred in 2009 in Courtney Paris’ final season at Oklahoma.
Oklahoma won that game, 80-70. The game was memorable for three main reasons. First of all, it was a Sooner victory over one of the top teams and coaching staffs in women’s college basketball.