The recent Olympics have really given Women's basketball a major boost, I would expect to see many of UT's past greats show up on the newly forming Women's Pro basketball league. My alltime favoite UT Lady Runnin' Horns: Lyssa McBride, the 3 point shooter from a few years ago and Andrea Lloyd, who I believe is playing in Italy now. The team showed a lot of promise last year, I'm not yet up on what they are looking like this season.

Another summitt meeting is coming up. The women's basketball programs at UT and UT have been mirror images for the last 20 or so years. Both wear orange, UT Austin's is burnt. The two teams have played 17 times since 1982 in the regular season and they meet again this Saturday at the Erwin Center in Austin. I plan on being there. I plan on carefully watching how each of these coaches steers it's team. Texas is ranked 16th (4-0) and Tennessee (7-2) is ranked 5th nationally. So Jody is going to *have* to outcoach Pat Summitt to win this game or even come close. Career wins: 675 Jody Conradt Texas 596 Pat Summitt Tenneessee 578 Bob Spencer Fresno State 533 Vivian Stringer Rutgers 522 Sue Gunter LSU 508 Kay Yow NC State 495 Marynell Meadows FL State 474 Theresa Grentz Illinois 465 Rene Portland Penn State 457 Sylvia Hatchell NC Texas has a 7-10 record against Tennessee. The Showdown: Saturday December 28th at the Irwin Center. Tennessee played Stanford today, anyone know the outcome?

I went to the Lady Horns game against Tenneessee. The whole game was gripping. The Horns just kept climbing back in again and again. They hustled, scratched, scraped, clawed and fought the whole game against a physical Tennessee team. Jody's substitution patterns were brilliant. And it all boiled down to a missed shot by Angela Jackson in the final seconds (not to take anything away from Angela, who kept them in the game on numerous occasions). They came sooooooo close.

Like her teammates, senior Kala Bowers will likely hear boos from the Sooner crowd as Texas (10-6, 3-2) travels to Norman for the first meeting with Oklahoma (11-5, 3-2) tonight. In addition to some horns-down gestures, Bowers will have a few pointed fans yell in her direction. That's fine by her - she'll also have her own cheering section amid the crimson and cream. "They definitely hate Texas - sometimes I'll hear someone yell 'traitor' or stupid stuff like that," Bowers said. "But pretty much everyone from home that knows me cheers for me, though not necessarily Texas." The Woodward, Okla., native returns to the Sooner State today four years removed from leaving as the consensus Oklahoma Player of the Year. The 6-foot-2-inch guard/forward chose to relocate her versatile game to Austin, and fans at Oklahoma have not forgiven her since. "They give her a hard time, and she handles that well," head coach Jody Conradt said. "Most of the people from her home town come and cheer for her, and they make up the majority of the people yelling for Texas."