Coach Baranczyk Named National Coach of the Year

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Coach Baranczyk Named National Coach of the Year

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https://soonersports.com/news/2022/4/5/ ... -year.aspx

BARANCZYK HONORED AS NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR
NORMAN – Following one of the top turnarounds in the country in just her first year at the helm, Oklahoma head women's basketball coach Jennie Baranczyk was named the National Head Coach of the Year by World Exposure Report, the publication announced Tuesday.

In her first season in Norman, Baranczyk orchestrated a 13-win improvement from the 2020-21 season and led the Sooners to their first NCAA Tournament since 2018. In the tournament, Oklahoma was awarded the No. 4 seed in the Bridgeport Regional and hosted NCAA Tournament games for the first time since 2012, advancing to the second round for the first time since 2017.

Baranczyk guided the Sooners into the AP Top 25 for the first time in nearly five years as the Crimson and Cream rose as high as No. 12 and finished the season ranked 22nd. Oklahoma posted 25 wins for the first time since 2009-10, and the 13-win jump was the second-largest in school history. Known for fostering high-powered offenses, Baranczyk's inaugural Sooner squad tallied 82.6 points per game, the fourth-most in OU history behind a school-record 316 3-pointers.

The Sooners rattled off four top-25 wins, the most for a first-year head coach in program history, including a regular-season sweep of Baylor – OU's first since 2009. An overtime win over then-No. 16 BYU and a buzzer-beating win vs. No. 9 Texas made Baranczyk the only OU coach to beat Texas and Baylor in their first season. The four top-25 victories marked the most for an OU team since 2009-10, and the back-to-back wins over Baylor and Texas secured the first consecutive top-10 wins in nearly 20 years.

The Des Moines, Iowa, product and her staff coached Taylor Robertson and Madi Williams to All-America honorable mentions from multiple organizations as the two became the first Sooner pair in 10 years to earn first-team All-Big 12 selections. The two were finalists for their respective positional awards, with Robertson a finalist for the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award and Williams a finalist for the Cheryl Miller Award. In addition, Skylar Vann became the first Sooner ever to average 11.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists off the bench en route to Big 12 Sixth Player of the Year honors.

Oklahoma became the second Big 12 women's basketball program ever to have four different players win conference player of the week accolades as Williams, Robertson, Vann and Ana Llanusa all claimed the award. Big 12 All-Freshman team honoree Kelbie Washington was the USBWA National Freshman of the Week following a record-breaking performance vs. Wichita State.

Baranczyk, who arrived in Norman in 2021 after nine years at Drake, was the 2017 ESPN Mid-Major Coach of the Year and two-time Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year. Her first OU team reached 20 wins faster than all but two Sooner teams in school history. Oklahoma's appearance in the NCAA Tournament marked Baranczyk's seventh postseason appearance (4th NCAA) in her 10 years as a head coach.

The Sooners, led by Baranczyk, are slated to return nearly their entire roster in 2022-23 and were tabbed as the No. 10 team in the country by ESPN in the Way-Too-Early Top 25 poll released earlier this week.

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Post by OUBeliever56A »

Here is the staff writers article about the award.

https://soonersports.com/news/2022/4/5/ ... -year.aspx

Congratulations to Coach Baranczyk!

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Post by AustinTXSooner »

Well deserved. Maybe some day she'll be worthy of Big XII Conference Coach of the Year. That time might be running out.
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Post by TN Sooner »

If there is ANY viable option, no Sooner (or Longhorn) is winning any remaining major big 12 award.

The exceptions are when the shun would be so obvious as to be blatantly stupid. Examples - KJ and the Gym team and Gasso and the softball team.
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