The OU Athletics Department hasn't made any immediate decisions for how to recognize OU women's basketball star Courtney Paris and her NCAA-record game double-double streak, which ended Monday night, but there will be some sort of commendation, a spokesman in the office said Tuesday.
Paris' streak of 112 games with at least 10 points and 10 rebounds ended Monday night in the No. 2 Sooners' 80-70 win against No. 12 Tennessee at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City when she recorded just 9 points and 12 rebounds. The streak began Dec. 5, 2005 against UCLA and lasted 1,159 days.
Paris was modest when asked her reaction to any sort of recognition, saying in an email she hopes the department would "recognize it as a team accomplishment because that's what it was. There's no way I would have gotten to 112 without the people surrounding me."
Paris, a 6-foot-4 journalism senior from Piedmont, Calif., was a consensus first-team All-American last season and is projected to be one of the first picks if not the first pick in the 2009 WNBA Draft, which is scheduled for April 9 with the Atlanta Dream holding the first overall pick.
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