2000–01 Southwest Missouri State Lady Bears basketball team

2000–01 Southwest Missouri State Lady Bears basketball
2000–01 Southwest Missouri State Lady Bears basketball
MVC tournament champions; MVC regular season co-champions
NCAA tournament, Final Four
Conference	Missouri Valley Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 4
AP	No. 15
Record	29–6 (16–2 MVC)
Head coach	Cheryl Burnett (14th season);
Assistant coaches	Marla Douglass; Jim Middleton; Lynette Robinson;
Home arena	Hammons Student Center
	Seasons ← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

2000–01 Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 15 SW Missouri State †	16	–	2	.889	29	–	6	.829
Drake	16	–	2	.889	23	–	7	.767
Northern Iowa	12	–	6	.667	18	–	11	.621
Creighton	11	–	7	.611	17	–	11	.607
Evansville	8	–	10	.444	13	–	15	.464
Wichita State	8	–	10	.444	10	–	17	.370
Indiana State	7	–	11	.389	10	–	18	.357
Bradley	5	–	13	.278	10	–	17	.370
Southern Illinois	4	–	14	.222	7	–	20	.259
Illinois State	3	–	15	.167	5	–	22	.185


† 2001 MVC tournament winner Rankings from AP poll

The 2000–01 Southwest Missouri State Lady Bears basketball team represented Southwest Missouri State University during the 2000–01 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lady Bears, led by 14th-year head coach Cheryl Burnett, played their home games at Hammons Student Center and were members of the Missouri Valley Conference.

They finished the season 29–6 and 16–2 in conference play to tie for the regular season MVC title. As the number two seed in the conference tournament, they defeated Indiana State, Northern Iowa, and Drake to take home the MVC tournament championship. They received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament and were assigned the No. 5 seed in the West region. They defeated No. 12 seed Toledo, No. 4 seed Rutgers, No. 1 seed Duke, and No. 6 seed Washington to reach the second Final Four in program history. The Lady Bears were defeated by Purdue in the National semifinals.^[1]

Southwest Missouri State spent the entire season ranked in both major polls. The team was ranked in the top 15 for nine weeks, and had a final ranking in the Coaches poll of No. 4.

Roster

2000–01 Missouri State Bears women's basketball team

Players

Coaches

Pos.	#	Name	Height	Year	Previous school	Hometown
G	10	Jackie Stiles (C)	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Sr	Claflin	Claflin, Kansas

Head coach

Cheryl Burnett (Kansas)

Assistant coach(es)

Marla Douglass
Jim Middleton
Lynette Robinson

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible
(W) Walk-on

Injured
Current redshirt

Roster

Schedule

Source:^[2]^[3]

Date time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site (attendance) city, state
Regular season
Dec 1, 2000*	No. 18	at No. 19 Oklahoma	L 82–89	4–2	Lloyd Noble Center Norman, Oklahoma
Dec 7, 2000*	No. 18	Iowa	W 101–87	6–2	Hammons Student Center Springfield, Missouri
Dec 16, 2000*	No. 21	No. 17 Oklahoma	W 69–61	7–2	Hammons Student Center Springfield, Missouri
Dec 30, 2000	No. 16	at Creighton	W 84–59	8–2 (1–0)	Omaha Civic Auditorium Omaha, Nebraska
Jan 1, 2001	No. 16	at Drake	L 63–66	8–3 (1–1)	Veterans Memorial Auditorium Des Moines, Iowa
Jan 29, 2001*	No. 20	at Western Kentucky	L 69–74	15–4	E. A. Diddle Arena Bowling Green, Kentucky
Feb 11, 2001	No. 18	Evansville	W 91–65	18–4 (12–1)	Hammons Student Center Springfield, Missouri
Feb 16, 2001	No. 18	Bradley	W 81–55	19–4 (13–1)	Hammons Student Center Springfield, Missouri
Feb 18, 2001	No. 18	at Northern Iowa	L 80–99	19–5 (13–2)	UNI-Dome Cedar Falls, Iowa
Feb 25, 2001	No. 21	at Wichita State	W 89–85 ^OT	20–5 (14–2)	Levitt Arena Wichita, Kansas
Mar 1, 2001	No. 18	Creighton	W 94–59	21–5 (15–2)	Hammons Student Center Springfield, Missouri
Mar 3, 2001	No. 18	Drake	W 87–63	22–5 (16–2)	Hammons Student Center Springfield, Missouri
MVC tournament
Mar 8, 2001*	(2) No. 16	(7) Indiana State Quarterfinals	W 92–63	23–5	Hammons Student Center Springfield, Missouri
Mar 9, 2001*	(2) No. 16	(3) Northern Iowa Semifinals	W 86–54	24–5	Hammons Student Center Springfield, Missouri
Mar 10, 2001*	(2) No. 16	(1) Drake Championship game	W 84–69	25–5	Hammons Student Center Springfield, Missouri
NCAA tournament
Mar 17, 2001*	(5 W) No. 15	vs. (12 W) Toledo First round	W 89–71	26–5	Louis Brown Athletic Center Piscataway, NJ
Mar 19, 2001*	(5 W) No. 15	at (4 W) No. 11 Rutgers Second round	W 60–53	27–5	Louis Brown Athletic Center Piscataway, NJ
Mar 24, 2001*	(5 W) No. 15	vs. (1 W) No. 5 Duke Regional Semifinal – Sweet Sixteen	W 81–71	28–5	Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, WA
Mar 26, 2001*	(5 W) No. 15	vs. (6 W) Washington Regional Final – Elite Eight	W 104–87	29–5	Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, WA
Mar 30, 2001*	(5 W) No. 15	vs. (3 ME) No. 9 Purdue National Semifinal – Final Four	L 64–81	29–6	Savvis Center St. Louis, Missouri
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. MW=Midwest. All times are in Central Time.