With a stat line of 19 points, seven assists and one steal in OU's Big 12 semifinal loss to Texas A&M, senior guard Danielle Robinson became only the third player in the history women’s college basketball to score 2,000 points, distribute 700 assists and commit 300 acts of on-court grand larceny in her career.

After four years, it isn’t a fluke. After four years, Robinson didn’t just get lucky. After four years, it is simply an indisputable fact — it’s no longer up for dispute, and no rebuttal will be heard.

Robinson is one of the greatest women’s basketball players of all time.

Going into Sunday's 2011 NCAA tournament opening-round game against James Madison, Oklahoma's captain and leading scorer has amassed a total of 2,085 points, 704 assists and 300 steals.

But if Vegas was taking bets on which collegiate women’s basketball player would be the first to ascend into the same company as basketball legends Nancy Lieberman and Dawn Staley, even money would have likely been the line on Robinson.

Robinson was a name many people knew before she committed to Oklahoma. As a prep senior, she was a McDonalds All-American finalist and Parade All-American fourth-team member.

She came to Norman at the end of a truly amazing four-year period in OU basketball history; a period in which the Paris twins, Courtney and Ashley, rewrote records and forced the NCAA women’s basketball spotlight on a small town some 20 miles outside of Oklahoma City.

As a Sooner, Robinson has been able to find out just how athletically and mentally gifted she is. She has amassed nearly 20 national honors as a college basketball player to date — one of which bears the name of Lieberman.

Lieberman was the first woman ever to reach the 2,000/700/300 benchmark. Lieberman, a graduate of Old Dominion, was once known as the best female basketball player to lace up a pair of high-tops.

During her time with the Monarchs, Lieberman — nicknamed “Lady Magic” — helped lead her team to two national championships. She also led Team USA to gold in the 1975 Pan-American Games and silver in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

Now Lieberman is the only female professional basketball coach in the world who coaches men and the only female to both play and coach men’s professional basketball. She currently coaches the Texas Legends, an NBA minor league franchise in Frisco, Texas.

Lieberman wasn’t given the job as a publicity stunt nor because she was hard up for work; the Brooklyn, N.Y., native was hired because over the course of her 30-year career in professional and international basketball she proved she can flat out play, much like Staley.

Staley hit the 2,000/700/300 benchmark nearly 20 years ago at the University of Virginia. Staley was a member of the U.S. Olympic team from 1996-2004 and helped lead the U.S. to three consecutive gold medals in Atlanta, Sydney and Athens.

As a professional, Staley played eight seasons in the WNBA (1996-2004).

Staley was named the coach of the women’s basketball program at Temple in 2000, where she helped advance the Owls to the postseason in seven of her eight years as coach. In 2008, she was named the coach at South Carolina.

Despite hearing what elite company Robinson has joined with the career mark, a friend of mine still didn’t get it.

“Okay, but how great is she?” he asked.

He wasn’t wrong for asking a question — he was simply asking the wrong question.

What's more important than how great Robinson has been is how she later redefines that greatness.

— RJ Young, professional writing grad student

Oklahoma vs. James Madison
WHEN: 1:30 p.m. Sunday
WHERE: Charlottesville, Va.
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