NORMAN (AP) — For a player who’s filled up the record books and won plenty of individual accolades, there’s one obvious line missing from Courtney Paris’ impressive resume. She’s never played in the Final Four.

Oklahoma’s record-setting double-double machine has accomplished just about everything else. She’s an All-America center and former AP national player of the year, for starters, but the honors don’t quite satisfy her.

“The funny part of it is, I knew there was All-American and all the little awards, but I never thought about them. I came here and I thought, ’I want to win a national championship.’ I’ve gotten all that other stuff, but what I really want is the big one,” Paris said.

“I want my team to go to the Final Four, and I don’t want to go there by myself this year.”

Paris has experienced the Final Four as an individual, picking up trophies for the annual honors that have come her way as she has averaged 21.4 points and 15.3 rebounds in her first three seasons. Her unbelievable streak of 92 straight double-doubles is still alive, but that’s not what is on her mind as the season nears.

“There’s a different kind of urgency, and maybe I feel that a little bit more personally since it’s my senior year and it’s my last time around here,” Paris said. “I came to Oklahoma to win the national championship. I know that personally is what’s pushing me through this year.”

With the pressure that could come with that final, all-or-nothing chance, Paris took the opportunity this summer to get away from her usual day-to-day existence as the face of women’s basketball in Norman.

Having missed out on the Olympics, she didn’t have a national basketball team to play on for the first time since she was 15. So, she spent her summer reading books, going on a bass fishing trip with her dad and traveling back home to California, where she could blend in better without escaping from basketball entirely.

Back in the gym where she became a McDonald’s All-American phenom, Paris got back to basics with Piedmont High School coach Bryan Gardere.

“For me and my mental state, I needed to get away from basketball a little bit and then also at the same time get more into the little things that I did before I got here that allowed me to be so successful,” Paris said.

“I mean, I didn’t walk into Oklahoma top-notch, ready to go just luckily. There was a lot of people that put a lot of time into me, and my high-school coach is one of those guys. Just being back in a gym with him one-on-one and working on my game in that atmosphere was huge for me, and I needed that.”

Gardere made Paris re-examine her shot — she often puts back her own misses from point-blank range — and showed her film on Minnesota Timberwolves forward Al Jefferson and WNBA star Lisa Leslie that was focused on improving her footwork.

Local college players would occasionally stop by, but much of the work involved just Paris and her former coach. Gardere also made a trip to Norman to work with Paris and her twin sister, Ashley.

“I feel a really good connection with my high-school coach, and he’s one of the guys who has made me the confident player I am,” Paris said. “So, it was cool to get back to something that’s comfortable and that really works for me, and to take that and kind of push my way through this year.”