1997 Houston Comets Statistics

Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Team Record: 18-10
Finishing 1st in the WNBA's Eastern Conference
Postseason: 2-0 Won Championship

Semifinals - Defeated Charlotte Sting 1-0
Finals - Defeated New York Liberty 1-0
Coach: Van Chancellor (18-10)
Location: Houston, Texas
Attendance: 135,844, Avg. 9,703 in 14 home dates

1997 Houston Comets Roster

The Houston Comets of the Women's National Basketball Association ended the 1997 season with a record of 18 wins and 10 losses, finishing first in the WNBA's Eastern Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 2-0.

The Comets scored 2,010 points and surrendered 1,833. Cynthia Cooper tossed in a team-leading 621 points for Houston, while Tina Thompson netted 11 or more per game, too. Tina Thompson contributed 184 boards. Cynthia Cooper dished out 131 assists for the squad.

On defense, Kim Perrot added 69 steals.

Van Chancellor coached the team. The 1997 Houston Comets won the Championship of the playoffs.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Cynthia Cooper	G	28	28	982	406	191	162	67	199	172	33	78	111	131	59	6	109	68	621
Tina Thompson	F	28	28	885	318	133	100	37	80	67	67	117	184	32	21	28	62	107	370
Janeth Arcain	G	28	27	784	250	110	33	9	85	76	41	69	110	45	43	4	67	56	305
Kim Perrot	G	28	24	692	162	59	99	28	37	15	18	57	75	88	69	2	65	53	161
Wanda Guyton	F	25	25	668	122	57	0	0	68	38	76	60	136	12	26	8	43	83	152
Tammy Jackson	F-C	28	3	545	110	45	1	0	41	25	42	74	116	12	45	10	49	84	115
Fran Harris	G	25	1	369	107	37	24	8	31	22	16	40	56	25	17	3	29	27	104
Tiffany Woosley	G	26	4	397	88	29	50	16	8	2	8	20	28	29	18	1	30	19	76
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	9	0	129	53	25	16	4	14	10	6	9	15	7	7	4	4	5	64
Catarina Pollini	F	13	0	94	22	8	0	0	12	6	3	9	12	5	4	1	8	21	22
Yolanda Moore	F	13	0	93	20	5	0	0	12	6	6	7	13	1	1	0	7	9	16
Pietra Gay	G-F	5	0	12	2	1	0	0	5	2	0	3	3	2	1	0	4	3	4
Totals		256	140	5650	1660	700	485	169	592	441	316	543	859	389	311	67	477	535	2010

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Cynthia Cooper	G	28	28	35.1	47.0	41.4	86.4	1.2	2.8	4.0	4.7	2.1	0.2	3.9	2.4	22.2
Tina Thompson	F	28	28	31.6	41.8	37.0	83.8	2.4	4.2	6.6	1.1	0.8	1.0	2.2	3.8	13.2
Janeth Arcain	G	28	27	28.0	44.0	27.3	89.4	1.5	2.5	3.9	1.6	1.5	0.1	2.4	2.0	10.9
Kim Perrot	G	28	24	24.7	36.4	28.3	40.5	0.6	2.0	2.7	3.1	2.5	0.1	2.3	1.9	5.8
Wanda Guyton	F	25	25	26.7	46.7		55.9	3.0	2.4	5.4	0.5	1.0	0.3	1.7	3.3	6.1
Tammy Jackson	F-C	28	3	19.5	40.9	0.0	61.0	1.5	2.6	4.1	0.4	1.6	0.4	1.8	3.0	4.1
Fran Harris	G	25	1	14.8	34.6	33.3	71.0	0.6	1.6	2.2	1.0	0.7	0.1	1.2	1.1	4.2
Tiffany Woosley	G	26	4	15.3	33.0	32.0	25.0	0.3	0.8	1.1	1.1	0.7	0.0	1.2	0.7	2.9
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	9	0	14.3	47.2	25.0	71.4	0.7	1.0	1.7	0.8	0.8	0.4	0.4	0.6	7.1
Catarina Pollini	F	13	0	7.2	36.4		50.0	0.2	0.7	0.9	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.6	1.6	1.7
Yolanda Moore	F	13	0	7.2	25.0		50.0	0.5	0.5	1.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.5	0.7	1.2
Pietra Gay	G-F	5	0	2.4	50.0		40.0	0.0	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.8	0.6	0.8
Averages		256	140	22.1	42.2	34.8	74.5	1.2	2.1	3.4	1.5	1.2	0.3	1.9	2.1	7.9

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Cynthia Cooper	G	2	2	77	30	16	10	4	27	20	1	8	9	9	3	1	7	3	56
Tina Thompson	F	2	2	74	21	9	5	2	10	6	8	10	18	3	2	1	6	5	26
Janeth Arcain	G	2	2	70	27	9	3	1	2	2	7	8	15	1	1	0	1	4	21
Kim Perrot	G	2	2	76	22	5	14	3	4	3	2	7	9	4	6	0	9	5	16
Tammy Jackson	F-C	2	1	60	8	5	0	0	6	4	4	11	15	0	4	1	0	7	14
Wanda Guyton	F	1	1	23	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	4	0	0	0	0	4	2
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	2	0	14	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	0	1	0	1	0
Yolanda Moore	F	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Tiffany Woosley	G	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals		15	10	400	115	45	34	10	49	35	25	48	73	17	16	4	24	30	135

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Cynthia Cooper	G	2	2	38.5	53.3	40.0	74.1	0.5	4.0	4.5	4.5	1.5	0.5	3.5	1.5	28.0
Tina Thompson	F	2	2	37.0	42.9	40.0	60.0	4.0	5.0	9.0	1.5	1.0	0.5	3.0	2.5	13.0
Janeth Arcain	G	2	2	35.0	33.3	33.3	100.0	3.5	4.0	7.5	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.5	2.0	10.5
Kim Perrot	G	2	2	38.0	22.7	21.4	75.0	1.0	3.5	4.5	2.0	3.0	0.0	4.5	2.5	8.0
Tammy Jackson	F-C	2	1	30.0	62.5		66.7	2.0	5.5	7.5	0.0	2.0	0.5	0.0	3.5	7.0
Wanda Guyton	F	1	1	23.0	50.0			2.0	2.0	4.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.0	2.0
Sheryl Swoopes	F-G	2	0	7.0	0.0	0.0		0.5	1.0	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.5	0.0
Yolanda Moore	F	1	0	3.0				0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
Tiffany Woosley	G	1	0	3.0				0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
Averages		256	10	26.7	39.1	29.4	71.4	1.7	3.2	4.9	1.1	1.1	0.3	1.6	2.0	9.0