Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowgirls Hit The Road To Face Wichita State
December 03, 1999 | Cowgirl Basketball
Dec. 3, 1999
OKLAHOMA STATE TO PLAY WICHITA STATE: Oklahoma State will travel to Wichita, Kan., this weekend to play the Wichita State Shockers on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 2 p.m. in Levitt Arena. The Cowgirls are 4-2 this season after defeating Southwest Missouri State, 66-58, Thursday night in Gallagher-Iba Arena. WSU is 3-1 and coming off an 86-80 loss to the Texas Christian Horned Frogs in Ft. Worth.
TRAVEL SCHEDULE: Oklahoma State will leave Stillwater via chartered bus at 4 p.m. on Saturday, and arrive in Wichita at approximately 6 p.m. The team will be staying at the Wyndam Gardens Hotel (316.684.1111). The team will return to Stillwater immediately following the game.
THIS WEEK: Oklahoma State will take off a week for finals before hosting Long Beach State on Sunday, Dec. 12, at 1 p.m. in the Myriad in Oklahoma City. The game will be part of a doubleheader with the men's team, who will be hosting San Diego State at approximately 3:30 p.m.
TICKETS AVAILABLE: Tickets are available for the OSU men's and women's basketball doubleheader in Oklahoma City on Dec. 12. The Cowgirls will face Long Beach State at 1 p.m. in the Myriad, and the Cowboys will play San Diego State at 3:30 p.m. For tickets, fans may call Ticket Source at (405) 297-3000 or the OSU ticket office at (877) ALL-4-OSU. Tickets for the Oklahoma City games are $16, $13 and $10. OSU season-ticket holders are encouraged to purchase their tickets through the OSU athletics box office.
Oklahoma State Cowgirls (4-2) at Wichita State Shockers (3-1)
Sunday, Dec. 5, 1999 2 p.m.
Levitt Arena (10,529) Wichita, Kan.
Radio - Stillwater Radio (105.5 FM)
Probable Starters
Pos ## Name Ht. GP-GS PPG RPG APG FG% FT% F 11 Tari Cummings 5-11 6-5 13.5 8.8 1.5 .413 .852 F 22 Kara Faulk 5-11 6-6 10.0 9.0 1.0 .538 .667 G 20 Shelby Hutchens 5-10 6-4 1.7 1.0 0.5 .130 .750 G 32 Chantoya Hawkins 5-5 6-4 8.7 2.5 2.3 .333 .412 G 34 Jennifer Crow 5-9 6-6 19.7 6.8 4.7 .392 .918
INJURY UPDATE: Sophomore guard/forward Mandy Stuber is out for another 3-4 weeks after breaking a bone in her right foot on Nov. 7. She was initially out 6-8 weeks, and will probably be cleared to practice in late-December.
COACH DICK HALTERMAN: Dick Halterman is entering his 17th season as the head coach for the Oklahoma State Cowgirls, and brings with him a 291-189 career mark at OSU. Halterman has guided the Cowgirls to eight postseason appearances in the last 11 years, including seven NCAA Tournament appearances (last in 1996) and one Women's NIT appearance (1998). Under Halterman, 13 Cowgirls have been named first-team all-conference, while 27 student-athletes have achieved first-team academic all-conference status. He is a two-time conference Coach of the Year, and was the District V Coach of the Year in 1991. Halterman has taken two conference All-Star teams abroad, including this past August, when he led the Big 12 All-Stars on a tour of Finland and Sweden. That team finished with a 5-1 record.
HALTERMAN ON RADIO/TV: During the 1999-2000 season, fans can catch up with the Cowgirl head coach on both the radio and television. The Coach Halterman Radio Show will be broadcast every Monday evening from 5:30 - 6 p.m. on KGFY-105.5 FM in Stillwater. The Coach Halterman Television Show will be broadcast on Tuesday's at 7 p.m. on KWEM-TV 31 in Stillwater, which is Channel 3 on Peak Cablevision. Casey Kendrick, program manager at KWEM, will host both the radio and television shows.
COWGIRL BASKETBALL ON THE AIR: Once again during the 1999-2000 season, the Oklahoma State women's basketball games will be broadcast live on KGFY-105.5 FM in Stillwater, part of Stillwater Radio. Kevin Gum, in his 10th season with the Cowgirl broadcast, will handle play-by-play duties, while Casey Kendrick, in his fifth season on the air, will provide color analysis. Fans outside the Stillwater broadcast range will be able to listen to the broadcasts via the internet at www.okstate.com. Gum and Kendrick will be on the air 30 minutes prior to tipoff with pregame analysis, as well as interviews with Coach Halterman and various Cowgirl players.
LAST TIME: Jennifer Crow scored 24 points in leading the Cowgirl basketball team to a 66-58 win over Southwest Missouri State Thursday night. Tari Cummings scored 15 points and added 10 rebounds despite battling the flu. SMS took a six point lead with 12:44 to go in the first half at 13-7. OSU came back and tied the game at 16-16, and went up by as many as nine points with 5:17 left in the first period. The Bears then went on an 8-0 run to end the half down by one at 27-26. OSU came out cold in the second period, and SMS not only took over the lead, but got ahead by as many as eight points with 9:43 to go in the game. The Cowgirls then went on a 7-0 run to lead, 44-43. OSU stayed ahead until there were 56 seconds left in the game, when a Jackie Stiles layup tied the game at 54. A jumper by Crow put the Cowgirls ahead for good, and OSU made 10-of-10 free throws in the final 0:32. "All in all, this is one of the best team efforts that we've ever had," said Coach Dick Halterman. "We had some of our starters that played extremely well. Kara (Faulk) on the boards and Jennifer (Crow) with her all-around game, both offensively and defensively." Stiles, the nation's leading scorer, recorded 29 points for the Bears, leading all scorers. "That's tough when you have to take somebody like her (Stiles) on defense and then try to shoot the ball also. I thought Jennifer did a great job."
WIN OVER SMS SIGNIFICANT: The victory over Southwest Missouri State on Thursday night was significant for several reasons. First, it was just the fourth win in five seasons over a perennial top-20 team of the 1990s. Secondly, it made up for the disappointing 72-69 loss to Tulsa just five days earlier. Third, the Cowgirls held a highly-explosive offense, including the nation's top returning scorer, to 14 points under its season average.
HOME NON-CONFERENCE WINNING STREAK INTACT: With the 66-58 win over Southwest Missouri State, Oklahoma State has won 19 straight home non-conference games, the longest such streak in school history. The Cowgirls are 46-3 in those types of games in the 1990s (74-10 all-time). The only three losses in the 1990s are as follows ... Jan. 25, 1995 - lost to Arkansas, 65-79, Jan. 4, 1992 - lost to UMKC, 58-65, March 14, 1990 - lost to Michigan, 68-77. Here is a list of the current non-conference winning streak ...
Date Opponent Score
02-21-95 Wichita State 86-74
11-25-95 USC 85-55
12-17-95 UC-Irvine 68-45
11-22-96 Southern Utah 97-44
11-23-96 Oral Roberts 70-53
12-15-96 Nicholls State 109-56
11-14-97 Arkansas State 79-49
12-19-97 Southwest Texas 75-62
12-22-97 Western Illinois 88-54
12-29-97 Oral Roberts 92-50
12-30-97 Sam Houston State 75-44
03-15-98 Rice 75-52
11-14-98 SMU 64-57
11-27-98 Northwestern State 88-65
11-28-98 UMKC 77-58
12-02-98 Vanderbilt 67-54
11-15-99 Northern Iowa 73-55
11-19-99 Lamar 68-49
12-02-99 Southwest Missouri State 66-58
CROW BACK FOR FINAL SEASON: Cowgirl Jennifer Crow is back for her final
season in a Cowgirl uniform, and is looking to move up several OSU career
statistical charts. She became the 14th player in school history to record
1,000 points in a career, and she currently ranks seventh on the all-time
points scored list with 1,283. Jennifer needs 99 points to move past Stacy
Coffey for sixth (1,381). She already holds the school record for
three-pointers made (152) and attempted (409) in a career. Jennifer was
named third-team All-Big 12 last season, and was honored as a second-team
Academic All-American her junior year. She ranks 10th in career scoring
average at 13.9 ppg, sixth in free-throw percentage at 81.2 percent, and
fifth in three-point shooting at 37.2 percent. Here is a look at where
Jennifer ranks on several of the school's career statistical charts.
Category Crow's stats needs to surpass Points 7th with 1,283 99 Stacy Coffey (6th with 1,381) Rebounds t17th with 414 5 Amy Scales (16th with 418) Assists 13th with 194 5 Nikki Harmon (12th with 198) Steals 8th with 141 17 Clinette Jordan (7th with 157) Minutes 8th with 2,787 91 Yogi York (7th with 2,873) Free Throws 2nd with 427 176 Clinette Jordan (1st with 602) FT Attempted 4th with 526 5 Stacy Coffey (3rd with 530) Field Goals 15th with 352 2 Althea Cox (14th with 353) FG Attempted t11th with 834 50 Althea Cox (10th with 883) Games Started 18th with 69 9 Shea Jackson (17th with 77)CROW AT THE LINE: Senior Jennifer Crow set an OSU school record vs. Lamar when she was successful on 12-of-12 trips to the free-throw line. She broke the previous record of 10-of-10, set by Crista Troester in 1983, and duplicated four times since, the most recent time by Cheri Edwards in 1998. One game later vs. Tulsa, Jennifer broke her own record by connecting on 13-of-13 free throws. Crow set another school record from the charity stripe by connecting on 30 consecutive free throws. The previous record was 28, set by Jamie Siess in 1987-88. Jennifer made her last three attempts vs. Illinois, then was a perfect 25-of-25 vs. Lamar and Tulsa. She hit her first two vs. Oral Roberts, but then missed her 31st attempt.
TRIO TAKING CHARGE: After six games this season, Oklahoma State has three players averaging in double-figure scoring, and all three are averaging more than six rebounds per game. Jennifer Crow leads the team in scoring, averaging 19.7 points per game, including a career-high 26 vs. Oral Roberts. She is also averaging 6.8 rebounds per contest. Junior Tari Cummings is averaging 13.3 points and 8.8 rebounds per game. Sophomore Kara Faulk is averaging 10.0 ppg and 9.0 boards per game.
OSU IN THE 90s: This decade, Oklahoma State is ranked 41st nationally based on both total wins and by overall winning percentage. OSU is 185-109 in the 1990s, good enough for a .629 winning percentage. The Cowgirls have made six appearances in the NCAA Tournament during the decade, and one trip to the postseason Women's NIT. OSU has finished in the top three at the Conference Tournament seven times since 1990, including tournament titles in 1990 and '91.
OSU-WSU TIES: Oklahoma State's Leah Wahlgren hails from Salina, Kan., approximately an hour north of Wichita. WSU has one player on its roster from the state of Oklahoma, guard/forward Alisha Meyers of Cushing, which is 30 miles southeast of Stillwater. Larry Rankin, the Assistant Athletic Director for media relations at Wichita State was a student/graduate assistant at OSU in the early 1990s, and worked with the women's basketball program. Cowgirl Chantoya Hawkins graduated from Raytown South High School in Raytown, Mo., just 20 miles away from Lee's Summit, Mo., home of WSU's Rachel Diekmann. Also, OSU's most recent signee, Trisha Skibbe, is from Oxford, Kan., approximately 38 miles SSE of Wichita.
SERIES HISTORY WITH WICHITA STATE: OSU leads the all-time series with Wichita State, 7-4, including winning the last three games of the series. The last meeting was on Feb. 21, 1995, when the Cowgirls took an 86-74 win in Gallagher-Iba Arena. The last meeting in Wichita, Kan., was on Dec. 20, 1992, when OSU won, 70-53. In Wichita, the Shockers lead the series, 3-1. Here is a look at the all-time series ...
DATE WINNER SCORE LOCATION
11-23-74 OSU 79-39 Enid, Okla.
12-03-76 WSU 78-61 Wichita, Kan.
01-28-77 OSU 58-39 Stillwater, Okla.
12-18-79 OSU 89-58 Stillwater, Okla.
12-29-79 WSU 71-60 Wichita, Kan.
12-06-80 WSU 76-55 Las Cruces, N.M.
02-23-82 OSU 88-79 Stillwater, Okla.
02-01-83 WSU 66-62 Wichita, Kan.
12-15-84 OSU 74-51 Stillwater, Okla.
12-20-92 OSU 70-53 Wichita, Kan.
02-21-95 OSU 86-74 Stillwater, Okla.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS: Here is a statistical comparison between Sunday's
opponents.
OSU WSU
Overall Record 4-2 3-1
Scoring Offense 67.7 76.8
Scoring Defense 60.3 64.5
Scoring Margin +7.4 +12.3
Field-Goal Pct. 38.4 38.6
Field-Goal Pct. Defense 38.5 37.0
Free-Throw Pct. 77.9 78.4
Rebound Margin +4.0 +6.2
Three-Point FG Pct. 28.0 38.2
Three-Pointers Per Game 4.7 8.2
Turnover Margin +0.0 -2.5
