Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowgirls Set To Battle Third-ranked Texas
January 20, 2004 | Cowgirl Basketball
Oklahoma State's women's basketball team (6-9 overall, 1-3 Big 12) travels to Austin on Wednesday to take on third-ranked Texas (15-2, 3-1) at 7 p.m. The Cowgirls will be looking to snap a three-game losing streak, while the Longhorns enter the contest fresh off a 67-45 home win over Iowa State on Saturday.
SCOUTING THE LONGHORNS
The Longhorns opened the season with seven consecutive wins, including an 85-77 win against Duke, before suffering their first loss of the season at Penn State. UT then reeled off another seven-game string that included wins at Tennessee and conference wins at Kansas and against Oklahoma. The Longhorns suffered their first conference defeat at Baylor on Jan. 14 before bouncing back against ISU. Four players are averaging double figures in the scoring column with Heather Schreiber leading the way at 13.1 ppg. Freshman Tiffany Jackson, a high school teammate of Cowgirl Destanie Sykes, is second on the squad with 12.1 points and leads the squad with 7.9 boards per outing. UT owns a 14-3 edge in the all-time series after winning the last seven contests against the Cowgirls. OSU is 1-7 all-time in Austin with its lone win coming in 1998.
UP NEXT
The Cowgirls will return home to take on Texas Tech on Saturday at 2 p.m. inside Gallagher-Iba Arena. On Jan. 10, the then No. 1-ranked Lady Raiders defeated the Cowgirls 106-43 in front of 15,050 fans inside United Spirit Arena in Lubbock. Tech enters the week 16-1 overall and 2-1 in conference play.
WHAT 2 WATCH 4
The Longhorns are the fourth of five consecutive nationally-ranked opponents for the Cowgirls ... an OSU win would be their second conference road win under Goodenough and first since last season at Texas A&M (2-26-03) ... Trisha Skibbe enters the contest one rebound shy of tying Jamie Seiss for fourth on the school's career rebounding chart and one double-double away from tying Seiss for third all-time in school history.
LAST TIME OUT
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) --Caton Hill scored 15 points and Dionnah Jackson added 14 in No. 15 Oklahoma's 87-37 victory over Oklahoma State on Saturday. Oklahoma (13-2, 3-1 Big 12) scored the first nine points and quickly pulled away. Oklahoma State (6-9, 1-3) failed to make consecutive field goals in the game. The Cowgirls turned the ball over 12 times and made only four of 20 field goals in the first half as Oklahoma built a 42-12 lead. The Sooners shot only 33 percent in the half, but outrebounded OSU 32-12 and had seven steals. The Sooners started the second half on a 21-6 run and OSU was never closer than 30 points after halftime. The 50-point final margin was Oklahoma's largest lead of the game. Sooners coach Sherri Coale rested her starters much of the second half, but Oklahoma continued to pull away. Oklahoma outrebounded OSU 62-28. The Cowgirls' 12 first-half points were the second-lowest total allowed by Oklahoma in a half. The Sooners held Texas A&M to 11 points in the first half Jan. 26, 2002.
