Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowgirls Prepare To Battle Nationally Ranked Texas
February 06, 2004 | Cowgirl Basketball
Oklahoma State's women's basketball team (8-12 overall, 3-6 Big 12) hosts nationally ranked Texas (20-2, 8-1) at 2 p.m. on Saturday and will be looking to end a two-game losing streak. The Cowgirls are coming off a 65-52 loss at Texas A&M, while the Longhorns are fresh off an 89-55 win over Missouri on Tuesday. Saturday's contest will be the first of three Cowgirl games televised by Fox Sports Net this season. Bill Land will handle the play-by-play duties with Brenda VanLengen providing the expert analysis.
SCOUTING THE LONGHORNS
The Longhorns enter Saturday's contest atop the Big 12 standings and in the midst of a six-game winning streak. UT possesses a high-powered offensive attack that is averaging 77.8 points per game and has four players scoring in double figures. Junior Heather Schreiber and freshman Tiffany Jackson lead the squad in scoring at 13.1 points apiece and Jackson is the Horns' leading rebounder, pulling 7.8 caroms per game. UT has not lost since a 78-64 setback on Jan. 14 at Baylor. The Longhorns won the first meeting against OSU on Jan. 21 in Austin, posting a 67-45 win for their eighth consecutive win in the series. UT owns a 15-3 advantage all-time and has won three consecutive games in Stillwater after erasing a 12-point deficit in the second half to escape with a 72-70 win last season.
UP NEXT
The Cowgirls will travel to Lincoln, Neb., to take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Connie Yori's club has already improved on last season's win total by six games and enters the weekend with a 14-6 record. Nebraska holds a 26-23 margin in the all-time series after last year's 73-59 win in Stillwater. OSU won the last meeting in Lincoln, 72-66, in 2002.
WHAT 2 WATCH 4
A Cowgirl win would be its second consecutive against a top-five opponent ... an OSU win would surpass both its overall and conference win totals from a year ago ... an OSU win would be its third of the season over a ranked opponent ... a win on Saturday would be OSU's first televised win (0-8) under Goodenough.
LAST TIME OUT
Oklahoma State's women's basketball team suffered its second consecutive defeat on Wednesday night, falling 65-52 to Texas A&M in front of 2,228 fans inside Reed Arena. The Aggies won their first-ever Big 12 game under head coach Gary Blair, improving to 8-12 overall and 1-8 in conference play. The loss snapped OSU's six-game winning streak against the Aggies in College Station. Texas A&M raced out to a 37-23 lead in the first half and never looked back, getting a combined 26 points from Toccara Williams and Tamea Scales. The duo finished with 40 points in the contest with Williams adding 11 assists and Scales grabbing 11 rebounds. For the Cowgirls, Trisha Skibbe scored 11 first-half points on her way to the fifth double-double in her last seven games against the Aggies. The Oxford, Kan., native recorded a team-high 18 points while pulling a game-high 12 boards. The Aggies scored 20 points off of 27 Cowgirl turnovers and built their lead to as many as 18 in the second half. Williams, the league leader in steals took advantage of A&M's full-court pressure, recording four steals.
