Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowgirl Basketball Set To Take On Missouri
January 04, 2005 | Cowgirl Basketball
Oklahoma State's women's basketball team (5-5) will look to tally its first back-to-back wins of the season on Wednesday when it travels to Columbia, Mo. to take on the Missouri Tigers (6-5) at 7 p.m. inside Mizzou Arena. The Cowgirls are coming off a 62-48 win on Sunday over Texas-Pan American, while the Tigers are fresh off a 67-50 win over Saint Louis over the weekend.
ABOUT MISSOURI
Missouri brings a two-game winning streak into Wednesday's contest after picking up wins at Miami (Ohio) on Dec. 31 and Sunday's 17-point win over Saint Louis. The Tigers are 3-2 in their first season of competition in the 15,000-seat Mizzou Arena, recording wins over Evansville, Mississippi Valley State and the aforementioned win over Saint Louis. Mizzou has three players scoring in double figures led by junior Christelle N'Garsanet's 13.4 points per outing and joined by junior guard LaToya Bond (12.7 ppg) and sophomore guard Tiffany Brooks (11.0 ppg). N'Garsanet is also pulling a team-high 6.5 rebounds per game, while Bond has distributed a squad-leading 44 assists.
OSU AND MISSOURI—THE SERIES
This week's contest will be the 46th between the Cowgirls and Tigers with Mizzou holding a 25-20 lead after sweeping both meetings a year ago. The Tigers claimed a 71-46 victory in Stillwater during the regular season before picking up a 75-52 win in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament.The Cowgirls last win in the series came two years ago in the first round of the conference tournament.
WHAT 2 WATCH 4
A Cowgirl win would mark the second consecutive season they would have opened conference play with a win ... a win would be OSU's first in a conference road opener since winning at Texas A&M on Jan. 8, 2000 ... a Cowgirl victory would snap a two-game losing streak overall against Missouri and a three-game losing skid in Columbia with OSU's last road win in the series coming in 1997.
