Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowgirls Open Homestand Against West Virginia
January 28, 2013 | Cowgirl Basketball
Jan. 28, 2013
No. 19/11 Oklahoma State Cowgirls
15-3 overall; 4-3 Big 12
vs.
West Virginia Mountaineers
11-8 overall; 3-5 Big 12
Game 19
Tuesday :: Jan. 29, 2013 :: 7:00 p.m. CST
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)
What 2 Watch 4
• Oklahoma State's women's basketball team will begin a three-game homestand on Tuesday at 7 p.m. when West Virginia comes to town.
• OSU has won 24 consecutive games in which four players have scored in double figures. OSU has achieved the feat in 13 of its 15 wins this season.
• Toni Young has scored in double figures in 26-straight games for the Cowgirls.
• Tiffany Bias is nine assists away from becoming just the third Cowgirl to reach 500 for her career.
• Bias is also 25 points from becoming OSU's 20th 1,000-point scorer.
• Liz Donohoe has made 40-straight free throws and is tied for the school record set by Andrea Riley in 2006. (Don't tell her and jinx the no-hitter!)
• Donohoe and Riley's strings are tied for 14th all time in NCAA history. Colorado's Kate Fagan holds the Big 12 record at 44 (2002-03), while the OSU men's record is 43 set by Joe Smith in 1967.
• The Cowgirls have assisted on 328 of their 550 field goals (60 percent) thus far.
• OSU is ranked in the top 10 in seven NCAA team statistical categories.
• All four of OSU's league wins have been by double figures.
Know The Foe
• West Virginia has lost three in a row after its 53-49 loss on Saturday against Iowa State.
• The Mountaineers are 3-2 on the road this season, including a 1-2 Big 12 mark.
• West Virginia will be making its second trip to Stillwater and first since Dec. 29, 2000.
• Four of WVU's five Big 12 losses have been by four points or less.
• Taylor Palmer is fourth in the league in 3-point field-goal percentage (.361) and fourth in 3-pointers made per game at 2.3.
OSU vs. WVU-- The Series
• OSU and WVU split the two previous meetings.
• The Mountaineers began the series with an 80-76 win in Charleston, West Virginia on Dec. 31, 1999.
• The Cowgirls won the most recent meeting, 95-62, on Dec. 29, 2000 in Stillwater.
Kansas Leftovers
• The win was OSU's fourth in a row in Lawrence.
• The victory gave OSU its first regular-season sweep of the Jayhawks since 1991.
• Toni Young grabbed 15 boards to reach the 900-rebound plateau for her career.
• Young posted her 29th career double-double.
• Tiffany Bias played all 40 minutes for the fifth time this season.
