Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowgirls Travel To Lubbock To Take On Lady Raiders
February 21, 2014 | Cowgirl Basketball
Feb. 21, 2014
Oklahoma State Cowgirls
20-5 overall; 9-5 Big 12
No. 12 AP, No. 12 USA Today Coaches
Head Coach Jim Littell (Southwestern College, 1977)
3rd Year at OSU (63-28); 3rd Year Overall (63-28)
vs.
Texas Tech Lady Raiders
6-19 overall; 0-14 Big 12
NR-AP, NR-USA Today Coaches
Head Coach Candi Whitaker (Texas Tech, 2002)
7th Year Overall (83-112); 1st Year at Tech (6-19)
Game 26
Sunday :: Feb. 23, 2014 :: 2 p.m. (CST)
Lubbock, Texas
United Spirit Arena (15,098)
What 2 Watch 4
• The Cowgirls will be on the road for the second game in a row when they travel to Lubbock, Texas to face Texas Tech at 2 p.m on Sunday.
• The contest will be televised by FSN with Bob Licht and Brenda VanLengen on the call.
• OSU is seeking its fifth Big 12 road win, which would be its most since winning six in 2008.
• The Cowgirls will be attempting to snap a three-game road losing streak after their midweek setback at West Virginia.
• OSU will be looking for its 10th league victory, which would be its first double-digit win total since winning 11 times in Big 12 play in 2007-08.
• Tiffany Bias has played 40 minutes in 10 of OSU's 14 Big 12 games this season.
• Bias has played 40 minutes in 19 of her last 24 Big 12 games and has 35 40-minute career outings.
• Bias is also slated to make her 103rd consecutive
start, a string that dates back to her freshman year.
• Bias has 279 career steals and is tied for 10th place on the league's all-time list with KU's Lynn Pride. She is nine shy of catching Andrea Riley.
Know The Foe
• Texas Tech is seekings its first Big 12 win under first-year head coach Candi Whitaker.
• Tech is 6-9 at home this season.
• Amber Battle paces the squad with her 17.2 points and 7.7 rebounds per game.
• Battle currently ranks fourth among league players in scoring and seventh in rebounding.
• Minta Spears is seventh in the Big 12 in free-throw percentage at 82.6 percent.
OSU vs. Tech -- The Series
• Tech leads the overall series 32-21.
• The Cowgirls have won two in a row in the series after their 82-56 win on Jan. 18 in Stillwater.
• Tech has won three in a row in Lubbock with OSU's last road win coming on Feb. 28, 2010.
• The Cowgirls are 6-15 all time in Lubbock.
WVU Leftovers
• Tiffany Bias became the fourth player in Big 12 history to log 1,500 points, 250 steals and 700 assists during her career. She joined Andrea Riley and OU's Stacey Dales and Danielle Robinson.
• Lakota Beatty saw her first career Big 12 action.
• LaShawn Jones matched her career high with three steals.
