Cowgirls To Square Off With Syracuse In NCAA Action

Saturday, March 17

Starkville, MS

2:30 P.M.

Oklahoma State University

Syracuse

March 15, 2018 | Cowgirl Basketball

Game Notes
Oklahoma St. Cowgirls
(20-10; 11-7 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jim Littell (7th Year — 146-79)
vs.
Syracuse Orange
(22-8; 10-6 ACC) • Head Coach: Quentin Hillsman (12th Year — 263-135)

Game 31 · March 17, 2018 · 2:30 p.m. · Humphrey Coliseum (10,500)

Tickets: Sold Out
TV: ESPN2 (Courtney Lyle, Tamika Catchings)
Video: ESPN3.com
Radio: KGFY — 105.5 FM (Kevin T. Gum, Casey Kendrick)
Live Stats: www.hailstate.com/ncaawbk
Social Media: Twitter — @osuwbb, Instagram — @osuwbb, Facebook — www.facebook.com/CowgirlBasketball/

What 2 Watch 4
• Oklahoma State will make its 15th NCAA Championship appearance Saturday when it takes on Syracuse at 2:30 p.m. (CST) in Starkville, Miss. The Cowgirls will be the No. 9 seed in the Kansas City Region.
• OSU faced six teams in the field this year, posting a 3-6 mark with wins over Oklahoma (twice) and UCLA.
• Mandy Coleman and Kaylee Jensen are the only two players on the OSU roster to see the floor in multiple NCAA games (FGCU, 2015, St. Bonaventure, 2016).
• Five Cowgirls: Coleman, Jensen, Jentry Holt, LaTashia Jones and Karli Wheeler played in the 2016 contest.
• Braxtin Miller is one 3-pointer away from matching Liz Donohoe for the most by an OSU freshman (54).
• Jensen has 45 double-doubles as a Cowgirl, which rank seventh nationally among active career leaders.
• Fourteen of Jensen's 18 double-doubles this season came in Big 12 contests.
• Jensen's 18 double-doubles rank eighth nationally her her 10.8 boards per game are 17th.
• Jensen's 1,034 rebounds are 10th among career leaders and her 1,737 points rank 33rd.
• Loryn Goodwin is eighth nationally with her 3.50 steals and 18th in scoring at 20.9 points per game.
• Goodwin has five 30-point games on the year. The last Cowgirl with five in a year was Andrea Riley in 2009-10, who finished with 14 30-plus point outings that year.
• For her career, Goodwin is third nationally with 333 steals, sixth in steals per game (2.95), seventh in free throws made (498), 21st with 1,903 points and sixth in assist-turnover ratio (5.00).
• Jensen and Goodwin are averaging 39.5 points per game, making them the third-highest scoring Power 5 duo in the country.

Scouting Syracuse
• This will be the first meeting between the two programs.
• Syracuse is ninth nationally with its 9.7 made 3-pointers per game and fifth with its 930 3-point attempts.
• Tiana Mangakahia leads the nation with her 9.9 assists per contest and is 15th in free-throw percentage (87.9).

OSU at the NCAA Championship
• The Cowgirls are 10-14 all time in NCAA play.
• OSU's best NCAA seed was a No. 3 in 2008.
• OSU is 7-4 as the higher seed, 3-10 as the lower seed.
• OSU has reached the Sweet 16 on three occasions (1991, 2008, 2014).
• OSU has played four overtime games in NCAA Tournament history. The most recent coming against FGCU in the first round in 2014.
• Andrea Riley was OSU's first Regional All-Tournament Team selection, earning the honor in 2008 in New Orleans. Tiffany Bias was a regional all-tournament pick in 2014 in South Bend, Ind.
• OSU head coach Jim Littell is 3-4 in NCAA action.