Cowgirls Return Home To Face Idaho State

Game Notes

NR/RV Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(3-0; 0-0 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jim Littell (9th Year — 164-96)
vs.
Idaho State Bengals

(2-0; 0-0 Big Sky) • Head Coach: Seton Sobolewski (12th Year — 193-153)

Game 4 · November 19, 2019 · 7 p.m.
Venue: Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)
Tickets: okstate.com/tickets
TV: None
Video: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (Mike Wolfe, Bryndon Manzer)
Radio: KGFY — 105.5 FM (Kevin T. Gum, Casey Kendrick)
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Social Media: Twitter — @osuwbb, Instagram — @osuwbb, Facebook — www.facebook.com/CowgirlBasketball/

What 2 Watch 4
• Fresh off its first road win of the year, Oklahoma State's women's basketball team will return home to face Idaho State on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
• The Cowgirls knocked off in-state rival Tulsa, 78-48, last Wednesday in their first road outing of the year.
• Vivian Gray has scored in double figures in 28 consecutive games and 31 of her 33 outings as a Cowgirl.
• Cowgirl head coach Jim Littell stands eight victories shy of 800 for his coaching career.
• Clitan de Sousa competed this past week for Mozambique at the FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament in Africa.
• OSU is in the midst of a formidable non-conference schedule with all 12 opponents having an RPI of 160 or better a year ago. Three of those opponents were inside the top 20 with two of those being inside the top 5 (Louisville, Oregon). The average RPI of those dozen was 82.5.
• The Cowgirls will wear shooting shirts to Remember The 4 (Kurt Budke, Miranda Serna and Olin and Paula Branstetter) who perished in a plane crash on Nov. 17, 2011.

Know The Foe
• Idaho State is 2-0 on the year after recording home victories over Arizona Christian on Nov. 5 and Seattle on Nov. 11.
• ISU went 20-11 a year ago and lost in the first round of the WNIT at Arizona.
• The Bengals finished the year at 109 in the RPI.
• ISU was picked in the preseason polls of coaches and media to finish fourth in the Big Sky Conference.
• Estefania Ors was named to the league's preseason all-conference team as well.

The Series
• The Cowgirls won the only previous meeting in the series.
• OSU hosted Idaho State on Nov. 18, 2013, defeating the Bengals, 74-45, in Stillwater.

Last Time Out
• The Cowgirls took on Tulsa for the first time since 2005, snapping a three-game losing streak ain the series.
• The Cowgirls trailed by eight at the half before outscoring TU 47-9 in the second half.
• The nine points were the fewest OSU has given up in a half since giving up eight in the first half to Texas-Pan American on Jan. 2, 2010.
• Natasha Mack pulled 20 rebounds, tying her for the third-best total recorded by a Cowgirl in a game.
• Vivian Gray scored 18 points in the second half to finish with 24 and her 19th career 20-point outing.
• Gray also logged a career-high four steals.
• Ja'Mee Asberry poured in 21 points, one shy of matching her career high.

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Players Mentioned

Ja'Mee Asberry

Clitan de Sousa

Vivian Gray

Natasha Mack

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