Cowgirls Set For Saturday Showdown With Texas

Game Notes

Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(12-6, 3-3 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jim Littell (9th Year — 173-102)
vs.
Texas Longhorns

(12-6, 4-2 Big 12) • Head Coach: Karen Aston (8th Year — 177-78)

Game 19 · January 25, 2020 · 1:00 p.m.
Venue: Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)
Tickets: okstate.com/tickets
Video: FoxSportsGo.com
TV: FSN (Ron Thulin, Brenda VanLengen)
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 win over a ranked opponent this season, Oklahoma State's women's basketball team returns home to face Texas at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
• Vivian Gray has scored in double figures in 43 consecutive games and 46 of her 48 outings as a Cowgirl.
• Gray has logged 20-point outings in seven of her last nine outings.
• Natasha Mack is fifth nationally with her 11.9 boards per game. She grabbed a school-record 23 boards against Oral Roberts on Dec. 20.
• Mack ranks sixth nationally with her 57 blocks and is also sixth with her 3.4 blocks per game.
• Mack's 57 blocked shots rank fifth on the school's single-season list. She is just 14 away from the top spot.
• The Cowgirl defense has produced 14 single-digit scoring quarters and caused 11 shot-clock violations as well.
• On Thursday, Mack was one of 15 players named to the Naismith Trophy Defensive Player of the Year Midseason Team.
• Mack has recorded double-doubles in 12 of her 17 games.
• She is two shy of seventh place on the school's single-season list and her total ranks second nationally.
• Gray ranks in the top 15 among Big 12 players in scoring (3rd), assists (9th) free-throw percentage (3rd), steals (7th) blocked shots (11th) and assist-turnover ratio (7th).
• Gray is averaging 5.1 assists over the past eight games.

Know The Foe
• Texas is 3-3 this season on the road.
• The Longhorns own a Dec. 22 win over then-No. 1 Stanford in Austin.
• Texas has two of the league's top 10 rebounders in Charli Collier and Joyner Holmes.
• Sug Sutton is seventh with her 4.0 assists per game.
• UT has won three straight after its 85-77 win over Kansas in Austin on Wednesday.

The Series
• Texas leads the overall series 36-15.
• The Cowgirls will be looking to snap a 10-game losing streak against the Longhorns.
• OSU last defeated UT on Feb. 11, 2015, a 66-60 win in Stillwater.

Last Time Out
• The Cowgirls earned their first road win over a ranked opponent since Feb. 2018 (at TCU) on Wednesday against West Virginia.
• OSU improved to 4-4 in Morgantown with the win.
• Ja'Mee Asberry scored in double figures for the third consecutive game.