Cowgirls Start Homestand Against Southern

Game Notes

Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(3-4, 0-0 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jim Littell (11th Year — 198-124)
vs.
Southern Jaguars

(2-6, 0-0 SWAC) • Head Coach: Carlos Funchess (4th Year — 50-44)

Game 8 · Dec. 15, 2021 · 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)
Video: None
TV: None
Radio: KGFY — 105.5 FM (Casey Kendrick, Latricia Trammell)
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Tickets: okstate.com/tickets
Social Media: Twitter — @osuwbb, Instagram — @osuwbb
Facebook — www.facebook.com/CowgirlBasketball/

What 2 Watch 4
• Oklahoma State's women's basketball team will play at home for the first time since Nov. 17 when it faces Southern on Dec. 15 at 6;30 p.m. inside Gallagher-Iba Arena.
• The contest will be one of three in a six-day stretch for OSU and marks the beginning of a six-game homestand.
• The Cowgirls will be looking to put an end to a three-game losing streak after their loss at Auburn on Dec. 5.
• OSU will be also looking to avoid its first four-game losing streak since the 2018-19 campaign.
• Abbie Winchester has played in 101 games during her career for the Cowgirls. She is 18 away from moving into the top 20 on the school's all-time list.
• Head coach Jim Littell is two wins shy of 200 as OSU's head coach.
• He would be the second coach in program history to reach the mark, joining Dick Halterman, who won 333 games during his time in Stillwater.
• Winchester received her degree on Saturday in and will begin her career with Textron Aviation in Wichita as a a manufacturing engineer after the spring semester.
• The Oklahoma City native received her degree in industrial engineering and management.

Know The Foe
• Southern opened a four-game road swing on Monday evening with a 49-65 loss at North Texas.
• The Jaguars are looking for their first road win in seven tries this season.
• Wednesday's contest will be Southern's seventh road game to this point.
• OSU will be the second Big 12 opponent on the Jaguars' schedule after their Nov. 21 loss at Iowa State.

OSU—Southern ... The Series
• The Cowgirls have won four of the five meetings in the series against the Jaguars.
• OSU lost the first-ever meeting in 1976 in Baton Rouge.
• The last four contests took place in Stillwater with the most recent being a 68-34 OSU win on Dec. 2, 2020.

Last Time Out
• OSU lost at Auburn, 66-77, on Dec. 5 as part of the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
• The Cowgirls made their first change to the starting five this season with freshman Macie James getting the nod.
• James finished the contest with a career-high 10 points.
• Lauren Fields logged her first 20-point outing of the season and her first since scoring a career-high 23 points at Kansas last season.