Cowgirl Soccer Concludes Regular Season With Bedlam

Oklahoma (7-8-2, 3-4-2) at Oklahoma State (11-7-0, 4-5-0)

Mon., Oct. 23 • 7 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla. • Neal Patterson Stadium

TV/Video: Big 12 Now On ESPN+ (Mike Wolfe & Stephen Howard)
Radio: The Varsity Network/Stillwater Radio KGFY 105.5 FM (Bill Van Ness)
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About Oklahoma State

     • Oklahoma State is 11-7-0 and seventh in the Big 12 standings with a 4-5-0 conference mark. The Cowgirls conclude the regular season with a Bedlam Series showdown against Oklahoma Monday night at Neal Patterson Stadium.
     • OSU is coming off an 11-4-4 season in 2022 in which the Cowgirls finished fifth in the Big 12 standings with a 4-2-3 mark.
     • The Cowgirls return 11 letterwinners from last season, including five starters in Xcaret Pineda, Mollie Breiner, Megan Haines, Alex Morris and Gracie Bindbeutel (out for 2023 with injury).
     • The 2023 season is the 28th in program history; over the first 27, OSU posted a 322-177-63 (.629) record. Head coach Colin Carmichael entered his 19th season at the helm in 2023 with a 239-97-50 mark.

Scouting The Opponent

• Oklahoma is 7-8-2 and ninth in the Big 12 standings at 3-4-2 in conference play. The Sooners have outscored their opponents 33-27 on the season.
• OSU is 30-9-5 all time against OU and is undefeated in the last eight meetings with the Sooners with a 6-0-2 record. Last season, the teams battled to a 1-1 tie in Norman. OU's last win in the series came in 2018 in Norman.

Balance

Twelve different Cowgirls have scored goals this season, with eight of those finding the back of the net multiple times.
Nine OSU players have recorded assists, led by Alex Morris and Laudan Wilson, who each have six. In 2022, no Cowgirl had more than three assists on the 19-game season; this season, four Cowgirls have already surpassed the three assist mark.

D-Fense

OSU has allowed just 14 goals through 18 games and is tied for third in the Big 12 with eight shutouts. The Cowgirls rank second in the conference behind only Texas Tech in goals allowed as well as goals against average (0.78).
All four Cowgirl goalkeepers have seen time between the posts, led by Grace Gordon.

Goals

     Despite its recent scoring drought, OSU still ranks 28th nationally with 36 goals and has outscored its opponents 36-14 on the season. The Cowgirls netted 11 goals vs. Florida Atlantic and Little Rock, which marked OSU's highest-scoring output in consecutive games since they also had 11 against Drake (3) and Oral Roberts (8) in back-to-back games in 2015.
     The Cowgirls average 18 shots per game, which ranks 14th in the NCAA, and over seven of those shots are on goal.
     OSU is 37th in the country with 101 points (36 goals, 29 assists).

Kicking It On The Corner

OSU leads the Big 12 and is fourth nationally with 127 corner kicks, and its 7.06 corner kicks per game ranks 11th.
The Cowgirls' season high in corner kicks came against Abilene Christian when they took 15, a total that tied for the fifth most in a game in program history.

Saving Grace

     Grace Gordon has established herself as OSU's top goalkeeper, starting 17 games and posting five shutouts in 1,455 minutes of action.
     A transfer who spent the last three seasons at Seton Hall, Gordon ranks third in the Big 12 with a 0.87 goals against average, while her five clean sheets is fifth. She has also played a part in two combined shutouts.
     During OSU's five-game winning streak in September, Gordon allowed only two goals and recorded three shutouts. She posted a season-high eight saves in her Big 12 debut to help OSU to a win at Iowa State.

Rankings

OSU is No. 80 in this week's official NCAA RPI. The Cowgirls are also ranked No. 8 in the Midwest Region by the United Soccer Coaches.

Home Sweet Home

OSU has won 78 percent of its games in four seasons at Neal Patterson Stadium, which opened in 2019. The Cowgirls are 42-10-5 on their current home turf, including an 8-1-0 mark this season, with their lone loss coming against No. 8 BYU.
OSU has gone undefeated at home in seven seasons in its history, the last time coming in 2019.

Coach Colin

Colin Carmichael recorded his 250th career win with OSU's 2-1 victory over UCF on Sept. 28. Carmichael has spent all 19 of his seasons as a head coach in Stillwater.
Carmichael entered the 2023 season with 239 career wins, ranking fourth among active Big 12 coaches in wins at their current school behind only BYU's Jennifer Rockwood (425 wins in 28 seasons), West Virginia's Nikki Izzo-Brown (383 wins in 27 seasons) and Kansas' Mark Francis (258 wins in 24 seasons).

Oklahoma (7-8-2, 3-4-2) at Oklahoma State (11-7-0, 4-5-0)

Mon., Oct. 23 • 7 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla. • Neal Patterson Stadium

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Players Mentioned

Gracie Bindbeutel

Mollie Breiner

Grace Gordon

Megan Haines

Alex Morris

Xcaret Pineda

Laudan Wilson

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