Cowgirls To Tangle With Texas In Big 12 Semifinal

Game Notes

Game 32 · March 11, 2023 · 12:00 p.m.
Venue: Municipal Auditorium (9,130)
Video: WatchESPN.com
TV: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
Radio: KGFY — 105.5 FM, Varsity Network App (Casey Kendrick, Latricia Trammell)
Live Stats: Big12Sports.com
Tickets: Big12Sports.com
Social Media: Twitter — @osuwbb, Instagram — @osuwbb
Facebook — www.facebook.com/CowgirlBasketball/

What 2 Watch 4

• Oklahoma State's women's basketball team will face off with Texas in semifinal action at the Big 12 Championship on Saturday at 12 p.m. inside Municipal Auditorium.
• A win would be No. 22 on the year under head coach Jacie Hoyt and would set the school mark for wins in a season for a first-year head coach.
• Terryn Milton is one of only nine players nationally with 1,200 points, 500 assists and 500 rebounds for her career.
• Three Cowgirls are averaging double digits in the scoring column and two within reach of the mark. OSU has not finished the season with at least four double-digit scorers since the 2014-15 season.
• Kassidy De Lapp has 135 games to her credit as a Cowgirl and moved past Tiffany Bias and Liz Donohoe for first place on the school's all-time list against Oklahoma in Stillwater.
• Lior Garzon currently ranks 29th nationally in 3-point field goal percentage at 41.3 percent.
• She enters play 33 points shy of 1,000 for her career and would become the fifth player on the roster to hit the mark.
• Garzon is the first Cowgirl to average double figures scoring-wise in a reserve role since Toni Young averaged 12.0 points per game while coming off the bench in 2011-12.
• The Cowgirls are 17th in the country at 36.8 percent from the 3-point line.
• OSU entered the tourney tops the Big 12 in field-goal percentage and is 23rd nationally at 45.5 percent.
• Lexy Keys enters the contest with 127 career 3-pointers and is 14 away from moving into fifth place on the school's all-time chart.
• The Cowgirls sport five wins over teams currently in the Top 25 or receiving votes.
• Five of OSU's losses have come by six points or less.
• The Cowgirls have scored at least 20 points in 55 quarters this season and have scored 30-plus points four times.
• OSU has had 10 different players have at least one double-digit outing.
• The Cowgirls have had four games this season with five double-digit scorers and 17 contests with at least four in double figures.

OSU At The Big 12 Championship
• The Cowgirls are 18-25 all time at the Big 12 Championship after their buzzer-beating win over West Virginia on Friday.
• The Cowgirls are 3-3 all time as the No. 4 seed.
• OSU served as the No. 4 seed three consecutive seasons from 2014-16.
• OSU 's lone appearance in the title game came in 2008, a 64-59 loss to Texas A&M.
• OSU's quarterfinal win over WVU was its first in three tries against the Mountaineers at the conference tourney.

Know The Foe
• The Longhorns finished 14-4 in league play to earn a share of their first regular season conference title since the 2003-04 season.
• Rori Harmon and DeYona Gaston were named first-team all-league picks, while Harmon was named defensive player of the year, Shaylee Gonzales was tabbed as the top newcomer and Amina Muhammad was named to the all-freshman team.

OSU vs. Texas ... The Series
• Texas leads the overall series by a 42-17 count.
• OSU snapped a three-game losing streak with its 86-82 win in Stillwater earlier this year.
• The Cowgirls are 1-1 all time against Texas at the Big 12 Championship.
• OSU defeated the Longhorns in their 2008 semifinal matchup and did not meet again until a 71-60 Texas win in 2017.

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Players Mentioned

Kassidy De Lapp

Lior Garzon

Lexy Keys

Terryn Milton

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