Cowgirls To Square Off With West Virginia At Big 12 Championship

Game Notes

Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(20-10, 10-8 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Sixth Year — 101-75)
vs.
West Virginia Mountaineers

(19-10, 10-8 Big 12) • Head Coach: Dawn Plitzuweit (16th Year — 365-139)

Game 31 · March 10, 2023 · 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Municipal Auditorium (9,130)
Video: WatchESPN.com
TV: ESPNU (Brenda VanLengen, Holly Warlick)
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 begin its run at the Big 12 Championship on Friday morning when it faces West Virginia at 11 a.m. inside Municipal Auditorium.
• A win would be No. 21 on the year under head coach Jacie Hoyt and would match 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 134 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 42 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 tops the Big 12 in field-goal percentage and is 23rd nationally at 45.5 percent.
• Lexy Keys enters the contest with 126 career 3-pointers and is 15 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 54 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 17-25 all time at the Big 12 Championship after going 1-1 a year ago.
• The Cowgirls are 2-3 all time as the No. 4 seed.
• OSU served as the No. 4 seed three consecutive seasons from 2014-16.
• OSU and West Virginia last met at the event in 2021 with the Mountaineers prevailing, 59-50.
• OSU is 0-2 all time at the event against WVU with the first meeting between the two being a 69-60 loss in 2018.

Know The Foe
• West Virginia is second in the league in scoring defense (60.97 ppg) and first in 3-point field-goal percentage defense at 27.4 percent.
• JJ Quinerly was named a unanimous first-team All-Big 12 selection and a member of the league's all-defensive team on Monday.
• Madisen Smith received honorable mention all-league recognition as well.

OSU vs. WVU ... The Series
• The Mountaineers hold a 15-11 lead in the overall series after their 71-67 victory on March 1 in Morgantown.
• The Cowgirls snapped a four-game skid against WVU earlier this year in Stillwater with a 76-65 win.

Oklahoma State University Athletics

Cowgirls To Square Off With West Virginia At Big 12 Championship

Players Mentioned

Kassidy De Lapp

Lior Garzon

Lexy Keys

Terryn Milton

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