Cowgirls Look To Remain Unbeaten With Home Contest Against Central Arkansas

Game Notes

Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(4-0, 0-0 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Eighth Year — 120-93)
vs.
Central Arkansas Sugar Bears
(3-0, 0-0 ASUN) • Head Coach: Tony Kemper (Eighth Year — 103-102)

Game 5 · Nov. 20, 2024 · 11:00 a.m. (CST)
Venue: Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)
Video: ESPN+ (Adam Hildebrandt, Bryndon Manzer)
TV: None
Radio: KGFY — 105.5 FM, Varsity Network App (Casey Kendrick, Latricia Trammell)
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 continue its six-game homestand when Central Arkansas pays a visit for an 11 a.m. contest on Wednesday.
• The contest will be OSU's annual Classroom at the Court game.
• OSU will welcome 1,800 students from 23 schools for the event. The concourse level will host the Devon Sports Lab and OERB will gift a check for classroom supplies to a teacher in attendance.
• The Cowgirls will be looking to start 5-0 for the first time under the direction of head coach Jacie Hoyt.
• OSU's last 5-0 start came when it won the first five games of the 2019-20 campaign.
• Ténin Magassa ranks 10th nationally among current active leaders with her 2.01 two blocks per game and 12th with her 195 career blocks.
• The Cowgirls are 28-8 inside Gallagher-Iba Arena under the direction of head coach Jacie Hoyt.
• OSU has already produced a pair of 30-point scorers on the season. Macey Huard scored a career-high 31 points in the season opener and Anna Gret Asi poured in a career-high 33 points in OSU's win over Texas Southern.
• Asi's output was the most by a Cowgirl since a 34-point outburst from Natasha Mack on Jan. 13, 2021 at Iowa State.
• Asi's point total was OSU's second 30-point outing of the season, marking the first time the Cowgirls have had two 30-point games since Natasha Mack's two 30-point outings during the 2020-21 season.
• The last time the Cowgirls had a pair of 30-point scorers in the same season was 2018-19. That year, OSU had four total 30-point outings with Vivian Gray eclipsing the mark three times and Braxtin Miller reaching the plateau once.
• The 2017-18 campaign saw the Cowgirls tally six 30-point performances.

OSU vs. Central Arkansas
• The contest will be the third between the two schools.
• The last meeting came on March 16, 2012, a 72-51 Cowgirl victory in the first round of the WNIT.
• The first meeting came on Dec. 22, 2007 and resulted in a 103-36 OSU triumph.

Last Time Out
• OSU won its first-ever meeting with Fairfield on Saturday.
• Stailee Heard logged her fourth career double-double and her first of the season, finishing with 14 points and 12 rebounds.
• The Cowgirls shot better than 50 percent in the first and third quarters and have now hit at least half of their shots in 11 of 16 quarters this season.

Know The Foe
• Central Arkansas is coming off a 21-12 season that resulted in a WNIT berth.
• The Sugar Bears reached the ASUN Championship game as well.
• UCA was picked to finish second in the ASUN and returns nearly 96 percent of its minutes played from a year ago.
• Randrea Wright, Kinley Fisher and Jade Upshaw were all named preseason All-ASUN selections.
• Bree Stephens was named the league's preseason co-defensive player of the year.
• Fisher was named the league's sixth player of the year a season ago.

Cowgirls Look To Remain Unbeaten With Home Contest Against Central Arkansas

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Players Mentioned

Anna Gret Asi

Stailee Heard

Macey Huard

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