Cowgirls Tip Off Regular Season Against UAPB

Game Notes

Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(0-0, 0-0 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Eighth Year — 116-93)
vs.
Arkansas-Pine Bluff Lady Lions

(0-0, 0-0 SWAC) • Head Coach: Erica Leak (First Year — 0-0)

Game 1 · Nov. 4, 2024 · 5:00 p.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, Ryan Cameron)
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 tip off its third season under head coach Jacie Hoyt on Monday at 5 p.m. when Arkansas-Pine Bluff pays a visit to Stillwater.
• The contest will serve as the front end of a doubleheader with the Cowboy basketball team, which will make its debut under head coach Steve Lutz at 8 p.m. against Green Bay.
• The Cowgirls went 10-5 at home last year and are 24-8 inside Gallagher-Iba Arena under the direction of Hoyt.
• The contest will mark the 16th consecutive year OSU has started the season at home.
• The matchup will tip off a six-game homestand to open the season for the Cowgirls.
• OSU opened the Jacie Hoyt Era two years ago with a 95-63 win over UTRGV on Nov. 7, 2022 and followed with a 100-59 win in its opener over SIUE on Nov. 6 last year.
• The Cowgirls have won 17 of their last 18 home openers with the lone loss during that stretch being a setback against Colorado three years ago.
• In last year's season opener, Stailee Heard posted a double-double to become the first Cowgirl since Brittany Reeves against Oral Roberts (11 points, 14 rebounds) on Nov. 29, 2020 to achieve the feat in their first game as a Cowgirl.
• Additionally, she became the first Cowgirl freshman to log a double-double in her debut since Cheri Westervelt finished with 14 points and 12 rebounds against North Texas on Dec. 1, 1993.

OSU vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff
• The two squads have squared off on five occasions with the Cowgirls owning a 5-0 advantage.
• All five meetings have come in Stillwater with four of the five coming in the month of December.
• The last November meeting came on Nov. 22, 2008.
• OSU took the most recent meeting, 90-45, on Dec. 2, 2014.

Last Time Out
• The Cowgirls opened their season with an 81-46 exhibition win over Southern Nazarene on Oct. 29.
• OSU outrebounded the Crimson Storm by a 45 to 22 count with 22 of those boards coming at the offensive end.
• Stacie Jones led all scorers with 22 points.
• Praise Egharevba grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.
• Six Cowgirls made their debuts in the contest with Stacie Jones, Micah Gray, Macey Huard, Alexia Smith, Maria Anais Rodriguez and Kennedy Evans all seeing action in the contest.

Know The Foe
• UAPB posted a 17-16 mark overall and a 12-7 record in league play last season.
• The Lady Lions are in their first season under the direction of Erica Leak.
• A graduate of Louisiana Tech, Leak was selected 19th overall in the 2005 WNBA Draft by the Washington Mystics.
• The contest is the first of three consecutive road games for UAPB, which will travel to Tulsa and Ole Miss before beginning its home slate.

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Players Mentioned

Maria Anais Rodriguez

Praise Egharevba

Kennedy Evans

Micah Gray

Stailee Heard

Macey Huard

Stacie Jones

Alexia Smith

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