Cowgirls Come Up Short Against Richmond In Daytona Beach

Saturday, November 30

4:45 PM

Oklahoma State University

7-1,0-0Big 12

Richmond

8-0,0-0Atlantic 10

Oklahoma St.

Richmond

November 30, 2024 | Cowgirl Basketball

Box Score

Box Score

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Oklahoma State's women's basketball team wrapped up play at the Daytona Beach Classic on Friday evening with a 57-53 loss against Richmond inside the Daytona Beach Ocean Center.

The Cowgirls fell to 7-1 on the year, while the Spiders improved to 8-0.

The two teams started slowly at the offensive end, combining to hit just one of their 11 shot attempts. After the Cowgirls scored the first four points of the contest, the Spiders answered with consecutive treys for their first lead.

OSU got six points from Jadyn Wooten and held the Spiders to a 25 percent shooting effort to find itself knotted at 10-10 after the first with both teams going scoreless over the final two-plus minutes of the frame.

Richmond opened the scoring in the second with a 3-pointer before MIcah Gray answered with OSU's first trey in eight attempts to tie the score again at 13 three minutes into the period.

Wooten drilled back-to-back jumpers to fuel a 6-0 Cowgirl run and put OSU in front, 19-15, with 4:23 to go in the half.

She would add another jumper after the media timeout to extend the margin. However, Richmond would score the next seven to retake the lead at 22-21.

Wooten would get a layup with 30 seconds to go to put the Cowgirls back in front, 23-22, at the break. The Cowgirl freshman would finish with 14 points on a seven of eight shooting effort in the half.

The third period started much like the first with the Cowgirls missing their first six shots and getting just a pair of free throws through the first five minutes. Richmond was three of seven during that stretch to lead 30-25 before Macey Huard buried a 3-pointer from the corner with 4:30 to go to pull OSU within two.

Richmond would reel off the next five to extend its margin back to 35-28.

The Cowgirls would finish the quarter just three of 13 from the floor to trail, 37-32.

In the fourth, OSU used a 6-0 run capped by another Wooten jumper to pull within one at 42-21 at the halfway point of the quarter.

Wooten buried a 3-pointer with 2:51 to go to put OSU in front before the Spiders countered with one of their own to move back in front, 49-47, with two and a half minutes to go in the contest.

Gray knocked down a pair of free throws to get OSU within two with a minute on the clock, but Richmond would knock down a free throw and secure the rebound on the second before adding another to make it a two possession game at 53-49 with 25 seconds to go.

The Spiders added two more free throws eight seconds later to seal the outcome.

Wooten finished with a career-high 20 points, while Micah Gray added 15 for OSU.