Cowgirls Back In Action On Friday Against Alabama State

Friday, December 6

6:30 PM

Oklahoma State University

Alabama State

December 05, 2024 | Cowgirl Basketball

Game Notes

Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(8-1, 0-0 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Eighth Year — 124-94)
vs.
Alabama State Hornets

(2-5, 0-0 SWAC) • Head Coach: Freda Freeman-Jackson (27th Year — 369-403)

Game 10 · Dec. 6, 2024 · 6:30 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, 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 be back in action for the second time in three days when it hosts Alabama State on Friday at 6:30 p.m.
• The Cowgirls are currently seventh nationally in field-goal percentage at 50.4 percent.
• OSU is 31-8 at home under head coach Jacie Hoyt.
• Jadyn Wooten picked up OSU's first weekly conference honor of the season on Monday, earning Big 12 Freshman of the Week recognition after her three-game performance last week. She averaged 15.3 points, 5.0 assist and 3.0 rebounds over those three games. Wooten scored in double figures in all three outings including a career-best 20-point showing against Richmond.
• Stacie Jones reached the 1,000-point mark for her career in Florida. Micah Gray scored nine points against Houston Christian to join Jones in the 1,000-point club.
• The Cowgirls currently stand at No. 33 in the NET ranking.
• Ténin Magassa is 12th among current active leaders with her 2.01 blocks per game and 11th with her 205 blocks.
• OSU has already produced a trio of 30-point scorers on the season. Macey Huard scored a career-high 31 points in the season opener against UAPB and Anna Gret Asi poured in a career-high 33 points in OSU's win over Texas Southern. Micah Gray joined the list with her 36-point outburst against Chicago State.
• Gray's output marked the most by a Cowgirl since Andrea Riley's 37-point outing against Kansas in 2010.
• With Gray reaching the plateau, it marks the first time in program history OSU has had three different 30-point scorers in the same season.
• The Cowgirls shot better than 50 percent in the first three quarters against Houston Christian and have now hit at least half of their shots in 23 of 36 quarters this season.

Series History
• Friday will be the first meeting between the two schools.

Last Time Out
• Stailee Heard finished a point shy of becoming the fourth Cowgirl this season to produce a 30-point outing, finishing with a career-high 29 points.
• Heard made all seven of her attempts from beyond the arc for the best single-game 3-point percentage performance in school history, surpassing Leslie Day's 6-of-6 outing against Missouri on Feb. 22, 1992.
• Her performance is tied for the second-best in Big 12 history, behind only Iowa State's Stacy Frese (8-8) in 1999.
• Additionally, Heard grabbed 10 rebounds for her third double-double of the season.
• Ténin Magassa finished with 15 points and 10 boards for her first double-double as a Cowgirl.

Know The Foe
• The Hornets will wrap up their seven-game road swing with their trip to the state to face Oklahoma State on Friday and Oklahoma on Sunday.
• Alabama State was picked to finish 10th in the SWAC preseason poll.
• Cordasia Harris was tabbed as a preseason all-conference first-team pick.