No. 24 Cowgirls Hit The Road To Face Houston

Game Notes

24/NR Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(14-2, 4-1 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Eighth Year — 130-95)
vs.
Houston Cougars
(4-12, 0-5 Big 12) • Head Coach: Ronald Hughey (11th Year — 139-182)

Game 17 · Jan. 14, 2025 · 7:00 p.m. (CST)
Venue: Fertitta Center (7.035)
Video: ESPN+ (Matt Pedersen, Austyn Iven, Lauren Indridson)
TV: None
Radio: KGFY — 105.5 FM, Varsity Network App (Casey Kendrick, Latricia Trammell)
Stats: statbroadcast.com
Tickets: uhcougars.com
Social Media: Twitter — @osuwbb, Instagram — @osuwbb
Facebook — www.facebook.com/CowgirlBasketball/

What 2 Watch 4

• Oklahoma State's women's basketball team travels to Houston for the first of two road games this week when it faces the Cougars at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
• The Cowgirls entered the Associated Press Top 25 this week for the first time since Feb. 19, 2018, checking in at No. 24.
• The Cowgirls are off to their best start since 2013-14 when they raced out to a 17-1 mark.
• OSU will be looking to start 3-0 on the road in league play for the first time since winning its first four league games to start the 2013-14 campaign.
• A win would be OSU's 50th under head coach Jacie Hoyt.
• The Cowgirls are also looking to start 5-1 in Big 12 action for the first time since a 5-1 start to the 2020-21 campaign.
• Head coach Jacie Hoyt and her husband, Daniel, welcomed their first child on Dec. 11, Harlow Renee Heflin.
• OSU is top 10 nationally in field-goal percentage (10th), field-goal percentage defense (4th), rebound margin (9th).
• The Cowgirls currently stand at No. 27 in the NET ranking.
• Ténin Magassa is 11th among current active leaders with her 2.03 blocks per game and 10th with her 221 blocks.
• OSU has already produced a quartet 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. Stailee Heard added a career-best 32 points against Alabama 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 marked the first time in program history OSU has had three different 30-point scorers in the same season.
• OSU has nine 30-point quarters offensively and has held its opposition to 13 single-digit scoring quarters.
• The Cowgirls shot better than 50 percent in two quarters against West Virginia and have now hit at least half of their shots in 34 of 64 quarters this season.

Series History
• OSU has won two of the three previous meetings.
• The Cougars claimed a 65-57 victory in Stillwater in the most recent meeting on Feb. 17, 2024.
• OSU won the lone meeting in Houston on Dec. 31, 1992.

Last Time Out
• OSU is 35-9 all time at home under Hoyt.
• The win was OSU's second consecutive home win over a Top-25 Mountaineer squad, which was No. 17.
• Anna Gret Asi nailed three 3-pointers to move into sole possession of fifth place on the school's all-time list.

Know The Foe
• The Cougars are looking for their first Big 12 win after a 69-42 loss at Utah on Saturday.
• Houston is 4-4 this year on its home floor.
• Eylia Love ranks in the top 100 nationally with her 36 steals (75th) and her 2.24 steals per game (94th).
• The Cougars are 76th nationally in turnover margin (3.44).

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Players Mentioned

Anna Gret Asi

Micah Gray

Stailee Heard

Macey Huard

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