Cowgirls Look To Rebound At UCF

Game Notes

24/RV Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(14-3, 4-2 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Eighth Year — 130-96)
vs.
UCF Knights

(7-9, 0-6 Big 12) • Head Coach: Sytia Messer (Sixth Year — 87-82)

Game 18 · Jan. 18, 2025 · 3:00 p.m. (CST)
Venue: Addition Financial Arena (10,000)
Video: ESPN+
TV: None
Radio: KGFY — 105.5 FM, Varsity Network App
(Casey Kendrick, Ryan Cameron)
Stats: statbroadcast.com
Tickets: ucfknights.com
Social Media: Twitter — @osuwbb, Instagram — @osuwbb
Facebook — www.facebook.com/CowgirlBasketball/

What 2 Watch 4
• Oklahoma State's women's basketball team will look to bounce back from its midweek loss at Houston when it travels to Orlando to face UCF on Saturday at 3 p.m.
• The Cowgirls entered the Associated Press Top 25 this week for the first time since Feb. 19, 2018, checking in at No. 24.
• Stailee Heard was named a USBWA National Player of the Week on Tuesday.
• OSU will be looking to improve to 3-1 in league play on the road this season.
• A win would be OSU's 50th under head coach Jacie Hoyt.
• 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 (8th), field-goal percentage defense (6th), rebound margin (10th).
• The Cowgirls currently stand at No. 29 in the NET ranking.
• Ténin Magassa is 11th among current active leaders with her 2.03 blocks per game and 10th with her 223 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 10 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 all three meetings in the series.
• The Cowgirls are 2-0 all time in Orlando.
• OSU swept the season series last year with a 68-61 win in Orlando before logging a 67-54 win on its home floor.

Last Time Out
• Praise Egharevba grabbed a season-high nine rebounds.
• The Cowgirls scored 34 points in the final quarter, marking their 10th 30-point quarter of the season.
• The 34 points were two shy of matching the school mark for a quarter, which OSU set twice previously this season.
• The Cowgirls came up just short in their attempt at the largest comeback in school history. OSU trailed by 26 in the second half and had a shot at the buzzer to tie the game.

Know The Foe
• The Knights are 6-4 on their home floor this season.
• UCF is looking for its first league home win of the season (0-3).
• Kaitlin Peterson ranks among the nation's best scorers, checking in at No. 9 with her 21.7 points per outing.
• She is also 24th nationally with her 2.9 steals per game.

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Players Mentioned

Anna Gret Asi

Praise Egharevba

Micah Gray

Stailee Heard

Macey Huard

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