No. 24 Cowgirls Look To Bounce Back Against Utah

Game Notes

20/23 Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(20-5, 10-4 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Eighth Year — 136-98)
vs.
RV/RV Utah Utes

(20-5, 11-3 Big 12) • Head Coach: Gavin Petersen (First Year — 17-4)

Game 26 · Feb. 18, 2025 · 8:00 p.m. (CST)
Venue: Jon M. Huntsman Center (15,000)
Video: ESPN+ (Krista Blunk, Angela Taylor)
TV: None
Radio: KGFY — 105.5 FM, Varsity Network App (Casey Kendrick, Latricia Trammell)
Stats: statbroadcast.com
Tickets: utahutes.com
Social Media: Twitter — @osuwbb, Instagram — @osuwbb
Facebook — www.facebook.com/CowgirlBasketball/

What 2 Watch 4
• Oklahoma State's women's basketball team will close out its two-game swing through the state of Utah with an 8 p.m. (CST) contest against Utah. on Tuesday.
• The Cowgirls will be looking to rebound from a 68-64 loss at BYU on Saturday afternoon.
• The Cowgirls are seeking their 11th league win, which would be their most since posting a 13-5 mark during league play in 2020-21.
• OSU is No. 24 this week after entering the AP Top 25 five weeks ago for the first time since Feb. 19, 2018.
• The Cowgirls will look to snap a two-game road losing streak and have not lost consecutive games this season.
• The Cowgirls are in search of their fifth league road win of the year, which would be their most since 2020-21.
• Last week, Anna Gret Asi joined Stailee Heard as Cowgirls to be named USBWA National Players of the Week.
• Head coach Jacie Hoyt and her husband, Daniel, welcomed their first child on Dec. 11, Harlow Renee Heflin.
• The Cowgirls currently stand at No. 28 in the NET ranking.
• Ténin Magassa is 10th among current active leaders with her 2.08 blocks per game and 10th with her 245 blocks.
• OSU has 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.
• The Cowgirls are the only squad in the country this year with a quartet of 30-point scorers and just the sixth Division I program to do so since 1999-2000.
• OSU has 11 30-point quarters offensively and has held its opposition to 15 single-digit scoring quarters.
• Praise Egharevba scored 10 points against Arizona to become the ninth different Cowgirl to reach double figures this season.

Series History
• Tuesday's tilt will be the first between the two schools.
• The Utes will become the fifth school from the state OSU has faced, joining BYU, Southern Utah, Utah Tech and Weber State.

Last Time Out
• Micah Gray scored nine points to reach the 1,200-point plateau for her career.

Know The Foe
• The Utes are 13-1 on their home floor with the lone loss coming against Kansas State on Jan. 8.
• Utah stands at No. 20 in the NET ranking.
• The Utes rank 10th nationally with their 18.9 assists per game and are 11th in field-goal percentage (47.7 percent).
• The Utes are fourth in the country in 3-point percentage (38.5 percent) and sixth in 3-pointers per game (10.2).
• Gianna Kneepkens ranks 10th nationally in free-throw percentage (91.8 percent), third in 3-point percentage (47.2 percent) and eighth with her 3.08 made treys per game.

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Players Mentioned

Anna Gret Asi

Praise Egharevba

Micah Gray

Stailee Heard

Macey Huard

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