Cowgirls Set For Showdown With No. 12 Kansas State

Game Notes

25/RV Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(18-4, 8-3 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Eighth Year — 134-97)
vs.
12/10 Kansas State Wildcats

(22-2, 10-1 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jeff Mittie (33rd Year — 666-372)

Game 23 · Feb. 8, 2025 · 2:00 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 face its second consecutive top-25 opponent when No. 12 Kansas State comes calling for a 2 p.m. contest on Saturday.
• The Cowgirls have two wins over AP Top 25 teams for the second time in three seasons under Hoyt.
• The Cowgirls are No. 25 for this week after entering the Associated Press Top 25 three weeks ago for the first time since Feb. 19, 2018.
• OSU last had three AP Top 25 wins in 2017-18 (3).
• OSU is 37-9 at home under head coach Jacie Hoyt.
• The Cowgirls are 13-1 on their home floor this year and a win would give OSU its best total on the historic white maple since going 14-3 two years ago.
• Stailee Heard was named to the USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale Midseason Watch List this week.
• Head coach Jacie Hoyt and her husband, Daniel, welcomed their first child on Dec. 11, Harlow Renee Heflin.
• Micah Gray is ninth nationally in 3-point attempts (170).
• 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 239 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 14 single-digit scoring quarters.

Series History
• K-State holds a 43-37 advantage in the all-time series.
• The Wildcats have won 12 of the past 19 outings after their 69-68 win last year.
• The Cowgirls won the last meeting in Stillwater, 82-74, on Jan. 25, 2023. OSU has not won back-to-back home contests against the Wildcats since 2014 and 2015.

Last Time Out
• Alexia Smith finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds to become the fifth different Cowgirl to log a double-double on the season.
• Smith was perfect from the line (9-9), OSU's second-best free-throw percentage this year behind Anna Gret Asi's 10-of-10 outing against Iowa State.

Know The Foe
• K-State stands at No. 7 in the NET ranking after its 59-50 win over TCU during the midweek.
• The Wildcats are 5-1 on the road this season with their lone setback coming at Colorado on Jan. 25.
• The Wildcats are first nationally in assists per game (22.2) and second in assist-turnover ratio (1.79.
• Additionally, they rank third in field-goal percentage (50.1), scoring margin (27.4) and 3-point percentage (39.8).
• Serena Sundell paces the nation with her 170 assists and is third in assists per game at 7.1.

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Players Mentioned

Anna Gret Asi

Micah Gray

Stailee Heard

Macey Huard

Alexia Smith

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