Cowgirls Look To Bounce Back At Home Against Texas

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Oklahoma State Cowgirls
(10-4, 0-2 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Sixth year – 91-69)
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RV/RV Texas Longhorns
(11-4, 2-0 Big 12) • Head Coach: Vic Schaefer (18th year — 362-193)
Game 15 · January 7, 2023 · 18:00
Venue: Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)
Video: None
TV: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (Mike Wolfe, Latricia Trammell)
Radio: KGFY – 105.5 FM (Casey Kendrick, Ryan Cameron)
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Tickets: okstate.com/tickets
Social Media: Twitter — @osuwbb, Instagram — @osuwbb
Facebook — www.facebook.com/CowgirlBasketball/
What 2 Look 4
• The Oklahoma State women’s basketball team will look to bounce back from a midweek loss at K-State when it hosts Texas at 6:00 pm inside Gallagher-Iba Arena on Saturday.
• OSU has used the same starting lineup in each of its last 11 games. It’s his longest streak with the same starting five since a 17-game stretch during the 2016-17 season.
• The Cowgirls currently have four players scoring in double figures. The last time OSU finished a season with four scorers in double figures was the 2014-15 season.
• Taylen Collins is shooting 70.5 percent (31-44) from the floor over OSU’s last six games.
• Kassidy De Lapp is four blocks shy of 100 for her career. She would become the eighth Cowgirl to reach the mark.
• Lior Garzon currently leads the league in 3-point field goal percentage at 48.6 percent.
• Her percentage ranks eighth among all players nationally.
• Over the last six games, she has hit 20 of 33 (61 percent) of her attempts from beyond the arc.
• As a team, the Cowgirls are ninth nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.40 and sixth in turnovers per game at 11.6.
• Naomie Alnatas leads the league in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.50.
• OSU leads the Big 12 in 3-point field goal percentage at 36.8 percent.
• Lexy Keys enters the contest with 104 career 3-pointers and is one away from moving into the top 10 on the school’s all-time chart.
• She is two away from tying slot no.9 and six away from position no.7.
• The Cowgirls have scored at least 20 points in 28 quarters this season and have scored 30-plus points three times.
• OSU has had nine different players have at least one double-digit outing.
Last time out
• Lexy Keys matched her season high with 17 points in OSU’s midweek loss at K-State.
• Keys also pulled down a season-best seven boards and matched her season-best five assists.
Know the enemy
• The Longhorns are in the midst of an eight-game winning streak after opening league play with wins over K-State and TCU.
• Texas comes to town with a NET ranking of 12.
• The Longhorns are eighth nationally in scoring margin at +23.6, eighth in turnovers forced at 23.2 and ninth in blocks per game at 5.6.
• Rory Harmon recorded the program’s fourth triple-double in UT’s outing against TCU on Wednesday.
OSU vs. Texas … Series
• Texas leads the overall series 41-16.
• The Longhorns have won 15 of their last 16 against OSU.
• The Cowgirls’ last win in the series came on Jan. 27, 2021, a 68-51 victory in Stillwater.