Cowgirl Soccer Faces Top 10 Ranked Opponents

#8 BYU (11-1-3, 4-0-3) at Oklahoma State (11-5-0, 4-3-0)

Thurs., Oct. 12 • 7 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla. • Neal Patterson Stadium

Oklahoma State (11-5-0, 4-3-0) at #6 Texas Tech (12-0-3, 6-0-1)

Sun., Oct. 15 • 1 p.m.
Lubbock, Texas • John Walker Soccer Complex

TV/Video: Big 12 Now On ESPN+
Thursday: Mike Wolfe & Anna Beffer Sunday: Geoff Haxton & Bridgett Rogers
Radio: The Varsity Network/Stillwater Radio Pete 94.3 FM (Thurs.) KGFY 105.5 FM (Sun.) (Bill Van Ness)
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About Oklahoma State

     • Oklahoma State is 11-5-0 and fifth in the Big 12 standings with a 4-3-0 conference mark. The Cowgirls will battle a pair of top 10 ranked opponents this week, hosting No. 8 BYU Thursday at Neal Patterson Stadium before a Sunday showdown on the road against sixth-ranked Texas Tech.
     • OSU is coming off an 11-4-4 season in 2022 in which the Cowgirls finished fifth in the Big 12 standings with a 4-2-3 mark.
    • The Cowgirls return 11 letterwinners from last season, including five starters in Xcaret Pineda, Mollie Breiner, Megan Haines, Alex Morris and Gracie Bindbeutel (out for 2023 with injury).
     • The 2023 season is the 28th in program history; over the first 27, OSU posted a 322-177-63 (.629) record. Head coach Colin Carmichael entered his 19th season at the helm in 2023 with a 239-97-50 mark.

Scouting The Opponents

     • BYU is 11-1-3 and third in the Big 12 standings at 4-0-3 in conference play. The Cougars lead the nation with 50 goals.
     • OSU is 1-1-0 all time against BYU. The first meeting came in 2009 in Provo, with the Cougars winning 2-1 in double overtime. The Cowgirls won at home in 2011, picking up a 2-1 overtime victory.
     • Texas Tech is 12-0-3 overall and atop the Big 12 standings at 6-0-1 heading into a Thursday match at UCF. The Red Raiders have outscored their opponents 39-7 on the season.
     • OSU is 16-8-7 in the all-time series with Texas Tech. The last three meetings have resulted in ties; the Cowgirls are undefeated in the last four matchups, having also won in 2020 in Stillwater.

Balance

Twelve different Cowgirls have scored goals this season, with eight of those finding the back of the net multiple times.
Nine OSU players have recorded assists, led by Alex Morris and Laudan Wilson, who each have six. In 2022, no Cowgirl had more than three assists on the 19-game season; this season, four Cowgirls have already surpassed the three assist mark.

D-Fense

OSU has allowed just 10 goals through 16 games and ranks second in the Big 12 with eight shutouts. The Cowgirls also rank second in the conference behind only Texas Tech in goals allowed and goals against average (0.63).
All four Cowgirl goalkeepers have seen time between the posts, led by Grace Gordon.

Goals On Goals On Goals

     OSU ranks 15th nationally with 36 goals and has outscored its opponents 36-10 on the season. The Cowgirls netted 11 goals vs. Florida Atlantic and Little Rock, which marked OSU's highest-scoring output in consecutive games since they also had 11 against Drake (3) and Oral Roberts (8) in back-to-back games in 2015.
     The Cowgirls average just over 18 shots per game, which ranks 14th in the NCAA, and over seven of those shots are on goal.
     OSU is 19th in the country with 101 points (36 goals, 29 assists).

Kicking It on the Corner

OSU leads the Big 12 and is second nationally with 117 corner kicks, and its 7.31 corner kicks per game ranks 11th.
The Cowgirls' season high in corner kicks came against Abilene Christian when they took 15, a total that tied for the fifth most in a game in program history.

Rankings

OSU is No. 77 in this week's official NCAA RPI. The Cowgirls are also ranked No. 7 in the Midwest Region by the United Soccer Coaches.

Home Sweet Home

OSU has won 79 percent of its games in four seasons at Neal Patterson Stadium, which opened in 2019. The Cowgirls are 42-9-5 on their current home turf, including an 8-0-0 mark this season.
OSU has gone undefeated at home in seven seasons in its history, the last time coming in 2019.

Coach Colin

Colin Carmichael recorded his 250th career win with OSU's 2-1 victory over UCF on Sept. 28. Carmichael has spent all 18 of his seasons as a head coach in Stillwater.
Carmichael entered the 2023 season with 239 career wins, ranking fourth among active Big 12 coaches in wins at their current school behind only BYU's Jennifer Rockwood (425 wins in 28 seasons), West Virginia's Nikki Izzo-Brown (383 wins in 27 seasons) and Kansas' Mark Francis (258 wins in 24 seasons).

#8 BYU (11-1-3, 4-0-3) at Oklahoma State (11-5-0, 4-3-0)

Thurs., Oct. 12 • 7 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla. • Neal Patterson Stadium

Oklahoma State (11-5-0, 4-3-0) at #6 Texas Tech (12-0-3, 6-0-1)

Sun., Oct. 15 • 1 p.m.
Lubbock, Texas • John Walker Soccer Complex

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Players Mentioned

Gracie Bindbeutel

Mollie Breiner

Grace Gordon

Megan Haines

Alex Morris

Xcaret Pineda

Laudan Wilson

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