Cowgirls Resume Homestand Against Texas Southern

Game Notes

Oklahoma State Cowgirls

(2-0, 0-0 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Eighth Year — 118-93)

vs.

Texas Southern Tigers

(0-2, 0-0 SWAC) • Head Coach: Vernette Skeete (Third Year — 9-51)

Game 3 · Nov. 11, 2024 · 6:30 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, Ryan Cameron)
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 continue its six-game homestand to open the season when Texas Southern comes to town for a 6:30 p.m. start on Monday inside Gallagher-Iba Arena.
• The Cowgirls will be looking to start 3-0 for the second time in three seasons under head coach Jacie Hoyt.
• OSU started 4-0 during her first season at the helm.
• OSU leads the league in field-goal percentage at 56.7 percent after hitting 56.1 percent of its shots against Arkansas-Pine Bluff and 57.1 percent against Oral Roberts.
• OSU has not hit at least 50 percent of its shots from the floor in three consecutive games since a three-game stretch in January of 2016 against Iowa State, Kansas and TCU.
• After shooting 38.5 percent in the season's opening quarter, the Cowgirls have shot at least 50 percent in the seven quarters which followed.
• The Cowgirls are 26-8 inside Gallagher-Iba Arena under the direction of head coach Jacie Hoyt.
• OSU has had four double-digit scorers in each of its first two contests.
• Rylee Langerman was honored last week as a Kay Yow Servant Leader.
• The recipients of the organization's Servant Leader Award are people of great character who put the needs of others before their own, who uplift others, and who do it with grace and humility. They are nominated by their coach, and are people who exemplify Coach Yow's spirit and who reflect her resolve, grace, generosity, and servant's heart. Winners display courage and strength, and their first response is to give to others.

OSU vs. Texas Southern
• Monday's meeting will mark the eighth all time between the two programs.
• The Cowgirls have won all seven previous meetings with the last coming on Nov. 17, 2015.
• All seven meetings have taken place in Stillwater.

Last Time Out
• For the 11th consecutive time, the Cowgirls defeated Oral Roberts, logging an 89-68 win over the Golden Eagles on Thursday night in Stillwater.
• The victory was also OSU's 18th in a row at home in the series with ORU.
• Alexia Smith scored a career-high 19 points in the contest.
• The Cowgirls shot 57.1 percent from the floor, their highest percentage since shooting 60 percent against TCU on Feb. 15, 2017.
• OSU held the Golden Eagles to a 1-of-12 shooting quarter and just four points in the fourth.

Know The Foe
• Texas Southern is seeking its first win of the season after opening with a pair of road losses at Stephen F. Austin and North Texas.
• Monday's contest will wrap up a three-game road swing to open the season for the Tigers.
• Texas Southern was picked to finish ninth in the SWAC's Preseason Poll.
• Junior forward Jaida Belton was named to the 2024 All-SWAC second team.
• The Tigers went 7-22 a year ago.
• The Cowgirls will be one of three Big 12 opponents the Tigers will face this season. TSU will take on Baylor and UCF as well.

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Players Mentioned

Rylee Langerman

Alexia Smith

Oklahoma State University Athletics