Cowgirls Look To Bounce Back With Home Tilt Against Houston

Saturday, January 3

3:00 P.M.

Oklahoma State University

Houston

Cowgirls Look To Bounce Back With Home Tilt Against Houston

January 02, 2026 | Cowgirl Basketball

Game Notes

RV/RV Oklahoma St. Cowgirls
(12-3, 1-1 Big 12) • Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Ninth Year Overall — 153-103)
vs.
Houston Cougars
(6-7, 0-2 Big 12) • Head Coach: Matthew Mitchell (16th Year Overall — 339-169)

Game 16 · Jan. 3, 2026 · 3:00 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 will look to bounce back from a loss to Baylor in its Big 12 home opener on New Year's Eve when it plays host to Houston on Saturday at 3 p.m.
• OSU has not suffered back-to-back home losses since a four-game stretch capped by a loss to Houston in 2024.
• The Cowgirls are second nationally in 3-pointers per game at 10.9 and fifth in scoring offense at 91.9 points per outing.
• The Cowgirls rank in the top 20 in assist-turnover ratio (12th, 19.6), field goal percentage (11th, 49.9) rebound margin (10th, 12.9), scoring margin (13th, 30.7), 3-point attempts (12th, 29.0), field-goal percentage (11th, 49.9) and 3-point percentage (17th, 37.7).
• Three Cowgirls rank in the top 15 nationally in made 3-pointers with Haleigh Timmer ranking ninth with 43 and Lena Girardi and Micah Gray ranking 14th with 41.
• Gray is third nationally in 3-point attempts at 117.
• Jadyn Wooten has tallied 85 assists, good for the 17th-best total nationally and is 16th in assist-turnover ratio (3.04).
• Timmer is 13th in the country at 47.3 percent from the 3-point line.
• Macey Huard will miss the 2025-26 season due to injury.
• OSU enters play with 895 wins in program history.
• Lena Girardi was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Week for the second time on Dec. 23.

Series History
• The two teams have split four meetings in the all-time series with Houston winning the last two.
• The Cougars beat the Cowgirls, 79-76, last year in Houston after defeating OSU, 65-57, the year before in Stillwater.
• OSU's two wins in the series came in 1992 in Houston and the following year in Stillwater.

Know The Foe
• The Cougars come to town looking for their first league win of the year after losses at West Virginia and at home to Iowa State in their most recent outing.
• The Cougars are 1-3 this year on the road with a victory at UTRGV on Nov. 20.
• Houston ranks 40th nationally with its 4.8 blocks per outing.
• The Cougars' block average ranks fifth among Big 12 teams.

Hang A Hundred
• With 133 points against Mississippi Valley State, OSU has reached the century mark nine times under Jacie Hoyt.
• The Cowgirls set the school's single-season mark for 100-point games with four in the squad's first five games.

Last Time Out
• OSU suffered its first home loss of the season and saw its 15-game winning streak overall inside Gallagher-Iba Arena come to an end on Wednesday against Baylor.
• Achol Akot logged her second consecutive double-digit rebound outing, finishing with 10 boards.
• Akot also notched her fourth double-double as a Cowgirl, finishing with 14 points in the contest as well.
• The Cowgirls were held to a season-low 19 percent (5-26) effort from the 3-point line.
• OSU finished the contest with five double-digit scorers, marking the ninth time this season at least five Cowgirls have reached double figures in the scoring column.