Cowgirls Head West For March Madness Matchup With Princeton

Saturday, March 21

Los Angeles, Calif.

6:30 P.M.

Oklahoma State University

Princeton

Cowgirls Head West For March Madness Matchup With Princeton

March 18, 2026 | Cowgirl Basketball

Game Notes
NCAA Box Scores

Oklahoma St. Cowgirls
(23-9, 12-6 Big 12) • Jacie Hoyt (Ninth Year Overall — 164-109)
vs.
No. 23/23 Princeton Tigers

(26-3, 12-2 Ivy League) • Carla Berube (24th Year Overall — 531-124)

Game 33 · March 21, 2026 · 6:30 p.m. (CST)
Venue: Pauley Pavilion (13,800)
Video: ESPN+
TV: ESPN2 (Eric Frede, Christy Thomaskutty)
Radio: KGFY — 105.5 FM, Varsity Network App (Casey Kendrick, Latricia Trammell)
Stats: statbroadcast.com
Tickets: NCAAtickets.com
Social Media: Twitter — @osuwbb, Instagram — @osuwbb
Facebook — www.facebook.com/CowgirlBasketball/

What 2 Watch 4
• OSU will seek its first NCAA win under the direction of Jacie Hoyt when the No. 8 seed Cowgirls face No. 9 Princeton at 6:30 p.m. (CST) on Saturday in Los Angeles.
• The meeting will be the first ever between the Cowgirls and the 23rd-ranked Tigers.
• For the second year in a row, OSU's will face an AP Top 25 opponent in the first round. The Cowgirls have nine wins over AP Top 25 foes under Hoyt.
• OSU has seven players with a 20-point outing this season.
• The Cowgirls are the only team in the Big 12 to utilize the same starting lineup for the entire season.
• OSU is 10th nationally in 3-pointers per game at 9.3.
• The Cowgirls rank in the top 15 nationally in scoring offense (15th, 81.5) and scoring margin (15th, 18.1).
• Micah Gray is 20th nationally with her 88 made treys.
• Her 296 treys rank sixth among active career leaders.
• Gray also ranks 10th among active career leaders with her 2.39 made 3-pointers per game.
• She ranks 16th among active career leaders in 3-point field goal percentage at 40.2 percent.
• OSU has averaged 10.7 made 3-pointers and shot 39 percent from beyond the arc in its 23 wins. In nine losses, OSU is shooting 24 percent and averaging 5.7 made treys.
• The Cowgirls have recorded a double-digit league win total in consecutive seasons for the first time since the formation of the Big 12.
• OSU's 48 wins are its most over a two-year stretch in program history.
• The Cowgirls have five players averaging double figures in the scoring column for the first time in program history.

OSU At The NCAA Tourney
• The Cowgirls are 12-18 all time in NCAA play.
• OSU's best NCAA seed was a No. 3 in 2008.
• The Cowgirls are 9-9 all time in first-round games and looking to snap a two-game losing streak.
• OSU is 9-6 as the higher seed and 3-12 as the lower seed.
• OSU's record by seed: 3 (2-1), 4 (1-1), 5 (4-2), 7 (2-6), 8 (1-2), 9 (2-2), 10 (0-2), 12 (0-2).
• OSU has three Sweet 16 appearances (1991, 2008, 2014).
• Three of the Cowgirls' previous four tourney appearances have seen them compete in the 8-9 game.
• The Cowgirls have four players from last year's team who saw significant NCAA action in OSU's contest against South Dakota State.
• Stailee Heard logged a double-double (20 points, 10 rebounds), Micah Gray scored 10 points, while Jadyn Wooten played 20 minutes and Praise Egharevba was on the floor for 11 minutes.
• Haeigh Timmer's postseason experience is extensive. She led SDSU to a WNIT title and was on the all-tournament team in 2022. She played in a pair of NCAA games in 2023 and 2025 as well. Timmer scored 11 points for SDSU in that first-round game against OSU.

Tourney Tidbits
• OSU's 2010 first-round win over Chattanooga saw the Cowgirls erase a 19-point deficit, marking the third-largest deficit overcome to win an NCAA game.
• Jaden Hobbs' eight made treys against Syracuse in 2018 are the fourth-best single-game total in tourney history.
• Hobbs made eight of her nine attempts (88.9 percent), the 10th-best single-game percentage in tourney history.
• The Cowgirls made 37 free throws in their 1991 contest against DePaul, the fifth-best total in an NCAA game.
• Jodi Fisher was the leading free-throw shooter by percentage in 1991 (10-10).
• OSU has played in four of the 89 NCAA overtime contests.
• The Cowgirls' triple overtime game against Michigan State in 1991 is one of just two triple overtime NCAA games.
• OSU's 28 points against the Spartans are the fourth-most scored in overtime.
• Lisa McGill was the second-leading scorer (21.3 ppg) at the 1991 tournament, Andrea Riley was third (24.3 ppg) in 2008, Tegan Cunningham was first (25.0 ppg) in 2010 and Natasha Mack was 10th (20.0 ppg) in 2021.
• Andrea Riley was OSU's first Regional All-Tournament Team selection, doing so in 2008 in New Orleans. Tiffany Bias earned the distinction in 2014 in South Bend, Ind.