{"id":62563,"date":"2025-11-24T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/62563\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:46:07","slug":"cowgirls-look-to-bounce-back-against-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/62563\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowgirls Look To Bounce Back Against Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Game Notes<\/a><\/p>\n

No. 18\/21 Oklahoma St. Cowgirls<\/p>\n

\n(5-1, 0-0 Big 12)\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt<\/a> (Ninth Year Overall \u2014 146-101)
\nvs.
\nTexas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders
\n(1-3, 0-0 Southland)\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Head Coach: Toyelle Wilson (Eighth Year \u2014 111-110)<\/p>\n

\nGame 7 \u00b7 November 24, 2025 \u00b7 6:30 p.m. (CST)
\nVenue: Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)
\nVideo: ESPN+ (Adam Hildebrandt<\/a>, Bryndon Manzer)
\nTV: None
\nRadio: KGFY \u2014 105.5 FM, Varsity Network App (Casey Kendrick<\/a>, Latricia Trammell<\/a>)
\nStats: www.okstate.statbroadcast.com
\nTickets: okstate.com\/tickets
\nSocial Media: Twitter \u2014 @osuwbb, Instagram \u2014 @osuwbb
\nFacebook \u2014 www.facebook.com\/CowgirlBasketball\/
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

What 2 Watch 4<\/p>\n


\n\u2022 Oklahoma State’s women’s basketball team will look to rebound from its first loss of the year on Monday when Texas A&M-Corpus Christi comes calling for a 6:30 p.m. tilt.
\n\u2022 The Cowgirls will #Rememberthe4 as they pay tribute to former head coach Kurt Budke, assistant coach Miranda Serna and supporters Olin and Paula Branstetter, who were killed in a plane crash in Arkansas on Nov. 17, 2011.
\n\u2022 The Cowgirls made their first road trip of the year on Nov. 19, which resulted in a 74-67 loss at St. John’s.
\n\u2022 OSU eclipsed 100 points in four of its five outings at home to start the season.
\n\u2022 The Cowgirls are first nationally in 3-pointers per game at 12.7 and fourth in scoring offense at 99.2 points per outing.
\n\u2022 OSU is third nationally with its 23.5 assists per game.
\n\u2022 Three Cowgirls rank in the top 15 nationally in made 3-pointers with Lena Girardi<\/a> checking in at No. 3 with 23, Micah Gray<\/a> is eighth with 19 and Haleigh Timmer<\/a> is 15th with 18.
\n\u2022 Girardi is also second with her 57 3-point attempts.
\n\u2022 Stailee Heard<\/a> is three points shy of 1,000 for her career.
\n\u2022 Heard is also 21 rebounds away from 500 for her career.
\n\u2022 Micah Gray<\/a> has 102 3-pointers as a Cowgirl and is eight shy of moving into the top 10 on the school’s all-time list.
\n\u2022 Gray is nine points shy of 1,400 for her collegiate career.
\n\u2022 Macey Huard<\/a> will miss the 2025-26 season due to injury.<\/p>\n

Series History

\n\u2022 The two teams have met twice previously with OSU winning both contests.

\n\u2022 OSU won the lone meeting in Stillwater in Jan. 3, 2000 before a victory at the Islander Classic in November of that same year.<\/p>\n

Know The Foe

\n\u2022 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi will be looking to snap a three-game losing streak after its setback against Texas State on Nov. 20

\n\u2022 The Islanders are in their first season under the direction of head coach Toyelle Wilson, who spent the previous four years at SMU.<\/p>\n

Hang A Hundred

\n\u2022 With its 112-point effort against Prairie View A&M, OSU has reached the century mark eight times under Jacie Hoyt<\/a>.

\n\u2022 Last year, OSU scored a school-record 113 points against Chicago State before breaking the mark four games later with 125 points against Alabama State.

\n\u2022 The Cowgirls have already set the school’s single-season mark for 100-point games with four in the squad’s first five games.<\/p>\n

Last Time Out

\n\u2022 OSU suffered its first loss of the season in its first road trip of the year at St. John’s after being held to a 39.6 percent shooting clip in Queens.

\n\u2022 Amari Whiting<\/a> recorded a career-high six steals in the contest.

\n\u2022 Lena Girardi<\/a> scored 10 points, giving her double-digit outings in five of the first six games of her collegiate career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Notes No. 18\/21 Oklahoma St. Cowgirls (5-1, 0-0 Big 12)\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Head Coach: Jacie Hoyt (Ninth Year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-62563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}