BETHANY, Okla. – Oklahoma City University will aim for its ninth Sooner Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament championship starting with a quarterfinal matchup against Rogers State at 9:45 p.m. Thursday at the Sawyer Center.

The third-seeded Stars finished the regular season at 17-8 and ranked 14th in NAIA Division I. With a win, OCU would face the winner of the Southern Nazarene-Mid-America Christian contest in the tournament semifinals at 8 p.m. Friday.

Chris Brown, a senior from Spencer, Okla., averaged a team-high 17.4 points per game for the Stars. Kavon Lytch, a junior from Brooklyn, N.Y., recorded 14.4 points and a team-high 8.3 rebounds a game, while Corey Bingham, a junior from Lynn, Mass., added 12.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.20 steals a game.

OCU's SAC Tournament games will be broadcast via live audio on ocusports.com. Greg Merick will call the play-by-play, and Andrew Himes will provide analysis.
Regular-season conference champion Oklahoma Baptist is the tournament's No. 1 seed. OCU won the tournament in 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2008.

Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament
At Bethany, Okla.
Sawyer Center
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Thursday's Games
Game 1: No. 4 Oklahoma Christian (22-8) vs. No. 5 John Brown (21-9), 4:30 p.m.
Game 2: No. 1 Oklahoma Baptist (28-2) vs. No. 8 Lubbock Christian (13-15), 6:15 p.m.
Game 3: No. 2 Southern Nazarene (24-6) vs. No. 7 Mid-America Christian (16-14), 8 p.m.
Game 4: No. 3 Oklahoma City (17-8) vs. No. 6 Rogers State (20-10), 9:45 p.m.
Friday's Games
Game 5: Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 6 p.m.
Game 6: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 8 p.m.
Saturday's Game
Championship
Game 7: Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.