After leading Oklahoma City University in scoring, Lauren Gober decided she wanted to improve her game.
Gober, a junior from Newcastle, Okla., scored 12.8 points a game in 2010-11.
“I feel a lot more comfortable driving the ball to the hoop now,” Gober said. “Most of the time I’d just sit outside and shoot 3-pointers, but that’s really easy to guard. I wanted to open up my game.”
Gober is averaging 12.4 points per game while scoring in double figures in her last seven outings including 19-point outbursts against Wayland Baptist (Texas) and USAO and is this week’s Super Stars of the week.
The Stars are currently No. 2 in NAIA Division I women’s basketball, and Gober is one of four players averaging over 11 points per game.
“It’s great, if one person isn’t having a good game some else can step up,” Gober said. “There is no pressure on anyone to have to score 20 points a game. We just don’t need that which is good for our team.”
Even at 19-1 on the season and 13-1 in Sooner Athletic Conference play, Gober says the Stars are not in a position to overlook any team they play.
“We try to look at every game, no matter who we’re playing, and try to go in with a lot of intensity whether we’re playing the worst team in the conference or the best,” Gober said. “We just try to go out and play the same way.”
Gober helped the Stars beat perennial power Union (Tenn.) and sweep rival Southern Nazarene so far this season. She says the highlight of the season so far was their 87-31 blowout of Southern Nazarene on Jan. 19.
“We were kind of in a funk since we lost to Lubbock,” Gober said.” We were feeling down about ourselves and that was the first time we came back and everyone was clicking and we were playing good team basketball.”
With a busy basketball schedule, Gober appreciates the availability of her professors.
“I’m a nursing student and the teachers are just incredible,” Gober said. “You can go in and ask for help anytime you do not understand something, and they’ll answers e-mails. They are just really good teachers.”
