Oklahoma City University
at Wayland Baptist (Texas)

Thursday, Jan. 26
6 p.m. Plainview, Texas

THE MATCHUP: Oklahoma City University?s women go to Sooner Athletic Conference foe Wayland Baptist (Texas) in the first of a two-game Texas road swing.

ABOUT THE STARS: OCU went to 16-2, 7-0 in the Sooner Athletic Conference with a 95-44 victory over Northwestern Oklahoma State on Saturday at Abe Lemons Arena. Alexandra Kotta, a 5-foot-11 junior from Germantown, Md., had 17 points, her season high. Zanita Johnson, a 5-7 sophomore from Jenks, Okla., added 16 points, five assists and two steals.
Mariam Sy, a 6-4 senior from Mali, West Africa, averages 22.7 points, 8.7 rebounds and 2.72 steals a game. Sy leads the SAC in scoring and steals and ranks second in NAIA Division I in scoring, 22nd in rebounding and steals per game and 18th in field-goal percentage (55 percent). Paty Silva adds 10.9 points a game.
The Stars are first nationally in 3-point field-goal percentage (41.2), fourth in field-goal percentage (48.0), fifth in rebound margin (10.2), eighth in steals per game (13.50) and ninth in scoring (80.6 points per game). OCU is ranked third in the NAIA rankings released Wedneday and was selected to finish second in the conference preseason coaches poll.
OCU leads the overall series with Wayland Baptist 19-16. The Stars have won the last 12 meetings, including a 90-40 win on Jan. 7. Sy had 18 points, five rebounds and three assists for the Stars.

ABOUT THE FLYING QUEENS: Wayland Baptist is 5-13, 0-7 in the Sooner Athletic Conference. Vanita Wright, a 5-9 junior, had nine points and nine rebounds in a 69-46 loss to Oklahoma Christian on Saturday at Oklahoma City. Wright averages 10.5 points and 7.8 rebounds a game. Wayland Baptist was seventh in the preseason conference poll.

ABOUT THE COACHES: Rob Edmisson has 326 victories in 16 seasons as a head coach. Edmisson, a graduate of Bethany (Kan.), came to OCU after a stint as an assistant at Oklahoma State. He won 200 games at Hutchinson (Kan.) and 110 as a high-school coach in Kansas.
Will Flemons is in his third season as Queens coach. Flemons led Wayland Baptist to the 2004 NAIA Tournament. He was the 1992 Southwest Conference player of the year with Texas Tech.

QUOTABLE: ?This is the key to the conference race. Wayland Baptist and Lubbock Christian are hard to beat on their home floor.? ? Edmisson

GIVE THE HOTLINE A CALL: Fans can follow the Stars via the OCU Athletic Hotline at (405) 208-5400. Get the score and highlights after the game on the hotline. Get Sooner Athletic Conference scores on the SAC Hotline at (405) 878-2110.