8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24
Abe Lemons Arena
THE MATCHUP: Oklahoma City University takes on USAO needing a win to stay in the hunt for a Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament spot.
OCU's seniors will be honored – Cesar Cuevas, Nate Flowers, Dee Proby and Bryant Williams.
Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for students. OCU students, faculty and staff get free admission with their university ID.
ABOUT THE STARS: OCU fell 94-79 to Northwestern Oklahoma State on Monday at Abe Lemons Arena. Northwestern ended the game on a 17-7 run. The Stars dropped to 16-12, 9-11 SAC.
Brandon Moton, a 6-foot-3 junior from Beaumont, Texas, paced OCU with 24 points and four steals. He shot 7-for-12 from the field and 4-for-8 on 3-pointers. Moton scores 13.2 points a game and hits 41.6 percent from 3-point range. The last eight games, Moton has averaged 16.5 points and shot 53.6 percent from the floor.
Nate Flowers, a 6-5 senior from Waldorf, Md., put together 14 points, three rebounds and three assists off the bench. Flowers records 12.3 points and 9.6 rebounds a game. Orlan Jackman, a 6-6 junior from London, chipped in 12 points and five rebounds. Jackman averages 12.1 points and 5.1 rebounds.
OCU's 50.5 percent field-goal percentage places the Stars among the NAIA's team leaders. To see where OCU stacks up statistically in the NAIA, click here.
The Stars were unranked in the latest NAIA Division I rankings. OCU has been picked to finish fifth in the SAC according to league coaches. Six-time national champion OCU has captured the SAC regular-season crown 11 times.
OCU holds a 30-12 advantage against USAO. USAO nipped the Stars 63-62 on Jan. 15 in Chickasha, Okla. Dee Proby led OCU with 15 points.
ABOUT THE DROVERS: Rogers State edged USAO 77-75 on Saturday in Chickasha, Okla. Phillip Harris tied the game 72-72 on a layup with 43 seconds left, but Rogers State's John Boyd answered with a bucket. USAO fell to 10-16, 6-14 in the SAC.
Harris, a 5-11 sophomore, totaled 24 points, five rebounds, five assists and two steals. Harris scores 10.4 points a game. Thomas Peters, a 6-2 senior, scored 20 points and nailed five 3-pointers. Peters scores a team-high 16.5 points a game.
USAO had been projected to finish 11th in the league according to the preseason SAC coaches poll.
ABOUT THE COACHES: Kevin Morrissey has posted a 48-40 record in his third season at OCU. Morrissey spent the previous four seasons as St. Gregory's coach. He also has been an assistant at Missouri State and Texas-Pan American. Morrissey played his college ball at Oklahoma Baptist and Oral Roberts and high school at Bishop McGuinness in Oklahoma City.
Brisco McPherson has a 277-296 record in his 20th season as USAO coach. McPherson, also the school's athletic director, led USAO to the 2002 NAIA championship.
FOLLOW THE STARS: Fans can keep up on the latest on OCU athletics through several ways.
Become a fan of the Oklahoma City University Stars on Facebook by going to www.facebook.com/ocustars. Become a follower of the OCU Stars on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ocustars. Check out video of the Stars in action at www.youtube.com/oklahomacityuniver.
Be sure to catch the OCU Athletics Update video program weekly on ocusports.com, the OCU YouTube Channel or on OCU Athletics' Facebook page. Click here to see the latest edition or see our video channel in the upper right-hand corner of our home page. Listen to past game broadcasts and pregame and postgame interviews on the OCU pod center by clicking here.
See OCU's 2010-11 men's basketball media guide by clicking here.
Know when the game is happening by calling the OCU athletics hotline at (405) 208-5400. Get conference scores and highlights by calling the SAC Hotline at (405) 878-2110.
OCU HOSTS THE SAC TOURNAMENT: The nation's premier NAIA basketball conference stages its postseason tournament at Abe Lemons Arena on the campus of Oklahoma City University on March 3-5. You'll want to be part of the action as NAIA Division I Tournament berths will be at stake in the Sooner Athletic Conference men's and women's basketball tournaments. For information, visit the tournament page. To view the tournament commercial, click here.
ON THE AIR: The game will be broadcast via the OCU athletics web site. Greg Merick serves as the voice of the Stars, while Andrew Himes will provide color commentary. Click here to listen to the broadcast, here for the live stats and here to access the video stream.
To order the video on ocusports.com/showcase, click on "Women's Basketball vs. USAO." Then either enter a user name and password or select "Sign up for a new all-access subscription."
