OCU at Langston women's basketball preview

Stars have won all 10 games away from Abe Lemons Arena this season

NaShyla Hammons notches 6.0 points and 5.1 rebounds a game this season.

Women's Basketball | 1/25/2019 12:37:00 PM

2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26
C. Felton Gayles Fieldhouse | Langston, Okla.

THE MATCHUP
• Oklahoma City University looks to give Bo Overton his 100th career victory as OCU coach
• The Stars have won their last four overall and all six road games this season

ABOUT THE STARS
• The Stars crushed Central Christian (Kan.) 87-33 on Thursday at Abe Lemons Arena. Oklahoma City (17-2, 10-1 SAC) scored at least 80 points for the ninth time this season
• Mallory Lockhart, a 5-foot-7 freshman from Keller, Texas, equaled her season bests with 20 points and six 3-pointers. Lockhart produced 12 points and four treys in the second half. Lockhart reels in 10.7 points while ranking fifth in the NAIA with a 46.2 percent 3-point shooting clip
• Abby Selzer, a 6-2 freshman from Thomas, Okla., posted 19 points, 13 rebounds and two blocks for her sixth double-double of 2018-19. She shot 7-for-9 from the field and 5-for-6 from the free-throw line. Selzer tallies 16.4 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.37 blocked shots a contest. Selzer's 63.4 field-goal percentage ranks second, while her 85.9 percent free-throw shooting ranks eighth among NAIA Division I
• The Stars hold foes to 28.5 percent shooting from the field for the lowest opponents' shooting percentage in NAIA Division I this season. Taylor Sylvester ranks fifth nationally with 2.84 blocks a game and sixth with 54 blocked shots. To see how the Stars rate among NAIA Division I statistically, click here
• OCU moved to No. 12 in the last NAIA ranking. Oklahoma City added to the NAIA's longest streak of top-25 appearances, making its 249th consecutive top 25 dating back to 1997-98. OCU has made 24 trips to the NAIA Division I Tournament and captured nine national championships in 1988, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017
• The Stars picked up the second spot in the Sooner Athletic Conference preseason coaches poll. Oklahoma City took its 18th SAC regular-season championship and 12th SAC Tournament title last season. OCU has won or shared nine of the past 11 league titles, going 210-21 (.909 winning percentage) within SAC play since 2007-08
• OCU hammered Langston 87-47 on Nov. 29, 2018 at Abe Lemons Arena earlier this season in the 2018-19 league opener. Selzer provided the Stars with 22 points and six rebounds for her first 20-point outing in college. Selzer shot 8-for-9 from the floor and hit her first seven field-goal attempts
• The Stars' all-time record vs. Langston stands at 33-3

ABOUT THE LADY LIONS
• Southwestern Christian outlasted Langston 70-65 on Thursday in Bethany, Okla. Jhordyn Patton canned a 3 to cut the Lady Lions' deficit to 66-65 with nine seconds left, but Southwestern Christian responded with four free throws to clip Langston (8-12, 3-9 SAC)
• Patton, a 5-5 senior, supplied Langston with 22 points, five rebounds and two steals. Patton accumulates 17.8 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.15 thefts per game
• Akia Frett, a 5-5 senior, had 22 points, six rebounds, six steals and two steals. Frett averages 14.3 points, 5.5 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 2.60 steals a contest
• Langston sinks 44 percent from the field to rank 11th in the NAIA, while Tennia Hill rates third in the country with 65 3-pointers
• The Lady Lions were selected to finish eighth in the SAC by the coaches before the season

MEET THE COACHES
Bo Overton (99-19, fourth season with OCU)
• Led Stars to 28-6 season with the SAC regular-season and tournament crowns in 2017-18
• Overton has coached four all-Americans while at OCU, including Daniela Wallen, the 2017 NAIA Division I player of the year, and Daniela Galindo, the 2018 WBCA NAIA player of the year
• Overton served as an assistant coach for the Chinese national team in the 2012 Olympics
• From 1998-2004, he served as assistant for Oklahoma. During that time, the Sooners made five NCAA Tournament trips with the 2002 NCAA runner-up finish and Final Four berth with three Big 12 regular-season titles and two conference tournament crowns
• He has an overall record coaching college women of 121-66, notching his 100th career win in a 78-53 victory at Southwestern Assemblies of God (Texas) on Feb. 23, 2018

Elaine Powell (34-44, third season with Langston)
• Powell previously served as an assistant coach for women's basketball programs at Alabama A&M, Ohio University and Grambling State University
• She spent nearly a decade playing in the WNBA, where she was a three-time WNBA champion with the Detroit Shock
• Prior to her professional basketball career, Powell attended LSU, where she was an all-American and finished her career as LSU's 11th all-time leading scorer with 1,163 points. She was the first player in LSU history to be drafted into the WNBA

ON THE AIR
• Follow the game via live stats
• Oklahoma City University athletics provides live and on-demand audio of its contests on OCU's Stretch portal. Listen to the game live here
• Andrew Himes supplies the play-by-play. Himes enters his eighth season as the voice of the Stars and has been broadcasting OCU basketball for 11 years starting on color commentary as an OCU student
• Fans can access regular-season broadcasts from NAIA institutions as well as from NAIA Championships postseason contests via Stretch Internet through custom apps on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Android TV. Users can search for "NAIA" on the app interfaces on any compatible device, and then download the free NAIA Network app

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Players Mentioned

#5 Daniela Galindo: G; 5' 11"; Senior

#5 Mallory Lockhart: G; 5' 7"; Freshman

#33 Taylor Sylvester: C; 6' 5"; Junior

#40 Abby Selzer: C; 6' 2"; Freshman

Players Mentioned

#5 Daniela Galindo
: 5' 11"; Senior
: G

#5 Mallory Lockhart
: 5' 7"; Freshman
: G

#33 Taylor Sylvester
: 6' 5"; Junior
: C

#40 Abby Selzer
: 6' 2"; Freshman
: C