2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20
Abe Lemons Arena inside the Freede Center

THE MATCHUP

• Oklahoma City University entertains Langston in the first Sooner Athletic Conference home contest of the season for the Stars
• Langston features Asheika Alexander, who drew an invitation to training camp with the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA
• Tickets cost $7 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets can be purchased via OCU's HomeTown Ticketing portal
• OCU students, faculty and staff gain admission to all OCU regular-season home athletics events free of charge with their ID

ABOUT THE STARS 

• Oklahoma City rallied past Central Christian (Kan.) 62-50 on Thursday night in McPherson, Kan. The Stars (4-0, 1-0 SAC) went on a key 7-0 third-quarter run to move ahead 37-34 on Fiona Wilson's 3-pointer and shot 57.7 percent from the field in the second half
• Abby Selzer, a 6-foot-2 senior from Thomas, Okla., made it four double-doubles in all four games this season with 20 points and 13 rebounds at Dr. Jerry E. Alexander Arena. She shot 10-for-17 from the floor. Selzer rates seventh nationally with 12.8 rebounds per game while scoring 19.5 points a contest in 2021-22
• Wilson, a 5-9 junior from Greenland, Ark., delivered 17 points, seven rebounds and two steals Thursday. She nailed 3 of 6 from 3-point range. Wilson supplies OCU with 12.8 points and 6.3 rebounds a game while shooting 42.3 percent from beyond the arc
• Oklahoma City hauls in 33.8 defensive rebounds a game as a team to rank seventh in the NAIA this season. The Stars rank ninth nationally with a plus-14.8 average rebounding margin
• OCU received votes in the latest NAIA Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll, released on Nov. 17. Oklahoma City has captured nine national championships in 1988, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017 and finished as national runner-up four times (2003, 2004, 2005 and 2019) 
• The Stars took third in the preseason SAC poll. Oklahoma City owns 20 SAC regular-season titles and 12 SAC Tournament championships. Since 2007-08, OCU has gone 243-23 (.914 winning percentage) in conference play
• OCU owns a 37-3 advantage in the all-time series against Langston. The Stars ousted Langston from the SAC Tournament 69-47 at Abe Lemons Arena on March 3, 2020 in the last meeting. Selzer turned in 15 points and six rebounds for the Stars. OCU has taken 13 of the last 15 games and nine in a row vs. Langston dating back to Nov. 7, 2015

ABOUT THE LADY LIONS

• Langston slipped past John Brown (Ark.) 72-71 on Thursday in Langston, Okla. Alexander boosted Langston (6-1, 1-0 SAC) by nailing a trey as time ran out
• Alexander, a 5-10 senior, had 28 points and nine rebounds. Alexander averages 18.3 points and 7.5 rebounds per game this season
• Conference coaches voted Langston at sixth within the SAC in the preseason league poll
 
MEET THE COACHES

Brett Tahah (9-1, second season with OCU)
• Tahah is the first former OCU student-athlete to serve as head coach of the program
• As a player from 2002-10 she helped lead the team to a 63-10 record, two conference championships and two NAIA Fab Four appearances
• Tahah compiled a 117-50 head-coaching record with two state tournament semifinal berths in six years at Oklahoma high schools Frontier, Elgin, Hobart and Lookeba-Sickles 

Elaine Powell (61-75, sixth season at Langston)
• Powell guided Langston to its first appearance in the SAC Tournament title game last season, falling to Wayland Baptist (Texas) on March 1, 2021 in Plainview, Texas. Prior to Langston, Powell spent time as an assistant coach at three NCAA Division I programs – Alabama A&M, Ohio University, and Grambling State
• Prior to beginning her coaching career, she played in the WNBA for 10 seasons, amassing more than 1,500 points for the Orlando Miracle (1999-2002), the Detroit Shock (2002-06, 07-08) and the Chicago Sky (2006)
• Powell played her collegiate basketball at LSU, where she was a Kodak All-American, and she finished her career in 11th on LSU's all-time scoring list with 1,163 points. She was the first player in LSU history to be drafted into the WNBA
 
ON THE AIR

• Oklahoma City University athletics provides live and on-demand audio and video of its contests on OCU's BlueFrame platform as well as live statistics. Cost to watch OCU athletics live is $4.99 per game, while there is a women's basketball season pass available for $56
• Andrew Himes calls the action. Himes enters his 11th season as the voice of the Stars and has been broadcasting OCU basketball for 14 years starting on color commentary as an OCU student
• OCU has partnered with BlueFrame Technology to create the OCU Sports Network. To watch live video, fans can find the Stars' BlueFrame platform over the web on the SAC Network along with streaming apps for mobile devices (iOS and Android) and televisions including Amazon Fire Tablet, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV and Roku. The app can be found and installed by searching for the SAC Network