6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8
Abe Lemons Arena inside the Freede Center

THE MATCHUP

• Oklahoma City University continues Sooner Athletic Conference play against John Brown (Ark.) in its only home women's basketball contest on a Wednesday this season
• The Stars look to add to a four-game winning streak
• 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

• OCU routed Southwestern Assemblies of God (Texas) 85-59 on Saturday in Waxahachie, Texas. The Stars (8-1, 3-1 SAC) remained undefeated in away games this season (5-0)
• Abby Selzer, a 6-foot-2 senior from Thomas, Okla., topped Oklahoma City with 15 points and eight rebounds, marking the first time this season Selzer did not have a double-double. She shot 7 of 9 from the field. Selzer turns in 19.6 points, 12.3 rebounds and 1.33 blocks a contest with a 68 percent field-goal percentage this season. She ranks third in the NAIA in shooting percentage and eighth in rebounding in 2021-22. Selzer owns 1,457 points and 629 rebounds in her career
• Paige Pendley, a 5-9 junior from Elgin, Okla., collected 14 points and four rebounds at the Sheaffer Center. She sank 5 of her 7 shots from the floor. Pendley posts 8.0 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game this season. She has reached double digits in scoring three games in a row
• The Stars rank fourth in defensive rebounds per game (33.7) and fifth in free throws made a game (19.0) this season
• OCU 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 245-24 (.911 winning percentage) in conference play
• OCU leads the overall series vs. John Brown 54-5. The Stars fended off John Brown 61-59 on Feb. 20 in Siloam Springs, Ark., in the most recent encounter. Erika Ankney hit a lay-in with 53 seconds showing for the winning bucket

ABOUT THE GOLDEN EAGLES

• John Brown fell to North Texas Dallas 64-63 on Saturday in Dallas. Mykayla Dumas knocked down the decisive free throw with three seconds to go to down the Golden Eagles (5-6, 2-2 SAC)
• Natalie Smith, a 5-8 sophomore, had 20 points while shooting 5-for-8 from 3-point range. Smith averages 14.3 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game with a 47.7 percent 3-point shooting clip this season
• John Brown has connected on 35.3 percent of its shots from beyond the arc to rank 27th nationally
• SAC coaches put John Brown seventh in the preseason conference poll
 
MEET THE COACHES

Brett Tahah (13-2, 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 

Jeff Soderquist (363-378, 25th season with John Brown)
• Soderquist is the winningest coach in program history, and has guided the Golden Eagles to five trips to the NAIA Division I Championship Tournament including a trip to the Fab Four in 2014
• In 2013-14, the women's basketball program pieced together 28 total victories and 15 wins in Sooner Athletic Conference play, both program records
• In 2011, Soderquist was named the SAC Coach of Character
 
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