3:45 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19
Drover Field House | Chickasha, Okla.
 
THE MATCHUP
 
• Oklahoma City University will try and put the clamps on Science & Arts when they face off on Saturday at the Drover Fieldhouse
• The all-time record against the Drovers has the Stars holding a 40-25 advantage. The last matchup ended with the Stars winning 103-102 on Feb. 19 with Romario Spence getting the winning layup with 28 seconds left in Chickasha, Okla. The Drovers led 96-80 with 5:04 before the Stars made their epic comeback

ABOUT THE STARS
 
• The Stars are coming off an 81-73 win over Texas Wesleyan on Thursday in Oklahoma City. OCU (3-3, 1-0 SAC) held Texas Wesleyan to its season low for points and field-goal percentage (34.8 percent) and outrebounded the Rams 45-38
• Avery Jackson, a 6-foot-3 freshman, scored a game-high 28 points while hauling in six rebounds. Jackson has supplied the Stars with 19.2 points and 5.3 rebounds a contest this season
• Brandon Jackson, a 6-6 junior, posted his second double-double of the season with 17 points and 12 boards. Jackson's averages this season are 11.2 points and 8.2 rebounds per game
• The Stars came in seventh in the preseason SAC coach's poll. OCU owns 13 SAC regular-season championships and 10 SAC Tournament titles. Oklahoma City has advanced to the NAIA Division I Championship Tournament 25 times and has won six national championships in 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2007 and 2008

ABOUT THE DROVERS
 
• Science & Arts edged John Brown (Ark.) 70-68 on Thursday in Siloam Springs, Ark. Langston Gaither beat the buzzer with a putback to lift the Drovers (3-3, 1-0 SAC) to victory
• Gerard Makuntae, a 6-6 senior, led with 23 points, shooting 9-for-16 from the field, while grabbing eight rebounds. He is averaging 16.5 points and 8.7 rebounds a game
• Science & Arts was picked to finish second in the conferenc before the season 
 
MEET THE COACHES
 
Mark Berokoff (second season at OCU, 20-17) 
 
• Mark Berokoff directed Oklahoma City to a 17-14 record in his first season as the Stars' head coach. The Stars collected the No. 3 seed in the SAC Tournament and earned their most conference wins since 2009-10 with a 15-7 mark
• Berokoff directed Randall to three national championships and a national runner-up showing in nine years as head coach of the Saints. Berokoff led Randall to a 147-122 mark. Randall annually squared off with SAC teams and knocked off OCU twice in that span. His college head-coaching record stood at 164-136 in 10 years before the season
• Berokoff produced five national player of the year honorees, 16 all-Americans, three national tournament outstanding player award winners and one scholar all-American with Randall. Berkoff became two-time national coach of the year
• Berokoff's coaching career spans the high school, college and professional levels. His joint head-coaching record over 20 years in the college and prep ranks was 389-213 entering the 2022-23 season. 
 
Chris Francis (eighth season at Science & Arts, 141-77) 

• Francis has led the Drovers to five NAIA National Championship tournament appearances and two Sooner Athletic Conference tournament titles (2017, 2021). He became the 2022 SAC coach of the year
• Directed Science & Arts to a quarterfinals appearance at 2018-19 NAIA Tournament, the deepest run for the school since winning the 2001-02 national title 
• He has coached one SAC player of the year, two SAC newcomer of the year award winners, two SAC Tournament most valuable players
• He is a graduate of Rogers State where he held the record for games played, steals, and minutes played  

ON THE AIR

• Science & Arts will provide a live video stream over the SAC Network and live stats of the game  
• Oklahoma City University athletics will offer a live audio play-by-play broadcast of the game. Oklahoma City University athletics provides live and on-demand audio and video of its contests on OCU's BlueFrame platform
• Andrew Himes will offer commentary. Himes enters his 12th season as the voice of the Stars and has been broadcasting OCU basketball for 15 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