6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6
Abe Lemons Arena inside Freede Center
THE MATCHUP
• Oklahoma City University competes in the second of its five-game women's basketball home stand, taking on John Brown (Ark.). All games are Sooner Athletic Conference games
• Tickets cost $7 for adults and $5 for students. All tickets must be purchased via OCU's HomeTown Ticketing portal. No tickets are to be purchased via cash on site. OCU students, faculty and staff gain admission to all OCU regular-season home athletics events free of charge with their ID
• The Stars own the all-time matchup with a 55-6 mark against John Brown. Oklahoma City fell 87-69 in the last clash Jan. 25 in Siloam Springs, Ark., as John Brown ended OCU's 16-game winning string in the series. Annilia Dawn had 11 points
ABOUT THE STARS
• OCU (3-5, 1-3) easily handled Central Christian (Kan.) in its last game 92-50 on Saturday at Abe Lemons Arena. The Stars (3-5, 1-3 SAC) collected their first conference victory of the season
• Dawn, a 5-foot-5 senior from Amarillo, Texas, led with 17 points while notching six rebounds and four assists. Dawn led five players in double figures scoring. Dawn is averaging 10.3 points and 1.25 steals per game on the season
• Ray Osborn, a 5-8 junior, tallied a season-high 15 points on 7-of-13 shooting from the field. Osborn has provided OCU with 9.0 points and 3.5 rebounds a game this season
• The Stars rank 32nd in the NAIA in blocks per game (3.63)
• The Stars took the seventh spot in the preseason Sooner Athletic Conference coaches' poll. Oklahoma City has seized 20 SAC regular-season championships and 12 SAC Tournament titles. Oklahoma City owns 26 appearances in the NAIA Division I Championship Tournament with nine national championships won in 1988, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017 with four national runner-up finishes (2003, 2004, 2005, 2019)
ABOUT THE GOLDEN EAGLES
• John Brown dropped a 81-74 decision to Langston on Saturday in Siloam Springs, Ark. Maci Mains hit a free throw to put the Golden Eagles (7-3, 1-3 SAC) ahead by a point early in the fourth quarter
• Tarrah Stephens, a 5-11 senior, had 27 points, 12 rebounds, three steals and two blocks. Stephens leads the SAC in scoring averaging a whopping 18.8 points and 6.7 rebounds per game shooting 55 percent from the floor. She has scored in double figures in every game this year.
• John Brown has held six opponents to under 50 points in their 10 games played, averaging 76.1 points while allowing 51.3 points per game. The Golden Eagles rank seventh in the NAIA in 3-pointers made per game (9.2)
• JBU ranked in fifth in the Sooner Athletic Conference women's basketball poll.
MEET THE COACHES
Kris Segeinthaler (first year at OCU)
• Kris Seigenthaler assumed the OCU head-coaching job after spending the last four years at Loyola (La.) as an assistant coach. Loyola made four national-tournament appearances with four 20-win seasons and twice sweeping the Southern States Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament titles
• Seigenthaler has had coaching stops as an assistant at Auburn University at Montgomery (Ala.), Faulkner (Ala.) and Shorter (Ga.). While at Auburn Montgomery, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association included Seigenthaler among its rising stars in the coaching profession on the Thirty Under 30 list
• Seigenthaler began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Shorter following a playing career at the University of Montevallo (Ala.)
Jeff Soderquist (26th season at JBU, 374-388)
• Winningest coach in program history with NAIA National Championship appearances in 2004, 2006, 2011, 2014, and 2017
• Made three NAIA National Championship appearances in the last seven seasons
• Won SAC Coach of the Year in 2003-04 winning then-program record 21 games
• Coached Bailey Cameron, first to break the 2,000-point barrier for JBU
ON THE AIR
• Oklahoma City University athletics provides live and on-demand audio and video of its contests on OCU's BlueFrame platform. Cost to watch OCU athletics live is $4.99 per game, while there is a women's basketball season pass available for $44
• 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
