2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12
Abe Lemons Arena inside the Freede Center

THE MATCHUP

• Oklahoma City University celebrates the contributions of its women's basketball seniors in its last regular-season home game vs. Southwestern Christian
• The game features teams with identical 9-10 league records trying to position themselves for the postseason
• 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 
• Fans will be required to wear masks in place over their faces while observing social distancing. No concessions will be offered
 
ABOUT THE STARS 

• Mid-America Christian, ranked 20th in the NAIA, held off the Stars 73-69 on Thursday at the Gaulke Activity Center in Oklahoma City. OCU (14-10, 9-10 SAC) uncorked an 11-2 fourth-quarter run to cut its deficit to 70-67 with 36 seconds left after trailing by 17 midway through the third period. Erika Ankney sank a layup with 16 seconds to go to slice Mid-America's edge to 71-69
• Abby Selzer, a 6-foot-2 senior from Thomas, Okla., notched her 12th double-double of the season by accumulating 20 points and 12 rebounds Thursday. Selzer knocked in 9 of her 12 shots from the field. Selzer owns 1,648 points and 722 rebounds in her career, ranking seventh on OCU's all-time scoring list. Selzer collects 18.4 points and 10.4 rebounds a game and leads the NAIA with a 67 percent field-goal percentage on the season
• Annilia Dawn, a 5-5 senior from Amarillo, Texas, accrued 19 points and seven rebounds. She provides the Stars with 11.3 points and 4.8 rebounds a game in 2021-22
• OCU has produced 17.5 made free throws a game, which ranks fourth in the NAIA 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 251-32 (.887 winning percentage) in conference play
• Oklahoma City owns an 18-0 all-time mark against Southwestern Christian. The Stars prevailed 81-76 in overtime Jan. 8 in Bethany, Okla. Ankney propelled OCU with a career-best 31 points, including a layup with two seconds left in regulation to send the game into the extra period

ABOUT THE LADY EAGLES

• Southwestern Christian downed John Brown (Ark.) 67-52 on Thursday in Bethany, Okla. The Lady Eagles (13-14, 9-10 SAC) converted 16 turnovers into 23 points
• Thamires Andrade, a 5-10 senior, had 17 points, six rebounds, two assists and four steals. Andrade averages 20.0 points, 9.6 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.08 steals a game to lead Southwestern Christian in each category in 2021-22
• SAC coaches predicted Southwestern Christian would finish fifth in the SAC before the season
 
MEET THE COACHES

Brett Tahah (19-10, 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 

Mark Arthur (100-102, seventh season with Southwestern Christian)
• Southwestern Christian took a program-best third-place finish in the National Christian College Athletic Association Tournament last season with an 80-65 win over Concordia (Mich.) on March 20, 2021 in Winona Lake, Ind.
• Arthur previously coached the Southwestern Christian men's basketball program to a 404-329 record in 20 years until he stepped down to become full-time athletic director in 2012. Arthur, who played basketball for Southwestern Christian, restarted the basketball program with him as head coach in 1992-93
• In 2008, the court in Pickens-Springer Gymnasium was named 'Mark Arthur Court' in recognition of Arthur's achievements at SCU. He was inducted into the SCU Hall of Fame in 2013
 
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 provides the commentary. 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. 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