2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19
Drover Fieldhouse | Chickasha, Okla.
THE MATCHUP
• Oklahoma City University concludes the regular season in a Sooner Athletic Conference women's basketball clash against Science & Arts on Brisco McPherson Court
• The Stars have clinched the seventh seed in the Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament coming next week. Science & Arts looks to be the fourth-seeded team
• The SAC Tournament will include all 12 conference teams. The tournament tips off Feb. 22 with seeds 5-8 hosting and the top four seeds on byes in the first round. The quarterfinals are set for Feb. 24 with the top four teams hosting the first-round winners
ABOUT THE STARS
• Oklahoma City fell short to Texas Wesleyan 76-66 on Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas. The Stars (15-11, 10-11 SAC) sliced the Texas Wesleyan lead to 68-64 with 5:27 remaining in the game, but the Lady Rams held on
• Erika Ankney, a 5-foot-9 senior from Harrah, Okla., served as OCU's ringleader with 23 points, five rebounds and five assists while playing all 40 minutes. Ankney hit 10 of her 19 field-goal attempts. Ankney turns in 16.9 points, 3.7 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.45 steals per contest
• Abby Selzer, a 6-2 senior from Thomas, Okla., notched her 13th double-double of the season with 15 points, 14 rebounds and two blocked shots. Selzer moved up into a tie for fifth place on OCU's all-time scoring list with 1,687 points. Lauren Gober, who played for the Stars from 2009-13, stands No. 5 alongside Selzer. Selzer has also grabbed 745 career rebounds. Selzer tallies 18.5 points, 10.3 rebounds and 1.45 blocks a game with the top field-goal percentage by an individual in the NAIA this season (67.0 percent). She has posted 1,595 points and 697 rebounds in her illustrious career
• The Stars score 17.2 points a game off free throws to rank No. 4 in the NAIA this season
• 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 252-33 (.884 winning percentage) in conference play
• OCU's lead in the all-time series stands at 59-5. Science & Arts won the last meeting 85-50 on Jan. 15 at Abe Lemons Arena. Fiona Wilson stood front and center for the Stars with 14 points, four rebounds and three assists
ABOUT THE DROVERS
• Science & Arts suffered a 61-57 setback to John Brown (Ark.) on Thursday in Chickasha, Okla. The Drovers (20-8, 14-7 SAC) lost for the second consecutive outing
• Milagros Carrera, a 5-9 sophomore, had 14 points, eight rebounds and four steals. Carrera averages 17.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.11 steals a game this season
• The Drovers rank 20th nationally with 30.1 defensive rebounds a game
• League coaches put Science & Arts at No. 2 in the preseason SAC poll
MEET THE COACHES
Brett Tahah (20-11, 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
Darrick Matthews (122-75, seventh season with Science & Arts)
• Matthews guided the Drovers to three consecutive 20-win seasons from 2017-20, including a 29-6 mark with their first SAC regular-season title, splitting the conference crown with OCU in 2017-18. He took the 2018 John Hudson SAC coach of the year
• Overall head-coaching record stands at 140-94 including one season at Southwestern Christian, where he led the Lady Eagles to a fourth-place finish in the 2015 National Christian College Athletic Association Division I Tournament
• Began his college playing career at Oklahoma Christian, then transferred to the University of the Southwest (N.M.), where he became an all-conference performer playing for Quinn Wooldridge, who would eventually become an OCU assistant. Matthews completed his college career at McMurry (Texas)
ON THE AIR
• Science & Arts will provide a live video stream 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 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
