6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22
Abe Lemons Arena inside the Freede Center

THE MATCHUP

• Oklahoma City University looks to advance past North Texas Dallas in the Sooner Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament first round
• Oklahoma City holds the seventh seed in the SAC Tournament, while UNT Dallas is the 10th seed. The winner of the first-round game reaches a quarterfinal game at Mid-America Christian at 6 p.m. Friday
• The SAC Tournament includes all 12 conference teams. The first round tips off the tournament Tuesday with seeds 5-8 hosting and the top four seeds idle. The quarterfinals have been moved to Friday with the top four teams hosting the first-round winners due to the chance for inclement weather this week
• 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 

• The Stars concluded the regular season with an 85-72 loss to Science & Arts on Saturday in Chickasha, Okla. OCU (15-12, 10-12 SAC) outscored the Drovers 26-17 in the fourth quarter
• Abby Selzer, a 6-foot-2 senior from Thomas, Okla., registered 21 points, nine rebounds and two blocked shots. She nailed 6 of 9 field-goal attempts and 9 of 12 free-throw tries. Selzer has compiled 1,708 points and 754 rebounds over her career. She surpassed Lauren Gober's 1,687 points to move into fifth place outright among OCU's career points leaders. Selzer provides the Stars with 18.6 points and 10.3 rebounds a game and leads the NAIA with a 66.8 percent field-goal percentage this season
• Erika Ankney, a 5-9 senior from Harrah, Okla., posted 20 points and three rebounds. She hit 7 of 8 shots from the foul line. She produces 17.0 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.38 steals a contest this season
• The Stars hit 17.6 free throws per game to stand third in the NAIA in 2021-22
• 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
• Oklahoma City won both meetings with North Texas Dallas this season in what were the first contests between the two teams ever. The Stars routed UNT Dallas 72-40 on Jan. 29 at Abe Lemons Arena. Selzer totaled 19 points and seven rebounds to guide OCU

ABOUT THE TRAILBLAZERS

• Wayland Baptist (Texas) ripped North Texas Dallas 107-45 on Saturday in Plainview, Texas. The Trailblazers (12-17, 6-16 SAC) allowed a season high point total to an opponent
• Delyssa Miller, a 5-11 senior, had 10 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Miller averages 15.7 points, 9.0 rebounds and 1.21 steals a game
• UNT Dallas had been picked by league coaches to finish 11th in the SAC before the season
 
MEET THE COACHES

Brett Tahah (20-13, 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 

Rodney Belcher (14-25, second season at UNT Dallas)
• UNT Dallas went 2-8 in its first season of competition, collecting the first win in program history against Texas A&M-Texarkana 69-56 on Nov. 20, 2020 in Dallas
• Belcher guided Plano High School (Texas) to a 172-46 record with the 2018 Class 6A state championship and three district titles in six years. He had also been a head coach at Albuquerque Rio Grande (N.M.)
• Belcher previously coached on the college level as a men's assistant at Baylor and New Mexico
 
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