6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26 
Eagles Nest | Oklahoma City 

THE MATCHUP 

• Oklahoma City University completes its home-and-home season series against Langston at the Eagles Nest on the campus of Oklahoma Christian
• After Abe Lemons Arena suffered major damage to the court, the remainder of OCU's home schedule will be played at multiple sites
• Admission will be free of charge 

ABOUT THE STARS 

• Oklahoma City fell short against Science & Arts, ranked 19th in the NAIA, 70-68 on Saturday at the Eagles Nest. Annilia Dawn delivered a go-ahead 3-pointer for the Stars (9-9, 6-7 SAC) with 2:05 remaining, but Diaka Berete answered with a trey. Science & Arts hit four free throws the rest of the way to maintain the lead
• Dawn, a 5-foot-5 senior psychology major from Amarillo, Texas, collected 17 points, five rebounds and three steals. Dawn's trey put OCU on 65-63 down the stretch. Dawn has compiled 13.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.89 steals a contest this season 
• Ray Osborn, a 5-8 junior psychology major from Sapulpa, Okla., contributed season highs with 17 points and 9-for-10 shooting from the free-throw line. She has chipped in double-figure scoring efforts the past four games, averaging 13.8 points a game during that stretch. Osborn has turned in 8.9 points and 3.8 rebounds per game on the season 
• OCU shoots 32.2 percent from 3-point range to rank 50th in the NAIA this season 
• 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) 
• Oklahoma City has gone 39-4 against Langston over the years. While the outcome on the court was Langston defeating the Stars 74-55 on Dec. 1, 2022 in Langston, Okla., the Lions forfeited that game due to playing an ineligible student-athlete 

ABOUT THE LIONS 

• Langston hammered Central Christian (Kan.) 91-38 on Tuesday in McPherson, Kan. Langston (11-9, 6-8 SAC) surpassed 90 points for the third time this season
• Kameron Shelley, a 5-9 junior, had 17 points and hit a season-high five 3-pointers. She averages 12.5 points and 1.90 steals a game this season 
• The Lions own a rebounding margin of plus-11.7 to rank seventh in the NAIA on the season 
• Langston stood sixth in the preseason SAC coaches poll 

MEET THE COACHES 

Kris Seigenthaler (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.) 

Kevin Herod (first year as at LU) 

• Kevin Herod guided Talladega (Ala.) to a 171-68 record in eight seasons, giving him the most wins of any HBCU women's basketball coach in that span 
• Talladega had a 21-12 mark in 2021-22, reaching the NAIA Championship Tournament and defeating Providence (Mont.), ranked 13th at the time, in the first round 
• Herod led Talladega to its first ever Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament championship and became league coach of the year in 2016-17 

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 provides the play-by-play. 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
• The game will broadcast locally over the radio on CBS Sports Radio 105.3 FM