OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma City Stars women's basketball finishes off the 2023 schedule on the road at Oklahoma Wesleyan on Friday at 3 PM. 

Game Information 

• Oklahoma City Stars (3-7, 2-3 SAC)
  • Previous Game: Oklahoma Panhandle State (W, 48-37)
• Oklahoma Wesleyan (2-9, 1-5 KCAC)
  • Previous Game: York (L, 52-71)
• Date & Time: Friday, Dec. 15, 3 PM
• Location: Bartlesville, Okla.
• Live Coverage: TV | Live Stats

Key Players

• Oklahoma City 
  • Sr - Amaya Gordon - 13.5 PPG, 8.1 RPG, 47.5 FG%, 2.1 SPG
  • Fr - Jerzie Bryant - 11.6 PPG, 3.8 RPG
  • Sr - Ray Osborn – 9.8 PPG, 1.9 APG, 3.8 RPG, 81.8 FT% 
• Oklahoma Wesleyan
  • Jr – Rashaan Smith – 11.3 PPG, 7.1 RPG, 42.4 FG%
  • Sr – River Jeffries – 8.3 PPG, 2.7 RPG, 2.3 APG, 44.8 FG%
  • Jr – Zariah Tillman – 7.5 PPG, 4.7 RPG, 2.3 APG, 2.2 SPG, 32.7 MPG

About the Stars

• Oklahoma City wraps up the 2023 slate after coming off a 48-73 victory on Saturday over Sooner Athletic Conference opponent Oklahoma Panhandle State. 
• The Stars had two players reach double-figure scoring with Amaya Gordon shooting 50% from the field while collecting 12 points and eight rebounds. 
• Freshman Jerzie Bryant netted 11 points while going 3-4 from the charity stripe and grabbed four rebounds to go along with it. 
• The Stars sit in eighth place through five games in the Sooner Athletic Conference standings and will be looking to pick up its first road win of the 2023-24 season. 
• OCU has seen plenty of competitive action throughout the first part of the year and comes off a week full of tight games. The Stars have found themselves in plenty of close contests seeing three of its losses come by no more than two possessions while taking (RV) Columbia College to overtime on Dec. 5. 
• Amiya Howard brought a spark to the Stars on Saturday after coming off the bench to give the Stars a season-high nine points along with two assists. 
•  Freshman Jazmin Adams has come onto the scene and been a strong piece to the Stars lineup since making her first appearance at John Brown on Nov. 28. Adams reached a season-high 18 points in the blow-out win over Central Christian while also hauling in 14 rebounds and collecting three assists. 

About the Eagles

• Oklahoma Wesleyan is off to a 2-9 start to the season while going 1-5 so far in KCAC play. 
• The Eagles have faced some of OCU's familiar opponents by taking on three other schools from the Sooner Athletic Conference. Those schools include Langston, Texas Wesleyan, and SAGU where Oklahoma Wesleyan went 0-3 in those matchups. 
• The Eagles are led by Rashaan Smith who has made only three starts in 10 appearances and still leads the team in scoring with 11.3 PPG. Smith saw her top game of the season come against Ottawa where she dropped a season-high 22 points in the 73-68 loss. 

Meet the Coaches

• Kris Seigenthaler (2nd Season) 
  • Kris Seigenthaler enters year two at the helm for Stars after posting a 13-15 record in 2022-23. Seigenthaler arrived at Oklahoma City after a successful stint as an assistant coach at Loyola (La.). 
  • In four seasons with Loyola, Seigenthaler helped the Wolfpack sweep the Southern States Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament championships for two consecutive years. Loyola advanced to the NAIA Championship Tournament and posted 20-win seasons all four years. The Wolf Pack went 91-22 (.805 winning percentage) with her contributions.
  • Seigenthaler coached four NAIA all-Americans, two Women's Basketball Coaches Association all-Americans as well as student-athletes who won conference player of the year, defensive player of the year, newcomer of the year, sixth man of the year, and two conference tournament most valuable player awards at Loyola.
  • Before joining the Loyola coaching staff, Seigenthaler spent two years as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Auburn University Montgomery (Ala.). She coached one all-American there. She assisted with the school's transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II and the Gulf South Conference after being a member of the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) for 17 years. While with the Warhawks in 2017, she was also recognized by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association on its Thirty Under 30 list.  
• Heidi Messer (2nd Season)
  • Heidi Messer joined the staff of Oklahoma Wesleyan in May 2022 and is entering her first season as head coach of the women's basketball program.
  • Messer, who is originally from Waynesville, Ohio, played four years at the collegiate level. She attended Sinclair Community College for two years before attending Grace College, where she played for two years and served as team captain during her senior season. She recorded the eighth-most assists in program history while at Grace.
  • Messer brings a wealth of coaching experience to the job. She received her graduate degree from Georgetown College (Ky.) where she was a graduate assistant for two seasons. In 2012, Georgetown advanced to the NAIA Fab 4. From 2012-2014 she was an assistant coach and the Senior Woman Administrator at Manchester University. In 2015, she joined the staff at the University of Montevallo, where she remained until 2017. 
  • From 2017 until joining the OKWU staff, Messer was an assistant coach and the women's basketball strength and conditioning coach at Northeastern State in Oklahoma. Messer also served as a coach of a USA Sports Team that toured Brazil in the summer of 2021.

Series History 

• Despite residing in the same state, this will only be the fifth time ever the two schools have competed against one another. The Stars enter with a 4-0 record all-time against the Eagles dating back to the first ever meeting coming in 2006. 
• After meeting twice in 2006 the two squads did not play again until Jan. 25, 2021.

What's Next

• Oklahoma City will return to action after the break and compete against Southwestern Assemblies of God on Jan. 4 at 6 PM in Waxahachie, Texas. The Stars will not return home until Jan. 11 against Mid-America Christian.