6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14
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SILAOM SPRINGS, Ark. | Bill George Arena
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THE MATCHUP
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• Oklahoma City takes on John Brown University for the final time in the regular season
• Their all-time matchup gives OCU a 55-7 advantage. OCU fell in their last contest 66-51 on Dec. 6. JBU has won two straight after OCU's 16-game winning streak in the series
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Annilia Dawn tallied 18 points
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ABOUT THE STARS
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• The Stars come into the game with an even record of 12-12, 9-10
• The Stars downed Panhandle State 75-66 on Saturday
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Fiona Wilson scored 20 points to lead the Stars while
Cacie Gorman posted a double-double
• Wilson, a senior Human Performance major from Greenland, Ark., is averaging 13.9 points per game with four 20-point scoring games including a 33-point, 12 rebound performance against Langston
• OCU led the entire game for a wire-to-wire win. They shot 37.5 percent from deep with 34 points in the paint. OCU held Panhandle State to under 35 percent from the field and scoreless for the first 4:15 of the game.
• The Stars 3-point percentage stands at 31.8 good enough for 59th in the NAIA
• 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).
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ABOUT THE GOLDEN EAGLES
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• JBU flaunts a 18-7, 12-7 (SAC) record
• The Golden Eagles fell to Wayland Baptist University 71-66 on Saturday
• Their leading scorer Natalie Smith scored 17
• Smith is averaging 10.4 points per game including a 31-point performance this season
• JBU had won six straight games prior to the loss
• JBU rank 7th in the NAIA for assists per game and 8th for 3-pointers made per game
• John Brown took the 5th spot in the SAC Preseason Coaches' Poll
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MEET THE COACHES
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Kris Seigenthaler (first year at OCU)
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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.)
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Jeff Soderquist (26th season at JBU, 383-393)
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• Soderquist in the winningest coach in program history with NAIA National Championship appearances in 2004, 2006, 2011, 2014, and 2017
• He has made three NAIA National Championship appearances in the last seven seasons
• Won SAC Coach of the Year in 2003-04 winning then-program record 21 games
• Coached Bailey Cameron, first to break the 2,000-point barrier for JBU
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ON THE AIR
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• You can find live stats and a live stream of the game provided by John Brown