2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18
Gaulke Activity Center | Oklahoma City
THE MATCHUP
• Oklahoma City University squares off with Mid-America Christian in the regular-season finale
• The Stars could secure either the seventh or eighth seed in the Sooner Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament. The SAC Tournament quarterfinals will happen Feb. 23 on campus sites throughout the league hosted by the top four seeds
• Mid-America Christian is set to be the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament
ABOUT THE STARS
• The Stars fell 61-53 to Southwestern Christian on Thursday in Shawnee, Okla. OCU (12-14, 9-12 SAC) sliced its deficit to 39-36 with 3:43 left in the third quarter after falling behind by 15 early on
• Elaine Witt, a 5-foot-5 sophomore nursing major from Dale, Okla., delivered career highs with 19 points and six 3-pointers. Witt shot 6-for-10 from the field and 6-for-8 from beyond the arc. Witt turns in 7.3 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game this season
• Amaya Gordon, a 5-6 junior from Ardmore, Okla., studying criminal justice, filled the stat sheet with 12 points, six rebounds, five assists, three blocks and two steals. Gordon supplies OCU with 10.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.58 steals a game 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 31-3 against Mid-America Christian over the years. The Stars rallied for a 73-71 win Jan. 14 in El Reno, Okla., for the Evangels' last loss. Fiona Wilson's free throws capped a fourth-quarter 9-0 run where OCU seized the lead 63-57 with 3:34 remaining
ABOUT THE EVANGELS
• Mid-America Christian came back for a 72-59 win over John Brown (Ark.) on Thursday in Siloam Springs, Ark. The Evangels (23-4, 17-4 SAC) took their 10th consecutive victory while shooting 55.5 percent in the second half
• Aneli Thomsen, a 5-10 senior, had 20 points and three steals. She averages 6.8 points and 2.0 rebounds a game this season
• Mid-America Christian took the third spot 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.)
Hannah Moeller (153-56, seventh season at MACU)
• Moeller led the Evangels to their first ever Sooner Athletic Conference regular-season title and NAIA National Tournament appearance in 2020-21
• In 2021-22, Mid-America Christian posted the best record in program history with a 28-5 mark
• Three-time National Christian College Athletic Association national coach of the year honoree while guiding Mid-America Christian to back-to-back NCCAA national titles in 2017-18 and 2018-19
ON THE AIR
• 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 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
• Mid-America Christian will provide live video and statistics
• Alex Freedman will perform the play-by-play for Mid-America Christian. Freedman is the regular play-by-play announcer for the Oklahoma City Dodgers
• Fans can take advantage of BlueFrame's video technology by installing the SAC Sports Network app on their devices, ranging from Apple devices like iPads, iPhones or AppleTV to your Roku or Android device. Follow SAC action from your living room by searching for SAC Sports Network on the Apple Store, Google Play Store, Amazon Fire App Store or Roku Channel Search and install the app
