OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City opens the 2025-26 season at home on Saturday with a 2 p.m. tilt against Oklahoma Wesleyan.
 
The Stars begin the Alexis Lawrence coaching era.
 
OCU Notebook:
Welcome Coach Lawrence: Former NAIA Assistant Coach of the Year Alexis Lawrence took the reins of the Oklahoma City University women's basketball team as head coach in June 2025 Lawrence was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she helped coordinate recruiting efforts for the staff, served as the camp director, assisted in film and scouting preparations and helped develop and implement guard workouts. She was with UMKC for two seasons.
 
Welcome Back: Multiple starters and seven players from last year's team are back for 2025. Upperclassmen construct the bulk of the Stars' returners, including graduate student Amanda Sene Da Cruz, senior Akajia Handsom, juniors Jerzie Bryant, Lauren Rowan, and Kendal Taylor. Sophomores Victoria Ososanya and Brooke Curry round out the returning players for OCU. This group returns 45 games started and 118 games played from the previous year. Bryant, a 5-8 guard from Midlothian, Texas, is the player who returns the most points per game with 8.1 per contest. Curry, an Oklahoma native, shot the ball at the highest percentage from deep last year at just over 35 percent. 
 
New Faces: Six fresh faces will be entering the fold as OCU women's basketball players. Of the six newcomers, four are juniors who transferred in—Monica Devine, Weronika Tomaszuk, Lia Sekhniashvili, and Desiree White make up the group of incoming juniors. Hailing from India is senior transfer, Sunishka Kartik. Sophomore Ellie Willard rounds out the newcomers for the Stars entering 2025. 
 
Facts from the Past: The Stars are coming off a 10-19 season in 2024-25 and haven't finished above .500 since the 2021-22 season when they were 16-13. The last 20-win season happened in the 2019-20 season when OCU was 30-2 but robbed by Covid of a national tournament appearance.
 
History with OWU: The Stars have won four of the last five meetings but Oklahoma Wesleyan claimed a 71-59 win in Bartlesville in the 2023-24 season. Jerzie Bryant had nine points in that loss.
 
Scouting the Eagles: Oklahoma Wesleyan lost its top five scorers from last year's 13-15 squad.