Cowgirls Ready For Showdown With UNLV

What 2 Watch 4
• Oklahoma State’s ladies’s basketball group will return to motion on Sunday for the primary time since Dec. 6 when it hosts UNLV at 3 p.m.
• The tilt is a part of a run of 5 consecutive dwelling video games for the Cowgirls. OSU is not going to hit the street once more till Jan. 4 when it travels to Kansas State.
• The Cowgirls boast the  prime two 3-point shooters within the league. Lior Garzon is taking pictures 44.8 p.c from deep, whereas Naomie Alnatas is hitting at a 39.4 p.c clip.
• As a group, the Cowgirls are eleventh nationally in assist-turnover ratio at 1.45 and fifth in turnovers per recreation at 11.3.
• Lexy Keys enters the competition with 101 profession 3-pointers and is 4 away from transferring into the highest 10 on the varsity’s all-time chart.
• Garzon has produced back-to-back 20-point outings off the bench after scoring 21 towards North Texas earlier than pouring in 20 factors towards Loyola Marymount.
• The Cowgirls have scored no less than 20 factors in 22 quarters this season and have scored 30-plus factors thrice.
• OSU has had 9 totally different gamers have had no less than one double-digit outing.

Last Time Out

• Claire Chastain scored 15 factors to eclipse the 1,000-point mark for her profession.

• Lior Garzon hit six of her seven 3-point makes an attempt and scored 18 of her game-high 20 factors within the third quarter.

• OSU dished out 25 assists towards simply six turnovers. Both program bests since a 26-assist, 5-turnover recreation at Iowa State on Jan. 13, 2021.

• OSU shot 56.9 p.c from the ground, its highest since hitting 60.0 p.c towards TCU on Feb. 15, 2017.

Know The Foe

• UNLV sports activities a 9-1 mark after selecting up wins at Hawaii-Hilo and Hawaii in its final two outings.

• The Lady Rebels completed 26-7 and received the Mountain West common season and match titles a 12 months in the past to earn a berth within the NCAA Championship subject.

• Desi-Rae Young was the league’s participant of the 12 months in 2022 and is averaging 18.5 factors and 9.5 boards per outing.

OSU vs. UNLV … The Series

• OSU and UNLV have met on 5 events with the Lady Rebels holding a 3-2 benefit.

• UNLV received the primary three conferences, all in Las Vegas.

• OSU’s first victory got here in the course of the 2001 WNIT in Stillwater earlier than selecting up an 88-73 win on the 2008 Desert Draw in Las Vegas.