OU on the Road Tuesday at ISU

Oklahoma

Iowa State

Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 / 6:30 p.m. CT / Ames, Iowa / Hilton Coliseum

NORMAN – The Oklahoma women's basketball returns to the court after 12 days to meet Iowa State in Ames. The game will tip at 6:30 p.m. CT inside Hilton Coliseum.

ON THE AIR

Sunday's game will be available for streaming on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ with John Walters and Lyndsey Fennelly on the call.

The contest will air on the Sooner Radio Network (KOKC 1420 AM in Oklahoma City; KREF 99.3 FM/1400 AM in Norman; TuneIn radio App) with Chris Plank calling the action.

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW

The Oklahoma women's basketball team is on the road Tuesday at Iowa State for its first game since Jan. 6. OU postponed two games due to COVID-19 and contact tracing protocol within the program and will work with the Big 12 Conference to reschedule games with TCU and Texas originally scheduled for
Jan. 9 and Jan. 12, respectively.
OU leads the all-time series with Iowa State 40-27 and is 7-3 in the last 10 games with the Cyclones.Iowa State hold a 15-13 advantage in Ames.
The Sooners notched 75-74 win at Texas Tech in their last outing. After trailing by as many as nine points late in the fourth quarter, OU used a late surge to power past the Lady Raiders. Taylor Robertson finished that game with 24 points and 7-for-10 shooting from beyond the arc and Gabby Gregory scored 12 of her 16 points on the night in the fourth quarter to lift the Sooners to victory.
Madi Williams is quickly approaching 1,000 career points. The junior has tallied a total of 971 points headed into Tuesday's game and has scored 138 this season.
As a team, Oklahoma is shooting 46.1% (236-for-514) from the floor this season to rank third in field goal percentage among Big 12 teams. The Sooners lead the league in 3FG% at 39.0% (69-for-177). Three players are averaging points in double figures: Madi Williams (23.0), Gabby Gregory (16.7) and Taylor Robertson (14.4).

SERIES BREAKDOWN

OU leads the all-time series with Iowa State 40-28. The Cyclones hold a 16-13 advantage in Ames and have won the last two meetings between the teams there. OU is 7-3 in the last 10 meetings and the teams split last season's series with the home team coming out on top in both contests.

WILLIAMS APPROACHING 1,000

Junior Madi Williams is approaching 1,000 career points. Williams has tallied 971 in her time at OU headed into Tuesday's game. Williams is averaging 23.0 points per game this season, headlined by a record-breaking 45-point outing against West Virginia on Jan. 3.

When she hits the milestone, Williams will become the 38th player in program history to join the 1,000 points club and will be the third member of the 2020-21 roster with a place there. Senior Ana Llanusa and junior Taylor Robertson both reached their 1,000th career points milestones in 2019-20.

#25 GOES FOR 45

Madi Williams dropped 45 points against West Virginia in Norman on Jan. 3 to capture the OU single-game scoring record and score the most points in a DI women's basketball game this season.

Williams passed OU's all-time leading scorer and current assistant coach Courtney Paris on the all-time single-game scoring list. Paris' held the previous record of 43 which she set in 2006.

Williams' performance was wildly efficient. The junior shot 17-for-30 (.567) from the floor, 3-for-7 (.429) from deep and 8-for-9 (.889) from the charity stripe. Williams nearly doubled her previous career high of 26 points as she accounted for 62.5% of Oklahoma's
scoring on the contest.

Additionally, Williams' 45 points against WVU were good for the most in a game by a Division I women's basketball player this season, as were her 17 field goals. Williams was one point shy of tying the Division I men's basketball 2020-21 single-game high of 46 points set by D'Moi Hodge of Cleveland State on Dec. 26.

GOOD, GABBY!

Sophomore Gabby Gregory has been a staple in the Sooners' lineup this season, averaging 38.1 minutes per game (good for 11th nationally and first among Big 12 players). She has amassed 343:01 minutes and has played all 40 minutes of five of the Sooners' 10 contests.

Gregory is averaging 16.7 points per game and ranks 11th in the Big 12 in scoring. Her 43.4% (46-for-106) FG% also ranks 11th among players in the league. Additionally, Gregory has been a force at the free throw line where she has knocked down 41 of 50 shots (82.0%) this season to lead the Sooners and rank fifth in the Big 12.

UP NEXT

OU is on the road again Saturday at Baylor. The game is set for a 7 p.m. CT start on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.

ON THE AIR

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW

SERIES BREAKDOWN

WILLIAMS APPROACHING 1,000

#25 GOES FOR 45

GOOD, GABBY!

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Ana Llanusa

Taylor Robertson

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