NORMAN, Okla. – The ACU women's basketball team brings its 4-0 record to the test this holiday week with a pair of tough road games. The Wildcats open with the Sooners of Oklahoma (3-2) on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. before heading out to Portland, Ore. for a matchup with the Portland Pilots of the West Coast Conference on Black Friday at 4 p.m. central time. Tuesday's game will be ACU's lone matchup with a power-five school this season.
FOLLOW THE GAME
- ACU at Oklahoma: Tuesday, Nov. 26 (7 p.m.)
- Watch: Fox Sports Oklahoma
- Listen: 98.1 The Ticket (
Zach Carlyle), iHeart Radio app
- Live Stats: StatBroadcast
SERIES HISTORY
- The teams are getting together for the first time in 35 years Tuesday. It will be just the second-ever matchup between the schools; the lone meeting came in 1984 in Norman, with the Sooners beating the Division II Wildcats, 89-70. Head coach
Julie Goodenough coached against the Sooners six times as the head coach at Oklahoma State from 2002-05. It will be the seventh time Goodenough matches up with OU.
ACU STORYLINES
- ACU is up to No. 17 in the latest Mid Major Poll, and is receiving a pair of votes in the second USA Today Coaches' Poll.
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Breanna Wright and
Dominique Golightly, both seniors, will both hit the century mark with their 100th career game played Tuesday.
- The Wildcats are coming off a win a week ago against Howard Payne University, 96-38. ACU scored 21 straight points to end the first quarter, and the game was never close after that. Post play was key, as the Wildcats led 48-14 in points in the paint in the contest.
- The team ranks third in the country in scoring at 98.5 points per game, and the +49.3 scoring margin per game is second in all of college basketball. Overall, the Wildcats rank in the top 10 nationally in 10 different categories. ACU leads the Southland Conference in 18 different statistical categories.
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Lexie Ducat ranks seventh in the nation in shooting percentage this season at an insane 72.4%, while
Breanna Wright's ridiculous 71.9% shooting from the field ranks right behind her teammate at eighth nationally. Wright ranks seventh in the country in three-point shooting at 62.5%.
- Wright has now scored 1,143 points in her career, moving into the 1,000-point club late last season. The Jarrell, Texas native added 12 more points last Tuesday against Howard Payne.
- Fellow senior
Dominique Golightly is just 45 points away from joining her teammate in the 1,000-point club. Golightly is tied for the team-lead in rebounds (23) with
Lexie Ducat.
SCOUTING OKLAHOMA (3-2)
- The Sooners are coming off a loss Saturday at Houston, 85-69, in a game that featured 49 combined turnovers. OU got down by 12 at the end of the first quarter and had a tough time recovering.
- Ana Llanusa is averaging 21.4 points per game through five games, which ranks third in the Big 12 and 23rd nationally. Llanusa leads the conference in both field goals made (35) and free throws made (37).
- Llanusa has also been a part of a team that has turned its opponents over at will so far this season. Llanusa is averaging 3.8 steals per game, which ranks 12th in the country; Oklahoma is averaging 9.0 steals per game and 17.8 turnovers forced per game.
