Cowgirl Soccer Faces BYU In Big 12 Tourney Quarterfinals

#5-seed Oklahoma State (14-3-3) vs. #4-seed BYU (8-5-5)
Big 12 Soccer Championship Quarterfinals

Sat., Nov. 2 • 9 am
CPKC Stadium • Kansas City, Mo.

TV/Video: ESPN+ (Chuckie Kempf & Sarah Gonzalez)
Radio: n/a
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Twitter In-Game Scoreboard/Updates: @CowgirlFC

About Oklahoma State

• Oklahoma State is 14-3-3 and finished fifth in the Big 12 standings with a 6-3-2 mark. The Cowgirls have outscored their opponents, 42-10, while recording 15 shutouts in 20 games. OSU takes on BYU in the Big 12 Championship quarterfinals Saturday in Kansas City.
• The 2024 season is the 29th in program history; over the first 28, OSU posted a 334-185-63 (.628) record. head coach Colin Carmichael enters his 20th season at the helm in 2024 with a 251-105-50 mark.

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OSU’s 14 wins is its most in a season since the Cowgirls had 16 in 2019. The total is tied for fifth in the NCAA this season – Mississippi State and Utah State have 16, Boise State and Fairfield have 15. Others with 14 are Duke, USC, North Carolina, TCU and Xavier.

Cowgirls at The Big 12 Championship

OSU is 18-13-4 all time at the Big 12 Soccer Championship and has won a conference tournament title three times, the last coming in 2010. The Cowgirls’ first tourney championship came in 2003 (3-2 double overtime triumph vs. Missouri ), and OSU celebrated back-to-back titles in 2009 (1-0 over Texas A&M) and2010 (won PK shootout vs. Oklahoma after 1-1 tie).
If OSU beats BYU, the Cowgirls advance to Wednesday’s semifinals to face the TCU-Colorado winner.

Scouting The Opponent

• BYU is 8-5-5 overall and finished with a 6-2-3 record in Big 12 play.
• OSU is 1-2-1 all time against BYU. Earlier this season, the Cowgirls battled the Cougars to a 2-2 draw in Provo, with Nicole Ray and Xcaret Pineda scoring goals for OSU.

In The Rankings

OSU is in the national rankings for a second-straight week, checking it at No. 22 in this week’s TopDrawerSoccer.com poll
On Aug. 19/20, the Cowgirls entered the national rankings for the first time since Aug. 30, 2021, when the Cowgirls were 22nd in the TopDrawerSoccer.com poll They stayed in the polls for six consecutive weeks before dropping out on Sept. 30/Oct. 1. During that time, they climbed as high as No. 11 in the Aug. 27th United Soccer Coaches poll, their highest ranking since they were No. 11 in both the United Soccer Coaches and TopDrawerSoccer.com polls on Nov. 17, 2020.
In this week’s United Soccer Coaches Midwest Region Rankings, OSU is No. 4. The Cowgirls are also No. 26 in the official NCAA RPI.

It’s An Honor

OSU had seven players honored with Big 12 awards for 2024 and achieved a first in program history.
Six Cowgirls collected All-Big 12 honors, which ranks as the second most in program history behind 2011’s seven. OSU placed three on the All-Big 12 First Team, which is tied for the third highest total in program history behind the 2011 (5) and 2010 (4) squads.
Earning spots on the All-Big 12 First Team were defender Alex Morris and midfielders Xcaret Pineda and Laudan Wilsonwhile goalkeeper Grace Gordondefend Mollie Breiner and forward Gracie Bindbeutel collected All-Big 12 Second Team accolades.
Defend Katelyn Hoppers He was named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team.
Additionally, Morris was named the Big 12 Soccer Scholar Athlete of the Year, marking the first Cowgirl in program history to capture the award.

We Have The Cleanest Sheets

OSU leads the NCAA with 15 shutouts on the season, one more than Mississippi State. The Cowgirls are also second in the nation with a .750 shutout percentage, third with a .885 save percentage and sixth with a 0.50 goals against average.
• OSU’s nine consecutive shutouts earlier this season stands as the longest streak in program history. In 2011, the Cowgirls had shutout streaks of six and five matches, which marked the previous best streaks.
• The streak of nine-straight shutouts is tied for the second longest in Big 12 Conference history. West Virginia owns the record with 10 in a row in 2016, while WVU (2015) and Nebraska (1997) also had streaks of nine consecutive clean sheets.
• The Cowgirls’ previous best shutout streak to begin a season was three games in 2005.
• OSU’s 15 shutouts in 2024 is the second most in a season in program history and fifth all time in Big 12 history. The Cowgirls posted a record 18 clean sheets in 2011, which led the NCAA that year and is tied for the conference mark.
• Grace Gordon’s 12 shutouts rank third nationally this season, one behind UCLA’s Ryan Campbell and Mississippi State’s Maddy Anderson, and is tied with AD Franch for the most in a single-season in program history; Franch had 12 in 2011.
• Gordon also set an OSU record with six consecutive shutouts (Sept. 29 Utah-Oct. 20 UCF matches); Franch previously held the record with five in a row in 2011.

Sharing The Wealth

OSU’s 42 goals this season have been scored by 14 different players. Logan Heausler leads the Cowgirls with eight goals, while Xcaret Pineda you have six.
Sixteen Cowgirls have also recorded assists on the year. Laudan Wilson leads the Big 12 and ranks 10th nationally with nine assists, and Alex Morris you have five.

The Difference Between Me & You

OSU has outscored its opponents 42-10 on the year and ranks ninth nationally in goal differential.

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

OSU’s trio of starting center backs is a big reason the Cowgirls have allowed just six goals this season – and it’s rare to not see them on the field.
Mollie Breinerwho collected All-Big 12 Second Team honors, has played the full 90 minutes in 13 of OSU’s 20 matches and has been on the field for 1,695 of a possible 1,800 minutes. Ellie Geoffroy has played full time in 10 matches (1,608 minutes total), while Chloé Joseph has played 90 minutes seven times (1,622 minutes total).

X Gives It To Ya

Junior midfielder Xcaret Pineda is one of the leaders of OSU’s attack, and she had a breakout sophomore season to earn a spot on the 2023 All-Big 12 Second Team.
Pineda started all 20 games for the Cowgirls a year ago and was second on the team with 17 points. She posted six goals and five assists, both of which ranked third on the squad.
The Illinois native led OSU with 60 shots, 25 on goal. She tallied three goals and an assist in Big 12 play.
Pineda is OSU’s third-leading scorer this season with six goals and four assists and earned All-Big 12 First Team honors.

She’s A Giver

Laudan Wilson he has nine assists on the season, which is tied for the Big 12 lead and ranks 10th nationally. It’s the most assists in a season by a Cowgirl since Jaci Jones had 12 in 2019.
Wilson, who was named to the All-Big 12 First Team, leads OSU with 19 points as she’s also contributed five goals.

Climbing

Grace Gordon is tied for third on OSU’s career shutouts list with 18 in just 39 games in a Cowgirl uniform. She needs three more to move into second place along with Erin Stigler; AD Franch owns the record with 38 from 2009-12. Gordon has 27 clean sheets in his collegiate career after recording nine in three seasons at Seton Hall.
Gordon’s 131 saves in an OSU uniform ranks seventh in program history, and she is currently tied for first in career goals against average at 0.67.
Gordon was named to the 2024 All-Big 12 Second Team.

Breakout

In her first two collegiate seasons, Logan Heausler played in just 17 games; she appeared in 14 as a freshman then missed the majority of 2022 after suffering a season-ending injury just three games in.
Last season, the Houston native emerged as one of OSU’s top threats in the attack, playing in all 20 games and leading the Cowgirls with 18 points. She tied for the team lead with seven goals and turned in a streak of four consecutive matches – three of those vs. Big 12 opponents – in which she scored a goal.
Heausler leads the attack again in 2024 with a team- and career-high eight goals as well as two assists.

Last Year Best Year

Alex Morris is saving her best for last.
The Cowgirls’ fifth-year senior wingback scored in back-to-back matches against Houston and Cincinnati, with both goals credited as game winners, and has a career-high four goals on the year after entering the season with two career goals in 66 games.
Morris, who also ranks second on the squad with five assists after posting a career-best six last season, is No. 93 on the TopDrawerSoccer.com Midseason Women’s Top 100 recognizing the top upperclassmen in college soccer.