Cowgirl Basketball: No. 25 Oklahoma State Blows Out No. 12 Kansas State 85-55

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STILLWATER — Kansas State came into Saturday’s game against the Cowgirls as one of the most efficient teams in the country, but Anna Gret Asi put on an efficiency clinic against the Wildcats.

Oklahoma State beat Kansas State 85-55 on Saturday afternoon in front of the largest crowd in the Jacie Hoyt era (5,178). Asi, a senior from Estonia, dropped 24 points on the No. 12 Wildcats, going 8-for-12 from 3-point range. That’s a career-high in made 3s for Asi. The performance came after she was able to practice only twice this week because the flu was going around the team.

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“We actually kind of talked about it when I got sick,” Asi said. “We (Asi and Jacie Hoyt) had a one-on-one. For some reason every year I’ve gotten sick around this time, and every time I’ve gotten back, it’s been a good game for me. She reminded me that kind of this season I’ve been having, the first half of the conference was kind of inconsistent, I would say.

“She just reminded me that I am that player that do big things, too. While I was sick, I took the time to analyze a lot and let the over-thinking things go. I think that came out pretty well. I think that talk really helped.

The Cowgirls’ dominance against the No. 12 team in the country and the top team in the Big 12 is probably easiest to digest in a chart. Here are K-State’s numbers entering Saturday vs. what the Cowgirls did to the Wildcats:

“If this were 20 years ago, I might throw the VHS tape out the window on the way out of here,” K-State coach Jeff Mittie said. “There may not be much value in me rewatching this. I watched it once, I didn’t enjoy it. I don’t know how much I’m gonna watch it twice, if I’m gonna be honest. I may make the assistants watch it twice.”

The Cowgirls jumped on K-State early. The first quarter saw OSU outscore the Wildcats 31-9. Mittie used two timeouts in the opening quarter to try to slow OSU down — neither worked. Across the final seven and a half minutes of the opening period, OSU outscored K-State 26-3. Micah Gray scored 10 in the quarter on 4-for-4 shooting, and Asi poured in nine on 3-for-4 shooting.

With 7:40 to play in the second quarter, the Cowgirls eclipsed the 37 total points they scored in a loss to West Virginia last weekend. K-State threw a zone at OSU to try to stop the Cowgirls’ offensive onslaught. It’s not often a team gets zoned when it’s shooting the lights out, and though it might’ve slowed OSU’s scoring down a touch, the Cowgirls were still rather efficient. OSU went 5-for-10 in the from 3 in the second quarter. After knocking down seven in the first quarter, the Cowgirls went into the locker room with a dozen 3-point makes on 57% shooting.

A team has good as K-State was bound to respond, and the Wildcats did. They started the second half on a 10-0 run, but consider that storm weathered, as OSU answered with a 15-0 run to push its lead to 66-30. OSU’s lead climbed as high as 44 (!!) in the fourth quarter after Stailee Heard ripped off a 5-0 run by herself before K-State was able to get it back down to 30 by the final horn.

There are almost too many impressive performances to point out.

Asi was just ridiculous. She had one 3 in the first half where she took a pass in the corner from under the basket. The ball couldn’t have been in Asi’s hands for more than a second before it was heading toward the rim. A quick draw from the Cowgirl. Then in the third quarter, Asi sent her defender covering a ghost with a crossover before drilling another triple. And Asi’s playmaking ability shouldn’t be overlooked. She had a team-high six assists and three steals.

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(Bonus bucket from @StaileeHeard32 at the end) pic.twitter.com/xzsHKNKq7l

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Adding to Asi being a human torch, Heard had a 21-point, 11-rebound double-double. She also added four assists and three steals. She’s so good that she can somewhat quietly put up those numbers. Gray joined those two in double figures, scoring 19 points. She had 15 on those in the first half.

The Cowgirls advance to 19-4 this season and are 9-3 in Big 12 play. K-State came into Saturday leading the Big 12 standings but the loss pushes the Wildcats down to 10-2 in the league. The Cowgirls have won one conference regular season title in program history (the Big Eight in 1991). OSU has six games to change that stat.

“I think that we are also one of the best teams in the country, and when we’re all playing and at our best, that’s what it looks like,” Hoyt said. “It looks like today. It was just really fun to get back to Cowgirl basketball today.”

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