Setting the Scene
- Lady Bulldog Basketball returns to the Pioneer Cellular Event Center on Thursday evening, putting their 19-game win streak on the line against East Central
- SWOSU has the fourth-longest active home winning streak with 28 straight victories at home dating back to February 11, 2017, and a 88-74 loss to ECU
- On the strength of a 14-0 start to Great American Conference play, the Lady Dawgs have opened up a four-game lead on the field and they're the only team that has clinched a berth in the GAC Championship Tournament at this point
- Senior point guard Hayden Priddy was named the GAC Player of the Week on Monday, earning the award for the third time in her career and becoming the third different Lady Bulldog to be named Player of the Week this season
- East Central is 5-3 on the road this season, but they are in the midst of a five-game road trip that started out with two losses in Arkansas last weekend
 
About the Opponent
East Central (14-6, 9-5 GAC)
- The Tigers dropped a pair of road games at Arkansas Tech and Harding last weekend, which moved them into a share of third place in the current league standings
- ECU features the second-best scoring defense in the league, holding opponents to exactly 60.0 points per game while they score 67.2 on average
- Senior Lakin Preisner leads the way for East Central, pacing the Tigers in scoring (13.6 ppg), rebounding (8.3 rpg) and assists (2.2 apg)
- Matt Cole is in his fifth season leading the Tigers, where he has averaged 12.5 wins per season and led ECU to the GAC Tournament each year
 
The Series (GAC Era)

*1/23/12	Weatherford	W, 93-55
*2/20/12	Ada	W, 101-72
3/2/12	Bartlesville	W, 81-46
*1/12/13	Weatherford	L, 85-94
*2/14/13	Ada	W, 72-68
*1/11/14	Ada	L, 63-73
*2/13/14	Weatherford	W, 93-81
3/8/14	Bartlesville	W, 87-83
*12/4/14	Ada	L, 62-67
*1/31/15	Weatherford	W, 64-54
*1/14/16	Weatherford	W, 65-49
*2/11/16	Ada	W, 74-71
3/5/16	Bartlesville	W, 79-63
*1/12/17	Ada	W, 78-57
*2/11/17	Weatherford	L, 74-88
*1/11/18	Weatherford	W, 90-80
*2/17/18	Ada	L, 66-76
*11/29/18	Ada	W, 79-76
All-Time: SWOSU Leads 61-35
NCAA Division II Era: SWOSU Leads 28-19
in Weatherford: SWOSU Leads 14-8
in Ada: Series Tied 11-11
GAC Era: SWOSU Leads 13-5

 
SWOSU Notes
- With 19 consecutive victories, the Lady Bulldogs have set a new Great American Conference record for the longest winning streak, surpassing the previous record of 18 set by Harding during the 2013-14 season
- Hayden Priddy was named the GAC Player of the Week for the third time of her career on Monday after averaging 21.0 points per game on SWOSU's road trip to Southern Arkansas and Arkansas-Monticello last weekend
- Priddy ranks fifth in the GAC with 16.8 points per game this season while leading the conference with 52 made three-pointers - an average of 2.6 per game
- Taylor Hedrick averaged 19.5 points per game last week and matched her career-high with seven rebounds in the win at Arkansas-Monticello
- Hedrick has now reached double figures in scoring in four consecutive road games to up her average to 9.9 points per game for the year
- SWOSU has three players ranked among the top ten in the GAC for scoring with Hailey Tucker in second (18.4 ppg), Hayden Priddy in fifth (16.8 ppg) and Tyra Aska coming in at 10th (14.0 ppg)
- Tucker has been limited to 12 or fewer points in four of the last five games, with the lone outlier in that stretch being a season-best 30 points in the Lady Dawgs win over Arkansas Tech
- Aska, who is shooting 45% (36-of-80) from three-point range this season, needs two points to pass Jana Hilbert (1,078 points; 1994-98) for 11th on SWOSU's all-time scoring list
- In the latest national rankings, released on Tuesday, the Lady Bulldogs climbed one spot to sit tied for #14 in the WBCA Coaches Poll while moving up three spots to #11 in the D2SIDA Media Poll
 
Looking Ahead
- The Lady Bulldogs head to Shawnee on Saturday to conclude the season series with Oklahoma Baptist, a team SWOSU defeated 87-74 on December 15th
- Next week, rivalry action invades the Pioneer Cellular Event Center as the Dawgs host Northwestern Oklahoma State on Thursday before visiting Southern Nazarene on Saturday