The Oklahoma State Cowgirls women's basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 team represents Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma State University–Stillwater

Oklahoma State University–Stillwater is a land-grant, sun-grant, coeducational public research university located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. OSU was founded in 1890 under the Morrill Act...

 and competes in the Big 12 Conference

Big 12 Conference

The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of ten schools located in the Central United States, with its headquarters located in Las Colinas, a community in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Irving...

 of NCAA Division I. The team's interim head coach is Jim Littell, who took over after former head coach Kurt Budke

Kurt Budke

Kurt Budke was an American college basketball coach. His final coaching job was as the head coach for the Oklahoma State University Cowgirls women's basketball team from 2005 until his 2011 death in a plane accident.-Career:...

 died in a plane crash on November 17, 2011. The Cowgirls play their home games in the Gallagher-Iba Arena

Gallagher-Iba Arena

Gallagher-Iba Arena, also known as "The Rowdiest Arena in the Country" and "The Madison Square Garden of the Plains”, is the basketball and wrestling venue at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States...

 in Stillwater, Oklahoma

Stillwater, Oklahoma

Stillwater is a city in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. 177 and State Highway 51. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 45,688. Stillwater is the principal city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical...

.

Women's basketball coaches

Head women's basketball coaches

• Jacy Showers, 1972–1976
• Brenda Johnson, 1976–1977
• Judy Bugher, 1977–1983
• Dick Halterman
  Dick Halterman
  Dick Halterman is a former American collegiate women's basketball coach. He is best known as the head coach of the Oklahoma State Cowgirls basketball program from 1983 to 2001. In 19 seasons as head coach, he posted a 350-244 record....
  
  , 1983–2002
• Julie Goodenough
  Julie Goodenough
  Julie Goodenough is the head women's basketball coach at Charleston Southern University. She has held that position since 2006, and has a 47-74 record in four seasons. From 2002 to 2005, she served as the head women's basketball coach at Oklahoma State University, going 23-61 in three seasons...
  
  , 2002–2005
• Kurt Budke
  Kurt Budke
  Kurt Budke was an American college basketball coach. His final coaching job was as the head coach for the Oklahoma State University Cowgirls women's basketball team from 2005 until his 2011 death in a plane accident.-Career:...
  
  , 2005–2011
• Jim Littell, 2011–present; interim head coach after the death of Kurt Budke
  Kurt Budke
  Kurt Budke was an American college basketball coach. His final coaching job was as the head coach for the Oklahoma State University Cowgirls women's basketball team from 2005 until his 2011 death in a plane accident.-Career:...
  
   in a 2011 plane crash.

Conferences

OSU has played in the Big 8

Big Eight Conference

The Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football, was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University...

 and the Big 12 conferences. The school joined the Big 12 in 1997 when the Big 8 merged with several former members of the defunct Southwest Conference.

All-time season results

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Big Eight Conference

The Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football, was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University...

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| colspan="7" align="center" | Big 12 Conference

Big 12 Conference

The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of ten schools located in the Central United States, with its headquarters located in Las Colinas, a community in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Irving...