Today in Harding Sports, Jan. 6

Women's Basketball
1 p.m. vs. Oklahoma Baptist - Shawnee, Okla.
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Harding women's basketball is playing the second game of a two-game Oklahoma road trip ... Harding fell 77-76 to Southern Nazarene on Thursday in Bethany.
The Lady Bisons are 5-8 overall and 1-4 in Great American Conference action ... Oklahoma Baptist is 6-5 overall and 1-4 in the GAC.
Harding leads the series 5-2 and has won the last four.
Harding is 0-4 on the road this season, and Oklahoma Baptist is 3-2 at home, winning three straight before a 96-87 loss to Arkansas Tech Thursday.
Harding point guard Carissa Caples had five blocked shots against Southern Nazarene and is eighth in the GAC with 0.92 blocks per game ... Harding ranks eighth in Division II with a 10.5 rebound margin.
Oklahoma Baptist ranks 10th in Division II in scoring at 82.8 points per game ... Autumn Avina leads the GAC with 5.5 assists per game and McKenzie Cooper is the GAC leader with 3.18 3-pointers per game.

Men's Basketball
3 p.m. vs. Oklahoma Baptist - Shawnee, Okla.
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Two teams battling to move up the GAC standings meet Saturday as Harding and Oklahoma Baptist meet in Shawnee.
Harding is 0-10 overall and 0-5 in the GAC ... Oklahoma Baptist is 6-5 overall and 2-3 in the GAC ... Oklahoma Baptist is in eighth place in the GAC standings.
Harding leads the series 4-2 and has won the last two ... Oklahoma Baptist has won two of three meetings in Shawnee, but Harding won last season.
Harding ranks 20th in Division II in 3-point field-goal percentage defense (30.8 percent) ... Tim Wagner is fourth in the conference with 2.80 3-pointers made per game.
Oklahoma Baptist ranks 30th nationally with 10.3 3-pointers per game ... Bison Chandler Rickey is the GAC's leading scorer at 19.4 points per game, and Vladimir Nemcok tops the conference with 6.2 assists per game.

Both games will air on KVHU 95.3-FM in Searcy with Billy Morgan and Scott Goode on commentary.

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