SHAWNEE, Oklahoma – The Ouachita Baptist University women's basketball team concluded its first winning season since 2013 on Saturday with a 78-51 loss to Harding in the semifinals of the Great American Conference Championship Tournament at FireLake Arena.
The Tigers finish the season at 15-13 overall, giving fourth year head coach
Robert Dallimore his best finish and continued improvement in his young tenure at the helm of the program. The GAC semifinals appearance was the first for the Tigers since 2012, which was the league's inaugural season. The Tigers will need to fill a big hole in the departure of first team all-conference senior
Makayla Miller, but the rest of the team is set to return for the 2023-24 season.
Saturday's game started out in the favor of the second-seeded Bisons (25-6), who ran out to a 12-3 lead less than four minutes into first period. Harding never trailed and methodically built its lead as the game went along.
Makayla Miller led the Tigers in scoring in her final collegiate contest. She went 7-for-12 from the field and 5-for-7 on foul shots for 20 points. Miller ends her career with her name all over the Ouachita record book. She finishes sixth in career scoring (1,209 points), ninth in career scoring average (13.3), ninth in career field goal percentage (.445), sixth in career field goals made (449), sixth in career free throws made (302), third in career free throw attempts (496), ninth in career rebound average (5.5), second in career assists (359), fourth in career assists per game (3.9), and fifth in career steals (186). She just missed out on the top 10 in career rebounds, wrapping up with exactly 500 boards.
This year, Miller turned in the second-best assists total in school history with 129. Her average of 4.6 assists per game this year is tied for fifth on the program charts. Her 73 steals this year is tied for third at Ouachita, and her average of 2.6 steals per game ranks fourth.
