Oklahoma State’s offseason overhaul came with plenty of attention, but the clearest sign of what Jacie Hoyt wants this team to look like showed up in a few short video clips.
Hoyt recently posted summer footage on her X page, and the sequence offered a quick look at how the Cowgirls may plan to feature Audi Crooks. The former Iowa State center is the headliner of Oklahoma State’s No. 1 transfer portal class, a group that turned heads after the program had to rebuild almost from scratch.
Crooks appears right away in the kind of action Hoyt said fits her best: a high screen-and-roll. In the clip, she sets the screen, rolls hard to the block, catches the entry pass and then immediately finds a streaking guard for an easy layup. It’s the kind of simple, efficient play that hints at how Oklahoma State can make her a hub instead of just a finisher.
Another clip shows Crooks on the ball at the top of the key, working against a defender with a couple of dribbles between her legs before rising for a mid-range jumper. Later, she’s back in a screening role, this time setting two screens on the same possession.
The first springs a guard, but when the defense collapses, Crooks shifts left, gets caught in traffic, and still stays engaged in the action by setting another screen on the left wing. That frees a guard to curl into a 3-pointer.
Crooks arrives in Stillwater with a massive resume. She left Iowa State as the program’s No. 2 all-time leading scorer and is coming off a 2025-26 season in which she averaged 25.8 points and 7.7 rebounds.
She’s the centerpiece of a transfer class that gives Oklahoma State real depth and firepower. Florida guard Liv McGill, the No. 2 rated player in the portal, averaged 22.5 points, 6.1 rebounds and 6.3 assists last season.
Talexa Weeter was the Division II player of the year at Fort Hays State after putting up 27.5 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. Rutgers guard Nene Ndiaye averaged 14.8 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.
The Cowgirls also added two former Big 12 players in Utah guard LA Sneed and Baylor guard Yuting Deng. The rest of the class includes guard Ellie Brueggemann and guard Zoe Canfield.
For a roster that had to be turned over nearly entirely, the one familiar name left standing is three-time all-Big 12 guard Stailee Heard.
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