Oklahoma State women’s basketball coach Jacie Hoyt receives contract extension

STILLWATER — Fresh off a 21-win season in her debut as the Oklahoma State women’s basketball coach, Jacie Hoyt has received a contract extension. 

The new contract was approved by the Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents on Friday, according to the university press release.

“When we hired Coach Hoyt, we were confident that she was the right person to return Cowgirl basketball to being competitive in the Big 12 and nationally,” OSU athletic director Chad Weiberg said in the release. “After one season, she is ahead of schedule and we look forward to the future under her leadership.”

The terms of the contract were not immediately available. When she was hired in March 2022, Hoyt signed a five-year contract worth $500,000.

Hoyt has already embarked on what looks to be a busy offseason. Between graduation and transfer portal departures, the Cowgirls have just five returning players from last year’s team. Hoyt has signed a pair of high school prospects and on Thursday announced the addition of Quincy Noble, a transfer from North Texas. 

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Noble, a 5-foot-10 guard originally from McKinney, Texas, has one year of eligibility remaining. She averaged 17.0 points and 4.2 rebounds per game as a redshirt senior this past season, shooting 42.9% from the floor and 34.0% from 3-point range. She earned all-conference recognition three times during her North Texas career.

Hoyt has also seen some movement on her coaching staff, with the departures of assistants Jack Easley and Taelor Karr, as well as director of recruiting Talby Justus.

Hoyt has added Ashley Davis, a former OSU assistant who spent the last two seasons at Arizona, to the staff, along with former Mississippi State and North Texas assistant Kelby Jones.

Picked to place ninth in the league’s preseason poll this past season, OSU earned 10 Big 12 victories to finish fourth. 

The Cowgirls won 21 games and reached the NCAA Tournament in Hoyt’s first season. The win total matched the program record under a first-year head coach and Hoyt became the first head coach to lead the Cowgirls to the NCAA Tournament in her first year at the helm.

OSU’s record improved by 12 games from the previous season, marking one of the 10 largest turnarounds in the nation in 2022-23. Fourteen of the wins came inside Gallagher-Iba Arena, the highest total on the home floor since 2017-18.

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