Oklahoma Christian University Women's Basketball

Markeith Brown completed his fourth season at the helm of the Oklahoma Christian women's basketball program following the 2025-26 season. In 2025-26, Oklahoma Christian increased its win total by at least two games for the second consecutive year with a 12-15 record. The Lady Eagles closed the season going 7-5 over their final 12 games, including wins over Eastern New Mexico and St. Edward's. Coach Brown is now 36-69 at OC and 28-58 in conference play. At the conclusion of the season, Taylor Jackson became the fourth Second Team All-Conference selection under Brown's tutelage and the program's sixth consecutive year with a Second Team All-Conference selection. Additionally, the OC program landed four CSC Academic All-District honorees after seeing one such honoree the prior season.   During the 2024-25 campaign, the Lady Eagles posted their most overall wins during Brown's time in Edmond at the time and the program's most wins since the 2018-19 season, reaching a 10-16 record. Accompanying Brown's third season was Kate Bradley and Nakia Cullom being named Second Team and Honorable Mention All-Conference performers, respectively. Bradley marked the third Second Team All-LSC honoree under Brown while two Lady Eagle All-Conference selections is the most since the 2020-21 campaign.   Prior to OC and while at Texas A&M-Commerce, Brown assisted TAMUC coach Jason Burton as the Lions' program has established itself as one of the best in NCAA Division II. TAMUC now is a perennial top-25 team and the Lions spent a week during the 2021-22 season atop the Division II Sports Information Directors Association national poll before falling in the second round of the NCAA tournament, capping a 27-5 season. Brown was named as the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Small College Women's Assistant Coach of the Year in May 2017 and as the NCAA Division II World Exposure Women's Assistant Coach of the Year in March 2020. He is only the third coach in the history of the OC program, following Max Dobson (1977-1985) and Stephanie Findley (1985-2022), both members of the OC Athletic Hall of Fame. During Brown's tenure at TAMUC, which began in July 2015, the Lions posted a 143-57 record and qualified for the Division II tournament in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. He has helped coach four All-America players at TAMUC, including 2021-22 LSC player of the year Dyani Robinson. Brown joined the TAMUC staff after six seasons as an assistant women's basketball coach and head women's cross country coach at NCAA Division III LeTourneau (Texas). In cross country, he led the LeTourneau to its best American Southwest Conference finish in school history, a third-place showing in 2013. In women's basketball, he helped recruit and coach a team that in 2013-14 became the first from LeTourneau to reach the ASC tournament. Before arriving at LeTourneau, Brown served as the owner of the Texas City Rangers of the American Basketball Association (2008-09) and the head coach of the Lake Jackson Lakers of the Texas Professional League (2007-08). He served as the head boys basketball coach at Vermillion Catholic High School in Abbeville, La., in 2006-07, where they were bi-district champion and regional finalist. Brown was recognized as the Vermillion Parish Coach of the Year and also served as the school's head cross country and head girls track and field coach. He founded MB Basketball Training from 2005-07 while serving as the head freshman and assistant boys varsity basketball coach at Central Lafourche High School in Raceland, La. Brown was also the head coach of Nike-sponsored Louisiana Select, a 16-year old team that won two major national tournaments in 2006 (Next Level Ballers in Dallas and Kingwood Classic in Houston). Brown, from Jackson, Miss., starred at Provine High School, leading his squad to a state title in 1998. He played collegiately at East Central (Miss.) Community College and Nicholls State, graduating from the latter with a bachelor's degree in General Studies in 2004. He led Nicholls State in assists during the 2002-03 season. He and his wife, Julie, and have three children – daughters Jayda and Mia and son Mayson. RECORD AT OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN   Season Overall Record Conference Record 2022-23 8-18 8-14 (LSC) 2023-24 6-20 5-17 (LSC) 2024-25 10-16 7-15 (LSC) 2025-26 12-15 8-12 (LSC) Total  36-69 28-58 (LSC)

Michael Lewis begins his second year as the Oklahoma Christian women's basketball assistant coach in 2025-26. Lewis joined the OC coaching staff during the fall of 2024. With Lewis on the sideline, the Eagles posted its most wins since the 2018-19 campaign. During that year, Kate Bradley (Second Team) and Nakia Cullom (Honorable Mention) earned All-Conference honors. Lewis helped the maroon-and-gray hold opponents to 66.7 points per game in his first year, which was the second fewest points allowed since the 2014-15 campaign (excluding 2020-21 COVID-19 shortened season). Lewis comes to Oklahoma Christian with nine years of collegiate coaching experience, having coached alongside current head coach Markeith Brown at LeTourneau University from 2005-14. While at LeTourneau, Lewis served as the assistant men's basketball coach and recruiting coordinator, during which he also served as the head men's cross country coach from 2009-14. Accolades under Lewis' tutelage at LU include four men's basketball ASC East Division Frist Team All-Conference selections, five Second Team honorees and the ASC East Division Freshman of the Year. In cross country, Lewis coached 10 ASC Academic All-Conference team selections while his teams qualified for three NCAA South/Southwest Regionals. Most recently, Lewis spent the 2022-23 season as the assistant men's basketball coach at Friends University, where he focused on player development, recruitment and evaluation of talent and devising in-game strategies. Lewis graduated from Metro State in Denver, Colo. in May of 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Hospitality Management. Lewis also played for Metro's men's basketball team, where he served as team captain and went on to become Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Champions.