K-State Hosts Omaha in Monday Night Matchup

Monday, November 13

Manhattan, Kan.

7 p.m.

Kansas State University

Omaha

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Nov 12, 2017 | Women's Basketball

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GAME #2
Omaha (0-1) at Kansas State (1-0)
Monday, November 13, 2017 | 7 p.m. | Bramlage Coliseum (12,528) | Manhattan, Kan.

TELEVISION
Cox Channel Kansas and K-StateHD.TV [free]
• Brian Smoller (play-by-play)
• Missy Heidrick (analyst)

RADIO
K-State Sports Network
• Matt Walters (play-by-play)
• Kristin Waller (analyst)
Listen Online: www.kstatesports.com/watch [free]

COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 516-273/26th season | At K-State: 62-38/4th season
vs. Omaha: 3-1

Omaha: Brittany Lange (Iowa State '10)
Overall: 53-65/5th season | At Omaha: Same

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP
Kansas State (1-0)
G: #2 Cymone Goodrich | G: #10 Kayla Goth | F: #50 Shaelyn Martin | F: #1 Kaylee Page | F: #11 Peyton Williams

Omaha (0-1)
G: #2 Jess Walter | G: #5 Amber Vidal | G: #11 Claire Killian | G: #34 Ellie Brecht | C: #10 Courtney Vaccher

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: K-State leads 3-0
In Manhattan: K-State leads 1-0
Last Meeting: W, 70-57 [12/4/2016 in Omaha, Neb.]

MANHATTAN, Kansas - Kansas State will continue its season-opening three-game home stand on Monday night at 7 p.m., as the Wildcats host Omaha for the first time since the 1980-81 season.

• Monday night's game can be seen live on Cox Channel Kansas and for free on K-StateHD.TV, as Brian Smoller (play-by-play) and Missy Heidrick (color analyst) will call the action.
• K-State started its 50th season with a 74-49 win over Stephen F. Austin on Friday. It was the 100th career game for head coach Jeff Mittie at K-State and marked the eighth straight win in a home opener for the Wildcats. Overall, K-State is 41-9 (.820) in home-openers in the program's history.
• The Wildcats recorded a combined 22 steals and blocks against the Ladyjacks. This marked the first time K-State has tallied 20 or more steals and blocks in a game since Jan. 13, 2016 against Oklahoma State. K-State is 11-0 under Mittie when reaching a total of 20 blocks and steals.
• Kansas State was led by senior Kaylee Page with 18 points on a 7-of-13 shooting performance. Page tied her career-high with four connections from beyond the arc.
• Joining Page in double figures was junior guard Kayla Goth and freshman guard Rachel Ranke. Goth notched 11 points, five rebounds, four assists, two steals and a block. This was her second straight season-opener with 10 or more points and five or more rebounds.
• Ranke made her K-State debut off the bench and tallied 10 points, seven rebounds, two assists, three steals and two blocks. This was the second straight season a K-State freshman tallied 10 or more points and five or more rebounds in their career debut (Peyton Williams).

Number to Know
9
• #KStateWBB blocked nine shots against Stephen F. Austin on Friday.
• This marked the most blocks in a game for K-State since sending back nine shots against Baylor on Jan. 25, 2017.
• The nine blocks were the most in a season-opener for K-State since setting the school record of 14 at Tulsa on Nov. 13, 2015.
• K-State had three players block two shots and three players with one each. The six players with a block were the most since the game at Tulsa.

Series History vs. Omaha
• K-State leads the series with Omaha, 3-0.
• Head coach Jeff Mittie is 3-1 against Omaha. A season ago, Mittie collected his 500th career win in K-State's 70-57 win at Omaha on Dec. 4.
• The Wildcats are 28-2 against schools from the Summit League.

At a Glance: Omaha
• Omaha (0-1) enters Monday's tilt following a 69-56 season-opening loss at Bradley on Friday.
• The Mavericks finished the 2016-17 season with a 16-15 overall record and a fifth-place finish in the Summit League. Entering this season, Omaha was chosen for a fifth-place finish in the league's preseason poll.
• Omaha is led on the sidelines by fifth-year head coach Brittany Lange. Lange, a 2010 graduate of Iowa State owns a mark of 53-65 (.449) during her time with the Mavericks.
• On the floor, the Mavericks were paced at Bradley by junior guard Amber Vidal with 20 points.
• Also in double figures on Friday was junior guard Jess Walter with 11 points, four rebounds and five assists.

Remember, Remember the Month of November
• In the 50th year of women's basketball at K-State, the Wildcats have accumulated a record of 128-45 (.740) in the month of November.
• K-State has won 16 of its last 17 games in the month of November dating back to a 49-46 win over Virginia on Nov. 29, 2013. The lone loss was at Connecticut on Nov. 23, 2015.
• The Wildcats have ended the 11th month with a .500 or better record for seven straight seasons, including a 6-0 mark in 2016-17. Overall, K-State has registered a .500 or better record in November 37 times in its history.

Defense Stellar When Combining Steals & Blocks
• K-State is 20-0 over the last 12 seasons when achieving a combination of 20+ steals and blocks in the same game.
• K-State is 11-0 under head coach Jeff Mittie when achieving a combination of 20+ steals and blocks in the same game. The Wildcats recorded a combination totalling 22 (13 steals/9 blocks) against Stephen F. Austin.

Magic Number is 70 Points for Wildcats
• Since the 2001-02 season, K-State is 176-19 (.903) when scoring 70 or more points in a game including a 24-5 (.828) record in the Jeff Mittie era.
• Last season, K-State scored 70 or more points in a game 13 times (11-2). This marked the second most games in the last 12 seasons with 70 or more points.

Wildcats Cash in at the Charity Stripe
• Kansas State continued to earn trips to the free throw line in the season opener, a trend that has evolved during head coach Jeff Mittie's time at K-State.
• The Wildcats finished 20-of-30 from the foul line against Stephen F. Austin. K-State made more free throws than SFA attempted (20 made/19 attempted).
• K-State was 462-of-681 (.678) from the free throw line in the 2016-17 season. The 462 made free throws for K-State rank sixth in school history for a single season and were the most since the 1990-91 season when the Wildcats made 463.
• K-State made more free throws last season than their opponents attempted (462 made/459 opponent attempted).
• This was the third straight season under Mittie that K-State made 350 or more free throws in a season and the first time to do so in three straight seasons since 1994-95 to 1996-97.
• K-State had the edge in free throws attempted in 24 of 34 games in the 2016-17 season and tied its opponent in two of the other 10 contests.
• The Wildcats made 20 or more free throws in a game five times last season, including a season-high of 22 against North Carolina State on Nov. 24.
• Last season, 20.1 percent of the Wildcats' overall point total came from the free throw line. The last time K-State had over 20 percent of its point total from the foul line was in Mittie's first season in Manhattan, 2014-15 (20.3 percent).

Page Filling Up the Stat Book
• Senior forward Kaylee Page provided a diverse stat line in the 2017-18 season-opener.
• Against Stephen F. Austin, Page led the Wildcats with 18 points on 7-of-13 shooting including 4-of-9 from beyond the arc. She also hauled in a team-high seven rebounds.
• This was the Wamego, Kansas, native's sixth career game with 10 or more points and five or more rebounds in the same game.
• In the 2016-17 season, Page came off the bench to average 6.2 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 21.9 minutes of action.
• Page set career season-highs for field goals made (71), 3-point field goals made (49) and steals (27).
• Page scored in double figures in a career-best 10 games last season, including a high of 15 points at TCU on Feb. 18.
• At TCU on Feb. 18, Page recorded a personal season-high 15 points on 5-of-12 shooting in 29 minutes off the bench. She tied her career-high with a 4-of-10 effort from beyond the arc.
• In K-State's two wins over Texas Tech last season, Page is averaging 11.5 points and 5.0 rebounds, including 13 points in Lubbock.

Martin is K-State's Swiss Army Knife
• Senior guard/forward Shaelyn Martin has put together a diverse stat line in her career and continued to do so in the 2017-18 season.
• With her six assists against SFA, it marked the 24th time in her career she has handed out five or more assists. Martin ranks 12th in school history with 310 assists and is ninth in school history for career assist to turnover ratio at 1.35.
• With her five rebounds against Stephen F. Austin on Nov. 10, Martin tallied her 65th career game with five or more rebounds. Her career total stands at 558 and she ranks 21st on the K-State career rebounds list. She is the seventh player in program history with 500 or more rebounds and 300 or more assists.
• Martin tallied 4.7 points, handed out 109 assists with 67 turnovers (3.2 apg; 1.63 assist/turnover ratio), pulled in 165 rebounds (4.9 rpg) and blocked a career-high 12 shots in the 2016-17 season.
• This was her second straight season with 150 or more rebounds and 100 or more assists.
• Her 161 points this season are a new career season-high.
• Martin ranked 10th in the Big 12 in assists per game and seventh in assist to turnover ratio.
• At Iowa State on Jan. 21, Martin notched a stat line of 11 points, five rebounds and five assists. This was the third time in her career with at least 10 points, five rebounds and five assists.