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GAME #5
Kansas State (4-0) vs. (5/4) UCLA (3-1)
Friday, November 24, 2017  |  3:15 p.m. (CT)  |  South Point Arena  |  Las Vegas, Nevada

GAME #6
Kansas State (4-0) vs. Penn State (5-0)
Saturday, November 25, 2017  |  7:45 p.m. (CT)  |  South Point Arena  |  Las Vegas, Nevada

COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 519-273/26th season  |  At K-State: 65-38/4th season
vs. UCLA: 1-0 | vs. Penn State: 1-0

UCLA: Cori Close (UC Santa Barbara '93)
Overall: 126-79/7th season  |  At UCLA: Same

Penn State: Coquese Washington (Notre Dame '92)
Overall: 174-116/10th season  |  At Penn State: Same

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP
Kansas State (2-0)
G: #12 Rachel Ranke  |  G: #10 Kayla Goth  |  F: #50 Shaelyn Martin  |  F: #1 Kaylee Page  |  F: #11 Peyton Williams
                
UCLA (3-1)
G: #3 Jordin Canada  |  G: #22 Kennedy Burke  |  G: #23 Kelli Hayes  |  F: #11 Lajahna Drummer  |  F: #25 Monique Billings

Penn State (5-0)
G: #2 Amari Carter  |  G: #4 Siyeh Frazier  |  G: #31 Jaida Travascio-Green  |  F: #23 Jaylen Williams  |  F: #35 De'Janae Boykin

SERIES HISTORY
K-State vs. UCLA
Overall: UCLA leads, 3-0
Last Meeting: Dec. 19, 1980
• The Bruins won the last meeting between the teams, 83-70, on Dec. 19, 1980, in Los Angeles.
• Head coach Jeff Mittie is 1-0 against UCLA.
• K-State is 46-45 all-time against teams from the Pac 12.

K-State vs. Penn State
Overall: Series tied, 1-1
Last Meeting: Nov. 29, 2003
• The Lady Lions won the last meeting between the teams, 69-56, on Nov. 29, 2003, in Freeport, Bahamas.
• Head coach Jeff Mittie is 1-0 against Penn State.
• K-State is 71-58 all-time against teams from the Big Ten.


LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Kansas State will spend the Thanksgiving holiday in Las Vegas, Nevada, as the Wildcats participate in the South Point Thanksgiving Shootout at the South Point Resort on November 24-25. K-State will face (5/4) UCLA on Friday at 3:15 p.m. (CT), and Penn State on Saturday at 7:45 p.m. (CT).

• Both games in the South Point Thanksgiving Shootout will be available on the K-State Sports Network.
• K-State has started a season 4-0 for the third time in four seasons under the direction of head coach Jeff Mittie. Mittie is the second coach in program history to achieve this feat and first since Lynn Hickey from 1979-83.
• In the Wildcats' last game, Kansas State rallied from a seven-point fourth quarter deficit at North Texas to secure a 55-54 road win on Sunday. It was the first road win decided by one-point since Jan. 14, 2012, at Texas Tech.
• K-State was paced by three players in double figures: freshman Rachel Ranke, junior Kayla Goth and senior Kaylee Page. Ranke led the Wildcats with 14 points, including a 4-of-10 effort from beyond the arc.
• For the season, the Big 12 Freshman of the Week for Nov. 20, is averaging a team-high 16.8 points and has buried 4.0 three-point field goals per game.
• Goth reached double figures for the fourth straight game with 11 points, five assists, four rebounds and two assists. Goth has handed out five or more assists in three straight games.
• Goth, a guard from DeForest, Wisconsin, is averaging 12.3 points on a team-high .548 field goal percentage. She is handing out 7.0 assists and pocketing 2.5 steals.
• Page finished with 11 points, including seven in the fourth quarter. For the season, the forward from Wamego, Kansas, is averaging 12.8 points and 4.3 rebounds.

Number to Know
30
• #KStateWBB has registered 30 blocked shots through the first four games of the season (7.5 bpg).
• K-State ranks second in the Big 12 and 10th in the nation in blocks per game.
• The 30 blocks through four games are the most since the 2015-16 season when the Wildcats rejected 30 shots, which included a school record 14 blocks at Tulsa in the season-opener of that season.
• Of the 10 Wildcats to see the floor this season, nine have registered at least one blocked shot.

Remember, Remember the Month of November
• In the 50th year of women's basketball at K-State, the Wildcats have accumulated a record of 131-45 (.744) in the month of November.
• K-State has won 19 of its last 20 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 the eighth straight seasons, including a 6-0 mark in 2016-17. Overall, K-State has registered a .500 or better record in November 38 times in its history.

Wildcats Send Back Shots Under Mittie
• In the first three-plus seasons under head coach Jeff Mittie, Kansas State has piled up blocked shots. Under Mittie, K-State has sent back 486 shots for 4.7 per game in the 103 games.
• The Wildcats have started the season with 30 blocks (7.5 bpg). K-State ranks eighth in the nation in total blocks and 10th in the nation in blocks per game.
• Over the previous three seasons, K-State blocked 456 shots the most over a 3-season span since K-State blocked 486 shots from 2005-06 to 2007-08.
• In the 2016-17 season, K-State had 143 blocks (4.3 bpg), the third straight season with 100 or more blocks and the 11th in program history. The Wildcats blocked five or more shots in 16 games last season.

K-State Against Ranked Opponents
• The Wildcats are 78-193 (.288) against teams ranked in the Associated Press (AP) poll including a 49-54 (.476) mark against AP ranked teams in Manhattan.
• With its 71-66 win over No. 23 Auburn on Dec. 1, 2016, K-State has registered a win over an AP top-25 team in 11 straight seasons.
• Kansas State pocketed its second win over an Associated Press top-25 opponent in the 2016-17 season, downing (12/12) West Virginia, 86-71, on New Year's Day.
• It was the highest ranked opponent K-State has defeated since upsetting No. 12 Oklahoma State on Jan. 23, 2013.
• The 2016-17 season was the ninth season in program history that K-State has won four or more games against AP top-25 opponents and the first since the 2007-08 season.

Wildcats in Nail-Biters
• Kansas State owns an all-time record in overtime games of 24-28 (.462), including a 21-23 record in single overtime games and an 8-14 mark in overtime games against non-conference opponents. K-State's last overtime game came on Jan. 4, 2017 at Oklahoma, an 85-80 loss.
• Over the last nine seasons, K-State is 33-13 (.717) in games decided by five points or less.

Goth Giveth    
• Junior guard Kayla Goth has been a solid distributor this season.
• Goth has handed out 28 assists (7.0 apg) with just nine turnovers (3.1 assist to turnover ratio) through the first four games this season. She has three games this season with five or more games. She ranks second in the Big 12 and 18th in the nation in assists per game and fourth in assist to turnover ratio.
• Goth has been responible for 44.6 percent (28 assists; 17 made field goals) of K-State's made field goals this season.
• In her career, Goth ranks fourth in school history for career assists to turnover ratio (1.63).
• In the 2016-17 season, Goth dished out a career-high 50 assists.

Ranke with Range    
• Freshman guard Rachel Ranke has made an instant impact to K-State's lineup this season.
• In her three starts this season, Ranke has led K-State in scoring and is averaging 19.0 points. She was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Week on Nov. 20.
• Ranke finished with a game-high 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting, including a 6-of-12 effort from 3-point range. She also notched two rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal in 37 minutes of action.
• The six 3-pointers by the Burnsville, Minnesota, native were the most by a K-State freshman since Laurie Koehn registered six against Missouri on Feb. 27, 2002.
• In her second career start, Ranke led K-State with 23 points on 7-of-15 shooting, including a 5-of-11 effort from beyond the arc. She also tallied a 4-of-4 performance at the foul line.
• She is the first K-State freshman since the 2013-14 season to register consecutive games of 20 or more points.
• In her first season in Manhattan, Ranke is averaging a team-high 16.8 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.0 steals, 1.0 assists and 0.8 blocks. She leads all Big 12 freshmen in scoring and 3-point field goals made.
• Ranke has made 16 three-point field goals this season (4.0 per game) and has made four or more 3-point field goals in three straight games.

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.
• Against Florida A&M on Nov. 17, Martin notched a stat line of eight points, a career-high 15 rebounds, six assists and five steals.
• With her six assists against FAMU, it marked the 26th time in her career she has handed out five or more assists. Martin ranks 11th in school history with 327 assists and is seventh in school history for career assist to turnover ratio at 1.39.
• With her 15 rebounds against Florida A&M, Martin tallied her 67th career game with five or more rebounds. Her career total stands at 585 and she ranks tied for 17th on the K-State career rebounds list. She is the seventh player in program history with 550 or more rebounds and 300 or more assists.
• In the 2016-17 season, 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.
• This was her second straight season with 150 or more rebounds and 100 or more assists.
• Her 161 points this season were a new career season-high.
• Martin ranked 10th in the Big 12 in assists per game and seventh in assist to turnover ratio.