K-State Visits (4/4) Baylor on Saturday

GAME #19
(rv/-) Kansas State (11-7, 3-4 Big 12) at (4/4) Baylor (16-1, 6-0 Big 12)
Saturday, January 20, 2018 | 6 p.m. | Ferrell Center (10,284) | Waco, Texas

TELEVISION
FOX Sports Southwest
• Kris Radcliffe (play-by-play)
• Jim Haller (analyst)

RADIO
K-State Sports Network
• Brian Smoller (play-by-play)
• Randy Peterson (analyst)
Listen Online: www.kstatesports.com/watch [free]

PROMOTIONS & TICKETS
• Call (254) 710-1000 or visit www.baylorbears.com

LIVE STATS
www.kstatesports.com

COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 526-280/26th season | At K-State: 72-45/4th season
vs. Baylor: 1-14

Baylor: Kim Mulkey (Louisiana Tech '84)
Overall: 522-97/18th season | At Baylor: Same

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP
Kansas State (11-7, 3-4 Big 12)
G: #50 Shaelyn Martin | G: #10 Kayla Goth | G: #12 Rachel Ranke | F: #1 Kaylee Page | F: #11 Peyton Williams

Baylor (16-1, 6-0 Big 12)
G: #2 Didi Richards | G: #4 Kristy Wallace | G: #24 Natalie Chou | F: #15 Lauren Cox | C: #21 Kalani Brown

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Baylor leads the series, 32-9
In Waco: 1-13
Last Meeting: December 28, 2017; Baylor won 88-58

MANHATTAN, Kansas - Kansas State visits (4/4) Baylor on Saturday for a 6 p.m., tipoff in Waco. Saturday's game will be the 1,500th game in K-State's history.

• Saturday's game will be available on FOX Sports Southwest, as Kris Radcliffe (play-by-play) and Jim Haller (analyst) will have the call.
• K-State was unable to hold back Oklahoma on Wednesday, as the Wildcats dropped a 76-71 decision to the Sooners. K-State held a two-point lead entering the final quarter, but Oklahoma shot 75.0 percent from the field to secure the win.
• The Wildcats pocketed a season-high 14 steals on Wednesday, the most since carding 14 at West Virginia on Feb. 15, 2017.
• Sophomore Peyton Williams finished with a game-high 23 points on 10-of-17 shooting, eight rebounds, one block and one steal. Williams, an All-Big 12 candidate, leads K-State in 20 point games this season with four.
• For the season, the product of Topeka, Kansas, is averaging 14.1 points on a .556 field goal percentage with 7.3 rebounds. She has set career season-highs in nine statistical categories.
• Junior Kayla Goth, an All-Big 12 candidate, recorded her third double-double this season with 11 points, 10 assists and five rebounds.
• The guard from DeForest, Wisconsin, leads the Big 12 and ranks 12th in the nation in assists per game (6.6; career-high 118 assists). She also leads the Wildcats in scoring and ranks eighth in the Big 12 at 16.3 points.
• Rachel Ranke carded her sixth straight game in double figures as she tallied 13 points and four rebounds against the Sooners.
• For the season, the freshman from Burnsville, Minnesota, is averaging 12.2 points per game and leads K-State with 53 three-point field goals made. She is the seventh K-State freshman in program history to make 50 or more 3-pointers in their rookie season.

Number to Know
15
• #KStateWBB has handed out 15 or more assists in nine games this season.
• In the last two games, K-State has dished out 42 assists on 58 made field goals (72.4 percent assist rate).
• K-State dished out a season-high 25 assists against Chicago State on December 18. K-State season-high in Big 12 play came on Jan. 13 against Oklahoma State with 23 assists.
• In the 2016-17 season, K-State had 15 games with 15 or more assists.

At a Glance: Baylor
• (4/4) Baylor (16-1, 6-0) enters Saturday's matchup with a 13-game winning streak, as the Lady Bears completed its season series with Iowa State by securing a 79-50 win on Wednesday in Ames.
• On the sideline, Baylor is led by 18th-year head coach Kim Mulkey. In her time with the Lady Bears, Mulkey has led the program to a 522-97 (.843) record. She has led Baylor to seven straight Big 12 regular season titles, 16 NCAA Tournament appearances and a pair of NCAA titles (2005 and 2012).
• On the floor, the Lady Bears feature four players in double figures including junior Kalani Brown and sophomore Lauren Cox.
• Brown, a post from Slidell, Louisiana, paces the Lady Bears with 21.0 points per game and is second on the team in rebounding with 8.8 per game.
• Cox, a post from Flower Mound, Texas, is second on the team in scoring with 15.0 per game and leads the team in rebounding at 9.4 per game.

Wildcats on the Road
• K-State has a 264-283 (.483) record in road games during the program's 50-year history.
• Since the 2000-01 season, K-State owns an 104-103 (.502) mark in road contests.
• K-State had five road victories for the second straight season in 2016-17 and the fifth time in the last seven seasons.
• In his career in games played on the road, head coach Jeff Mittie is 140-161 (.465) including a 15-24 (.385) mark during his time at K-State.

K-State Against Ranked Opponents
• The Wildcats are 80-199 (.287) against teams ranked in the Associated Press (AP) poll including a 50-56 (.472) mark against AP ranked teams in Manhattan.
• With its 60-52 win at No. 12 West Virginia on Jan. 3, 2018, K-State has registered a win over an AP top-25 team in 12 straight seasons.
• It was the highest ranked opponent K-State has defeated on the road since upsetting No. 10 Texas Tech on Jan. 14, 2012.
• K-State is 8-24 (.250) against AP ranked opponents in head coach Jeff Mittie's four seasons in Manhattan.

K-State Picking Opponent's Pockets
• The Wildcats have bagged 10 or more steals in nine games this season, including a season-high of 14 against Oklahoma on January 17. The 14 steals are the most since K-State tallied 14 at West Virginia on Feb. 15, 2017.
• For the season, K-State has 158 steals (8.8 spg). Of the 297 opponent turnovers, 53.2 percent have come from a K-State steal. K-State ranks fifth in the Big 12 in steals per game and third in total steals.
• Kansas State pocketed 277 steals in the 2016-17 season (8.1 spg), including a season-high of 14 three times: against Princeton on Dec. 18, at Oklahoma State on Jan. 14 and at West Virginia on Feb. 15.
• This was the third straight season that K-State pocketed 275 or more steals and the seventh time since the 1996-97 season.
• K-State tallied 10 or more steals in a game 11 times last season. Of the 531 opponent turnovers in 2016-17, 52.2 percent came from a steal.

Another New Season, Another New Goth
• Junior guard Kayla Goth has taken on the point guard role for K-State to begin the 2017-18 season.
• For the season, the native of DeForest, Wisconsin, is averaging a team-high 16.3 points on a 500 field goal percentage including a 3-point field goal percentage of .409. She is also averaging 3.8 rebounds, 6.6 assists and 1.8 steals. Goth is shooting .524 on two-point field goal attempts this season.
• Goth ranks eighth in the Big 12 in scoring, leads the league in assists and is third in assist to turnover ratio (2.3).
• She has set career season-highs in nine statistical categories: points (294), field goals made and attempted (106-of-212), assists (118), blocks (11), steals (33), free throws made and attempted (64-of-93) and double-doubles (3).
• Goth has 10 games this season with at least 15 points and five assists.
• Against UNI, Goth registered a career-high 26 points on 9-of-13 shooting including 3-of-4 from beyond the arc and added five assists, four rebounds, two blocks and two steals.
• Against UT Arlington, Goth finished with 25 points on a 9-of-15 shooting performance while also dishing out five assists, blocking two shots and pocketing two steals. She also set the school record for points in a quarter with 19 in the third.
• She is the first player since Leticia Romero in 2013-14 to record two or more games with 20 or more points and five or more assists in a season.
• In the 2017 South Point Thanksgiving Shootout, Goth averaged 19.0 points on a .615 field goal percentage while dishing out 5.5 assists.
• In the 2016-17 season, Goth was sixth on the team in scoring (5.8 ppg) and third in field goal percentage (.437; 73-of-167). She registered the first eight double figure scoring efforts of her career last season.

Williams Goes Wild
• Sophomore forward Peyton Williams continues to progress in the low post for K-State in her second season.
• This season, Williams is averaging 14.1 points on a team-high .556 field goal percentage. She also has 7.3 rebounds and leads the team in blocks with 23.
• The native of Topeka, Kansas, ranks 37th in the nation in field goal percentage and 10th in the Big 12. She also ranks 15th in the Big 12 in scoring and 10th in rebounding.
• Williams has tallied career season-highs in points (253), free throws made and attempted (47-of-58), field goals made and attempted (100-of-180), blocks (23), steals (25), three-point field goals made and attempted (6-of-21) and double-doubles (4).
• Williams has improved her scoring average by 10.4 points per game from her freshman season. This would be the tied for the third largest improvement from one season to the next in program history.
• Over the last 10 games, Williams is averaging 17.9 points on a .584 field goal percentage, 8.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks.
• In K-State's game at Iowa State, Williams tallied 15 points, 11 rebounds, five blocks and two steals. This was her fourth double-double of the season and fifth of her career.
• Williams is the first Wildcat since Breanna Lewis on Feb. 29, 2016 at Oklahoma to record 15 or more points, 10 or more rebounds, five or more blocks and two or more steals in a game.
• For her career, Williams has 16 career games with 10 or more points and five or more rebounds.
• Against Little Rock on December 16, Williams recorded a new career-high with 25 points on 9-of-15 shooting and 6-of-7 from the foul line. She also pulled in seven rebounds.
• She has five career games with five or more offensive rebounds.

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Players Mentioned

Kayla Goth

Breanna Lewis

Shaelyn Martin

Kaylee Page

Rachel Ranke

Peyton Williams

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