K-State Ends Big 12 Regular Season at Texas Tech

GAME #29
Kansas State (14-14, 6-11 Big 12) at Texas Tech (7-21, 1-16 Big 12)
Monday, February 26, 2018 | 6:30 p.m. | Bramlage Coliseum (12,528) | Manhattan, Kansas

TELEVISION
FOX Sports Southwest Plus
• Chuck Heinz (play-by-play)
• Craig Wells (analyst)

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

PROMOTIONS & TICKETS
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COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 529-287/26th season | At K-State: 75-52/4th season
vs. Texas Tech: 10-4

Texas Tech: Shimmy Gray-Miller (Michigan '94)
Overall: 72-150/8th season | At Texas Tech: 1-14/1st season

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP
Kansas State (14-14, 6-11 Big 12)
G: #10 Kayla Goth | G: #12 Rachel Ranke | F: #1 Kaylee Page | F: #11 Peyton Williams | F: #50 Shaelyn Martin

Texas Tech (7-21, 1-16 Big 12)
G: #10 Grayson Bright | G: #23 Angel Hayden | F: #20 Brittany Brewer | F: #30 Zuri Sanders | C: #12 Jada Terry

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: K-State leads, 20-13
In Lubbock: 9-6
Last Meeting: February 7, 2018; K-State won 83-69)
• K-State has won seven of the last eight meetings in the series, including five straight.

MANHATTAN, Kansas - Kansas State will close out the regular season of 2017-18 on Monday night at Texas Tech. Game time in Lubbock is set for 6:30 p.m.

• Monday's game will be available on FOX Sports Southwest Plus, as Chuck Heinz (play-by-play) and Craig Wells (analyst) will have the call.
• K-State celebrated its 50th season and recognized its 2017-18 senior class on Saturday against Kansas. The Wildcats responded with a 91-67 win over the Jayhawks and improved its win streak to nine over its Sunflower State rivals.
• The Wildcats poured in 12 three-point field goals against the Jayhawks, tying their season-high from beyond the arc. K-State set a season-high in 3-point field goal percentage at 57.1 percent.
• Kansas State had four players reach double figures: Kayla Goth, Peyton Williams, Rachel Ranke and Kaylee Page. Goth and Williams each tallied 21 points, while Ranke poured in 19 and Page chipped in with 13.
• Goth, an All-Big 12 First Team candidate, registered her fifth double-double this season as she added a career-high 12 assists and six rebounds. The 12 assists were the most by a Wildcat since the 2008-09 season. She is the sixth player in program history with 12 or more assists in a game.
• For the season, Goth leads the Wildcats in scoring (16.7 ppg) and assists (6.8 apg). She has set career season-highs in 14 categories.
• Williams, an All-Big 12 First Team candidate, pulled in five rebounds and blocked three shots against the Jayhawks. Williams has 14 games this season with 15 or more points and five or more rebounds.
• Williams has set career season-highs in 16 categories and leads the team in field goal percentage (.548), free throw percentage (.830) and blocks (38; 1.4 bpg).
• Ranke, an All-Big 12 Freshman Team candidate, registered a 5-of-8 effort from beyond the arc. This was her eighth game this season with four or more connections from beyond the arc.

Number to Know
61
• In its 91-67 win over Kansas on Saturday, #KStateWBB received 61 of its 91 points from Kayla Goth, Peyton Williams and Rachel Ranke.
• The 61 points from three players were the second-most points from three K-State players this season, trailing a 66 point effort between the same three players on Feb. 7 against Texas Tech.
• The trio of Goth, Ranke and Williams have figured into three of K-State's top five games in combined points by three players this season.
• Goth, Ranke and Williams are responsible for 63.6 percent (1,197 points) of K-State's overall points this season.

At a Glance: Texas Tech
• Texas Tech (7-21, 1-16 Big 12) saw its losing streak build to 10, as the Lady Raiders fell at Oklahoma, 79-61, on Saturday.
• Texas Tech is guided on the sideline by interim head coach Shimmy Gray-Miller. Gray-Miller took over the program on Jan. 1, following the dismissal of fifth-year head coach Candi Whitaker. Gray-Miller is 1-8 since being named to the interim post.
• The Lady Raiders are led this season by senior center Jada Terry.
• Terry, a transfer from Texas A&M, is second on the team in scoring at 10.6 points and leads the Lady Raiders on the boards with 6.3 per game. At Oklahoma, Terry finished with 14 points and six rebounds.

Magic Number is 70 Points for Wildcats
• Since the 2001-02 season, K-State is 184-22 (.893) when scoring 70 or more points in a game including a 32-8 (.800) record in the Jeff Mittie era.
• K-State has scored 70 or more points in a game 12 times this season (9-3) including a high of 99 against Chicago State on Dec. 18. The 99 points were the most since scoring 102 against Florida Atlantic on Dec. 13, 2015.
• Against Kansas on Feb. 24, K-State scored 91 points. This marked the most points scored in regulation against the Jayhawks. The 91 points were the most in a Big 12 game since Feb. 11, 2015, when K-State scored 93 against TCU.
• 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.

Sharing is Caring
• Kansas State has dished out 15.3 assists per game, which ranks fifth in the Big 12, and own a 1.2 assist to turnover ratio, which ranks third in the Big 12. The Wildcats have an assisted shot rate of 63.4 percent (427 assists/673 made field goals). According to herhoopstats.com, K-State ranks 47th in the nation in assisted shot rate.
• K-State dished out 25 assists on 34 made field goals (73.5 percent) against Chicago State on Dec. 18, the most since handing out 26 against TCU on Feb. 11, 2015. K-State has 11 games this season with assists on 70 percent or more of the made field goals.
• K-State has handed out 20 or more assists in seven games this season. The Wildcats are 57-2 when handing out 20 or more assists over the last 12 years.
• Under head coach Jeff Mittie, K-State has registered 1,828 assists on 2,919 made field goals which is an assisted shot rate of 62.6 percent.
• In the 2016-17 season, K-State handed out 14.7 assists per game (500 total assists). K-State ranked fifth in the Big 12 in assists per game and third in league only games (14.1 apg).
• This was the first season since 2005-06 that K-State handed out 500 or more assists. This marked the seventh time in program history that K-State registered 500 or more assists in a season.
• Since assists became an officially tracked stat in 1981-82, Kansas State has registered an assist percentage of 60.0 percent or higher 19 times in its history including a current streak of four straight seasons.

Wildcats Solid From Beyond the Arc
• In the 2017-18 season, K-State is shooting .309 percent from 3-point range (183-of-593) which includes 6.5 made 3-point field goals per game. Kansas State is scoring 29.2 percent (549 points; 0.93 points/attempt) of its points from beyond the arc. K-State ranks fifth in the Big 12 in three-point field goals made per game.
• Kansas State registered a season-high 12 connections from beyond the arc against Omaha on Nov. 13 and against Kansas on Feb. 24. This is the second-most 3-point field goals made in the Jeff Mittie era and the most since Dec. 13, 2016 against Florida Atlantic when the Wildcats made 14.
• K-State has made five or more 3-pointers in a game 23 times (11-12) this season. In the Jeff Mittie era, the Wildcats have made five or more 3-pointers in a game 93 times in 127 total games.
• In four seasons under Mittie, K-State has buried 773 three-pointers which is 6.1 per game.
• The Wildcats have made 175 or more 3-point field goals in 17 of the last 18 seasons.
• K-State has made at least one 3-point field goal in 368 consecutive games, dating back to Feb. 7, 2007.

Three is not a Crowd, It's a Benefit
• Since 2011-12, when three or more players reach double figures in scoring in the same game, K-State is 87-48 (.644).
• K-State has had three or more players reach double figures in the same game 21 times this season (12-9).
• The Wildcats had a season-high five players reach double figures against Oklahoma State on January 13, 2018, as all five starters scored in double digits.
• This was the first in the Jeff Mittie era that all five starters for K-State reached double figures. This was the first time all five K-State starters scored in double figures since March 4, 2013, at Baylor.

Goth, Williams Form Potent Duo
• K-State's Kayla Goth (16.7 ppg) and Peyton Williams (14.5 ppg) have combined to average 31.2 points per game this season. In Big 12 action, the pair is averaging 32.7 points per game.
• The duo, who have each surpassed career season-highs in scoring, is responsible for 46.4 percent of K-State's total point production this season. In league play, they are responsible for 50.5 percent of K-State's points.
• The last time K-State had a duo responsible for 45 percent or more of the team's point production was in 2012-13 when Brittany Chambers (21.0 ppg; 778 pts) and Haley Texada (11.8 ppg; 423 pts) were responsible for 53.0 percent of K-State's points.
• Each player has improved their scoring average by 10.0+ points this season, as Goth has improved by 10.9 points (5.8 to 16.7 ppg) while Williams has improved by 10.8 points (3.7 to 14.5 ppg). This is the first time in program history that two players have improved by 10 or more points from one season to the next.
• Goth and Williams have reached double figures in the same game 20 times this season, including a high of 47 combined points against Northern Iowa on Dec. 21.
• Goth and Williams are third in the Big 12 in percentage of their team's overall point total.

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Players Mentioned

Kayla Goth

Shaelyn Martin

Kaylee Page

Rachel Ranke

Peyton Williams

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