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Furious Second Half Comeback Falls Short for K-State
Jan 13, 2019 | Women's Basketball
MANHATTAN, Kansas – Kansas State chipped an 18-point third quarter deficit to four points late in the fourth quarter on Sunday at Bramlage Coliseum, but Kansas was able to hold back the rally to end K-State's win streak in the series at 10 with a 61-54 win in the 120th meeting in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown.
K-State (10-6, 1-3 Big 12) trailed at halftime, 32-20, and in the first five minutes of the third quarter the Wildcats were forced into seven turnovers and converted one field goal as Kansas (11-3, 1-2) extended their lead to 18, 40-22.
The Wildcats then found their legs on offense and ended the quarter by outscoring the Jayhawks, 14-6, to pull within 10, 46-36, entering the fourth quarter. K-State would outscore Kansas over the final 15 minutes of the game, 32-21, winning both the third and fourth quarters.
K-State's rally in the third quarter was sparked by a Rachel Ranke 3-pointer, followed by five straight points from Peyton Williams. Williams would score nine of K-State's final 14 points in the third quarter.
In the final quarter, K-State would quickly narrow the game to six, 46-40, as Jasauen Beard made a pair of free throws and Williams finished a putback to force a Kansas timeout with 8:40 remaining in the game.
Kali Jones converted a transition layup, as Goth found her racing up the floor unguarded with 4:58 to play to bring K-State to within five, 50-45. On the next Kansas possession, the Jayhawks pulled in two offensive rebounds before Kylee Kopatich hit a 3-pointer to give Kansas a 53-45 lead with 4:04 to play.
K-State answered with a Goth jumper and a Jones hook shot to pull to within four, 53-49, with three minutes left. The Wildcats would finish with one made field goal over the final three minutes, as Kansas's Christalah Lyons registered six of the final seven points for the Jayhawks to seal the win.
K-State featured three players in double figures, as Peyton Williams paced the Wildcats with 19 points, eight rebounds and tied her career-high with five blocked shots. She also set a new career-high from the free throw line, as she was 9-of-11 from the charity stripe.
With her eight rebounds on Sunday, Williams became the 32nd player in program history with 500 or more career rebounds.
Also in double figures for the Wildcats was senior guard Kayla Goth and sophomore guard Rachel Ranke. Goth finished with 11 points, seven assists, four rebounds and tied her career-high with four steals.
Ranke added 10 points which included K-State's only two made 3-pointers on the afternoon.
Kansas was paced by Lyons with 20 points and seven rebounds, while Austin Richardson added 12 points and 10 rebounds and Kopatich carded 10 points.
Each team used a 9-2 run in the first quarter, as the squads played to an 11-11 tie at the end of the opening period. K-State closed out the first stanza with their 9-2 run and held the Jayhawks without a field goal for the final 6:42 of the quarter.
The Wildcats went cold from the field in the second quarter, going without a made field goal for the first seven and a half minutes of the frame. The Jayhawks outscored K-State, 17-2, during this stretch to build a 28-13 lead.
Kansas would hold its 32-20 lead at the half, as K-State was 3-of-13 from the field in the second quarter and held to 23.1 percent shooting in the opening half (6-of-26).
At halftime of Sunday's game, Kansas State recognized the career of former Wildcat All-American Brittany Chambers. Chambers addressed the crowd and then her number 2 became the sixth women's basketball number raised to the rafters of Bramlage Coliseum.
K-State ended the day shooting 34.6 percent (18-of-52) from the field, including a 9.5 percent effort from 3-point range (2-of-21). Kansas was held to a 34.4 percent performance (22-of-64) including 2-of-12 from beyond the arc.
The Jayhawks outrebounds the Wildcats, 44-34, and tallied the edge in second chance points, 15-7. Kansas also topped K-State in points off turnovers, 19-9, as the Wildcats were forced into 19 turnovers while the Jayhawks handed out 13 turnovers.
Kansas State will end its two-game home stand on Wednesday night, as the Wildcats host (11/11) Texas at 7 p.m. This will be K-State's sixth game against an Associated Press top-25 opponent this season.
Wednesday's game will be broadcast on ESPN3 and will be available on the K-State Sports Network and for free at kstatesports.com.
What They Said
JEFF MITTIE, HEAD COACH
Opening statement…
"I do not think we certainly played hard enough or tough enough in the first 25 minutes of this game to even deserve to get back in it quite honestly. We got ourselves back in it but I am not sure that because of those first 25 minutes that we really deserved to have a chance, but we did. Our margin of error at that point is slim. If you can fight back from 18 [points down], you cannot have missed opportunities. The three ball because it was not going in for us, seemed to lose some energy and I did not think we had a lot of energy to begin with but I felt okay after the first quarter when it was 11-11. We kind of battled back after a rough start and got there but the second quarter was not kind to us. "
On the lack of energy…
"I do not know how you come out in this game and do not play with toughness and energy. I do not know to what degree I was shocked but I guess I was probably shocked in that I did not feel like we did. I don't know how you don't but I feel that we didn't."
On making adjustments to KU's ball screens…
"It really was not a surprise to us. We talked in length about the ball screen coverage. Their guards got a little deeper than we wanted them to. They are good at it. It is hard to argue. They shot 28 percent in the third quarter and shot 23 percent in the first. Their offense was not that great. They were just getting the extra plays. They had 12 extra chances, got 18 offensive boards, got extra plays. It was not as if they were having a high degree of success. We held them from the three. The area we talked about not doing was putting them on the free throw line. I think that pick and roll game got us probably staring a little bit and they had some players from the perimeter run and get rebounds that way. We obviously did not handle that well. All in all, the defense was not too bad. The offense was a problem for us today."
On Kali Jones' minutes…
"We did not think we were going to go with her that long in the second half but she was playing really well, doing some good things and giving us energy on both ends of the floor really. You could see her lack of mobility and change of direction on the shot coming off the rim. That was probably one of the big plays in the run, the [Kylee] Kopatich three. I have got to look back on film because from our bench it looked like we had a couple chances at that loose ball in the paint and did not get it. She was out there at the time and she did not look like she could change direction like she needed to to go chase it. We had others but that was the big play because we had scrambled around and it was loose. I thought we had a good chance at it, then it gets kicked out to Kopatich and she bangs a three. They only hit two threes on the day. That was not about the question about Jones but it was a play that she was involved in and I thought she gave us what she could. My guess is that we will have a little bit of a setback of her playing on it that long. We will have to evaluate it going forward this week."
On losing to KU…
"It hurts. This is my first one. It hurts, there is no doubt about it. I think we had not felt it before and maybe we need to feel it. We did not play like we were fighting and we have never made a big deal about the streak because every game is itself but it hurts. There is no doubt about it. We had comebacks last year to beat them but that KU team played well today. I do want to give them credit. While we are talking about things we could have done better, they deserve credit for doing the extra things today to get this win, but it certainly hurts."
On playing out the rest of the Big 12 schedule....
"We are going to have to dig in. We are going to have to find those extra plays. We just got done having a short talk about all those extra plays but having the talk and making the commitment to doing those things, we have got to find players that are willing to do those things. I thought those things were the difference in the game today. Extra plays being charges, offensive rebounds, hustle type plays. I thought we were only good at that for 15 minutes today. We were really good in those 15 but that is not how you win games like this. You do it because you dig in for 40 and I do not feel like we played that way for 40."
On if he thought they deserved to win…
"I would be glad to take it and figure it out later in practice but I am a big believer that you do things right. You play hard, you do things right, and you are, ultimately over the time of the season, rewarded for doing those things right. When you do not do things right and you do not commit to doing things right, you in turn get what you should get and in this case I just never felt like we were digging deeper when things were not going well. I have got to figure out how to do better as a coach and hopefully we will respond this week in practice. We have three games in six days. This was the first one and we have two more this week. Two very difficult games coming up."
PEYTON WILLIAMS, JUNIOR FORWARD
On how she played down the stretch…
"Like they said, we just did not have any energy. So at that point, it is just all or nothing. I have to try to at least give our team energy as many ways as I can. So I was not really just trying to make baskets, I was trying to be the energy and be everywhere all the time. So it just happened that I was rolling at a certain point of time but I was not really the focus at that point. It just happened like that I guess."
KAYLA GOTH, SENIOR GUARD
On breaking the streak against Kansas…
"We need to take a step back an look at why this happened. Why we came in with this kind of energy, why we came out of the second-half like we did? Those are energy-type plays. It sucks, but Kansas is also another team in the Big 12. So we need to look at this game, learn from it and move forward."
On what she would change down the stretch...
"I wish I would have done something to combat but we had bad starts to both halves, so that cannot happen. Not going to win a whole lot of games coming out of the first half like that then in the second half even worse, I would say."
BRANDON SCHNEIDER, HEAD COACH
On how it feels to beat K-State on the road…
"Road wins are hard to come by in this league, regardless of who the opponent is. We were really, really disappointed with our performance in Lubbock on Wednesday and because of that, this became a really critical game for us."
On the postgame celebration…
"Our program has been through a lot in the last few years. We feel like we really had it going in the right direction and we've made a lot of progress. I think when the players perform at a high level and get a win like this, they have every right to celebrate."
On what swung the game for them....
"Well, (K-State) got in a little bit of foul trouble. I thought that was key. But we made some key baskets. I thought that we had some players come off the bench and really give us a spark. But during that stretch (17-2 run), I just felt like we guarded them hard."
On his message to the team during the K-State comeback…
"We had to make some adjustments. They started hurting us with the pick-and-pop, when they put (Kayla) Goth and (Peyton) Williams in that. I felt like (Kali) Jones hurt us with her postups. We had to make some adjustments there because they really got in a rhythm. Really just staying patient on offense and trying to get good shots. Just being patient enough to get some quality looks."
On what stood out most about K-State in scouting...
"I think Kayla Goth is one of the better players in the league. I said last year that Peyton Williams is one of the most improved players in the league. The two young shooters is something that really makes them difficult to guard because you start really trying to gameplan for Williams and Goth, but then those two can really light you up in a hurry. They're really well coached. I think when you have a point guard, I love our point guard (Christalah Lyons), I think she's one of the toughest kids I have ever coached, but they have a good point guard too. You have a good chance to have a good team if that's the case."
CHRISTALAH LYONS, SENIOR GUARD
On beating K-State…
"I think it's a great feeling. We had wonderful practices before this game. We trusted coach's game plan and we went with that and we ended up with a win."
On what worked for her today…
"I was just trying to do my job and get my teammates open and get them open shots. Attacking and just the simple things."
K-State (10-6, 1-3 Big 12) trailed at halftime, 32-20, and in the first five minutes of the third quarter the Wildcats were forced into seven turnovers and converted one field goal as Kansas (11-3, 1-2) extended their lead to 18, 40-22.
The Wildcats then found their legs on offense and ended the quarter by outscoring the Jayhawks, 14-6, to pull within 10, 46-36, entering the fourth quarter. K-State would outscore Kansas over the final 15 minutes of the game, 32-21, winning both the third and fourth quarters.
K-State's rally in the third quarter was sparked by a Rachel Ranke 3-pointer, followed by five straight points from Peyton Williams. Williams would score nine of K-State's final 14 points in the third quarter.
In the final quarter, K-State would quickly narrow the game to six, 46-40, as Jasauen Beard made a pair of free throws and Williams finished a putback to force a Kansas timeout with 8:40 remaining in the game.
Kali Jones converted a transition layup, as Goth found her racing up the floor unguarded with 4:58 to play to bring K-State to within five, 50-45. On the next Kansas possession, the Jayhawks pulled in two offensive rebounds before Kylee Kopatich hit a 3-pointer to give Kansas a 53-45 lead with 4:04 to play.
K-State answered with a Goth jumper and a Jones hook shot to pull to within four, 53-49, with three minutes left. The Wildcats would finish with one made field goal over the final three minutes, as Kansas's Christalah Lyons registered six of the final seven points for the Jayhawks to seal the win.
K-State featured three players in double figures, as Peyton Williams paced the Wildcats with 19 points, eight rebounds and tied her career-high with five blocked shots. She also set a new career-high from the free throw line, as she was 9-of-11 from the charity stripe.
With her eight rebounds on Sunday, Williams became the 32nd player in program history with 500 or more career rebounds.
Also in double figures for the Wildcats was senior guard Kayla Goth and sophomore guard Rachel Ranke. Goth finished with 11 points, seven assists, four rebounds and tied her career-high with four steals.
Ranke added 10 points which included K-State's only two made 3-pointers on the afternoon.
Kansas was paced by Lyons with 20 points and seven rebounds, while Austin Richardson added 12 points and 10 rebounds and Kopatich carded 10 points.
Each team used a 9-2 run in the first quarter, as the squads played to an 11-11 tie at the end of the opening period. K-State closed out the first stanza with their 9-2 run and held the Jayhawks without a field goal for the final 6:42 of the quarter.
The Wildcats went cold from the field in the second quarter, going without a made field goal for the first seven and a half minutes of the frame. The Jayhawks outscored K-State, 17-2, during this stretch to build a 28-13 lead.
Kansas would hold its 32-20 lead at the half, as K-State was 3-of-13 from the field in the second quarter and held to 23.1 percent shooting in the opening half (6-of-26).
At halftime of Sunday's game, Kansas State recognized the career of former Wildcat All-American Brittany Chambers. Chambers addressed the crowd and then her number 2 became the sixth women's basketball number raised to the rafters of Bramlage Coliseum.
K-State ended the day shooting 34.6 percent (18-of-52) from the field, including a 9.5 percent effort from 3-point range (2-of-21). Kansas was held to a 34.4 percent performance (22-of-64) including 2-of-12 from beyond the arc.
The Jayhawks outrebounds the Wildcats, 44-34, and tallied the edge in second chance points, 15-7. Kansas also topped K-State in points off turnovers, 19-9, as the Wildcats were forced into 19 turnovers while the Jayhawks handed out 13 turnovers.
Kansas State will end its two-game home stand on Wednesday night, as the Wildcats host (11/11) Texas at 7 p.m. This will be K-State's sixth game against an Associated Press top-25 opponent this season.
Wednesday's game will be broadcast on ESPN3 and will be available on the K-State Sports Network and for free at kstatesports.com.
What They Said
JEFF MITTIE, HEAD COACH
Opening statement…
"I do not think we certainly played hard enough or tough enough in the first 25 minutes of this game to even deserve to get back in it quite honestly. We got ourselves back in it but I am not sure that because of those first 25 minutes that we really deserved to have a chance, but we did. Our margin of error at that point is slim. If you can fight back from 18 [points down], you cannot have missed opportunities. The three ball because it was not going in for us, seemed to lose some energy and I did not think we had a lot of energy to begin with but I felt okay after the first quarter when it was 11-11. We kind of battled back after a rough start and got there but the second quarter was not kind to us. "
On the lack of energy…
"I do not know how you come out in this game and do not play with toughness and energy. I do not know to what degree I was shocked but I guess I was probably shocked in that I did not feel like we did. I don't know how you don't but I feel that we didn't."
On making adjustments to KU's ball screens…
"It really was not a surprise to us. We talked in length about the ball screen coverage. Their guards got a little deeper than we wanted them to. They are good at it. It is hard to argue. They shot 28 percent in the third quarter and shot 23 percent in the first. Their offense was not that great. They were just getting the extra plays. They had 12 extra chances, got 18 offensive boards, got extra plays. It was not as if they were having a high degree of success. We held them from the three. The area we talked about not doing was putting them on the free throw line. I think that pick and roll game got us probably staring a little bit and they had some players from the perimeter run and get rebounds that way. We obviously did not handle that well. All in all, the defense was not too bad. The offense was a problem for us today."
On Kali Jones' minutes…
"We did not think we were going to go with her that long in the second half but she was playing really well, doing some good things and giving us energy on both ends of the floor really. You could see her lack of mobility and change of direction on the shot coming off the rim. That was probably one of the big plays in the run, the [Kylee] Kopatich three. I have got to look back on film because from our bench it looked like we had a couple chances at that loose ball in the paint and did not get it. She was out there at the time and she did not look like she could change direction like she needed to to go chase it. We had others but that was the big play because we had scrambled around and it was loose. I thought we had a good chance at it, then it gets kicked out to Kopatich and she bangs a three. They only hit two threes on the day. That was not about the question about Jones but it was a play that she was involved in and I thought she gave us what she could. My guess is that we will have a little bit of a setback of her playing on it that long. We will have to evaluate it going forward this week."
On losing to KU…
"It hurts. This is my first one. It hurts, there is no doubt about it. I think we had not felt it before and maybe we need to feel it. We did not play like we were fighting and we have never made a big deal about the streak because every game is itself but it hurts. There is no doubt about it. We had comebacks last year to beat them but that KU team played well today. I do want to give them credit. While we are talking about things we could have done better, they deserve credit for doing the extra things today to get this win, but it certainly hurts."
On playing out the rest of the Big 12 schedule....
"We are going to have to dig in. We are going to have to find those extra plays. We just got done having a short talk about all those extra plays but having the talk and making the commitment to doing those things, we have got to find players that are willing to do those things. I thought those things were the difference in the game today. Extra plays being charges, offensive rebounds, hustle type plays. I thought we were only good at that for 15 minutes today. We were really good in those 15 but that is not how you win games like this. You do it because you dig in for 40 and I do not feel like we played that way for 40."
On if he thought they deserved to win…
"I would be glad to take it and figure it out later in practice but I am a big believer that you do things right. You play hard, you do things right, and you are, ultimately over the time of the season, rewarded for doing those things right. When you do not do things right and you do not commit to doing things right, you in turn get what you should get and in this case I just never felt like we were digging deeper when things were not going well. I have got to figure out how to do better as a coach and hopefully we will respond this week in practice. We have three games in six days. This was the first one and we have two more this week. Two very difficult games coming up."
PEYTON WILLIAMS, JUNIOR FORWARD
On how she played down the stretch…
"Like they said, we just did not have any energy. So at that point, it is just all or nothing. I have to try to at least give our team energy as many ways as I can. So I was not really just trying to make baskets, I was trying to be the energy and be everywhere all the time. So it just happened that I was rolling at a certain point of time but I was not really the focus at that point. It just happened like that I guess."
KAYLA GOTH, SENIOR GUARD
On breaking the streak against Kansas…
"We need to take a step back an look at why this happened. Why we came in with this kind of energy, why we came out of the second-half like we did? Those are energy-type plays. It sucks, but Kansas is also another team in the Big 12. So we need to look at this game, learn from it and move forward."
On what she would change down the stretch...
"I wish I would have done something to combat but we had bad starts to both halves, so that cannot happen. Not going to win a whole lot of games coming out of the first half like that then in the second half even worse, I would say."
BRANDON SCHNEIDER, HEAD COACH
On how it feels to beat K-State on the road…
"Road wins are hard to come by in this league, regardless of who the opponent is. We were really, really disappointed with our performance in Lubbock on Wednesday and because of that, this became a really critical game for us."
On the postgame celebration…
"Our program has been through a lot in the last few years. We feel like we really had it going in the right direction and we've made a lot of progress. I think when the players perform at a high level and get a win like this, they have every right to celebrate."
On what swung the game for them....
"Well, (K-State) got in a little bit of foul trouble. I thought that was key. But we made some key baskets. I thought that we had some players come off the bench and really give us a spark. But during that stretch (17-2 run), I just felt like we guarded them hard."
On his message to the team during the K-State comeback…
"We had to make some adjustments. They started hurting us with the pick-and-pop, when they put (Kayla) Goth and (Peyton) Williams in that. I felt like (Kali) Jones hurt us with her postups. We had to make some adjustments there because they really got in a rhythm. Really just staying patient on offense and trying to get good shots. Just being patient enough to get some quality looks."
On what stood out most about K-State in scouting...
"I think Kayla Goth is one of the better players in the league. I said last year that Peyton Williams is one of the most improved players in the league. The two young shooters is something that really makes them difficult to guard because you start really trying to gameplan for Williams and Goth, but then those two can really light you up in a hurry. They're really well coached. I think when you have a point guard, I love our point guard (Christalah Lyons), I think she's one of the toughest kids I have ever coached, but they have a good point guard too. You have a good chance to have a good team if that's the case."
CHRISTALAH LYONS, SENIOR GUARD
On beating K-State…
"I think it's a great feeling. We had wonderful practices before this game. We trusted coach's game plan and we went with that and we ended up with a win."
On what worked for her today…
"I was just trying to do my job and get my teammates open and get them open shots. Attacking and just the simple things."
Team Stats
KU
K-STATE
FG%
.344
.346
3FG%
.167
.095
FT%
.682
.696
RB
44
34
TO
13
19
STL
8
10
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
19
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
9
Pts
11
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
3
Pts
10
FGM
4
3FGM
2
FTM
0
Pts
6
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
0
Players Mentioned
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