K-State Wraps Up First Half of Big 12 Schedule on Wednesday

GAME #21
TCU (14-5, 4-4 Big 12) at Kansas State (13-7, 4-4 Big 12)
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 7 p.m. | Bramlage Coliseum | Manhatttan, Kan.

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• Brian Smoller (play-by-play)
• Missy Heidrick (analyst)
• Bridget Howard (sideline)

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• Kristin Waller (analyst)
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LIVE STATS
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COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 546-296/27th season | At K-State: 92-61/5th season
vs. TCU: 6-4

TCU: Raegan Pebley (Colorado '97)
Overall: 241-240/16th season | At TCU: 85-65/5th season

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP
Kansas State (13-7, 4-4 Big 12)
G: #10 Kayla Goth | G: #12 Rachel Ranke | G: #43 Christianna Carr | F: #11 Peyton Williams | F: #33 Ashley Ray

TCU (14-5, 4-4 Big 12)
G: #20 Lauren Heard | G: #25 Kianna Ray | F: #0 Amy Okonkwo | F: #33 Adeola Akomolafe | C: #22 Jordan Moore

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: TCU leads, 7-6
At Manhattan: K-State leads, 4-2
Last Meeting: February 17, 2018; TCU won 87-70 in Fort Worth

MANHATTAN, Kansas - K-State begins a two-game home stand on Wednesday night, as the Wildcats host TCU at 7 p.m. Wednesday's game is the midway point of K-State's Big 12 schedule.

• Wednesday's game will be broadcast on FOX College Sports - Central and for free on K-StateHD.TV, as Brian Smoller (play-by-play), Missy Heidrick (analyst) and Bridget Howard (sideline) will have the call.
• In its last game, K-State (13-7, 4-4 Big 12) suffered its worst shooting day in over seven years, as the Wildcats had its three-game Big 12 win streak halted with a 60-30 loss at West Virginia on January 26. The 30 points were the fewest in the Jeff Mittie era and the fewest since the Wildcats scored 26 points on March 19, 2012, against Connecticut in the second round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament.
• K-State shot 20.0 percent (11-of-55) from the field against the Mountaineers. This was the lowest field goal percentage for the Wildcats since the game against Connecticut when K-State shot 17.5 percent.
• The Wildcats were 0-of-18 from 3-point range at West Virginia. K-State's streak of 393 straight games with a 3-point field goal came to an end.
• The Wildcats were paced by the duo of Peyton Williams and Kayla Goth. The combo scored 16 of K-State's 30 points, with each score eight points. Williams finished with her 11th game with 10 or more rebounds with a team-high 12 boards. Goth added four assists and two steals.
• For the season, Williams leads K-State in scoring (15.3 ppg), field goal percentage (.533) and rebounding (9.6 rpg).
• A 2019 Nancy Lieberman Award candidate, Goth leads the Big 12 in total assists (128) and is second in assists per game (6.4 apg). She leads the team in steals (36; 1.8 spg) and is second on the team in scoring (12.0 ppg).

Number to Know
.533 | .433 | .813
• #KStateWBB's Peyton Williams has put up a unique stat line this season.
• Williams, a 2019 Katrina McClain Award candidate, is among the rarefied club of .500/.400/.800 this season. Williams is shooting .533 from the field, .433 from 3-point range and .813 from the free throw line.
• Williams is the only player in the Big 12 with percentages of .500/.400/.800. Among the 20 preseason 2019 Katrina McClain Award candidates, Williams and Megan Huff of Utah are the only two players in the .500/.400/.800 club.
• In the 51-year history of K-State women's basketball, K-State has never had a player end a season in the .500/.400/.800 club.

At a Glance: TCU
• TCU (14-5, 4-4 Big 12) has won three of their last four games, including a 58-53 win over Kansas on Sunday in Fort Worth.
• The Horned Frogs are guided on the sideline by fifth year head coach Raegan Pebley. The 1997 graduate of Colorado owns an 85-65 record at TCU and three trips to the Postseason WNIT.
• TCU features three players averaging double figures this season: seniors Jordan Moore (16.4 ppg and Amy Okonkwo (11.9 ppg) and junior Kianna Ray (10.7 ppg).
• Moore leads the team in field goal percentage (.635), rebounding (7.5 rpg) and blocks (46). Against the Jayhawks, Moore tallied a double-double with 22 points, 10 rebounds and six blocks.
• Okonkwo, a 2019 Katrina McClain Award candidate, leads the team in free throw percentage (.810) and is second on the team in rebounding (5.2 rpg). Against Kansas, she notched 11 points and three rebounds.
• Ray paces the Horned Frogs in assists (4.4 apg) and in steals (38).

Wildcats with 300+ Wins in Bramlage
• K-State is 333-130 (.719) all-time inside Bramlage Coliseum, which is in its 31st season of existence.
• The Wildcats are 10-1 at home in the 2018-19 season and started the season with an eight-game home court winning streak.
• This is the 30th time in 51 seasons that the Wildcats reached double figures in home victories. This marks the 22nd season K-State has won 10 or more games in Bramlage including five straight seasons.
• In his career in games played in his home venue, head coach Jeff Mittie is 337-87 (.795) including a 63-22 (.741) record at K-State.
• Kansas State has protected Bramlage Coliseum with determination against non-conference foes with a record of 194-26 (.882). Mittie is 40-5 (.889) in non-conference games in Bramlage Coliseum.

Filling Up the Purple Palace
• The Wildcats rank 32nd in the nation and fifth in the Big 12 in average attendance (3,478 average; 11 home games). In total attendance, K-State ranked 30th in the nation and fifth in the Big 12 (38,256).
• When the crowd is 7,500 or more in Bramlage Coliseum, K-State is 43-12 (.782) including a record of 18-5 when the crowd is 10,000 or more.
• The Wildcats moved into Bramlage Coliseum prior to the start of the 1988-89 season and have seen 1,784,598 fans pass through the doors. K-State reached the 1,500,000 mark for women's basketball attendance on Feb. 21, 2015.

Kansas State Holds Foes to Single Digit Quarters
• In the fourth season of the quarter system in women's college basketball, Kansas State's defense has been able to limit its opponents point production for 10 minute durations.
• Kansas State is 41-10 (.804) when holding an opponent to single digits in any quarter in a game.
• K-State has held 11 of its 19 opponents this season to a single digit quarter and have tallied a total of 12 single-digit quarters this season. The Wildcats held Oklahoma State to a season-low three points in the first quarter on January 23.

Goth Giveth
• Senior guard Kayla Goth was a record-setting distributor in her first full season as the team's point guard in the 2017-18 season and has continued this role into the 2018-19 season.
• Goth has dished out 128 assists (6.4 apg). She leads the Big 12 and is seventh in the nation in total assists and is second in the Big 12 and eighth in the nation in assists per game. She leads the Big 12 in games with 10 or more assists with three.
• According to herhoopstats.com, Goth ranks among the top 1 percent in the nation at 13th in assisted shot rate at 38.3 percent (assist rate defined: percentage of teammate field goals assisted on while on the court). Last season, Goth's assisted shot rate was 43.5 percent.
• Against Texas, Goth handed out a season-high 12 assists. This season, she has 13 games with five or more assists. For her career, she has 42 career games with five or more assists including nine games with 10 or more assists which is second in program history.
• In her career, Goth ranks second in program history for assist-to-turnover ratio (1.81). She is the sixth player in program history with 400 or more assists, as she has compiled 442 assists in her career and ranks fifth in program history for career assists.
• In the 2017-18 season, Goth handed out a career single-season high 226 assists (6.6 apg) with just 115 turnovers (1.97 assist to turnover ratio). She led the Big 12 and was ninth in the nation in total assists and 11th in assists per game. She also led the Big 12 in double figure assist games with six.
• According to Stats, Inc., Goth led the nation in 2017-18 with the largest increase in both total assists (+176) and assists per game (+5.1 apg) from 2016-17 to 2017-18.
• Goth was the second player in program history to hand out 200 or more assists in a single season. Her 226 assists in 2017-18 rank second in school history for assists in a single season, the most assists by a K-State junior and 11th in the Big 12 record book.
• Goth was the first K-State player to hand out 10 or more assists in five or more games in a season since Shalee Lehning in the 2008-09 season (10 games). She is third in school history for career double figure assist games (6).
• Against Kansas, Goth dished out a career-high and team season-high 12 assists. She ranks tied for sixth in program history for assists in a game. The 12 assists were the most by a Wildcat since the 2008-09 season.

Williams Surpasses 500 Career Rebounds
• Peyton Williams continues to pile up the rebounds to begin the 2018-19 season.
• For the season, Williams is averaging 9.7 rebounds per game and ranks second in the Big 12 and 44th in the nation in rebounds per game and leads the league in defensive rebounds per game at 689. Williams leads the league in rebounding for league-only games (9.8 rpg).
• At West Virginia, Williams hauled in 12 rebounds which was her 18th career game with 10 or more rebounds. This season, Williams has a high of 14 rebounds against Vanderbilt and has a career-best 11 games with 10 or more rebounds.
• Williams owns 540 career rebounds (6.2 rpg). She ranks tied for 23rd in program history for career rebounds and is the 32nd player in program history with 500 or more career rebounds.
• In the 2017-18 season, the product of Topeka, Kansas, was second on the team with 7.1 rebounds per game and set a career season-high for rebounds with 241 in 2017-18. Her 7.1 rebounds per game are double her per game average from her freshman season (3.4 rpg).
• Williams ranked eighth in the Big 12 in rebounds per game (7.1 rpg) and within Big 12-only games she ranked eighth (6.9 rpg).
• Williams was the fourth player in program history to register 500 or more points and 200 or more rebounds in her sophomore season. She was the first sophomore to achieve this milestone since Kendra Wecker in the 2002-03 season.

K-State Wraps Up First Half of Big 12 Schedule on Wednesday

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Christianna Carr

Kayla Goth

Rachel Ranke

Ashley Ray

Peyton Williams

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