Kansas State Athletics

GAME #9
Kansas State (4-4) at Kansas City (5-5)
Saturday, December 14, 2019  |  1 p.m.  |  Municipal Auditorium  |  Kansas City, Missouri

TELEVISION
WAC Digital Network (https://k-st.at/34fxWhg)
• Steven Davis (play-by-play)

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

TICKETS & PROMOTIONS
Tickets
(844) 865-2326 or visit kcroos.com

LIVE STATS
www.kstatesports.com

COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 558-305/28th season  |  At K-State: 104-70/6th season

Kansas City: Jacie Hoyt (Wichita State '09)
Overall: 32-39/3rd season  |  At Kansas City: Same

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP (based on previous game)
Kansas State (4-4)
G: #3 Angela Harris  |  F: #11 Peyton Williams  |  G: #12 Rachel Ranke  |  G: #43 Christianna Carr |  C: #50 Ayoka Lee
                
Kansas City (5-5)
G: #14 Ericka Mattingly  |  F: #20 Awal Ajak  |  F: #23 Tajah Foster-Walker  |  G: #24 Jonaie Johnson  |  F: #32 Jada Mickens

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: K-State leads the series, 9-3
In Kansas City: 2-3
Last Meeting: K-State won, 61-50, on Nov. 18, 2018, in Manhattan
Head Coach Jeff Mittie vs. Kansas City: 4-0


MANHATTAN, Kansas - For the first time since 2012, K-State will play a game inside Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City as the Wildcats face Kansas City on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. Saturday's game will be the second of a three-game road trip for Kansas State.

• Saturday's game can be seen live on WAC Digital Network, as Steven Davis (play-by-play) will have the call.
• Kansas State features two players averaging a double-double this season, led by redshirt freshman center Ayoka Lee at 15.1 points and 10.8 rebounds. Lee, a three-time Big 12 Freshman of the Week selection, is also averaging 3.5 blocks and has been efficient in her scoring with a .617 field goal percentage.
• Senior Peyton Williams joins Lee in averaging a double-double with 14.3 points on a .500 field goal percentage and a team-high 12.9 rebounds.
• Joining Lee and Williams in double figures in scoring are sophomore Christianna Carr at 13.9 points and Rachel Ranke at 11.6.
• Defensively, K-State has held its opponents to a combined field goal percentage of 33.7 percent which ranks 20th in the nation and second in the Big 12.

Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State women's basketball
1. Glossy in the Paint
• K-State scored a season-high 52 points in the paint at Arkansas on December 7. The Wildcats have five games with 40 or more points in the paint and are averaging 39.3 points per game in the lane.
2. Lee Earns Third Straight Big 12 Honor
• Redshirt freshman center Ayoka Lee collected her third straight Big 12 Freshman of the Week honor on December 9. Lee is the first Wildcat to earn three straight Big12 Freshman of the Week honors.
3. Williams a Double-Double Machine
• Peyton Williams, a candidate for every national award, owns 26 career double-doubles and is tied for fourth in program history for career double-doubles. She has opened the 2019-20 season with a double-double in five of the seven games she has played and is averaging 14.3 points and 12.9 rebounds.
4. Board Work
• Kansas State leads the Big 12 and ranks third in the nation for rebounds per game (47.5 rpg). The Wildcats also lead the Big 12 in offensive (15.0 orpg) and defensive (32.5 drpg) rebounds.
5. Rejection
• Kansas State leads the Big 12 and ranks second in the nation for blocks per game at 6.8 and block rate at 16.2 percent. The Wildcats are sixth in the nation for total blocks with 54.

Last Time Out
(23/23) Arkansas 81, Kansas State 72 (December 7, 2019; Fayetteville, Ark.)
• K-State scored a season-high 52 points in the paint, but were held to 3-of-24 shooting from beyond the arc.
• Peyton Williams and Ayoka Lee combined for 34 points and 27 rebounds. This was the third time this season Williams and Lee tallied a double-double in the same game.
• The Wildcats held a 48-29 advantage on the boards.

Number to Know
22.0
• K-State's starting interior combination of Peyton Williams and Ayoka Lee are averaging a combined 22.0 rebounds per game.
• The duo has a combined total rebound rate of 46.3 percent.
• Williams and Lee are the top rebounding duo in the Big 12, as Williams leads the Big 12 and Lee is fourth.
• Lee is the top offensive rebounder in the Big 12 (4.5 orpg), while Williams is the top defensive rebounder in the league (9.0 drpg) and ranks fifth in the nation.

At a Glance: Kansas City
• Kansas City (5-5) comes into Saturday's matchup following a 59-56 win over Missouri on December 8. Following the 2019-20 season, Kansas City Athletics will depart the Western Athletic Conference and transition to the Summit League in the 2020-21 season.
• Kansas City is guided by former K-State assistant coach Jacie Hoyt. Hoyt is in her third season leading the Kangaroos and owns an 32-39 (.451) mark.
• Also on Hoyt's staff is former Wildcat great and All-Big 12 selection, Kindred Orpin (Wesemann). Orpin, who registered over 1,200 career points and 329 career assists has served as an assistant coach with the Roos for the last three seasons.
• On the floor, Kansas City is led by senior Ericka Mattingly and sophomore Emily Ivory. Mattingly is averaging 17.0 points and 3.6 assists. Against Missouri, Mattingly tallied a game-high 18 points with four assists, three rebounds and two steals.
• Ivory is averaging 10.9 points and 1.8 assists.

Wildcats on the Road
• K-State has a 273-291 (.484) record in road games during the program's 52-year history.
• Since the 2000-01 season, K-State owns an 113-111 (.504) mark in road contests.
• In his career in games played on the road, head coach Jeff Mittie is 149-169 (.469) including an 24-32 (.429) mark during his time at K-State.
• Overall in the 2018-19 season, K-State owned a 7-3 record on the road. The seven road wins were the most since the 2008-09 season (10). This was the fourth straight season K-State has won five or more road games in a season and the most road wins since the 2012-13 season.
• Kansas State won five consecutive Big 12 road games for the first time since the 2007-08 season.

K-State Cleaning the Glass
• Since the 2001-02 season, Kansas State owns a record of 228-32 (.877) when holding the edge on the glass.
• For the season, K-State is averaging 47.5 rebounds per game and ranks third in the nation and leads the Big 12. K-State's rebounding margin of +13.1 per game ranks ninth in the nation. The Wildcats have had the edge on the boards in every game this season.
• K-State has three games this season with 50 or more rebounds for the first time since the 2002-03 season (4).
• The Wildcats hauled in a season-high 59 rebounds against UIC on November 11 and carded and +31 margin against the Flames (59-28).
• The 59 rebounds against UIC were the most by a K-State team since pulling down 61 boards against Mississippi Valley State on December 1, 2006.
• The +31 rebounding margin for the Wildcats was the largest in the Jeff Mittie era started in 2014-15 and the largest by a K-State team since at least the 2000-01 season.

Williams Rising on K-State Career Scoring List
• Senior forward Peyton Williams has opened her final season with the Wildcats with six double figure scoring efforts, aiding her ascension on K-State's career scoring list.
• Williams has started the 2019-20 season by averaging 14.3 points and 12.9 rebounds. She has carded double-doubles in five of the seven  games she has played. She has boosted her season totals with a .500 field goal percentage and a .722 free throw percentage.
• For her career, Williams has scored 1,222 points (11.3 ppg) and is 24th in program history. Williams is the 24th player in program history with 1,200 or more points.
• She also remains an efficient scorer, as she has 55 games in her career with a field goal percentage of .500 or better.
• She has 61 career games with 10 or more points and five or more rebounds, including 26 career double-doubles.
• Williams, a candidate for the 2020 Wooden Award, Naismith Trophy and Wade Trophy, is just the fourth player with 1,200 or more career points, 700 or more career rebounds and 90 or more career blocks.
• In the 2018-19 season, Williams averaged team-highs of 15.5 points on a .486 field goal percentage with 9.5 rebounds. Williams ranked ninth in the Big 12 in scoring and eighth for league-only games (16.2 ppg). Her field goal percentage of .486 ranked 10th in the Big 12 and 85th in the nation.
• Williams was the first Wildcat to average a double-double (16.2 ppg; 10.0 rpg) in Big 12 play since Kendra Wecker in the 2004-05 season.
• She was the third player in program history with 475 or more points and 300 or more rebounds in a season.
• Williams appeared among the Big 12 statistical leaders in 10 of the 14 categories.
• Williams became the 42nd player in program history to reach the 1,000 point mark in her career with a jumper at TCU on February 23.
• Against Northern Iowa, Williams registered 22 points, 13 rebounds and six assists. This was the second time in her career that Williams tallied a stat line of 15 or more points, 10 or more rebounds and five or more assists.

Double-Doubles Adding Up for Williams    
• Peyton Williams is quietly climbing the K-State career double-doubles list.
• For her career, Williams owns 26 double-doubles and is tied for fourth in program history for career double-doubles. She is the sixth player in program history with 26 or more double-doubles in a career. Of her 26 career double-doubles, four have come with 10 or more points and 15 or more rebounds.
• To begin the 2019-20 season, Williams has tallied a double-double in five of the seven games she has played including a season-opening effort of 14 points and 19 rebounds against Omaha. K-State is 2-3 this season when she tallies a double-double.
• Williams ranks 12th in the nation for double-doubles this season.
• In the 2018-19 season, Williams had a career-high 14 double-doubles in 32 games played. She was tied for the Big 12 lead and ranked 32nd in the nation for double-doubles. Williams had more double-doubles than four teams in the Big 12.
• The product of Topeka, Kansas, ranked tied for third in program history for double-doubles in a season. She was the first Wildcat with 10 or more double-doubles in a season since Kendra Wecker set the school record with 17 double-doubles in the 2004-05 season.
• In games Williams tallied a double-double in the 2018-19 season, the Wildcats were 12-2. When she notched a double-double, Williams averaged 17.9 points on a .530 field goal percentage, 12.1 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 2.1 steals and 0.9 blocks.

Lee The Queen of the Block
• Redshirt freshman Ayoka Lee has established herself as one of the top shot blockers in the nation in the early stages of her career.
• Lee is averaging 3.5 blocks per game to rank fifth in the nation and second in the Big 12. Her total of 28 blocks ranks seventh in the nation. She leads all freshmen in the nation in blocks per game.
• With her 28 blocks, Lee has begun her climb up the K-State single-season freshman record. She ranks fifth for blocks in a freshman season in program history.
• Lee has registered three games with five or more blocks and ranks tied for fourth in program history for career games with five or more blocks.

Lee Finishes Perfect from the Field
• Redshirt freshman Ayoka Lee became just the second player in program history to finish a game perfect from the field with 10 or more attempts.
• Lee was 10-of-10 from the field against UIW on December 3 and tied the school record set by Priscilla Gary on December 31, 1982, against Cal State Fullerton. Her perfect field goal percentage set the Bramlage Coliseum record for field goal percentage in a game by a K-State player.
• Lee is the ninth player in the history of the Big 12 to finish a game perfect from the field with 10 or more attempts.
• With her effort against UIW, Lee posted the top single-game field goal percentage with a minimum of 10 field goal attempts in the nation this season and is the only player to finish a game perfect from the floor with at least 10 attempts.
• For the season, Lee is shooting .617 (50-of-81) from the field and ranks third in the Big 12 and 20th in the nation. Among freshmen in the nation, Lee ranks sixth for field goal percentage.