K-State Faces First Road Test at (23/23) Arkansas

GAME #8
Kansas State (4-3) at (23/23) Arkansas (7-1)
Saturday, December 7, 2019 | 2 p.m. | Bud Walton Arena | Fayetteville, Arkansas

TELEVISION
SEC Network+ (https://k-st.at/2Pk0lxh)
• Brett Dolan (play-by-play)
• Kkko Haydar (analyst)

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

TICKETS & PROMOTIONS
Tickets
(800) 982-HOGS or visit arkansasrazorbacks.com

LIVE STATS
www.kstatesports.com

COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 558-304/28th season | At K-State: 104-69/6th season

Arkansas: Mike Neighbors (Arkansas '93)
Overall: 140-74/7th season | At Arkansas: 42-33/3rd season

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP (based on previous game)
Kansas State (4-3)
G: #3 Angela Harris | F: #11 Peyton Williams | G: #12 Rachel Ranke | G: #43 Christianna Carr | C: #50 Ayoka Lee

Arkansas (7-1)
G: #2 Alexis Tolefree | G: #23 Amber Ramirez | F: #24 Taylah Thomas | G: #33 Chelsea Dungee | G: #43 Makayla Daniels

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: K-State leads the series, 3-2
In Fayetteville: 0-2
Last Meeting: Arkansas won, 60-58, on Dec. 2, 2009, in Fayetteville
Head Coach Jeff Mittie vs. Arkansas: 2-2

MANHATTAN, Kansas - K-State begins a three-game road stretch on Saturday, as the Wildcats face (23/23) Arkansas on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., in Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville.

• Saturday's game can be seen live on SEC Network+, as Brett Dolan (play-by-play) and Kikki Haydar (analyst) will have the call.
• The Wildcats bring a five-game road win streak to Fayetteville. K-State captured its final five road games of the 2018-19 season.
• Kansas State features four players averaging double-figures in points, led by sophomore Christianna Carr at 15.6 points per game. Carr has scored in double figures in a career-best seven straight games.
• Senior Peyton Williams and redshirt freshman Ayoka Lee are each averaging a double-double through seven games. Williams has tallied 13.5 points and 12.8 rebounds. Lee stands at 15.1 points and 10.3 rebounds while adding 3.9 blocks.
• Defensively, K-State has held its opponents to a combined field goal percentage of 32.7 percent which ranks 20th in the nation.

Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State women's basketball
1. Dishin'
• K-State handed out a season-high 30 assists against UIW on December 3. The 30 assists were the most in the Jeff Mittie era and rank tied for the fifth-most in program history.
2. Swishin'
• The Wildcats notched a season-high field goal percentage of 64.9 percent against UIW. The 64.9 effort was the highest since a 65.4 percent (34-of-52) effort against Missouri on February 25, 1987.
3. Rejection
• Kansas State leads the Big 12 and ranks second in the nation for blocks per game at 7.3 and block rate at 17.1 percent. The Wildcats are eighth in the nation for total blocks with 51.
4. Lee Equals School Record
• Against UIW, Ayoka Lee tied the school record for field goal percentage in a game (1.000; 10-10). Lee set the Bramlage Coliseum record for a K-State player for field goal percentage and became the ninth player in Big 12 history to finish a game perfect from the field with 10 or more attempts.
5. Carr from Afar
• Sophomore Christianna Carr has made 24 three-point field goals to begin the 2019-20 season. She ranks second in the Big 12 and 18th in the nation in 3-point field goals made per game. Carr is averaging 3.4 three-point field goals made per game and ranks second in the Big 12 and 14th in the nation.

Last Time Out
Kansas State 85, UIW 41 (December 3, 2019; Manhattan, Kan.)
• K-State registered the highest field goal percentage in its Bramlage Coliseum history by shooting 64.9 percent, which included a 90.0 percent shooting effort in the second quarter.
• The Wildcats had five players in double figures for the third time this season.
• Redshirt freshman center Ayoka Lee led the Wildcats with 20 points on a perfect 10-of-10 from the field, while hauling in eight rebounds and blocking six shots. Lee tied the school record for field goal percentage in a game and set the K-State Bramlage Coliseum record for field goal percentage by a player.

Number to Know
81.1
• Kansas State recorded a season-high 30 assists against UIW on December 3. The Wildcats finished with a season-high assist rate of 81.1 percent.
• The assist rate of 81.1 percent was the highest since January 18, 2017 against TCU when the Wildcats notched an assist rate of 84.6 percent.
• K-State has three games this season with an assist rate of 70 percent or better. This equals the total from the 2018-19 season.
• In the Jeff Mittie era, K-State has registered an assist rate of 70 percent or better in a game 48 times including a high of 12 games in the 2017-18 season.

At a Glance: Arkansas
• (23/23) Arkansas (7-1) also competed in the Bahamas during the Thanksgiving weekend, as the Razorbacks captured both games in the Bahamas Hoopfest in Nassau. Arkansas defeated Fordham (71-59) and Wisconsin (68-64) in the event.
• On the sideline, the Razorbacks are led by third-year head coach Mike Neighbors. Neighbors, a 1993 graduate of Arkansas, owns an overall career record of 140-74 (.654) and a 42-33 mark at his alma mater. Before his time at Arkansas, Neighbors led Washington for four seasons from 2014-17 and led the school to the 2016 NCAA Final Four and coached Kelsey Plum and Chantel Osahor.
• On the floor, Arkansas has been led by junior guards Chelsea Dungee and Amber Ramirez.
• Dungee, a candidate for the Ann Meyers Drysdale award, is averaging 21.0 points and is 54-of-64 from the free throw line this season. Against Wisconsin, Dungee tallied 27 points and six rebounds.
• Ramirez, a transfer from TCU, is averaging 14.8 points and is 28-of-63 (.444) from beyond the arc this season. Against the Badgers, Ramirez carded 15 points and nine rebounds.

K-State Against Ranked Opponents
• The Wildcats are 82-212 (.279) against teams ranked in the Associated Press (AP) poll including a 51-59 (.464) mark against AP ranked teams in Manhattan.
• For the first time since the 2011-12 season, Kansas State had two wins over AP top-15 opponents after sweeping Texas in the 2018-19 season.
• With its 87-69 win over No. 11 Texas on Jan. 16, 2019, K-State registered a win over an AP top-25 team in 13 straight seasons.
• K-State is 10-36 (.217) against AP ranked opponents in head coach Jeff Mittie's five seasons in Manhattan.

Wildcats on the Road
• K-State has a 273-290 (.485) record in road games during the program's 52-year history.
• Since the 2000-01 season, K-State owns an 113-110 (.507) mark in road contests.
• In his career in games played on the road, head coach Jeff Mittie is 149-168 (.470) including an 24-31 (.436) 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.

Cats Send Back Shots Under Mittie
• Under head coach Jeff Mittie, Kansas State has piled up blocked shots. K-State has sent back 814 shots for 4.71 per game in the 173 games. K-State has 140 or more blocks in each of the first five seasons under Mittie.
• The Wildcats are averaging 7.3 blocks per game, which ranks second in the nation. According to herhoopstats.com, K-State ranks second in the nation in block rate at 17.1 percent. K-State has finished among the top-35 in block rate in two of the last four seasons including 11th in the 2015-16 season.
• K-State set a 2019-20 season-high with 11 blocks against UIC on November 11. The 11 blocks are the third-highest total in the Mittie era and the sixth-most in program history for a single game. The 11 blocks are tied for the most in the Big 12 this season.

Sky-High Field Goal Percentage
• When K-State shoots 50.0 percent or better in the Jeff Mittie era, Kansas State has been victorious. Since the 2014-15 season, the Wildcats are 21-1 (.955) when shooting 50.0 percent or better. The top field goal percentage by K-State under Mittie is 64.9 percent in an 85-41 win over UIW on December 3, 2019.
• The field goal percentage of 64.9 percent set the K-State Bramlage Coliseum record, ranks as the third-highest field goal percentage in a single game in NCAA Division I this season and the highest for K-State in any game since February 25, 1987, when the Wildcats carded a 65.4 percent (34-of-52) effort against Missouri.
• K-State tallied a season-high in field goals made in its win over Oral Roberts on November 18. The Wildcats finished the night with 38 made field goals.
• For the season, the Wildcats are shooting 44.1 percent from the field.

Sharing is Caring
• Kansas State registered a 2019-20 season-high with 30 assists against UIW on December 3. The 30 assists were the most in the Jeff Mittie era, the most since K-State handed out 30 assists against Grambling on December 4, 2009 and tied for the fifth-highest single-game total in program history.
• The Wildcats are 64-2 when handing out 20 or more assists over the last 14 years.
• To begin the 2019-20 season, K-State is averaging 18.0 assists and an assist percentage of 63.3. K-State ranks 22nd in the nation in assists per game and are 40th in the nation in assisted shot rate.
• In the 2018-19 season, K-State had 427 assists on its 758 made field goals, which was a 56.3 percent assisted shot rate.
• Under head Jeff Mittie's direction, K-State has registered 2,380 assists on 3,887 made field goals which is an assisted shot rate of 61.2 percent.
• Since assists became an officially tracked stat in 1981-82, Kansas State has registered an assisted shot rate of 60.0 percent or higher at the end of a season 19 times in its history.

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.

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Players Mentioned

Christianna Carr

Angela Harris

Ayoka Lee

Rachel Ranke

Peyton Williams

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