K-State Ends Two-Game Road Trip at TCU

GAME #27
(rv/-) Kansas State (16-10, 7-7 Big 12) at TCU (18-7, 8-6 Big 12)
Saturday, February 23, 2019 | 5 p.m. | Schollmaier Arena | Fort Worth, Texas

TELEVISION
FOX Sports Southwest Plus
• Brian Estridge (play-by-play)
• Janice Dziuk (analyst)

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

TICKETS & PROMOTIONS
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COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 549-299/27th season | At K-State: 95-64/5th season
vs. TCU: 6-5

TCU: Raegan Pebley (Colorado '97)
Overall: 245-242/16th season | At TCU: 89-67/5th season

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP
Kansas State (16-10, 7-7 Big 12)
G: #10 Kayla Goth | G: #12 Rachel Ranke | G: #43 Christianna Carr | F: #11 Peyton Williams | F: #15 Kali Jones

TCU (18-7, 8-6 Big 12)
G: #15 Jayde Woods | G: #20 Lauren Heard | G: #24 Kianna Ray | F: #33 Adeola Akomolafe | C: #22 Jordan Moore

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: TCU leads, 8-6
At Fort Worth: 2-4
Last Meeting: January 30, 2019; TCU won 61-47 in Manhattan

MANHATTAN, Kansas - Kansas State enters Saturday's game at TCU with a three-game Big 12 road winning streak in tow, the longest Big 12 road winning streak for the program since the 2007-08 season. Saturday evening's game against the Horned Frogs in Fort Worth will tip at 5 p.m.

• Saturday's game will be aired on FOX Sports Southwest Plus, as Brian Estridge (play-by-play) and Janice Dziuk (analyst) will have the call.
• K-State (16-10, 7-7 Big 12) captured the season series with Texas for the first time since the Big 12 switched to a round-robin schedule in the 2012-13 season, by knocking off then 15th-ranked Texas, 69-60, in Austin on February 17.
• The Wildcats have two wins over Associated Press top-15 ranked opponents for the first time since the 2011-12 season.
• For the fifth time this season, K-State made 10 or more 3-point field goals finishing 10-of-23 from beyond the arc against the Longhorns. K-State is 16-2 in the Jeff Mittie era when making 10 or more 3-pointers in a game.
• K-State was led by senior guard Kayla Goth and junior forward Peyton Williams.
• Goth ended with a diverse line of 15 points, seven assists and five rebounds. She tallied 12 of her 15 points in the final 15 minutes of the game to help bring K-State back from a 14-point second half deficit.
• The All-America candidate is averaging 12.5 points and leads the Big 12 in assists and assists per game (170; 6.5 apg).
• Williams tallied her 12th double-double of the season with 13 points and tied her season-high with 14 rebounds.
• For the season, the All-America candidate leads K-State in scoring (14.9 ppg), field goal percentage (.490), free throw percentage (.826) and rebounding (9.8 rpg).
• Williams needs one point to become the 42nd player in program history with 1,000 or more career points.

Number to Know
396
• Over the last two seasons, #KStateWBB's Kayla Goth has handed out 396 assists.
• She needs four assists to become the second player in program history (Shalee Lehning) to hand out 400 or more assists in a span of two seasons.
• Lehning dished out 432 assists over the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.
• Goth leads the Big 12 in assists (170), assists per game (6.5) and games with 10 or more assists (5).
• Goth's assist total of 170 this season ranks seventh in program history. Her total of 226 from last season ranks second in program history.

At a Glance: TCU
• TCU (18-7, 8-6 Big 12) has lost two of their last three games, including a 79-65 loss at West Virginia on Saturday, February 16, in Morgantown.
• The Horned Frogs are guided on the sideline by fifth year head coach Raegan Pebley. The 1997 graduate of Colorado owns an 89-67 record at TCU and three trips to the Postseason WNIT.
• TCU features three players averaging double figures this season: seniors Jordan Moore (15.6 ppg) and Amy Okonkwo (13.2 ppg) and junior Kianna Ray (10.4 ppg).
• Moore leads the team in field goal percentage (.597), rebounding (8.0 rpg) and blocks (57). Against the Mountaineers, Moore tallied 17 points, eight rebounds and two blocks.
• Okonkwo leads the team in free throw percentage (.833) and is second on the team in rebounding (5.5 rpg). At West Virginia, she came off the bench to tally 15 points and eight rebounds.
• Ray paces the Horned Frogs in assists (3.9 apg) and three-point field goals made (53).

Preseason Poll Not the Final Verdict for Cats
• K-State has a history of exceeding the expectations of the league's coaches.
• Kansas State was slotted for a eighth-place finish by the Big 12 coaches in the 2018-19 preseason poll. K-State ended the 2017-18 season tied for seventh in the league.
• In its history, K-State leads the Big 12 in exceeding preseason predictions, finishing on average +1.35 positions higher than its preseason prediction in the 20 polls that have a preseason prediction and a final standing attached to it. The 1996-97 and 2017-18 seasons are not included in these calculations, as neither had a preseason poll.
• The Wildcats have finished 15 of 20 seasons above its preseason prediction and owns the largest deviation in league history from its preseason prediction and its final place with a +7 by winning the Big 12 in 2007-08.

Wildcats 10 at Home, 5 on the Road
• When K-State has strung together successful home and road campaigns in the same season, it results in postseason appearances.
• The Wildcats have made 16 straight postseason appearances (12 NCAA Tournaments, 4 WNITs) when K-State has won 10 or more home games and five or more road games in the same season.
• This season, Kansas State owns a 10-4 home record and a 5-3 road mark.

20-Point Quarters For the Wildcats
• K-State has scored 20 or more points in a quarter this season 24 times. The Wildcats are 14-3 this season when scoring 20 or more points in a quarter.
• Since the inception of the quarter system in the 2015-16 season, K-State owns an overall record of 61-29 (.678) when scoring 20 or more points in any quarter in a game.
• Since the 2015-16 season, K-State has registered 139 quarters with 20 or more points with a high of 43 in the 2017-18 season. K-State is averaging 34.3 quarters per season with 20 or more points scored.

Full Beard
• Redshirt junior Jasauen Beard has made her presence felt in the K-State lineup in her first season with the Wildcats.
• Beard is averaging 7.3 points on a .398 field goal percentage, 3.7 rebounds. In Big 12 play, she is averaging 7.1 points. She has a career season-high of 191 points scored.
• Over the last three games, Beard is averaging 10.3 points and 4.0 rebounds.
• She established a new career-high with 17 points on 8-of-12 shooting against DePaul on November 23 in the Cancun Challenge.
• Beard has reached double figures in eight games this season, a new career-high for a season, including four games of 10 or more points in Big 12 action.
• Beard also carded a new career-high for rebounds, with eight against Kansas on January 13.

Ranke with Range
• Guard Rachel Ranke made an impact to K-State's lineup from the perimeter in her debut season in 2017-18 and has continued to do so at the start of the 2018-19 season.
• Ranke is averaging 9.3 points and 3.0 rebounds. She has the team lead with 53 three-point field goals made this season. Ranke ranks ninth in program history for 3-point field goals made by a sophomore.
• She ranks 10th in the Big 12 in 3-point field goals made per game (2.0) and 12th in the league in 3-point field goal percentage (.308).
• Over the last four games, Ranke is averaging 11.8 points with 3.5 connections from beyond the arc.
• For her career, Ranke has made 142 three-point field goals and needs 12 connections to move into 10th on the K-State 3-point field goals made list.

Double-Doubles Adding up for Williams
• Peyton Williams is recording double-doubles at a high rate to begin the the 2018-19 season.
• Williams has a career-high 12 double-doubles in 25 games played this season. She is tied for the Big 12 lead and ranks 23rd in the nation for double-doubles. Williams has more double-doubles than four teams in the Big 12.
• The product of Topeka, Kansas, ranks tied for fourth in program history for double-doubles in a season. She is 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 has tallied a double-double this season, the Wildcats are 10-2. When she notches a double-double, Williams is averaging 16.9 points on a .523 field goal percentage, 11.7 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 0.8 blocks.
• For her career, Williams owns 19 double-doubles and is eighth in program history for career double-doubles.

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 170 assists (6.5 apg). Her total assists this season ranks seventh in a single season in program history.
• She leads the Big 12 and is fifth in the nation in total assists and leads the Big 12 and is seventh in the nation in assists per game. In league-only games, Goth leads the Big 12 in assists per game and total assists (7.0 apg; 98). She leads the Big 12 in games with 10 or more assists with five including four games in Big 12 play with 10 or more assists.
• According to herhoopstats.com, Goth ranks among the top 1 percent in the nation at eighth and leads the Big 12 in assisted shot rate at 39.6 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.
• At Oklahoma, Goth tied her season-high with 12 assists. She ranks tied for sixth in program history for assists in a game with her 12 assists which she has done three times.
• This season, she has 17 games with five or more assists including five games with 10 or more assists. For her career, she has 46 career games with five or more assists including 11 games with 10 or more assists which is second in program history.

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Players Mentioned

Jasauen Beard

Christianna Carr

Kayla Goth

Kali Jones

Rachel Ranke

Peyton Williams

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