K-State Visits Texas Tech on Saturday Afternoon

GAME #13
Kansas State (6-6, 0-1 Big 12) at Texas Tech (12-1, 1-1 Big 12)
Saturday, January 11, 2020 | 3 p.m. | United Supermarkets Arena | Lubbock, Texas

TELEVISION
FOX Sports Southwest
• Cindy Brunson (play-by-play)
• Brian Agler (analyst)

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

TICKETS & PROMOTIONS
Tickets
(806) 742-TECH or visit texastech.com

LIVE STATS
www.kstatesports.com

COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 560-307/28th season | At K-State: 106-72/6th season

Texas Tech: Marlene Stollings (Ohio '98)
Overall: 159-107/9th season | At Texas Tech: 26-18/2nd season)

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP (based on previous game)
Kansas State (6-6, 0-1 Big 12)
G: #3 Angela Harris | F: #11 Peyton Williams | F: #25 Jasauen Beard | G: #43 Christianna Carr | C: #50 Ayoka Lee

Texas Tech (12-1, 1-1 Big 12)
G: #00 Chrislyn Carr | G: #2 Sydney Goodson | G: #5 Jo'Nah Johnson | F: #20 Brittany Brewer | F: #34 Lexi Gordon

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: K-State leads the series, 23-13
In Lubbock: 11-6
Last Meeting: K-State won, 75-67, on March 2, 2019, in Manhattan
Head Coach Jeff Mittie vs. Texas Tech: 13-4

MANHATTAN, Kansas - K-State starts the road slate of its Big 12 schedule on Saturday, January 11, as the Wildcats travel to Lubbock, Texas, to face Texas Tech at 3 p.m. Kansas State ended the 2019 league schedule with a five-game road winning streak.

• Saturday's game can be seen live on FOX Sports Southwest, as Cindy Brunson (play-by-play) and Brian Agler (analyst) will have the call.
• Saturday's game will feature a pair of temporary teammates from the summer of 2019, as K-State's Peyton Williams and Texas Tech Brittany Brewer helped the 2019 U.S. Pan American Games Team to a silver medal at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.
• K-State is the only team in the nation with a pair of players to average a double-double this season, led by redshirt freshman center Ayoka Lee at 15.3 points on a .560 field goal percentage and 10.8 rebounds. Lee is also averaging 3.1 blocks.
• Senior Peyton Williams joins Lee in averaging a double-double with 15.0 points on a .500 field goal percentage and a team-high 12.0 rebounds. Williams, a candidate for every national award, has notched seven double-doubles this season.

Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State women's basketball
1. Smashing Big 12 Debut for Lee
• Redshirt freshman Ayoka Lee registered 12 points, nine rebounds and two blocks in her Big 12 debut against West Virginia. Her point production in the league opener marked the most points by a K-State freshman in a Big 12 debut since the 2013-14 season. Lee's work on the glass was the most rebounds by a K-State freshman in a Big 12 debut since Kendra Wecker pulled in 11 at Iowa State on January 2, 2002.
2. Williams Among Career Top-10 in Rebounding
• Peyton Williams has achieved another benchmark in her K-State career, as she moved into ninth on the K-State career rebounds list with 791 career boards. With nine rebounds, Williams will become the ninth player in program history with 800 or more career rebounds.
3. Board Work
• Kansas State leads the Big 12 and ranks ninth in the nation for rebounds per game (44.4 rpg).
4. Helping Hand
• Kansas State is fourth in the Big 12 and 39th in the nation for assists per game at 16.3. The Wildcats are paced by senior Angela Harris with 4.1 assists per game.
5. Lee Pacing Big 12 Freshmen
• Redshirt freshman center Ayoka Lee leads all Big 12 freshmen in scoring (15.3 ppg), rebounding (10.8 rpg), blocks (3.1 bpg) and offensive rebounds (4.4 orpg). She is second among the league's freshmen in field goal percentage (.560).

Last Time Out
(19/21) West Virginia 74, Kansas State 63 (January 5, 2020; Manhattan, Kan.)
• K-State suffered its eighth straight loss in a Big 12 opener.
• Four of K-State's five starters reached double figures, led by Angela Harris with 16 points and Peyton Williams with 15.
• K-State outscored the Mountaineers in the paint, 40-18, however West Virginia was 10-of-28 beyond the arc while the Wildcats were 1-of-15.

Number to Know
5
• K-State enters Saturday's Big 12 road opener with an active five-game Big 12 road winning streak.
• The Wildcats went 5-0 on the road in the second half of its 2018-19 Big 12 schedule.
• Kansas State won five or more consecutive Big 12 road games for the first time since the 2007-08 season.

At a Glance: Texas Tech
• Texas Tech (12-1, 1-1 Big 12) enters Saturday afternoon's game after bouncing back from its first loss of the season with an 80-76 win at TCU on Wednesday.
• Texas Tech is guided on the sideline by second year head coach Marlene Stollings. The 1998 graduate of Ohio owns a record of 159-107 (.598) in nine seasons as a head coach which includes stops at Winthrop, VCU and Minnesota.
• The Lady Raiders feature five players averaging double figures in scoring and are led by senior Brittany Brewer and freshman Alexis Tucker.
• Brewer, a forward from Abilene, Texas, leads the team in scoring (15.8 ppg), rebounding (10.0 rpg) and blocked shots (5.5 bpg). Brewer is the top shot blocker in the nation.
• Tucker, a guard from Hawthorne, California, is second on the team in scoring (14.7 ppg) and rebounding (8.4 rpg). She leads the team in field goal percentage (.612). At TCU, Tucker came off the bench to tally 12 points and nine rebounds.

Wildcats on the Road
• K-State has a 274-292 (.484) record in road games during the program's 52-year history.
• Since the 2000-01 season, K-State owns an 114-112 (.504) mark in road contests.
• In his career in games played on the road, head coach Jeff Mittie is 150-170 (.469) including a 25-33 (.431) 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). It was the fourth straight season K-State 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 Attacking the Paint
• Kansas State has pounded the paint to open the 2019-20 season. The Wildcats have scored 444 (37.0 ppg) of its 871 points from the lane or 51.0 percent of its point total.
• The Wildcats scored a season-high 52 points in the paint at Arkansas on December 7. The 52 points in the lane were the most since the Wildcats scored 54 paint points against West Virginia on January 1, 2017.
• K-State has six games with 40 or more points scored in the lane this season.
• In the 2018-19 season, the Wildcats scored 928 points in the paint (28.1 ppg). The 928 points represented 43.6 percent of K-State's overall point total last season. K-State held a differential of +63 in points in the paint over its opponents.
• Under head coach Jeff Mittie, Kansas State has scored 900 or more points in the paint in five straight seasons including a high of 1,064 points (31.3 ppg) during the 2016-17 season.

Harris Settling In
• Senior guard Angela Harris has acclimated herself to her K-State teammates in her lone season with the Wildcats.
• In the last five games, Harris has emerged as K-State's third-leading scorer as she is averaging 13.6 points and 4.0 assists. She has scored in double figures in four of the five games.
• Against Kansas City, Harris registered a season-high 20 points, hauled in six rebounds and dished out five assists.
• For the season, Harris is averaging 9.1 points, 4.1 assists and 3.2 rebounds. She ranks sixth in the Big 12 in assists per game.

Williams Moves into Top-10 for Career Rebounds
• Peyton Williams continues to pile up the rebounds and climb the K-State career rankings.
• For the season, Williams is sixth in the nation with 12.0 rebounds per game and is eighth in the nation in defensive rebounds per game with 8.3.
• In her career, Williams owns 791 career rebounds (7.1 rpg). She is ninth in program history for career rebounds and has 31 career games with 10 or more rebounds. She is tied for eighth in program history for career rebounding average.
• Williams is tied for the second in program history for career games with 15 or more rebounds with five.
• To open the 2019-20 season, Williams pulled in a career-high 19 rebounds. She was the eighth player in program history to haul in 19 or more rebounds in a game. She racked up her total with six offensive boards and 13 defensive collections.
• Against UT Arlington, Williams carded 18 rebounds with nine on both ends of the floor. This was the second time in her career that she tallied 18 rebounds in a game. She has a career-high three games this season with 15 or more rebounds.
• In the 2018-19 season, Williams averaged 9.5 rebounds per game and achieved a new career season-high on the glass with 303 total rebounds. Her 303 rebounds last season ranked fourth in program history for a single season and are the most since Nicole Ohlde pulled in 306 rebounds in the 2002-03 season.
• Williams ranked second in the Big 12 and 49th in the nation in rebounds per game and led the league in defensive rebounds per game at 6.7.
• Williams led the Big 12 in rebounding for league-only games (10.0 rpg). She was the first Wildcat to average a double-double in Big 12 action since Kendra Wecker in the 2004-05 season.

Lee with Double-Double Fever
• Redshirt freshman Ayoka Lee has been a double-double machine at the start of her K-State career.
• For the season, Lee has seven double-doubles and is the 34th player in program history with seven or more career double-doubles and is tied for 31st. With her seven double-doubles, Lee ranks tied for fourth in the Big 12 for double-doubles and leads all league freshmen in the category. She is second in the nation among all freshmen for double-doubles this season and tied for 17th among all players nationally.
• The five-time Big 12 Freshman of the Week recipient ranks second in program history for double-doubles in a freshman season.
• The center from Byron, Minnesota, is averaging a double-double this season with 15.3 points on a .560 field goal percentage, 10.8 rebounds and 3.1 blocks.
• She is one of six players in the Big 12 to average a double-double this season.
• Lee ranks 11th in the Big 12 in scoring, fourth in the league in field goal percentage and rebounding. Lee is 37th in the nation in field goal percentage and 14th in the nation in rebounds per game.

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Players Mentioned

Jasauen Beard

Christianna Carr

Angela Harris

Ayoka Lee

Peyton Williams

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