K-State Visits Texas on Saturday Afternoon

GAME #24
Kansas State (12-12, 6-7 Big 12) at Texas (16-9, 8-5 Big 12)
Saturday, February 22, 2020 | 12 p.m. | Erwin Center | Austin, Texas

TELEVISION
Big 12 Now on ESPN+
• Brett Dolan (play-by-play)
• Andrea Lloyd (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-BEVO or visit texassports.com

LIVE STATS
www.kstatesports.com

COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 566-313/28th season | At K-State: 112-78/6th season

Texas: Karen Aston (Little Rock '87)
Overall: 282-144/12th season | At Texas: 181-81/8th season

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP (based on previous game)
Kansas State (12-12, 6-7 Big 12)
G: #3 Angela Harris | F: #11 Peyton Williams | G: #25 Jasauen Beard | G: #43 Christianna Carr | C: #50 Ayoka Lee

Texas (16-9, 8-5 Big 12)
G: #0 Celeste Taylor | G: #1 Sug Sutton | G: #10 Lashann Higgs | G: #12 Jada Underwood | C: #35 Charli Collier

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Texas leads the series, 23-16
In Austin: Texas leads, 13-4
Last Meeting: Texas won, 71-63, on January 19, 2020, in Manhattan
Head Coach Jeff Mittie vs. Texas: 4-13

MANHATTAN, Kansas - K-State will make a quick trip to Austin, Texas, for a 12 p.m, tip-off on Saturday afternoon against Texas in the Erwin Center.

• Saturday's game can be seen on Longhorn Network, as Brett Dolan (play-by-play) and Andrea Lloyd (analyst) will have the call.
• According to Stats, Inc., K-State is the only team in the nation with a pair of players to average a double-double this season and would be the first team in a major conference to do so since Stanford in 2011-12.
• The Wildcats are led by redshirt freshman center Ayoka Lee is averaging a double-double with 16.2 points on a .567 field goal percentage and 11.3 rebounds. In league action, Lee is averaging 16.8 points on a .580 field goal percentage and 11.6 rebounds. She would be the first K-State freshman in program history to average a double-double for a season.
• Senior Peyton Williams is also averaging a double-double with 15.7 points on a .467 field goal percentage and a team-high 11.9 rebounds. In league play, Williams is averaging 16.3 points and 11.6 rebounds.

Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State women's basketball
1. The Road is the New Home
• K-State is 4-2 this season in Big 12 road games, including wins in three of their last four games. Dating back to the end of last season, the Wildcats have won eight of their last 10 Big 12 road games.
2. Williams Named to CoSIDA Academic All-District
• Peyton Williams, a finalist for the 2020 Senior CLASS Award, pocketed her third career CoSIDA Academic All-District VII honor and her second straight first team honor. Williams joins Laurie Koehn and Kendra Wecker as the only WBB student-athletes to earn three CoSIDA Academic All-District VII honors.
3. Lee Piles Up Double-Doubles
• Against TCU on Wednesday, Ayoka Lee improved her freshman school record for double-doubles with 15. Overall, Lee is tied for second in school history for double-doubles in a season.
4. Double the Rebounds
• Lee and Williams have combined for a Big 12-leading 31 games this season with 10 or more rebounds. Lee ranks second in the Big 12 with 16 games with double figure rebounds, while Williams has 15.
5. Board Work Not Boring
• K-State is averaging 44.2 rebounds per game and ranks seventh in the nation and second in the Big 12. The Wildcats have 16 games with 40 or more rebounds, which is the most since the 2004-05 season (16).

Last Time Out
TCU 54, K-State 52 (February 19, 2020; Manhattan)
• K-State held TCU to 17 first half points, but were outscored 37-28 in the second half to narrowly fall to the second-place Horned Frogs.
• Ayoka Lee registered her 15th double-double of the season with 22 points, 17 rebounds and six blocks.
• The Wildcats were 1-of-13 from beyond the arc.

Number to Know
9

• K-State's Ayoka Lee leads all Big 12 freshmen and in 20-point games with nine this season.
• Lee has the most 20-point games for a Wildcat since the 2017-18 season when Kayla Goth carded 10.
• Her nine 20-point games this season are the most by a K-State freshman since Kendra Wecker (10) and Laurie Koehn (12) in the 2001-02 season.
• She has six games this season with at least 20 or more points and 10 or more rebounds. She ranks tied for third in the Big 12 for 20 and 10 games.

At a Glance: Texas
• Texas (16-9, 8-5 Big 12) enters Saturday afternoon's game following a 50-44 win over West Virginia on Monday night in Austin. Texas has won two of their last five games.
• Texas is guided on the sideline by eighth year head coach Karen Aston. The 1987 graduate of Little Rock owns a record of 175-78 (.692) during her time in Austin.
• The Longhorns are led by Charli Collier and Joyner Holmes.
• Collier, a sophomore forward/center from Mont Belvieu, Texas, is leads the team in scoring (13.1 ppg) and paces the squad in rebounding (10.4 rpg). Against the Mountaineers, Collier carded her 13th double-double of the season with 11 points and 15 rebounds.
• Holmes, a senior guard/forward from Cedar Hill, Texas, is averaging 12.9 points and is second on the team in rebounding at 8.8 per game.

Wildcats on the Road
• K-State has a 278-294 (.486) record in road games during the program's 52-year history.
• Since the 2000-01 season, K-State owns an 118-114 (.509) mark in road contests. K-State is 12-7 in the last two seasons in road games and are 8-2 in their last 10 Big 12 road games.
• With a 76-72 win at Texas Tech on January 11, K-State tied the school record for consecutive Big 12 road wins with six straight.
• In his career in games played on the road, head coach Jeff Mittie is 154-172 (.472) including a 29-35 (.453) mark during his time at K-State.
• Overall this season, K-State is 5-4 on the road. This is the fifth straight season K-State has won five or more road games in a season.

Wildcats in Nail-Biters
• Kansas State owns an all-time record in overtime games of 28-27 (.509), including a 24-23 record in single overtime games and an 8-14 mark in overtime games against non-conference opponents.
• K-State's last overtime game came on Feb. 16, 2020 at Oklahoma, an 87-85 win. K-State has won three straight overtime games and four of its last five.
• Over the last 11 seasons, K-State is 40-22 (.645) in games decided by five points or less, but are 3-5 this season.

Cats Send Back Shots Under Mittie
• Under head coach Jeff Mittie, Kansas State has piled up blocked shots. K-State has sent back 902 shots for 4.75 per game in the 190 games. K-State has 140 or more blocks in each of the previous five seasons under Mittie.
• This season, the Wildcats are averaging 5.8 blocks per game (139 blocks), which ranks 11th in the nation. According to herhoopstats.com, K-State ranks 15th in the nation in block rate at 13.5 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.

K-State Attacking the Paint
• Kansas State has pounded the paint to open the 2019-20 season. The Wildcats have scored 846 (35.3 ppg) of its 1,673 points from the lane or 50.6 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 10 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.

Double-Double Vision
• K-State's post duo of Peyton Williams and Ayoka Lee have been a double-double tandem in their first season together.
• The pair has recorded a double-double in the same game eight times this season. In total, the low post tandem has combined for 27 double-doubles this season, with Lee carding 15 and Williams 12. This duo leads the Big 12 for combined double-doubles by teammates this season.
• Williams and Lee have set the school record for combined double-doubles by two teammates in a season.
• Williams and Lee are each averaging a double-double this season, Lee stands at 16.2 points and 11.3 rebounds while Williams has 15.7 points and 11.9 rebounds. According to Stats, Inc., they are the only set of teammates in the nation to average a double-double this season.
• Lee and Williams are two of three players in the league to average a double-double in league play with Lee at 16.8 points and 11.6 rebounds and Williams at 16.3 points and 11.6 rebounds.
• According to Stats, Inc., the last time two players from the same team averaged a double-double in the same season came in 2013-14, as Central Michigan, East Tennessee State and Lipscomb. The last time a tandem from a major conference averaged a double-double in the same season was 2011-12 by Stanford.
• The only two K-State players to average a double-double for an entire season are: Carlisa Thomas in 1986-87 (11.6 ppg & 10.4 rpg) and Kendra Wecker (21.0 ppg & 10.1 rpg).

Lee Putting the Ball in the Basket
• Redshirt freshman Ayoka Lee is working her way up the K-State freshman scoring list.
• Lee is averaging 16.2 points (389 points) this season and ranks sixth in the Big 12 in scoring and is the top freshman scorer in the Big 12 this season.
• Among centers in the nation, Lee ranks tied for second for points per game.
• The product of Byron, Minnesota, ranks fifth in school history for points in a freshman season.
• Lee has 23 games, including an active streak of 20 straight, with 10 or more points this season including nine games with 20 or more and a career-high 24 points three times.
• Her 20 straight games is the longest streak with 10 or more points by a K-State freshman since Nicole Ohlde tallied 25 straight games in the 2000-01 season.
• In combination with her rebounds and blocks, Lee is the only player in program history with 375 or more points, 250 or more rebounds and 70 or more blocks in a freshman season.

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Players Mentioned

Jasauen Beard

Christianna Carr

Kayla Goth

Angela Harris

Ayoka Lee

Peyton Williams

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