K-State Ends Two-Game Road Trip at Texas on Sunday

GAME #20
Kansas State (6-13, 1-11 Big 12) at Texas (14-6, 8-5 Big 12)
Sunday, February 21, 2021 | 2 p.m. | Erwin Center | Austin, Texas

TELEVISION
Longhorn Network
Play-by-Play: Alex Loeb
Analyst: Andrea Lloyd

RADIO
K-State Sports Network
Online: kstatesports.com
Play-by-Play: Brian Smoller
Analyst: Randy Peterson

LIVE STATS
www.kstatesports.com

COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 576-327/29th season | At K-State: 122-92/7th season

Texas: Vic Schaefer (Texas A&M '84)
Overall: 315-178/16th season | At Texas: 14-6/1st season

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP (based on previous game)
Kansas State (6-13, 1-11 Big 12)
G: #2 Cymone Goodrich | F: #12 Rachel Ranke | F: #13 Laura Macke | G: #24 Emilee Ebert | C: #50 Ayoka Lee

Texas (14-6, 8-5 Big 12)
G: #0 Celeste Taylor | G: #11 Joanne Allen-Taylor | G: #15 Kyra Lambert | G: #31 Audrey Warren | C: #35 Charli Collier

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Texas leads, 24-17
In Austin: 5-13
Last Meeting: Dec. 21, 2020; Texas won 62-52 (Manhattan)
Head Coach Jeff Mittie vs. Texas: 5-14

MANHATTAN, Kansas - K-State will begin a stretch of six games in 15 days, as the Wildcats travel to Austin, Texas, to face Texas on Sunday at 2 p.m., in the Erwin Center.

• Sunday's game will be broadcast on Longhorn Network, as Alex Loeb (play-by-play) and Andrea Lloyd (analyst) will have the call.
• The Wildcats have been led this season by All-America candidate and 2021 Lisa Leslie Award finalist, sophomore Ayoka Lee.
• Lee, a candidate for all four of the national player of the year awards this season, leads K-State in scoring (19.6 ppg), field goal percentage (.599), rebounds (8.5 rpg) and blocks (2.0). She leads the Big 12 and ranks eighth in the nation in field goal percentage. In K-State's last six games, Lee is averaging 26.3 points on 62.3 percent shooting and 9.5 rebounds.

Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State women's basketball
1. Sky-High Scoring Average
• Ayoka Lee owns a career-high scoring average of 19.6 points per game. Her scoring average is tied for third in school history for a single-season and the highest since Brittany Chambers set the school record at 21.0 per game in 2012-13.
2. Lee in Rare Club
• Ayoka Lee leads the Big 12 and ranks eighth in the nation in field goal percentage (.599) and ranks sixth in the Big 12 in free throw percentage (.823). She is the only player in the league shooting 57.5 percent or better from the field and 80.0 percent of better from the line.
3. Double-Double Machine
• Ayoka Lee notched her 25th career double-double during K-State's win against Kansas. Lee's line of 28 points, 16 rebounds and seven blocks marked her eighth career double-double which included five or more blocks - a school record.
4. Ranke Nearing 1K
• Rachel Ranke is closing in on becoming the 43rd player in program history to reach 1,000 career points, as she needs 31 points to reach the milestone. She will become the sixth player in school history with 1,000 or more career points, 300 or more career rebounds and 200 or more connections from beyond the arc.
5. High Efficiency Dishes
• The Wildcats have 296 assists (15.6 apg) and an assisted shot rate of 71.5 percent this season. According to HerHoopStats.com, K-State ranks fifth in the nation in assisted shot rate and are the highest ranked Power 5 member in the category.

Number to Know
4

• Redshirt junior Rachel Ranke has joined a unique club in K-State women's basketball history.
• Ranke is the fourth player in program history with 200 or more career 3-point field goals made and 100 or more career steals.
• During her career, Ranke is averaging 52.5 three-point field goals made and 27.3 steals per season.
• Among the club members, Laurie Koehn leads with 392 three-point field goals made and Kindred Wesemann leads in steals with 193.

At a Glance: Texas
• Texas (14-6, 8-5 Big 12) enters Sunday's game following an extended break due to weather issues within the state of Texas. The Longhorns last played on February 14, at Baylor and suffered a 60-35 loss. Texas was to play at TCU on Wednesday, February 17, but the game was postponed and rescheduled for March 7.
• The Longhorns are guided on the sideline by first-year head coach Vic Schaefer. The 1984 graduate of Texas A&M owns a career record of 315-178 (.639) during his 16 seasons which includes head coaching stops at Sam Houston State and Mississippi State. He led Mississippi State to a pair of NCAA Championship Game appearances.
• The Longhorns are led by Charli Collier and Celeste Taylor.
• Collier, a junior forward/center from Mont Belvieu, Texas, leads the team in scoring (21.3 ppg) and paces the squad in rebounding (12.4 rpg). Collier is third in the Big 12 in scoring and second in rebounding.
• Taylor, a sophomore guard from Valley Stream, N.Y., is second on the team in scoring (12.6 ppg) and paces the squad in steals with 2.4 per game.

Last Time Out
at Oklahoma State 59, K-State 46 (February 17, 2021; Stillwater, Okla.)
• K-State finished with a season-low 46 points against the Cowgirls.
• The Wildcats shot a season-low 1-of-14 (.071) from beyond the arc.
• The Wildcats have lost six consecutive road games.
• Ayoka Lee led K-State with a game-high 27 points on 12-of-19 shooting, seven rebounds, two blocks and a steal. Lee has scored 20 or more points in four straight games.

K-State Holds Foes to Single-Digits
• In the sixth season of the quarter system in women's college basketball, K-State's defense has limited its opponents point production for 10 minute durations.
• Kansas State is 56-19 (.747) when holding an opponent to single digits in any quarter in a game.
• K-State have held opponents to 12 single-digit scoring quarters this season.
• For the first time since the beginning of the quarter system in women's basketball, the Wildcats held a foe to single digits in three of four quarters. K-State kept Central Arkansas in single digits in the first, second and fourth quarters. The Wildcats held the Sugar Bears to four points in the fourth quarter, which tied the school record for the fewest allowed in a fourth quarter.
• The four points allowed were the fewest K-State allowed in any quarter since holding Oklahoma State to three points in the first quarter on January 23, 2019.

Ebert in the Flow
• Sophomore guard Emilee Ebert has worked herself into the starting lineup in just her second season.
• Ebert has started a career-best 19 games and is averaging 30.1 minutes per game. She is averaging 5.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and is leading the team with 3.1 assists per game. She is second on the team and ninth in the Big 12 in blocks with 1.11 per game.
• She has a career-best 21 blocks. Ebert has five games this season with two or more blocks including a career-high four against Southern on November 29.
• Her 21 blocks are the most by a K-State guard for a single-season in school history.
• The product of Frankfort, Kansas, has established new career season-highs for points (104), rebounds (72), assists (59), blocks (21), steals (15), field goals made and attempted (30-of-94), three-point field goals made and attempted (11-of-44) and free throws made and attempted (33-of-44; .750).
• Last season, Ebert averaged 1.5 points in 8.3 minutes per game in 24 games played.

Lee the Queen of the Block
• Ayoka Lee has established herself as one of the top shot blockers in the nation.
• The sophomore from Byron, Minnesota, has 34 blocks (2.0 bpg) this season. She ranks second in the Big 12 for blocks per game.
• Lee registered a career-high seven blocked shots against Kansas, which was her 15th career game with four or more blocks.
• With the seven blocks, Lee is the sixth player to block seven or more shots in a game and is tied for the third-most blocks in a game in school history.
• In her career, Lee has 125 career blocked shots and ranks fifth in school history for career blocks. She owns the school record for career blocks per game at 2.72.
• She has 32 career games with two or more blocks and nine career games with five or more blocks and ranks third in program history for career games with five or more blocks.
• Last season, Lee averaged a school record 3.1 blocks per game. She ranked seventh in the nation and third in the Big 12.
• She led all freshmen in the nation in blocks per game and blocks. Her total of 91 blocks ranked eighth for all classes in the nation and first among freshmen.
• With her 91 blocks, Lee set the school record for blocks in a freshman season. She is just the third player in program history with 80 or more blocks in a season.

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Players Mentioned

Emilee Ebert

Cymone Goodrich

Ayoka Lee

Laura Macke

Rachel Ranke

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