K-State Ends February with a Visit to (20/19) Oklahoma

GAME #28
Kansas State (18-9, 8-7 Big 12) at (20/19) Oklahoma (21-6, 10-5 Big 12)
Saturday, February 26, 2022 | 4 p.m. | Lloyd Noble Center | Norman, Okla.

TELEVISION
Bally Sports Oklahoma
Play-by-Play: Chad McKee
Analyst: Dan Hughes

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: 597-341/30th season | At K-State: 143-106/8th season

Oklahoma: Jennie Baranczyk (Iowa '04)
Overall: 213-102/10th season | At Oklahoma: 21-6/1st season

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP (based on previous game)
Kansas State (18-9, 8-7 Big 12)
G: #3 Jaelyn Glenn | G: #4 Serena Sundell | G: #5 Brylee Glenn | G: #24 Emilee Ebert | C: #50 Ayoka Lee

Oklahoma (21-6, 10-5 Big 12)
G: #1 Nevaeh Tot | G: #4 Kennady Tucker | G/F: #25 Madi Williams | G: #30 Taylor Robertson | F: #34 Liz Scott

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Oklahoma leads, 41-31
In Norman: 10-22
Last Meeting: Jan. 23, 2022; K-State won 94-65 (Manhattan)
Head Coach Jeff Mittie vs. Oklahoma: 10-17

MANHATTAN, Kansas – K-State closes out the month of February on the road, as the Wildcats travel to Norman, Oklahoma, to face (20/19) Oklahoma on Saturday at 4 p.m.

• Saturday's game will air on Bally Sports Oklahoma, as Chad McKee (play-by-play) and Dan Hughes (analyst) will have the call.
• K-State's nine-win improvement from the 2020-21 season is the largest win improvement in the Jeff Mittie era and the third-largest win increase from one season to the next in program history.
• The Wildcats have been led this season by junior Ayoka Lee and freshman Serena Sundell. Lee, a 2022 All-America and National Player of the Year candidate, is the only player in the nation with 600 or more points, 275 or more rebounds and 80 or more blocks this season. Lee has established new career season-highs in points (622), field goals made and attempted (255-of-452), free throws made and attempted (112-of-145), assists (18) and steals (32).
• Sundell, a candidate for Big 12 Freshman of the Year, is second on the team in scoring (9.7 ppg). She is second in the Big 12 in total assists (148) and assists per game (5.5). She is the only freshman in the nation with 140 or more assists and 35 or more 3-point field goals made.

Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State women's basketball
1. K-State Places Six on Academic All-Big 12 Teams
• K-State placed six on the Academic All-Big 12 teams - First Team: Cymone Goodrich, Taylor Lauterbach, Ayoka Lee, Laura Macke and Jada Moore; Second Team: Savannah Simmons. Since the beginning of the Big 12 in 1996-97, K-State leads the Big 12 with 147 Academic All-Big 12 honors.
2. High Efficiency Dishes
• The Wildcats have 469 assists (17.4 apg) and an assisted shot rate of 70.2 percent this season. According to HerHoopStats.com, K-State ranks second in the nation in assisted shot rate and are the highest ranked Power 5 member in the category.
3. Rejection
• K-State has tallied 148 blocks (5.5 bpg) this season and lead the Big 12 and rank seventh in the nation for total blocks. K-State's 148 blocks are the fifth-most in the Jeff Mittie era.
4. Lee First Player to Reach 600/275/80
• Ayoka Lee, a candidate for every National Player of the Year honor, is the first player in program history to register a season stat line that includes 600 or more points, 275 or more rebounds and 80 or more blocked shots.
5. Sundell On the Dishes
• Serena Sundell needs two assists to become the third K-State freshman in program history and the first since Shalee Lehning in 2005-06 to surpass 150 or more assists in their freshman season.

Number to Know
300

• Junior Ayoka Lee needs 23 rebounds to reach 300 rebounds for the season.
• Lee would become the second player in program history with two or more seasons with 300 or more rebounds.
• Lee set her career single-season high in her freshman season with 331 rebounds in 2019-20. She was on the verge of setting the single-season school record before the season was ended due to COVID-19.

At a Glance: Oklahoma
• (20/19) Oklahoma (21-6, 10-5 Big 12) enters Saturday's matchup with following a 92-57 win at TCU on Wednesday night.
• The Sooners lead the Big 12 in scoring offense with 84.89 points per game. Oklahoma has scored 80 or more points in 20 of its 27 games this season including nine of 15 league games.
• Oklahoma is guided on the sideline by first year head coach Jennie Baranczyk. The 2004 graduate of Iowa owns a career record of 213-102 (.676) which included nine seasons at Drake.
• The Sooners are led in scoring by Madi Williams and Taylor Robertson.
• Williams is averaging 18.2 points on a .473 field goal percentage and a team-high 7.6 rebounds. At TCU, Williams tallied 12 points and five rebounds in 13 minutes.
• Robertson, a senior guard, is averaging 16.9 points per game. Robertson is shooting just under 50/40/90 this season (.491/.455/.941) and became the Big 12 career leader in 3-point field goals made with 423.

Last Time Out
(11/12) Texas 62, at K-State 51 (Feb. 23, 2022; Manhattan, Kan.)
• K-State closed to within four points early in the fourth quarter with an 8-2 run spanning the end of the third and the start of the fourth. Texas responded with a 9-0 run and held K-State without a field goal for nine minutes to seal the win.
• Freshman guard Serena Sundell led the Wildcats with 16 points, while Ayoka Lee added 10 points and five rebounds.
• Lee moved into ninth on the K-State career scoring list with 1,556 career points.

K-State Attacking the Paint
• The Wildcats have found buckets in the paint this season and are converting at a high rate.
• This season, K-State has scored 900 points in the paint (33.3 ppg) which represents 49.5 percent of their overall point total. The Wildcats have recorded 40 or more points in the paint in nine games. The Wildcats have held the edge in the lane in 18 games.
• K-State was aggressive in its efforts to score in the lane against Oklahoma. The Wildcats recorded 58 points in the paint, which marked the highest single-game total since Nov. 14, 2016, against Tulsa, when K-State poured in 60 points in the paint.
• Under Mittie, K-State has scored 900 or more points in the paint in seven of his eights seasons including a high of 1,064 points (31.3 ppg) during the 2016-17 season.

Cats Cash in at the Charity Stripe
• Kansas State continues to earn trips to the free throw line, which is a trend during head coach Jeff Mittie's time at K-State.
• This season, K-State is shooting 335-of-441 (.760) from the foul line. K-State is receiving 18.4 percent of its point total from the charity stripe.
• The Wildcats rank third in the Big 12 and 34th in the nation for free throw percentage and rank second in league-only games (.789).
• K-State's roster features eight players shooting 70.0 percent or better from the line this season.
• K-State has 17 seasons with a free throw percentage of 70.0 percent or better. The Wildcats have shot 70.0 percent or better from the line as a team in three of the last four seasons.
• K-State made a season-high 25 free throws and converted at a 92.6 percent clip against Oklahoma on Jan. 23. The 25 made free throws were the most since K-State made 29 against TCU on March 1, 2021.
• The Wildcats shot a season-best 93.8 percent (15-of-16) from the foul line against TCU.
• The Wildcats have made 80.0 percent or more of its free throws in a game 11 times this season. K-State has had more free throw attempts than its opponents 13 times.

Sundell Sizzling
• Freshman guard Serena Sundell has added a scoring punch to the K-State lineup.
• This season, Sundell is second on the team in scoring (261 points; 9.7 ppg) and is tied for the team lead in 3-point field goals made (36). She has 14 games with 10 or more points including three efforts with 20 or more points.
• At West Virginia on Jan. 8, Sundell notched 21 points, nine assists, five rebounds and two steals. This was her first career game with 20 or more points, five or more assists and five or more rebounds.
• At South Dakota State on Dec. 11, Sundell tallied her first career double-double with 16 points, 10 assists, five rebounds and five steals. She is the first K-State freshman guard to tally a double-double with at least 15 points, 10 assists and five rebounds since Dec. 30, 2014. She was the first K-State freshman since at least the 2000-01 season season to notch 10 or more points, eight or more assists, five or more rebounds and five or more steals in the same game. Sundell and Jaelyn Glenn (vs. Oklahoma, Jan. 23) are the only K-State freshmen to card 10 or more rebounds, five or more assists and five or more steals in a game since at least the 2000-01 season.
• Against Abilene Christian on Nov. 23, Sundell tallied a career-high 25 points and tied her career-high with a 5-of-7 effort from 3-point range while also adding five rebounds, three steals and two assists.
• In her first career road game, Sundell led K-State with 21 points on 6-of-14 shooting, including a career-best 5-of-11 from beyond the arc while also handing out six assists at NC State on Nov. 19.
• She was the first K-State player to tally 20 or more points, five or more made 3-point field goals and five or more assists since Kindred Wesemann against Oklahoma on Feb. 9, 2016.

Nobody Scores It Like Ayoka Lee
• Ayoka Lee is quickly climbing the K-State career scoring list and has been on a scoring tear in the 2021-22 season.
• In her career, Lee has scored 1,556 points in 81 career games (19.2 ppg). Her career scoring average of 19.2 ranks first in school history, ninth in Big 12 history and sixth among active NCAA Division I players. Her career points total ranks ninth on the K-State career scoring list.
• She was the 44th player in school history with 1,000 or more career points and was the fastest player in program history to reach 1,500 career points, needing 77 games to reach the milestone. She was the first player in school history to reach the 1,000-career point mark and the 1,500-career point mark in the same season.
• Lee has scored in every game of her career (81 games) and has reached double figures in 73 games including a streak of 28 straight games dating back to the final five games of the 2020-21 season until Feb. 9, 2022.
• This season, Lee is averaging a career-best 23.0 points per game which ranks fifth in the nation. Lee is third in the nation in total points scored (622). This is the seventh occurrence in program history in which a player tallied 600 or more points and 250 or more rebounds in a season. Lee is the only player in the nation averaging 20.0+ points, 10.0+ rebounds and 3.0+ blocks.
• Her 23.0 points per game this season is the highest per game average in school history and is the third time a K-State player has averaged 20 or more points in a season and first since Brittany Chambers in the 2012-13 season.
• With her 622 points scored this season, Lee has established a new career single-season high. The 622 points are the most by a Wildcat since Brittany Chambers scored a K-State single-season record 778 points in the 2012-13 season.
• Lee is the second player in program history to score 600 or more points in their junior season, joining Nicole Ohlde in the 2002-03 season. She is the second center in school history to score 600 or more points in a junior season. Her total of 622 points ranks second in school history for points in a junior season.
• Lee is the fifth player in school history with three or more consecutive seasons with 400 or more points in a season.
• With her efforts of 61 points against Oklahoma on Jan. 23 and 43 points against Central Arkansas on Nov. 9, Lee is one of three players in the nation this season with two games of 40 or more points scored in a game.
• Lee's 285 points in non-conference play this season are the seventh-most points scored in non-conference play by a K-State player since at least 2000-01.
• According to HerHoopStats.com, Lee is second in the nation in PER (44.1) and Win Shares (10.5). PER measures a player's value based on their box score stats. Win Shares are and advanced statistic that approximates the total number of wins a player produces for their team through their play on the offensive and defensive ends of the court.
• During the 2020-21 season, Lee averaged a career-best 19.1 points per game while scoring a career-high 478 points. She ranked seventh in the Big 12 and 41st in the nation in scoring.
• According to HerHoopStats.com, Lee led the Big 12 and ranked third in the nation in PER (39.9).

K-State Ends February with a Visit to (20/19) Oklahoma

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Players Mentioned

Emilee Ebert

Brylee Glenn

Jaelyn Glenn

Cymone Goodrich

Taylor Lauterbach

Ayoka Lee

Laura Macke

Jada Moore

Savannah Simmons

Serena Sundell

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