K-State Squares Off with (7/9) Texas on Friday in Big 12 Quarters

2022 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championships - Quarterfinal
GAME #31
Kansas State (19-11, 9-9 Big 12) vs. (7/9) Texas (23-6, 13-5 Big 12)
Friday, March 11, 2022 | 7:30 p.m. | Municipal Auditorium | Kansas City, Missouri

TELEVISION
Big 12 Now on ESPN+
Play-by-Play: Brenda VanLengen
Analyst: Holly Warlick

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

LIVE STATS
www.kstatesports.com & big12sports.com

COACHES
Kansas State: Jeff Mittie (Missouri Western '89)
Overall: 598-343/30th season | At K-State: 144-108/8th season

Texas: Vic Schaefer (Texas A&M '84)
Overall: 345-187/17th season | At Texas: 44-15/2nd season

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP (based on previous game)
Kansas State (19-11, 9-9 Big 12)
G: #3 Jaelyn Glenn | G: #4 Serena Sundell | G: #5 Brylee Glenn | G: #24 Emilee Ebert | C: #50 Ayoka Lee

(7/9) Texas (23-6, 13-5 Big 12)
G: #1 Lauren Ebo | G: #3 Rori Harmon | F: #5 DeYona Gaston | G: #11 Joanne Allen-Taylor | G/F: #31 Audrey Warren

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: Texas leads, 27-17
In Neutral Site games: K-State leads, 3-1
Last Meeting: Feb. 23, 2022; Texas won 62-51 (Manhattan)
Head Coach Jeff Mittie vs. Texas: 5-17
• This is K-State's fourth meeting with the Longhorns in the Big 12 Championship and the first since 2013. K-State is 3-0 in its previous three meetings with Texas in the league championship.

MANHATTAN, Kansas – K-State, the six-seed, will compete in the 2022 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship quarterfinals against three-seed (7/9) Texas on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Municipal Auditorium.

• Friday's game will air on Big 12 Now on ESPN+, as Brenda VanLengen (play-by-play) and Holly Warlick (analyst) will have the call.
• K-State's 10-win improvement from the 2020-21 season is the largest win improvement in the Jeff Mittie era and tied for the second-largest win increase from one season to the next in program history. It is the largest since the school record of 14 was set in the 2001-02 season.
• The Wildcats have been led this season by All-Big 12 First Team honoree Ayoka Lee and All-Big 12 Honorable Mention recipient Serena Sundell.
• Lee, a 2022 All-America and National Player of the Year candidate, is the first player in program history and the only player in the nation this season to register the combination of 675 or more points, 300 or more rebounds and 90 or more blocked shots.
• Sundell, a unanimous 2022 Big 12 All-Freshman Team selection, is second on the team in scoring (10.6 ppg). She is second in the Big 12 in total assists (166) and assists per game (5.5). A five-time Big 12 Freshman of the Week honoree, Sundell is the only freshman in the nation with 160 or more assists and 40 or more 3-point field goals made.

Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State women's basketball
1. Wildcats in the Big 12 Championships
• K-State is 21-24 in the Big 12 Women's Basketball Championships and have advanced at least one round in 18 of the previous 24 championships.
2. K-State 2021-22 Resume
• K-State's 10-win improvement this season has resulted in an NCAA NET ranking of 37. The Wildcats have five wins against teams currently ranked between 1 and 50 in the NCAA NET while also playing 10 games against AP top-15 foes.
3. High Efficiency Dishes
• The Wildcats have 515 assists (17.2 apg) and an assisted shot rate of 70.0 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.
4. Lee Approaching Double-Double School Record
• With one double-double, Ayoka Lee will break her own school record for double-doubles in a season. She currently owns 19 double-doubles and would become the sixth player in Big 12 history with 20 or more double-doubles in a season.
5. Rank & File
• When Friday's game tips off, K-State will officially play a school record 10th Associated Press (AP) top-15 opponent this season.The Wildcats have played just one AP ranked foe from outside the top-15 this season - at #20 Oklahoma on Feb. 26.

Number to Know
163

• K-State has blocked 163 shots this season, which is tied for the highest total in the Jeff Mittie era. With two blocks, K-State will break the single-season record of 164 set in 2006-07.
• This is the fifth season under Mittie in which K-State has blocked 150 or more shots. Prior to Mittie's arrival in 2014-15, K-State had blocked 150 or more shots in a season four times.
• K-State features four players with 10 or more blocks this season, including Ayoka Lee with 92.

At a Glance: Texas
• (7/9) Texas (23-6, 13-5 Big 12) enters Friday's game with an eight-game win streak in tow following a 65-50 win over Oklahoma State in the regular season finale on Saturday.
• The Longhorns are guided on the sideline by second-year head coach Vic Schaefer. The 1984 graduate of Texas A&M owns a career record of 345-187 (.648) during his 17 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 on the court by Aliyah Matharu and Joanne Allen-Taylor.
• Matharu, a junior guard from Washington, D.C., is averaging 12.9 points per game this season after spending her first two seasons at Mississippi State.
• Allen-Taylor, a senior guard from Houston, Texas, is averaging 10.9 points per game this season.

Last Time Out
(rv/-) K-State 61, at TCU 50 (March 5, 2022; Fort Worth, Texas)
• K-State made eight of its nine 3-point field goals in the second and third quarters to stake the Wildcats to a 17-point lead in the third. The Wildcats held back a TCU comeback attempt in the fourth to secure the win.
• The win was the fifth road win of the season and the most on the road since 2019-20.
• 2022 All-America candidate Ayoka Lee led the Wildcats with her 19th double-double of the season with 20 points and 11 rebounds. Freshman Serena Sundell added 18 points, four assists, four rebounds and two steals, while Laura Macke chipped in with 10 points off the bench.

K-State Among Top-20 in NCAA History for Wins
• K-State women's basketball is in its 54th season of action and ranks among the top programs in NCAA history for all-time wins.
• K-State's all-time record stands at 997-637 (.610) and the Wildcats entered the 2021-22 season ranked 19th in NCAA Division I women's basketball history for program wins. The Wildcats were the 19th program in NCAA Division I history to reach 975 or more wins as a program and the third among the Big 12 (Texas, Baylor). K-State is averaging 18.6 wins per season.
• The Wildcats have accumulated 25 20-win seasons and have secured 365 victories inside Bramlage Coliseum.
• K-State has 214 wins in the Big 12 Conference.
• Kansas State has registered 222 victories when they were ranked in the Associated Press top-25 poll and achieved 85 wins against teams ranked in the AP poll.

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 17 straight postseason appearances (13 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 14-3 home record and a 5-8 road mark.

Cats Send Back Shots Under Mittie
• Under head coach Jeff Mittie, Kansas State has sent back 1,213 shots for 4.81 per game in the 252 games. K-State has 120 or more blocks in each of Mittie's eight seasons, the longest streak of 120 or more blocks in program history.
• The 1,213 blocks in the eight seasons are the most in any eight-season span in program history.
• This season, K-State has 163 blocks (5.4 bpg) and ranks eighth in the nation and leads the Big 12 in total blocks. The Wildcats are second in the Big 12 and rank ninth in the nation in blocks per game.
• K-State's 163 blocks this season rank tied for second in program history for a single-season and tied for the most in the Mittie era. With two blocks, K-State will set the school record for blocks in a season.
• K-State has a blocked shot differential of +52 this season (163-111). Since blocks became official in 1982-83, K-State has 20 seasons with a positive blocked shot differential including a school record +73 (163-90) in the 2005-06 season.
• Against North Carolina A&T, the Wildcats recorded a season-high 11 blocks. The 11 blocks are the sixth-most in a game in school history. The Wildcats have blocked 10 or more shots in a game 12 times (11-1) since Mittie's first season in 2014-15.

Sharing is Caring
• K-State has been unselfish this season, dishing out 515 assists (17.2 apg). The Wildcats are 12th in the nation for total assists and 14th in assists per game. The Wildcats are 12th in the nation and are second in the Big 12 in assist-turnover ratio at 1.27.
• K-State's 515 assists this season are the most for the program since the 2017-18 season (525) and the second-highest total in the Jeff Mittie era.
• Of its 736 made field goals, K-State has recorded an assist on 70.0 percent of those field goals. According to HerHoopStats.com, K-State ranks second in the nation and first among Power 5 conference members for assisted shot rate.
• Since assists became an officially tracked stat in 1981-82, K-State has registered an assisted shot rate of 60.0 percent or higher at the end of a season 21 times in its history.
• Of the 515 assists doled out, K-State has eight of its 10 active players with 20 or more assists this season including three, Serena Sundell, Emilee Ebert and Jaelyn Glenn, with 60 or more.
• K-State has eight games with 20 or more assists this season (7-1). Over the last 15 years, the Wildcats are 78-7 (.918) when handing out 20 or more assists.
• K-State opened the 2021-22 season with 26 assists against Central Arkansas. Of the 10 players that saw the floor against the Sugar Bears, eight recorded an assist.
• Against Iowa State, K-State handed out 27 assists on 31 made field goals which was a season-high for assisted shot rate of 87.1 percent.
• Against Oklahoma on Jan. 23, K-State dished out a season-high 28 assists on 33 made field goals. K-State's 28 assists were the most since Dec. 3, 2019, against UIW when the Wildcats handed out 30.

Sundell Tops Big 12 Freshmen
• Freshman guard Serena Sundell has established herself as the top freshman in the Big 12 this season.
• The product of Maryville, Missouri, leads the Big 12 Conference's freshmen in scoring average, total assists, assists per game, blocks, minutes per game, 3-point field goals made, 3-point field goal percentage, free throw percentage, 20-point games and double-figure assist games.
• She is the only Big 12 freshman with 300 or more points, 160 or more assists and 20 or more blocks.

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 (318 points; 10.6 ppg) and leads the team in 3-point field goals made (48). She has 17 games with 10 or more points including four efforts with 20 or more points.
• Sundell's 318 points this season ranks tied for 12th in program history for points in a freshman season.
• At Oklahoma on Feb. 26, Sundell registered 24 points on 9-of-16 shooting including 5-of-9 from beyond the arc. She also dished out seven assists with no turnovers and two steals.
• 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.

Macke Big in Last Two Road Games
• Senior forward Laura Macke has achieved a number of career season-highs this season and was a spark in K-State's last two road games.
• For the season, Macke is averaging 4.7 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.6 assists. She has registered three of her four career double figure scoring efforts this season.
• Macke has established new career season-highs in points (142), field goals made and attempted (50-131), three-point field goals attempted (47), free throws made and attempted (31-41), assists (47) and steals (26).
• At Oklahoma on Feb. 26, Macke registered a career-high 17 points on a career-best 7-of-14 shooting. This was her first career game with 15 or more points. She also dished out four assists, pulled in two rebounds and pocketed two steals.
• The senior from Baileyville, Kansas, tied the game at 69 with a 3-pointer with 22 seconds to play.
• In K-State's last road game of the season at TCU on March 5, Macke came off the bench to notche 10 points, four rebounds and three assists. She made a key 3-pointer in the fourth quarter to start a 9-2 K-State run.

Lee a Double-Double Machine
• Ayoka Lee continues to be a double-double machine in her K-State career.
• Lee has pocketed 19 double-doubles in the 2021-22 season, which has tied her own school record for double-doubles in a season. Earlier this season, Lee tied her own school record for consecutive double-doubles with six straight. She is 10th in the nation and is second in the Big 12 this season for double-doubles.
• Lee's 19 double-doubles this season have set a school record for double-doubles in a junior season, surpassing the previous record of 15 by Nicole Ohlde in the 2002-03 season.
• Lee is the second player in program history with three or more seasons with 10 or more double-doubles (Kendra Wecker, 2001-05; 4).
• In Big 12 action, Lee led the Big 12 with 11 double-doubles in league play.
• Of the 19 total double-doubles this season, six efforts have reached 30 or more points and 10 or more rebounds.
• At South Dakota State on Dec. 11, Lee tallied 38 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks. This was her 12th career game with a double-double and five or more blocks, improving on her own school record.
• According to HerHoopStats.com, Lee is the third player since 2009-10 to register a final stat line of at least 38 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks (Elena Delle Donne, 2012; Brittney Griner, 2013).
• Lee's career double-double total stands at 48, which ranks second in school history and tied for sixth in Big 12 history for career double-doubles. She ranks seventh in the nation among active NCAA Division I women's basketball players.
• She is the fastest player in program history to 48 career double-doubles. Lee has nine career double-doubles with 30 or more points and 10 or more rebounds, which stands as the most such games in program history.
• Lee is averaging 0.57 double-doubles per game in her career, which is the highest rate in school history. Among active NCAA Division I Power 5 Conference players, Lee ranks second in career double-doubles per game.
• In her redshirt freshman season of 2019-20, the center from Byron, Minnesota, set the school record for double-doubles in a season with 19 and ranked tied for 8th in Big 12 history for double-doubles in a single season.
• Lee achieved a rare single-game milestone, as she became the first player in program history with 20 or more points and 20 or more rebounds in the same game, achieving the feat against Oklahoma on January 25, 2020 (23 points, 20 rebounds).

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Emilee Ebert

Brylee Glenn

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Ayoka Lee

Laura Macke

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