K-State Faces Texas in 2023 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship Quarters

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K-State Faces Texas in 2023 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship Quarters

Mar 10, 2023 | Women's Basketball

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GAME 33 | 2023 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship - Quarterfinals
K-State (17-15, 5-13 Big 12) vs. (15/16) Texas (23-8, 14-4 Big 12)
March 10, 2023 | 1:30 p.m. | Municipal Auditorium | Kansas City, Mo.

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
big12sports.com

Series History vs. Texas
• Texas leads the series with K-State, 29-17.
• Head coach Jeff Mittie is 5-19 in his career against Texas.

MANHATTAN, Kansas - K-State, the nine-seed, will face top seed (15/16) Texas in the quarterfinals of the 2023 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship on Friday at 1:30 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.

Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State WBB
1. Wildcats in the Big 12 Championships
• K-State is 22-25 in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championships and have advanced at least one round in 19 of the 26 championships.
2. Gregory, Sundell Earn Big 12 Honors
• Gabby Gregory and Serena Sundell collected All-Big 12 honors from the league's coaches. Gregory earned her first career All-Big 12 First Team citation, while Sundell was named to the All-Big 12 Honorable Mention for the second straight season.
3. K-State Sets Free Throw Record
• The Wildcats have set the school record for free throws made in a season with 516. K-State is one of seven teams in the nation with 500 or more made free throws this season.
4. Gregory Improvement
• Senior Gabby Gregory has improved her scoring average by +16.3 points per game from the 2021-22 season at Oklahoma (2.6 ppg) to the 2022-23 season at K-State (18.9 ppg).
5. 20x5 From Long Range
• With one made 3-pointer by Serena Sundell, K-State will register just the third season in program history in which five or more Wildcats made 20 or more 3-point field goals in a season (2002-03 & 2009-10).

Number to Know
50.9

• K-State shot 50.9 percent (29-of-57) from the field in its first round win over Texas Tech.
• The 50.9 percent effort ranks fourth in school history for field goal percentage in a Big 12 Championship game.
• The 50.9 percent effort is the highest for the Wildcats since carding a 51.7 percent performance against Nebraska on March 9, 2005.
• K-State has shot 50.0 percent or better from the field four times this season, including a season-high 60.4 percent against Baylor on Feb. 15.

At a Glance: Texas
• (15/16) Texas (23-8, 14-4 Big 12) enters Friday's Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship quarterfinals as regular season co-champions, splitting the crown with Oklahoma.
• The Longhorns are guided on the sideline by third-year head coach Vic Schaefer. The 1984 graduate of Texas A&M owns a career record of 374-196 (.656) during his 18 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 and has guided the Longhorns to consecutive Elite Eight appearances with a 73-24 (.753) record.
• Texas features five players averaging double figures in scoring and are led by Shaylee Gonzales and Rori Harmon.
• Gonzales, a graduate transfer guard from Gilbert, Arizona, is averaging 12.8 points per game and 4.1 rebounds this season after playing at BYU.
• Harmon, the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, is averaging 11.9 points, 7.3 assists and 5.0 rebounds.

Last Time Out
K-State 79, Texas Tech 69 (March 9, 2023; Kansas City, Mo.)
• The Wildcats registered a 52-point second half to expand upon a one-point halftime lead and down the Lady Raiders for the third straight time in the Big 12 Championship.
• K-State pocketed 12 steals and blocked eight shots against Texas Tech.
• Senior Gabby Gregory led the Wildcats with 26 points and seven rebounds. Sophomore Serena Sundell added a full stat line of 19 points, nine rebounds, five assists, four steals and a blocked shot. Freshman Eliza Maupin chipped in with 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting off the bench.

20-Pt Quarters For the Wildcats
• Since the inception of the quarter system in the 2015-16 season, K-State owns an overall record of 110-56 (.663) when scoring 20 or more points in any quarter in a game.
• Since the 2015-16 season, K-State has registered 262 quarters with 20 or more points with a high of 45 this season.
• Among the Wildcats' 45 quarters with 20 or more points, K-State registered 20-plus points in all four quarters against Baylor on Feb. 15. Prior to its win over Baylor, K-State last recorded four quarters with 20 or more points against Kansas on Feb. 24, 2018.
• Against Wisconsin in the fourth quarter and against Utah Tech in the first quarter, K-State registered 31 points in a frame. This marked the most points in a quarter since Jan. 23, 2022, against Oklahoma when K-State scored 32 points in the second quarter.

Wildcats Solid From the Arc
• K-State is firing away from beyond the arc, as they have tallied a 237-of-813 (.292) effort from long range. The Wildcats are receiving 31.3 percent of its points from 3-point range, which ranks fourth in the Big 12 and 10th among Power 5 schools.
• The Wildcats have made 237 three-point field goals, surpassing the 225-mark for the sixth time in program history and the second time in the Jeff Mittie era. K-State's 237 three-point field goals made are fourth-most in school history and the most since the 2012-13 season when K-State made a school record 325.
• With its 813 three-point attempts this season, K-State ranks second in school history for 3-point attempts in a season. This is the third season in school history with 700 or more three-point attempts and the first in the Mittie era.
• K-State's 7.41 three-point field goals made per game ranks fourth in the Big 12 this season and is the third-highest per game average for a single-season in school history.
• The Wildcats made a season-high 12 three-pointers twice this season: against Clemson on Nov. 24 (12-of-28, .429) and at Kansas on Jan. 29 (12-of-34, .353). The 12 connections were the most since making 12 at West Virginia on Jan. 8, 2022.
• Against Wisconsin on Nov. 11, K-State was 10-of-38 (.263) from beyond the arc. The 38 attempts were the most in a game during the Mittie era and the most since the Wildcats attempted 41 against Oklahoma State on Jan. 23, 2013.
• In the Mittie era, the Wildcats have made five or more 3-pointers in a game 202 times in 287 total games including 31 games with 10 or more connections (27-4) from deep.
• In the nine seasons under Mittie, K-State has buried 1,728 three-pointers which is 6.02 per game.

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.
• The Wildcats are shooting 77.2 percent (516-of-668) from the foul line this season.
• The 516 free throws made set the school record for a single season. K-State's free throw percentage of .772 would establish a new school record for single-season free throw percentage and ranks as the eighth-highest among Big 12 members since the 1996-97 season.
• K-State leads the Big 12 and ranks seventh in the nation in free throws made. K-State has recorded 22.7 percent of its points this season from the foul line, which ranks 18th in the nation and first among Power 5 programs.
• Kansas State ranks second in the Big 12 and is 27th in the nation for free throw percentage. The Wildcats average 16.1 free throws made per game on 20.9 attempts.
• K-State has shot 80.0 percent or better from the line 13 times this season (8-5), including a high of 94.7 percent (18-of-19) against South Dakota State on Dec. 10.
• The Wildcats have made 20 or more free throws in a game seven times this season (5-2).
• Against Northern Arizona on Nov. 25, the Wildcats made a season-high 28 free throws and attempted 39 freebies. The 39 attempts were the most in the Mittie era and the most since K-State attempted 41 against Colorado on Jan. 13, 1990.
• The 28 made foul shots were the most since K-State made 29 against TCU on March 1, 2021.
• Gabby Gregory (150) and Serena Sundell (147) and are the first K-State teammates to make 125 or more free throws in the same season.
• Gregory and Sundell rank second and third, respectively, in the Big 12 this season for free throws made.
• Gregory's 150 free throws made are second in school history for a single season and set a new school record for free throws made in a senior season and for free throws made in a season by a guard.
• Gregory is the only player in the Big 12 and one of six in the nation to make 150 or more free throws and shoot 84.0 percent or better from the free throw line.
• Sundell's 147 free throws made ranks third in school history for free throws made in a season.