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Monday, October 27
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7 p.m.
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K-State Prepped for Exhibition Road Trip to Tarleton State
Oct 24, 2025 | Women's Basketball
EXHIBITION GAME #1
(rv/25) K-State (0-0-0, 0-0-0 Big 12) at Tarleton State (0-0-0, 0-0-0 WAC)
Monday, October 27, 2025 | 7 p.m. | EECU Center (8,000) | Stephenville, Texas
TELEVISION
ESPN+
LIVE STATS
www.kstatesports.com
SERIES HISTORY vs. Tarleton State
0-0-0
• K-State and Tarleton State have not played a regular season game
• Head coach Jeff Mittie is 1-0 in his career against Tarleton State
• Current streak: -
MANHATTAN, Kansas - K-State will play its only exhibition game of the 2025-26 season on Monday night, as the Wildcats visit Tarleton State at EECU Center at 7 p.m.
• The Wildcats will be the first women's opponent in the new $125 million EECU Center.
• Monday's game can be seen live on ESPN+.
Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State women's basketball
1. Mittie Set for 12th season
• K-State head coach Jeff Mittie is prepared for his 12th season in Manhattan. He owns a 218-143 (.604) record and nine postseason appearances with the Wildcats. Mittie owns the second-most wins at the helm of K-State WBB (Deb Patterson, 350). His 672 career wins at NCAA programs ranks ninth among active NCAA Division I head coaches and second among active Big 12 coaches.
2. Nice to Meet You
• K-State's roster of 12 for the 2025-26 season features nine new faces including four true freshmen (Aniya Foy, Gina Garcia, Brandie Harrod and Jordan Speiser) and five transfers (Izela Arenas, Nastja Claessens, Jenessa Cotton, Tess Heal and Ramiya White).
3. Cats Picked For 7th in Big 12 Poll
• K-State was chosen to finish seventh in the 2025-26 Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll.
4. Taryn Up the Nets
• Junior guard Taryn Sides had a breakout season in 2024-25. Among sophomores in the nation, Sides was second for 3-point percentage (min. 60 or more 3-pt field goals made) and was fourth with 84 three-point field goals made.
5. Heal on Her Toes
• Senior guard Tess Heal is the only Wildcat on the 2025-26 roster with collegiate starts on her resume. Heal has started 74 games in her collegiate career, with 66 coming at Santa Clara and eight at Stanford in 2024-25.
Number to Know - Pt. 1
2,842
• K-State scored 2,842 points in the 2024-25 season (78.9 ppg), setting a new school record for points in a season. This broke the previous mark of 2,635 set in the 1979-80 season.
• The Wildcats' scoring average of 78.9 ranked second in school history behind the record of 81.3 in the 1982-83 season.
• K-State returns just 11.4 percent of its total points scored from the 2024-25 season, with all 323 points registered by Taryn Sides.
Number to Know - Pt. 2
226
• K-State's roster of 12 features six players that have combined to play 226 career collegiate games.
• Of the six players to play a college game, senior guard Tess Heal has played the most at 96.
• Joining Heal are: junior guard Taryn Sides (69), sophomore guard Izela Arenas (29), sophomore center Ramiya White (15), redshirt sophomore guard Mikayla Parks (9) and sophomore forward Jenessa Cotton (8).
At a Glance: Tarleton State
• Tarleton State will open its new arena, EECU Center, with a visit from K-State.
• The Texans finished the 2024-25 season with a 20-14 overall record, which included a trip to the 2025 WNIT.
• Tarleton State is guided on the sideline by third-year head coach Bill Brock. The 1976 and 1981 graduate of Southeast Oklahoma State owns a career record of 31-34 (.477) in his two previous seasons in Stephenville.
• The top returning scorer and rebounder for the Texans is senior guard Jakoriah Long. The product of Waco, Texas, averaged 10.3 points and hauled in 4.4 rebounds. At the conclusion of the 2024-25 season, Long was named to the All-WAC Second Team.
2024-25 Season in Review
• Playing its 57th season, K-State (28-8, 13-5 Big 12) registered the 19th NCAA Tournament bid, the 35th postseason overall, including the fourth Sweet 16 appearance and first since 2002.
• K-State's 28 wins tied for the second most wins in a single season in program history.
• Under the guidance of 11th year head coach Jeff Mittie, K-State made its ninth postseason appearance since 2014-15. With his efforts on the sideline this season, Mittie was named to the 2024-25 Werner Ladder Naismith Women's Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List.
• The Wildcats were ranked in both the Associated Press (AP) and USA Today Coaches polls for the entirety of a season for the first time since 2004-05. K-State ended the season ranked 13 in the AP poll and 15 in the Coaches poll.
• K-State led the Big 12 in scoring offense (78.94), scoring margin (+20.08), field goal percentage (.486), 3-point field goal percentage (.386), field goal percentage defense (.367), assists per game (21.19) and assist-turnover ratio (1.63).
• K-State ranked 18th in the nation in total attendance (94,975) and 19th in the nation in average attendance (5,276).
Team Odds & Ends from 2024-25
• K-State's total attendance of 94,975 was the seventh-highest in program history. K-State's average attendance of 5,276 was the seventh-highest in program history.
• The Wildcats registered a 14-game winning streak from Nov. 27, 2024, to Jan. 25, 2025. This was tied for the second-longest winning streak in program history.
• Kansas State opened the season with a 19-1 overall record. This was the second straight season the Wildcats won 19 of its first 20 games.
• K-State tallied a 17-1 (.944) mark at home. The 17 home wins were the most since the 2002-03 season (19-1).
• The Wildcats set the school record for games with 90 or more points scored with 10.
• K-State set the school record for scoring margin in a season with an average of +20.1.
• K-State tallied a 17-1 (.944) mark at home. The 17 home wins were the most since the 2002-03 season (19-1).
• K-State's 307 three-point field goals made rank second in school history for a season and marks the second time in program history in which the Wildcats made 300 or more 3-point field goals and marks the eighth time in 11 seasons K-State has made 180 or more 3-point field goals.
• The 2024-25 Wildcats were the fifth team in program history to have five or more players make 20 or more 3-pointers in a season. When combined with the previous two seasons, this marks the first time in program history K-State has recorded three straight seasons with five or more players on the roster making 20 or more 3-pointers in a season.
• This season marked the first time in program history in which K-State had three players make 70 or more 3-point field goals in a season: Poindexter (92), Sides (84) and Glenn (72).
• K-State handed out a school record and the third most assists in Big 12 history with 763 in the 2024-25 season, the fourth time in program history with 600 or more assists in a season.
• K-State's 21.19 assists per game set a school record for a single season. The Wildcats handed out 20 or more assists in 22 games (22-0).
• K-State's assisted shot rate of 70.3 percent was the second-highest in the Mittie era and ranked third in the nation in 2024-25. 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 25 times in its history.
• K-State set the school records for blocked shots (206) and blocks per game (5.7) for a season in the 2024-25 season.
• K-State recorded 307 steals and 206 blocked shots this season. This was the first time in program history K-State achieved 300 or more steals and 200 or more blocks in the same season.
• The Wildcats were the only team in the Big 12 last season with 300 or more steals and 200 or more blocks and one of three in the nation (USC and South Carolina).
International Cats
• K-State's 2025-26 roster will have an international flair.
• The Wildcats feature three players from three different countries: Nastja Claessens (Belgium), Gina Garcia (Spain) and Tess Heal (Australia). Claessens is the first player in program history from Belgium, while Heal is the second player to play for the Wildcats from Australia and Garcia is the third from Spain.
• Claessens helped Belgium win the 2025 FIBA Women's EuroBasket and was a member of the 2024 Belgian National Team at the Paris Olympics.
• Garcia had a busy summer, as she helped Spain win the 2025 FIBA U18 Women's EuroBasket and the 2025 FIBA U20 Women's EuroBasket. Garcia was named to the All-Star Five in both events and captured MVP honors at the U20s.
• In its history, K-State has had a letterwinner from five different foreign countries (Spain, 2; Ukraine, Canada, Australia and France, 1).
K-State top-25 in NCAA History for Wins
• K-State is in its 58th season of action and ranks among the top programs in NCAA history for all-time wins.
• K-State's all-time record stands at 1,071-672 (.614) and the Wildcats enter the 2025-26 season ranked 21st in NCAA Division I women's basketball history for program wins. The Wildcats were the 19th program in NCAA Division I history to reach 1,000 or more wins as a program and are one of four members of the Big 12 (Baylor, Utah, Texas Tech). K-State is averaging 18.5 wins per season.
• K-State is one of three teams in the nation to be guided by an active head coach with 650 or more career wins and the program has surpassed the 1,000-win mark (UConn, NC State).
• The Wildcats have accumulated 28 20-win seasons and have secured 413 victories inside Bramlage Coliseum.
• K-State has 245 wins in the Big 12 Conference.
• Kansas State has registered 276 victories when they were ranked in the Associated Press top-25 poll and achieved 95 wins against teams ranked in the AP poll.
Preseason Poll Not Final Verdict
• K-State has a history of exceeding the expectations of the league's coaches.
• Entering the 2025-26 season, the Wildcats were voted seventh in the preseason poll.
• The Wildcats have finished 19 of 27 seasons above its preseason prediction and own the largest single-season deviation in league history from its preseason prediction and its final place with a +7 by winning the Big 12 in 2007-08.
• In its history, K-State is second among Big 12 members in exceeding preseason predictions, finishing on average +0.89 positions higher than its preseason prediction in the 27 polls that have a preseason prediction and a final standing attached to it. The 1996-97 and 2017-18 seasons are not included in these calculations, as neither had a preseason poll.
(rv/25) K-State (0-0-0, 0-0-0 Big 12) at Tarleton State (0-0-0, 0-0-0 WAC)
Monday, October 27, 2025 | 7 p.m. | EECU Center (8,000) | Stephenville, Texas
TELEVISION
ESPN+
LIVE STATS
www.kstatesports.com
SERIES HISTORY vs. Tarleton State
0-0-0
• K-State and Tarleton State have not played a regular season game
• Head coach Jeff Mittie is 1-0 in his career against Tarleton State
• Current streak: -
MANHATTAN, Kansas - K-State will play its only exhibition game of the 2025-26 season on Monday night, as the Wildcats visit Tarleton State at EECU Center at 7 p.m.
• The Wildcats will be the first women's opponent in the new $125 million EECU Center.
• Monday's game can be seen live on ESPN+.
Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State women's basketball
1. Mittie Set for 12th season
• K-State head coach Jeff Mittie is prepared for his 12th season in Manhattan. He owns a 218-143 (.604) record and nine postseason appearances with the Wildcats. Mittie owns the second-most wins at the helm of K-State WBB (Deb Patterson, 350). His 672 career wins at NCAA programs ranks ninth among active NCAA Division I head coaches and second among active Big 12 coaches.
2. Nice to Meet You
• K-State's roster of 12 for the 2025-26 season features nine new faces including four true freshmen (Aniya Foy, Gina Garcia, Brandie Harrod and Jordan Speiser) and five transfers (Izela Arenas, Nastja Claessens, Jenessa Cotton, Tess Heal and Ramiya White).
3. Cats Picked For 7th in Big 12 Poll
• K-State was chosen to finish seventh in the 2025-26 Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll.
4. Taryn Up the Nets
• Junior guard Taryn Sides had a breakout season in 2024-25. Among sophomores in the nation, Sides was second for 3-point percentage (min. 60 or more 3-pt field goals made) and was fourth with 84 three-point field goals made.
5. Heal on Her Toes
• Senior guard Tess Heal is the only Wildcat on the 2025-26 roster with collegiate starts on her resume. Heal has started 74 games in her collegiate career, with 66 coming at Santa Clara and eight at Stanford in 2024-25.
Number to Know - Pt. 1
2,842
• K-State scored 2,842 points in the 2024-25 season (78.9 ppg), setting a new school record for points in a season. This broke the previous mark of 2,635 set in the 1979-80 season.
• The Wildcats' scoring average of 78.9 ranked second in school history behind the record of 81.3 in the 1982-83 season.
• K-State returns just 11.4 percent of its total points scored from the 2024-25 season, with all 323 points registered by Taryn Sides.
Number to Know - Pt. 2
226
• K-State's roster of 12 features six players that have combined to play 226 career collegiate games.
• Of the six players to play a college game, senior guard Tess Heal has played the most at 96.
• Joining Heal are: junior guard Taryn Sides (69), sophomore guard Izela Arenas (29), sophomore center Ramiya White (15), redshirt sophomore guard Mikayla Parks (9) and sophomore forward Jenessa Cotton (8).
At a Glance: Tarleton State
• Tarleton State will open its new arena, EECU Center, with a visit from K-State.
• The Texans finished the 2024-25 season with a 20-14 overall record, which included a trip to the 2025 WNIT.
• Tarleton State is guided on the sideline by third-year head coach Bill Brock. The 1976 and 1981 graduate of Southeast Oklahoma State owns a career record of 31-34 (.477) in his two previous seasons in Stephenville.
• The top returning scorer and rebounder for the Texans is senior guard Jakoriah Long. The product of Waco, Texas, averaged 10.3 points and hauled in 4.4 rebounds. At the conclusion of the 2024-25 season, Long was named to the All-WAC Second Team.
2024-25 Season in Review
• Playing its 57th season, K-State (28-8, 13-5 Big 12) registered the 19th NCAA Tournament bid, the 35th postseason overall, including the fourth Sweet 16 appearance and first since 2002.
• K-State's 28 wins tied for the second most wins in a single season in program history.
• Under the guidance of 11th year head coach Jeff Mittie, K-State made its ninth postseason appearance since 2014-15. With his efforts on the sideline this season, Mittie was named to the 2024-25 Werner Ladder Naismith Women's Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List.
• The Wildcats were ranked in both the Associated Press (AP) and USA Today Coaches polls for the entirety of a season for the first time since 2004-05. K-State ended the season ranked 13 in the AP poll and 15 in the Coaches poll.
• K-State led the Big 12 in scoring offense (78.94), scoring margin (+20.08), field goal percentage (.486), 3-point field goal percentage (.386), field goal percentage defense (.367), assists per game (21.19) and assist-turnover ratio (1.63).
• K-State ranked 18th in the nation in total attendance (94,975) and 19th in the nation in average attendance (5,276).
Team Odds & Ends from 2024-25
• K-State's total attendance of 94,975 was the seventh-highest in program history. K-State's average attendance of 5,276 was the seventh-highest in program history.
• The Wildcats registered a 14-game winning streak from Nov. 27, 2024, to Jan. 25, 2025. This was tied for the second-longest winning streak in program history.
• Kansas State opened the season with a 19-1 overall record. This was the second straight season the Wildcats won 19 of its first 20 games.
• K-State tallied a 17-1 (.944) mark at home. The 17 home wins were the most since the 2002-03 season (19-1).
• The Wildcats set the school record for games with 90 or more points scored with 10.
• K-State set the school record for scoring margin in a season with an average of +20.1.
• K-State tallied a 17-1 (.944) mark at home. The 17 home wins were the most since the 2002-03 season (19-1).
• K-State's 307 three-point field goals made rank second in school history for a season and marks the second time in program history in which the Wildcats made 300 or more 3-point field goals and marks the eighth time in 11 seasons K-State has made 180 or more 3-point field goals.
• The 2024-25 Wildcats were the fifth team in program history to have five or more players make 20 or more 3-pointers in a season. When combined with the previous two seasons, this marks the first time in program history K-State has recorded three straight seasons with five or more players on the roster making 20 or more 3-pointers in a season.
• This season marked the first time in program history in which K-State had three players make 70 or more 3-point field goals in a season: Poindexter (92), Sides (84) and Glenn (72).
• K-State handed out a school record and the third most assists in Big 12 history with 763 in the 2024-25 season, the fourth time in program history with 600 or more assists in a season.
• K-State's 21.19 assists per game set a school record for a single season. The Wildcats handed out 20 or more assists in 22 games (22-0).
• K-State's assisted shot rate of 70.3 percent was the second-highest in the Mittie era and ranked third in the nation in 2024-25. 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 25 times in its history.
• K-State set the school records for blocked shots (206) and blocks per game (5.7) for a season in the 2024-25 season.
• K-State recorded 307 steals and 206 blocked shots this season. This was the first time in program history K-State achieved 300 or more steals and 200 or more blocks in the same season.
• The Wildcats were the only team in the Big 12 last season with 300 or more steals and 200 or more blocks and one of three in the nation (USC and South Carolina).
International Cats
• K-State's 2025-26 roster will have an international flair.
• The Wildcats feature three players from three different countries: Nastja Claessens (Belgium), Gina Garcia (Spain) and Tess Heal (Australia). Claessens is the first player in program history from Belgium, while Heal is the second player to play for the Wildcats from Australia and Garcia is the third from Spain.
• Claessens helped Belgium win the 2025 FIBA Women's EuroBasket and was a member of the 2024 Belgian National Team at the Paris Olympics.
• Garcia had a busy summer, as she helped Spain win the 2025 FIBA U18 Women's EuroBasket and the 2025 FIBA U20 Women's EuroBasket. Garcia was named to the All-Star Five in both events and captured MVP honors at the U20s.
• In its history, K-State has had a letterwinner from five different foreign countries (Spain, 2; Ukraine, Canada, Australia and France, 1).
K-State top-25 in NCAA History for Wins
• K-State is in its 58th season of action and ranks among the top programs in NCAA history for all-time wins.
• K-State's all-time record stands at 1,071-672 (.614) and the Wildcats enter the 2025-26 season ranked 21st in NCAA Division I women's basketball history for program wins. The Wildcats were the 19th program in NCAA Division I history to reach 1,000 or more wins as a program and are one of four members of the Big 12 (Baylor, Utah, Texas Tech). K-State is averaging 18.5 wins per season.
• K-State is one of three teams in the nation to be guided by an active head coach with 650 or more career wins and the program has surpassed the 1,000-win mark (UConn, NC State).
• The Wildcats have accumulated 28 20-win seasons and have secured 413 victories inside Bramlage Coliseum.
• K-State has 245 wins in the Big 12 Conference.
• Kansas State has registered 276 victories when they were ranked in the Associated Press top-25 poll and achieved 95 wins against teams ranked in the AP poll.
Preseason Poll Not Final Verdict
• K-State has a history of exceeding the expectations of the league's coaches.
• Entering the 2025-26 season, the Wildcats were voted seventh in the preseason poll.
• The Wildcats have finished 19 of 27 seasons above its preseason prediction and own the largest single-season deviation in league history from its preseason prediction and its final place with a +7 by winning the Big 12 in 2007-08.
• In its history, K-State is second among Big 12 members in exceeding preseason predictions, finishing on average +0.89 positions higher than its preseason prediction in the 27 polls that have a preseason prediction and a final standing attached to it. The 1996-97 and 2017-18 seasons are not included in these calculations, as neither had a preseason poll.
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