K-State Ends Non-Con Schedule Sunday at Creighton

Sunday, December 14

Omaha, Neb.

2:30 p.m.

Kansas State University

Creighton

Dec 12, 2025 | Women's Basketball

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GAME #12
K-State Wildcats (6-6, 0-0 Big 12) at Creighton Bluejays (4-4, 0-0 Big East)
Sunday, December 14, 2025 | 2:30 p.m. | DJ Sokol Arena (2,500) | Omaha, Neb.

TELEVISION
FS1
Play-by-Play: Matt Walters
Analyst: Kylen Mills
Sideline: Isis Young

RADIO
K-State Sports Network
Play-by-Play: Brian Smoller
Analyst: Randy Peterson

LIVE STATS
www.kstatesports.com

SERIES HISTORY vs. Creighton
16-5

• K-State leads the series with Creighton, 16-5.
• Head coach Jeff Mittie is 1-0 in his career against Creighton.
• The Wildcats are 21-11 against current members of the Big East Conference.

MANHATTAN, Kansas - K-State will wrap its non-conference schedule on Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska, as the Wildcats visit Creighton at 2:30 p.m., at DJ Sokol Arena.

• Sunday's game will be air on FS1, as Kylen Mills (play-by-play) and Isis Young (analyst) will have the call.

Starting 5
Five names, numbers or storylines about K-State women's basketball
1. Sides Dish
• Taryn Sides is tied for 24th on the K-State career assists list with 236 assists. With 14 assists, Sides will become the 22nd player in program history with 250 or more career assists.
2. Pocket Sides
• Sides is the shortest player in a Power 4 conference to average 14.5 or more points while shooting 45.0 percent or better from the field and 44.0 percent or better from beyond the arc. She is one of two players 5'7" or shorter in the nation currently to average these marks (Cameron Thomas, Stetson).
3. Dialing in From Long Distance
• Over the last five games, K-State is shooting 47.4 percent (45-of-95) from beyond the arc. The 45 makes (9.0 per game) are the most over a five-game span this season.
4. Arenas Off the Bench
• Sophomore guard Izela Arenas is one of four players in the Big 12 this season to average 9.0 or more points per game with zero starts.
5. Garcia With the Dish
• Freshman guard Gina Garcia is tied for the Big 12 lead for assists by a freshman (56). Since 1981-82, Garcia is the 18th freshman in program history with 55 or more assists in their freshman season and the fifth in the Jeff Mittie era.

Number to Know
35

• Freshman guard Brandie Harrod has hauled in 35 offensive rebounds (2.9 orpg) this season.
• The product of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, leads the Big 12 and is tied for fifth in the nation among freshmen for total offensive rebounds this season.
• Harrod is second among Power 4 freshmen for total offensive rebounds.
• She owns four games this season with five or more offensive rebounds including a high of seven at SMU on Nov. 8.
• Since 2000-01, Harrod is the 14th K-State freshman to pull in 35 or more offensive rebounds in their debut collegiate season.

Last Time Out
San Diego State 64, at K-State 53 (Dec. 10, 2025; Manhattan, Kan.)
• K-State dropped its non-conference home finale, as San Diego State outscored the Wildcats in the second and third quarters, 37-16.
• The Wildcats shot 18.5 percent (5-of-27) in the second and third quarters.
• Junior guard Taryn Sides led the Wildcats with 16 points, seven rebounds and five assists.

2025-26 Roster Youngest Since 2018-19
• K-State will have one of the youngest rosters in the country this season, as 9 of the 12 players on the 2025-26 roster are either true freshmen or sophomores. The roster features four true freshmen (Aniya Foy, Gina Garcia, Brandie Harrod and Jordan Speiser) a redshirt freshman (Alexis Hess), three sophomores (Izela Arenas, Jenessa Cotton and Ramiya White) and one redshirt freshman (Mikayla Parks).
• The 2025-26 roster is the third-youngest roster in program history and the second-youngest under head coach Jeff Mittie trailing the 2018-19 roster, which had 10 underclassmen among its 14 players and the 1977-78 season, which featured a program-high 11 underclassmen (seven freshmen and four sophomores) among the 16 players in the roster.
• K-State's roster of 12 features six players combined to have played 226 career collegiate games before the 2025-26 season.
• Of the six players to play a college game, Heal played the most at 96.
• Among Big 12 programs this season, K-State is second in the league (10, UCF) for the most underclassmen on its roster.
• The freshmen class for the 2025-26 season for K-State was ranked among the top-10 signing classes by ESPN.com.
• In terms of K-State playing experience, the Wildcats' roster featured 10 players that had yet to play a game in purple and white entering the 2025-26 season.

International Cats
• K-State's 2025-26 roster will have an international flair.
• The Wildcats feature four players from four different countries: Nastja Claessens (Belgium), Gina Garcia (Spain), Tess Heal (Australia) and Ivona Scekic (Slovenia). Claessens is the first player in program history from Belgium, Scekic is the first player in program history from Slovenia, 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).

At a Glance: Creighton
• Creighton (4-4) has rebounded from a 1-4 start to its 2025-26 season to win three straight games including a 73-60 decision over Tulsa on Dec. 7.
• Creighton is guided on the sideline by 24th-year head coach Jim Flanery. The 1987 graduate of Creighton owns a career record of 460-278 (.623) in his time with the Bluejays.
• The Bluejays are paced by a pair of freshmen: guard Ava Zediker and guard Neleigh Gessert.
• Zediker, a product of Des Moines, Iowa, paces Creighton in scoring at 12.4 points per game and is shooting 39.0 percent from the field and 44.4 percent from beyond the arc. She is second on the team in rebounding at 5.6 per game. Against Tulsa, Zediker tallied 26 points on 8-of-12 shooting, eight rebounds and five assists.
• Gessert, a local product from Omaha, is averaging 11.5 points and 3.3 rebounds per game. Against the Golden Hurricane, Gessert notched 11 points and four rebounds.

Wildcats on the Road
• K-State has a 300-330 (.476) record in road games during the program's 58-year history.
• In his career in road games, head coach Jeff Mittie is 176-210 (.456) including a 51-73 (.411) mark during his time at K-State.
• In the 2024-25 season, K-State was 7-4 in road games including two wins against an Associated Press Top-25 foes (22, Utah, 1/8/25; 13, Kentucky, 3/23/25).
• The seven road wins last season were the most since the 2019-20 season (7-5).

Wildcats in Nail-Biters
• Kansas State owns an all-time record in overtime games of 32-30 (.516), including a 28-25 (.528) record in single overtime games and a 3-6 (.333) record in double overtime games.
• The Wildcats were 2-0 last season in overtime games with wins over Iowa State (1/30/25) and at Kentucky (3/23/25).
• Over the last 12 seasons, K-State is 52-36 (.591) in games decided by five points or less including a 3-3 mark this season.
• With its comeback win at SMU on Nov. 8, it was K-State's first win when trailing entering 4th quarter since a 73-64 (ot) win on Feb. 21, 2024, against West Virginia, ending a seven-game losing streak when trailing entering the final frame.
• Since the start of the quarter-system in 2015-16, K-State is 172-15 (.920) when entering the fourth quarter with the lead and is 29-115 (.201) when trailing entering the fourth quarter.

Wildcats Solid From the Arc
• K-State continues to attack from deep in the 2025-26 season.
• The Wildcats set the school record for three-point field goals made in a game with 17 against Columbia on Nov. 27.
• K-State shot 65.4 percent (17-of-26) from beyond the arc against the Lions, which was the highest 3-point percentage on 20 or more attempts since carding a 70.0 percent effort (14-of-20) against UCF on February 15, 2025.
• K-State's 3-point percentage of 65.4 percent is the highest by any team this season that has made 17 or more 3-point field goals in a game.
• In the three games of the 2025 Cancun Challenge, K-State shot 53.2 percent (33-of-62) from the 3-point line which included eight quarters of 50.0 percent or better and a 76.9 percent (10-of-13) effort in the second against Columbia.
• K-State is shooting 33.7 percent (89-of-264) from 3-point range. The Wildcats have received 31.2 percent of its points from 3-point field goals made and have buried five or more in a game nine times and have made 10 or more thrice.
• In the 12 seasons under Mittie, K-State has buried 2,369 three-pointers which is 6.35 per game.
• In the Mittie era, the Wildcats have made five or more 3-pointers in a game 270 times in 373 total games including 54 games with 10 or more connections (w-l: 47-7) from deep.
• In the 2024-25 season, K-State shot 38.6 percent (307-of-795) from 3-point range. The Wildcats led the Big 12 and were second in the nation in 3-point field goal percentage and were third in the Big 12 and 23rd in the nation for 3-point field goals made per game (8.53).
• K-State's 307 three-point field goals made in the 2024-25 season rank second in program history for 3-pointers made in a single season and marks the second time in program history K-State has made 300 or more 3-pointers in a season (325; 2012-13). K-State's 3-point field goal percentage of .386 tied for second in school history for a season.
• K-State received 32.4 percent of its total points (921 points) from made 3-point field goals last season. This was the highest percentage of points from 3-pointers in the Jeff Mittie era and the fourth time since 2014-15 that K-State received 30.0 percent or more of its points from beyond the arc.

Dishin' as Well as Swishin'
• Guard Taryn Sides has continued to be an adept distributor.
• In the season-opener against Omaha, Sides established a new career-high with 12 assists and did so without a turnover. She was the first player at a Big 12 Conference program since the 2021-22 season to hand out 12 or more assists without a turnover.
• This season, Sides is averaging 3.8 assists per game with an assist to turnover ratio of 2.0.
• In her career, Sides is averaging 2.91 assists per game (236 assists) and owns a career assist to turnover ratio of 1.90 which is the top mark in program history. She has tallied 20 games with five or more assists, including two games with 10 or more assists.
• Sides is tied for 24th on the K-State career assists list. With 14 assists, Sides will become the 22nd player in program history with 250 or more career assists.
• In the 2024-25 season, Sides averaged 2.8 assists with a career-best 98 assists and an assist to turnover ratio of 1.4.
• Sides had seven games last season with five or more assists, including a season-high of eight at Kansas on Feb. 2.