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Texas (9-13, 2-9)travels to Manhattan, Kansas to play KSU (12-11, 3-8) in their second game of the Big 12 round robin. Earlier this season, the Horns took a 5-40 win in Austin on 01/26/2013 for their first Big 12 win. Horns lead the series 13-11 and will be seeking to take two in a row from the Wildcats since 2010 and 2011 when they only played once during league play. Since that first game, Texas has gone 1-2 while KSU went 0-3. This represents a chance for Texas to move into a tie for eighth in the conference while KSU seeks to retain all alone in 7th place.
KSU is led is scoring by Brittany Chambers (# 2, 5-8 Sr. G) at 19.1 ppg. Haley Texada (# 1, 5-7 Soph. G) joins her in double digit scoring at 13.8 ppg. Mariah White (# 22, 5-7 Sr. G) averages 8.9 ppg after going off for 25 pts in their last game against ISU. Chambers had 34 in that same game. Brianna “Bri” Craig (# 20, 5-10 Fr. G) is fourth at 8.8 ppg. Their fifth starter, Chantay Caron (# 11, 5-11 Jr. G/F) adds 5.8 ppg. While White has the best shooting percentage overall (34-59, 57.6%) and from BTA (8-17, 47.1%), Chambers is the main shooter from the field (66-182, 36.3%) and from BTA (28-94, 29.8%) with Texada (51-135, 37.8%) and Craig (35-129, 27.1%) also averaging over 11 shots per game. Craig (22-85, 25.9%) and Texada (22-68, 32.4%) join Chambers as the primary 3pt threats for the Wildcats. Horns will need to keep in mind that White took almost a third of her 3pters in the ISU game, making 60% (3-5). Chambers gets to the FT line an average of six times a game (50-65) and makes 76.9% of her FTs. Only two players make less than 70% of their FTs. They have taken 9 and 2 FTs each. Texada at 82.4% (24-34) tops KSU in FT percentage with the rest at around 75%. This is not really a team to put on the FT line.
With two injuries suffered a couple of weeks ago dropping active players to seven, KSU has leaned heavily on their starters. Chambers, Craig and White have started all 11 league games with Texada and Caron joining the starting lineup for nine and seven games respectively. Heidi Brown (# 10, 5-11 Soph. G) and Kendra Spresser (# 5-5 Jr. Transfer G) are the bench for KSU. Chambers averages over 40 mpg for KSU (40.4 mpg) due to a double OT game against Kansas. Texada (31.4 mpg), Craig (35.8 mpg) and White (37.2 mpg) all average over 30 mpg while Caron is at an average of 28.5 mpg and Brown at 14.7 mpg. Spresser is averaging 7.6 mpg.
Chassidy edges Nneka for the scoring lead, 11.9 to 11.8. Imani is third in scoring at 11.0 ppg. Empress adds 7.6 ppg. Texas has four players that have taken at least 97 shots with Gigi’s 40 attempts fifth on the team. Nneka (47-107, 43.9%) , Imani (47-112, 42.0%) share the lead for number of FGs made while Chassidy (40-122, 32.8%) leads in FG attempts. Empress is just off of joining the100+ FG attempts club at 36-97 (37.1%). Chassidy (15-63, 23.8%) and Gigi (6-23, 26.1%) are the main 3pt threats for the Horns with Ashley (10-24, 41.7%) sidelined with an injury. Horns entered Big 12 play averaging 64.8% from the FT line. They were around 50-55% for most of first nine games. Currently, they are at 63.5%. Part of that is the ability of Imani (26-34, 76.5%) and Nneka (24-33, 72.7%) to get to the FT line and convert. Brady (15-17, 88.2%) leads in FT percentage while Chassidy uncharacteristically is at 12-18 (66.7%). That is 21% points lower than her FT average during the pre conference games (87.8%).
Imani (9.6 rpg), Nneka (7.9 rpg) and Chassidy (6.1 rpg) top the Horns in rebounding. Empress adds 4.2 rpg to the mix. Empress and Celina are tied with 27 assists in 11 conference games. Chassidy (15) and Imani (12) are the other two Horns with double figure assists. Imani has 25 blocks to lead Texas. That ties her for third in the league. Nneka with six blocks is second on the team. Texas has four players with double digit steals led by Celina and Nneka with 15 apiece. Chassidy has 14 steals and Brady has 10 steals.Imani and Empress have started all 11 league games. Nneka (ten starts) and Chassidy (nine starts) have started all league games they have played in. Celina has six starts while Gigi and Sara have one start each. Imani, Empress, Nneka, Chassidy and Celina have started the last four games, going 2-2. Chassidy averages 35.7 mpg while Empress (32.3 mpg) and Nneka (31.9 mpg) also average over 30 mpg. Five others all average double digit minutes.
Projected starting lineups based on last game played: not that there is much guesswork about KSU’s lineup:
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Texas KSU
Nneka (6-1 Soph. F) Craig (5-10 Fr. G)
Imani (6-7 Fr. C) Caron (5-11 Jr. G/F)
Empress (5-7 Fr. G) Chambers (5-8 Sr. G)
Chassidy (5-10 Jr. G) Texada (5-7 Soph. G)
Celina (5-8 Fr. G) White (5-7 Sr. G) [/pre]
KSU had a hard time stopping Texas from going inside in their last game as Nneka and Imani combined for 27 rebounds and 38 pts on 17 of 26 shooting (65%). They also went 4-5 from the FT line. 60% of KSU’s shots were from BTA and they converted only 22%. Texas should present an even more imposing defense inside due to more experience for Gigi and Sara as well as Imani. It will be tough for KSU to grab rebounds. They did make a more concerted effort to inside in the ISU game. But Horns will need to shut down the KSU 3pt shooting game and keep the Wildcats from getting second chance points. For the Horns, they have settled in to a active ten player roster with a base rotation of eight.
Empress has started to score to help provide another perimeter scoring option for the Horns besides Chassidy. The inside game and the addition of Empress as a scoring threat should allow Chassidy to face more one on one defense although she remains the main defensive focus for other teams.
TEAM STATISTICS UT KSU
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SCORING................. 605 685
Points per game....... 55.0 [9] 62.3 [8]
Scoring Defense....... 65.2 [6] 70.7 [10]
Scoring margin........ -10.2 [9] -8.5 [8]
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 230-627 232-654
Field goal pct........ .367 [8] .355 [9]
FGs made per game..... 20.9 21.1
FGs att per game...... 57.0 59.5
Opp. FGs made per game 23.3 26.4
Opp. FGs att per game. 57.5 58.4
FG % Defense.......... .405 [5] .452 [10]
2 POINT FG-ATT.......... 193-470 135-317
2-point FG pct........ .411 .429
2-pt FG made per game. 17.5 12.3
2-pt FG att per game.. 42.7 28.8
Opp. 2-pters made..... 16.6 20.5
Opp. 2-pters att...... 38.5 43.5
2-pt FG % Defense..... .432 .472
3 POINT FG-ATT.......... 37-157 97-337
3-point FG pct.......... .236 [10] .288 [8]
3-pt FG made per game. 3.36 [9] 8.82 [1]
3-pt FG att per game.. 14.3 30.6
Opp. 3-pters made..... 6.6 2.1
Opp. 3-pters att...... 18.9 14.8
3-pt FG % Defense..... .351 [9] .393 [10]
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 108-170 124-163
Free throw pct........ .635 [10] .761 [4]
F-Throws made per game 9.8 11.3
FTs att per game...... 15.5 14.8
Opp. FTs made per game 12.0 12.2
Opp. FTs att per game. 17.5 15.5
REBOUNDS................ 441 361
Rebounds per game..... 40.1 [2] 32.8 [10]
Opponent RPG.......... 34.8 [2] 40.1 [t-7]
Rebounding margin..... +5.3 [3] -7.3 [9] Off. Rebs. Per game... 16.27 [1] 11.27 [8] Def. Rebs. Per Game... 23.82 [6] 21.55 [9] Opp. Off. RPG......... 12.73 12.00 Opp. Def. RGP......... 22.09 28.09 ASSISTS................. 117 119
Assists per game...... 10.64 [8] 10.82 [7]
TURNOVERS............... 227 147
Turnovers per game.... 20.6 13.4
Opponent TOs per game. 16.4 14.5
Turnover margin....... -4.27 [9] +1.09 [5]
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.52 [10] 0.81 [6]
STEALS.................. 85 88
Steals per game....... 7.73 [8] 8.00 [6]
Opponents SPG......... 9.64 5.91
BLOCKS.................. 44 11
Blocks per game....... 4.00 [t-4] 1.00 [1]
Opponents BPG......... 3.64 2.73
ATTENDANCE.............. 26077 28008
Home games-Avg/Game... 6-4346 [6] 6-4668 [5]
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SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st Ave. 2nd Ave. OT Ave. 2OT Ave. Total Ave.
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Texas.................... 264 24.0 335 30.5 6 0.5 - - 605 55.0
UT Opponents............. 350 31.8 353 32.1 14 1.3 - - 717 65.2
KSU...................... 319 29.0 335 30.5 25 2.3 6 0.5 685 62.3
KSU Opponents............ 367 33.4 377 34.3 19 1.7 15 1.4 778 70.7 [/pre]
Texas won the first game by holding KSU to about 24% from the field and from BTA. They did not send them to the FT line as KSU only had five FT attempts. Both Imani and Nneka ended up with double doubles. Expect more of the same from each team. KSU takes just over half their shots from BTA. Texas goes inside to take advantage of their height. Texas will have a solid 8 player rotation while KSU will use all seven available players. The Texas frosh will have a ton more experience since the last time they played. Empress is starting to become a reliable scorer to help spread the defensive focus on the perimeter. Neither team is burning up the nets scoring and they continue to have trouble stopping others from scoring. While KSU scores a bit more than Texas, that is due more to their ability to hoist up over 30 threes a game and make about nine of them. The Texas perimeter defenders should be able to pressure the KSU shooters, depending on the posts to stop any penetration by KSU guards if they get by the Texas guards.
Even playing in KSU’s home court, Texas should be able to dominate inside, both in scoring and rebounding. KSU will look to hit on at least a third of their 3s (30-40 attempts) to keep them in the game and give them a chance to win the game.
texassports.com game preview
kstatesports.com game preview
The game starts at 7 PM CST. TV is on FOX Sports Midwest (in Austin, looks like that is TWC 432-Fox Sports Central). Otherwise, an online option is kstateHDTV or cbssports.com . You do need a paid subscription to either KState HDTV or CBSSports.com.
From the texassports.com game preview:
Game Day Information
TV: Brian Smoller (play-by-play) and Missy Heidrick (analyst) have the call on the FOX Sports Kansas City telecast of the game.
RADIO: The radio broadcast with Jon Madani on play-by-play and Amie Smith Bradley as color analyst will air on KVET-AM 1300 “The Zone.”
KSU is led is scoring by Brittany Chambers (# 2, 5-8 Sr. G) at 19.1 ppg. Haley Texada (# 1, 5-7 Soph. G) joins her in double digit scoring at 13.8 ppg. Mariah White (# 22, 5-7 Sr. G) averages 8.9 ppg after going off for 25 pts in their last game against ISU. Chambers had 34 in that same game. Brianna “Bri” Craig (# 20, 5-10 Fr. G) is fourth at 8.8 ppg. Their fifth starter, Chantay Caron (# 11, 5-11 Jr. G/F) adds 5.8 ppg. While White has the best shooting percentage overall (34-59, 57.6%) and from BTA (8-17, 47.1%), Chambers is the main shooter from the field (66-182, 36.3%) and from BTA (28-94, 29.8%) with Texada (51-135, 37.8%) and Craig (35-129, 27.1%) also averaging over 11 shots per game. Craig (22-85, 25.9%) and Texada (22-68, 32.4%) join Chambers as the primary 3pt threats for the Wildcats. Horns will need to keep in mind that White took almost a third of her 3pters in the ISU game, making 60% (3-5). Chambers gets to the FT line an average of six times a game (50-65) and makes 76.9% of her FTs. Only two players make less than 70% of their FTs. They have taken 9 and 2 FTs each. Texada at 82.4% (24-34) tops KSU in FT percentage with the rest at around 75%. This is not really a team to put on the FT line.
With two injuries suffered a couple of weeks ago dropping active players to seven, KSU has leaned heavily on their starters. Chambers, Craig and White have started all 11 league games with Texada and Caron joining the starting lineup for nine and seven games respectively. Heidi Brown (# 10, 5-11 Soph. G) and Kendra Spresser (# 5-5 Jr. Transfer G) are the bench for KSU. Chambers averages over 40 mpg for KSU (40.4 mpg) due to a double OT game against Kansas. Texada (31.4 mpg), Craig (35.8 mpg) and White (37.2 mpg) all average over 30 mpg while Caron is at an average of 28.5 mpg and Brown at 14.7 mpg. Spresser is averaging 7.6 mpg.
Chassidy edges Nneka for the scoring lead, 11.9 to 11.8. Imani is third in scoring at 11.0 ppg. Empress adds 7.6 ppg. Texas has four players that have taken at least 97 shots with Gigi’s 40 attempts fifth on the team. Nneka (47-107, 43.9%) , Imani (47-112, 42.0%) share the lead for number of FGs made while Chassidy (40-122, 32.8%) leads in FG attempts. Empress is just off of joining the100+ FG attempts club at 36-97 (37.1%). Chassidy (15-63, 23.8%) and Gigi (6-23, 26.1%) are the main 3pt threats for the Horns with Ashley (10-24, 41.7%) sidelined with an injury. Horns entered Big 12 play averaging 64.8% from the FT line. They were around 50-55% for most of first nine games. Currently, they are at 63.5%. Part of that is the ability of Imani (26-34, 76.5%) and Nneka (24-33, 72.7%) to get to the FT line and convert. Brady (15-17, 88.2%) leads in FT percentage while Chassidy uncharacteristically is at 12-18 (66.7%). That is 21% points lower than her FT average during the pre conference games (87.8%).
Imani (9.6 rpg), Nneka (7.9 rpg) and Chassidy (6.1 rpg) top the Horns in rebounding. Empress adds 4.2 rpg to the mix. Empress and Celina are tied with 27 assists in 11 conference games. Chassidy (15) and Imani (12) are the other two Horns with double figure assists. Imani has 25 blocks to lead Texas. That ties her for third in the league. Nneka with six blocks is second on the team. Texas has four players with double digit steals led by Celina and Nneka with 15 apiece. Chassidy has 14 steals and Brady has 10 steals.Imani and Empress have started all 11 league games. Nneka (ten starts) and Chassidy (nine starts) have started all league games they have played in. Celina has six starts while Gigi and Sara have one start each. Imani, Empress, Nneka, Chassidy and Celina have started the last four games, going 2-2. Chassidy averages 35.7 mpg while Empress (32.3 mpg) and Nneka (31.9 mpg) also average over 30 mpg. Five others all average double digit minutes.
Projected starting lineups based on last game played: not that there is much guesswork about KSU’s lineup:
[pre]
Texas KSU
Nneka (6-1 Soph. F) Craig (5-10 Fr. G)
Imani (6-7 Fr. C) Caron (5-11 Jr. G/F)
Empress (5-7 Fr. G) Chambers (5-8 Sr. G)
Chassidy (5-10 Jr. G) Texada (5-7 Soph. G)
Celina (5-8 Fr. G) White (5-7 Sr. G) [/pre]
KSU had a hard time stopping Texas from going inside in their last game as Nneka and Imani combined for 27 rebounds and 38 pts on 17 of 26 shooting (65%). They also went 4-5 from the FT line. 60% of KSU’s shots were from BTA and they converted only 22%. Texas should present an even more imposing defense inside due to more experience for Gigi and Sara as well as Imani. It will be tough for KSU to grab rebounds. They did make a more concerted effort to inside in the ISU game. But Horns will need to shut down the KSU 3pt shooting game and keep the Wildcats from getting second chance points. For the Horns, they have settled in to a active ten player roster with a base rotation of eight.
Empress has started to score to help provide another perimeter scoring option for the Horns besides Chassidy. The inside game and the addition of Empress as a scoring threat should allow Chassidy to face more one on one defense although she remains the main defensive focus for other teams.
TEAM STATISTICS UT KSU
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SCORING................. 605 685
Points per game....... 55.0 [9] 62.3 [8]
Scoring Defense....... 65.2 [6] 70.7 [10]
Scoring margin........ -10.2 [9] -8.5 [8]
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 230-627 232-654
Field goal pct........ .367 [8] .355 [9]
FGs made per game..... 20.9 21.1
FGs att per game...... 57.0 59.5
Opp. FGs made per game 23.3 26.4
Opp. FGs att per game. 57.5 58.4
FG % Defense.......... .405 [5] .452 [10]
2 POINT FG-ATT.......... 193-470 135-317
2-point FG pct........ .411 .429
2-pt FG made per game. 17.5 12.3
2-pt FG att per game.. 42.7 28.8
Opp. 2-pters made..... 16.6 20.5
Opp. 2-pters att...... 38.5 43.5
2-pt FG % Defense..... .432 .472
3 POINT FG-ATT.......... 37-157 97-337
3-point FG pct.......... .236 [10] .288 [8]
3-pt FG made per game. 3.36 [9] 8.82 [1]
3-pt FG att per game.. 14.3 30.6
Opp. 3-pters made..... 6.6 2.1
Opp. 3-pters att...... 18.9 14.8
3-pt FG % Defense..... .351 [9] .393 [10]
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 108-170 124-163
Free throw pct........ .635 [10] .761 [4]
F-Throws made per game 9.8 11.3
FTs att per game...... 15.5 14.8
Opp. FTs made per game 12.0 12.2
Opp. FTs att per game. 17.5 15.5
REBOUNDS................ 441 361
Rebounds per game..... 40.1 [2] 32.8 [10]
Opponent RPG.......... 34.8 [2] 40.1 [t-7]
Rebounding margin..... +5.3 [3] -7.3 [9] Off. Rebs. Per game... 16.27 [1] 11.27 [8] Def. Rebs. Per Game... 23.82 [6] 21.55 [9] Opp. Off. RPG......... 12.73 12.00 Opp. Def. RGP......... 22.09 28.09 ASSISTS................. 117 119
Assists per game...... 10.64 [8] 10.82 [7]
TURNOVERS............... 227 147
Turnovers per game.... 20.6 13.4
Opponent TOs per game. 16.4 14.5
Turnover margin....... -4.27 [9] +1.09 [5]
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.52 [10] 0.81 [6]
STEALS.................. 85 88
Steals per game....... 7.73 [8] 8.00 [6]
Opponents SPG......... 9.64 5.91
BLOCKS.................. 44 11
Blocks per game....... 4.00 [t-4] 1.00 [1]
Opponents BPG......... 3.64 2.73
ATTENDANCE.............. 26077 28008
Home games-Avg/Game... 6-4346 [6] 6-4668 [5]
[pre]
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st Ave. 2nd Ave. OT Ave. 2OT Ave. Total Ave.
------------------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ----
Texas.................... 264 24.0 335 30.5 6 0.5 - - 605 55.0
UT Opponents............. 350 31.8 353 32.1 14 1.3 - - 717 65.2
KSU...................... 319 29.0 335 30.5 25 2.3 6 0.5 685 62.3
KSU Opponents............ 367 33.4 377 34.3 19 1.7 15 1.4 778 70.7 [/pre]
Texas won the first game by holding KSU to about 24% from the field and from BTA. They did not send them to the FT line as KSU only had five FT attempts. Both Imani and Nneka ended up with double doubles. Expect more of the same from each team. KSU takes just over half their shots from BTA. Texas goes inside to take advantage of their height. Texas will have a solid 8 player rotation while KSU will use all seven available players. The Texas frosh will have a ton more experience since the last time they played. Empress is starting to become a reliable scorer to help spread the defensive focus on the perimeter. Neither team is burning up the nets scoring and they continue to have trouble stopping others from scoring. While KSU scores a bit more than Texas, that is due more to their ability to hoist up over 30 threes a game and make about nine of them. The Texas perimeter defenders should be able to pressure the KSU shooters, depending on the posts to stop any penetration by KSU guards if they get by the Texas guards.
Even playing in KSU’s home court, Texas should be able to dominate inside, both in scoring and rebounding. KSU will look to hit on at least a third of their 3s (30-40 attempts) to keep them in the game and give them a chance to win the game.
texassports.com game preview
kstatesports.com game preview
The game starts at 7 PM CST. TV is on FOX Sports Midwest (in Austin, looks like that is TWC 432-Fox Sports Central). Otherwise, an online option is kstateHDTV or cbssports.com . You do need a paid subscription to either KState HDTV or CBSSports.com.
From the texassports.com game preview:
Game Day Information
TV: Brian Smoller (play-by-play) and Missy Heidrick (analyst) have the call on the FOX Sports Kansas City telecast of the game.
RADIO: The radio broadcast with Jon Madani on play-by-play and Amie Smith Bradley as color analyst will air on KVET-AM 1300 “The Zone.”
