KU Women Host No. 1 Baylor Sunday
Jan. 10, 2013
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Coming off its first Big 12 Conference loss of the season, the No. 17/19 Kansas women’s basketball team will now face the defending national champions, as the Jayhawks host No. 1 Baylor Sunday inside Allen Fieldhouse at 1:30 p.m.
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QUICK HITS ABOUT KANSASWBB
- Kansas has lost five-straight games to Baylor and 15 of the last 16 contests. KU is 4-6 all-time against Baylor in Allen Fieldhouse.
- The Jayhawks are coming off of their worst defeat of the season, a 17-point loss at Oklahoma State. During that game, KU trailed by as many as 18 points, which was its largest deficit of the season.
- Kansas enters the game with a 9-0 home record this season.
- Carolyn Davis and Angel Goodrich are both on the watch lists for the Wade Trophy, the Wooden Award and the Naismith Award, as two of the top players in the nation.
- Goodrich enters the game riding a seven-game double-digit scoring streak and leads the Jayhawks during that span with 16.7 points per game, including two 20-point performances.
- With two made three-pointers, Goodrich will post 100 made treys in her career becoming just the ninth player in KU history to sink 100 or more three-point field goals in a career.
- For the eighth-straight week, Kansas is ranked in the Associated Press Top-25 Poll. The Jayhawks are ranked No. 17, climbing four spots after a pair of Big 12 wins. The Jayhawks have been ranked each week this season in the USA Today Coaches Top-25 Poll, and are No. 19 this week.
- Goodrich is tops in the Big 12 Conference with 3.4 steals per game.
- Goodrich led the nation in assists per game with 7.4 last season and is currently averaging 6.6 assists per game this year. Goodrich was named to the preseason First Team All-Big 12 and was tabbed as a 2012 Associated Press Preseason All-America honorable mention selection.
- Kansas is 10-0 this season when outrebounding its opponents.
- The Jayhawks boast a 9-0 record when outshooting their foes.
- Kansas is looking to start Big 12 play 3-1 for the second-straight season.
ABOUT BAYLOR
- Baylor is located in Waco, Texas, and has an enrollment of 14,900.
- The Lady Bears return four starters from a team that went 40-0 last season and won the NCAA National Championship.
- Baylor was tabbed to finish first in the Big 12 Conference Preseason Poll, as voted on by the league’s head coaches.
- Senior Brittney Griner was also tabbed to repeat as the Big 12 Player of the Year, after winning the national player of the year last season.
THE CENTURY CLUB
With two more made three-pointers, senior Angel Goodrich will have 100 made threes during her Kansas career. With that milestone, Goodrich will become only the ninth player in KU history to make 100 or more treys in a career.THE COMEBACK KIDS
Heading into the 2012-13 season, under head coach Bonnie Henrickson, Kansas was 19-89 (.176) in games where the team trailed at the half. Things are a bit different this season. The Jayhawks have trailed at the half six times this campaign and boast a 3-3 (.500) mark.TOEING THE LINE
During the non-conference season, Kansas averaged 18.1 free throw attempts per game. Already in three Big 12 Conference match-ups, KU has averaged 22.3 free throw tries per contest.WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
In the 11 Kansas victories this season, the Jayhawks have held their opponents to 36.9 percent shooting from the field and posted an +10.1 rebounding advantage. However, in the thee losses, KU opponents are shooting 47.1 percent and the Jayhawks have a -12.3 rebounding deficit.MOVING ON UP
Senior Carolyn Davis entered the Oklahoma State game with 1,513 career points and needed only six points to move into the KU all-time top-10 scoring list. Davis finished with 14 points and surpassed Angie Snider (1,518) for the 10th spot.THE 600-CLUB
Senior Angel Goodrich led the Jayhawks with nine assists against in-state rival Kansas State last week. With the nine dimes, Goodrich joined Lisa Braddy as the only two players in KU history to post 600 or more assists in a career. Goodrich now has 618 assists in her career, while Braddy dished out 686 assists.START2FINISH
Senior national player of the year candidates Angel Goodrich and Carolyn Davis have built a career on complimenting each other. Goodrich, the nation’s assist leader last season, is only 81 assists away from becoming the all-time leader at Kansas, while Davis already is atop the all-time career field goal percentage chart and boasts a 25 percentage point lead over the closest challenger. So the duo is truly the essence of start to finish. To highlight their senior season, a promotional website KUStart2Finish.com has been created to promote these player of the year candidates.TORCHING THE TWINE
Kansas enters the Baylor game shooting 45.1 percent from the field, including 44.3 percent in Big 12 Conference play. The Jayhawks rank No. 4 the in league, while No. 18 nationally in field goal percentage. If the season ended today, it would mark the fifth-straight season in which KU shot 45 percent or better from the field.JUST IMAGINE
National player of the year candidate Carolyn Davis has seen controlled minutes during the early part of the season as she works her way back from her season-ending knee injury last year. As a result, Davis is averaging just 26.1 minutes per game and is leading the team with 15.5 points per game. By prorating her production over 40 minutes, Davis would be averaging 23.8 points per game for KU.CHELSEA LATELY
Sophomore Chelsea Gardner became the fourth player on the Kansas roster to post 20 or more points in a collegiate game when she tossed in a career-best 26 points against Grambling State. Gardner also added 10 rebounds to record the second double-double of her career. In her last nine games combined, Gardner is averaging 11.1 points per contest, along with 5.9 rebounds per game. She also shot a combined 40-for-62 (.645) from the field.MONEY MONI
Senior Monica Engelman posted back-to-back double-digit scoring games against Newman and Prairie View A&M, her first in nearly a calendar year. Engelman is averaging 7.4 points per game, ranks fourth on the team in rebounding with 5.0 boards per contest and ranks second in assists with 39.A KNIGHT’S TALE
Sophomore Natalie Knight does all the little things that often go unnoticed, but one thing is for sure, Kansas is at its best when she is on the floor. Through 14 games, Knight leads the Jayhawks with a +10.50 plus-minus rating, which means that KU scores nearly 11 more points than its opponent per game when Knight is on the court.SHE GIVETH and SHE TAKETH AWAY
Angel Goodrich’s ability to share the ball is well documented after leading the nation in assists per game last season. Goodrich is also pretty good at taking the ball away. The Kansas senior leads the Big 12 Conference in steals per game and she also ranks No. 18 nationally with 3.4 steals per game.PULLING RANK
Kansas is ranked in the Associated Press Top-25 Poll for the eighth-straight week, climbing four spots and coming in at No. 17. KU has also been ranked in the USA Today Coaches Poll each of the 10 previous weeks this season, including a No. 19 ranking in this week’s poll.O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
For the third-straight season, seniors Carolyn Davis and Angel Goodrich will serve as team captains for the Jayhawks during the 2012-13 campaign.FIRST WADE, THEN WOODEN, NOW NAISMITH
Kansas seniors Carolyn Davis and Angel Goodrich are two of the 25 NCAA Division I women’s basketball student-athletes to be named to the 2012-13 State Farm® Wade Trophy Watch List. The Kansas duo has also been tabbed for John R. Wooden Award Women’s Preseason Top-30 List, and are both on the 50-player list for the 2012-13 Naismith Women’s College Player of the Year presented by AT&T early season watch list.MASTERS OF THEIR CRAFT
The senior writers of espnW collaborated and came up with the top-five players in the nation by position. Once again, Angel Goodrich and Carolyn Davis found themselves among the nation’s elite. Goodrich was classified as one of the country’s top-five point guards, while Davis was tabbed as one of the nation’s best five centers.SHOWING A LOT OF CLASS
Prior to the start of the regular season, senior Angel Goodrich was named one of 30 national finalists for the prestigious Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition.JOINING THE CLUB
With 10 points against Kansas State on Jan. 2, Monica Engelman became the 25th player in Kansas history to join the 1,000-point club. Engelman now has 1,008 career points and joins Carolyn Davis as 1,000-point scorers on the roster. Also keep an eye on Angel Goodrich, who is looking to join the club and only needs 27 points.A NATIONAL LEADER
Senior Angel Goodrich entered this season as the reigning national champion in assists per game. Goodrich paced the Jayhawks with a school and Big 12 record 250 assists last season, or 7.4 per game. Goodrich currently averages 6.6 assists per game, which ranks third in the Big 12 Conference.THAT 70’s SHOW
Kansas’ success during the Bonnie Henrickson-era has been pretty much based on 70 points. When the Jayhawks score 70 or more points, Kansas owns a 95-10 record (.905) during her tenure. When KU opponents score less than 70 points, the Jayhawks are 130-68 (.657) during that span.TWENTY SOMETHING
When Carolyn Davis scores 20 or more points in a game, the Jayhawks usually come out on top. Davis has 31 20-point efforts in her career and KU boasts a 26-5 (.839) record in those contests.WHAT DOES FIVE DIMES EQUAL?
In addition to being 50 cents, five dimes from Angel Goodrich in a game also equals a good chance for a Kansas victory. Goodrich has collected five or more assists 75 times in her career with the Jayhawks and KU was victorious in 52 of those games for a .693 winning percentage.HOW SWEET IT IS
Kansas returned to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 last season for the first time since 1998. It marked the third time in school history that the Jayhawks advanced to the Sweet 16 and was Kansas’ 12th NCAA Tournament appearance.PLAN FOR POSTSEASON
Faithful followers of the Kansas women’s basketball program have learned to plan for postseason play. In Bonnie Henrickson’s eight previous seasons with the Jayhawks, KU has advanced to postseason play six times, including five straight. In fact, in Henrickson’s head coaching career, she has led her team to postseason play 13 times in 15 seasons.RELOADING
How does a top-25 program stay in the national polls? Sign a top-25 recruiting class. That’s exactly what head coach Bonnie Henrickson and her staff did during the early signing period, inking the No. 14-ranked recruiting class in the nation, according to Collegiate Girls Basketball Report, and the top among Big 12 Conference schools. The class also ranked No. 25 nationally by Blue Star Basketball. The Jayhawks signed Jada Brown (6-0, F, Las Vegas, Nev.), Dakota Gonzalez (6-0, G, Pocatello, Idaho), Dylan Gonzalez (6-0, G, Pocatello, Idaho), Caelynn Manning-Allen (6-4, F, Chicago, Ill.) and Keyla Morgan (5-8, G, Rancho Dominguez, Calif.).
