KU Women's Hoops Opens Three-Game Homestand with Texas on Wednesday
Jan. 22, 2013
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The Kansas women’s basketball team opens a three-game homestand Wednesday night when the Jayhawks host Texas at Allen Fieldhouse. The game is scheduled to tip at 7 p.m.
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QUICK HITS ABOUT KANSASWBB
- This game features two teams in search of a much-needed win. Kansas enters with a three-game losing streak, while Texas has lost eight-straight games and 10 of its last 12 after opening the season 5-0.
- The Jayhawks are 9-1 at Allen Fieldhouse this season and are 5-5 all-time against Texas in Lawrence, Kan.
- 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 needs only four points to become the 26th 1,000-point scorer in Kansas history. She enters the game with 996 career points and will join teammates Davis and Monica Engelman in the 1,000-point club.
- Davis enters the contest with eight-straight double-figure outputs and has scored double-digits in 14 of the 16 games this season.
- Chelsea Gardner enters the game on the heels of her third-career double-double, after scoring 18 points and grabbing 13 rebounds at Texas Tech Saturday.
- Kansas has five players on its roster with at least one career 20-point scoring game in Davis, Engelman, Goodrich, Gardner and CeCe Harper.
- For the first time this season, Kansas is not included in either of the top-25 national polls. After three-straight league losses, the Jayhawks dropped out of the USA Today Coaches Top-25 Poll for the first time all season and ended a nine-week run in the Associated Press Top-25 Poll.
- Goodrich is tops in the Big 12 Conference with 3.1 steals per game.
- Goodrich led the nation in assists per game with 7.4 last season and is currently averaging 6.5 assists per game this year.
- Kansas is trying to avoid its first four-game losing skid since dropping five-straight during the 2010-11 season.
- The Jayhawk bench has outscored its opponent in each of the last six games and in 12 of 16 games this season.
ABOUT TEXAS
- Texas is located in Austin, Texas, and has an enrollment of 52,213.
- The Longhorns return two starters from a team that went 18-14 last season, including an 8-10 mark in Big 12 Conference play. Texas advanced to the NCAA Tournament, but lost in the first round to now-Big 12 member West Virginia, 68-55.
- Texas was tabbed to finish fifth in the Big 12 Conference Preseason Poll, as voted on by the league’s head coaches.
FIVE SCORE AND …
A group of 20 units is known as a score and Kansas has five different players on its roster who have grouped together 20 points or more in a single game during their respective careers. CeCe Harper is the most recent member with a career-best 21 points against Baylor on Jan. 13. Joining Harper as 20-point scorers are Carolyn Davis, Monica Engelman, Chelsea Gardner and Angel Goodrich.JOINING THE CLUBS
With four points, senior Angel Goodrich will become the 26th player in Kansas history to score 1,000 career points. She enters the game with 996 career tallies. After sinking three treys against Baylor on Jan. 13, Goodrich became just the ninth Jayhawk to make 100 or more three-point field goals in a career. She now has 102 career threes.IT IS A GRAND, GRAND, GRAND YEAR
When Angel Goodrich joins the 1,000-point club at Kansas, this year’s team will have three 1,000-point scorers on the roster. Goodrich joins Carolyn Davis and Monica Engelman, who also became a member of the club this season. The last time KU fielded three 1,000-point scorers in the same season was the 2000-01 campaign with Jaclyn Johnson, Brooke Reyes and Jennifer Jackson.WHAT THE?
Prior to the game at Texas Tech, Kansas was 10-0 this season when outrebounding its opponent and 9-0 when the Jayhawks shot better than their foe from the field. At Texas Tech, KU outrebounded the Lady Raiders, 39-36, and outshot them by one percentage point, but Texas Tech won the game, 70-63.GARDNER FOR THE BLOCK
Since starting Big 12 Conference play, sophomore Chelsea Gardner has been in the center of the lane for the block. Gardner has posted nine swats in five league contests, which already equals her nine rejections during non-conference action.CeCE, SÍ SÍ
Prior to the Baylor game on Jan. 13, junior CeCe Harper had a career-high of 10 points, which she had scored three times, including twice this season. That all changed against the nation’s top team, as Harper fired in a career-best 21 points on 7-for-14 shooting, behind a career-best three treys on six attempts.GETTING SOME BENCH WORK
Kansas’ bench has proven to be an asset this season, especially over the last six games. During that span, KU’s bench has outscored its opponent’s bench in all six games by a combined 116-53 margin. On the season, KU subs have scored 329 points, or 20.6 per game, while the opposing bench has totaled 209.CHELSEA LATELY
Comparing the sophomore numbers of Chelsea Gardner to her freshman stats, it is obvious that there is no sophomore slump going on here. In fact, Gardner is nearly doubling her production. The KU sophomore forward is averaging 8.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per contest this season, as opposed to 4.7 points and 3.7 boards last year. In addition, she has also improved her field goal percentage by 22 points and her free throw success rate by 213 percentage points.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 eight times this campaign and boast a 3-5 (.375) mark.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 five losses, KU opponents are shooting 45.7 percent and the Jayhawks have a -10.2 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. Davis now has 1,550 career points and needs 19 points to claim the No. 9 position and pass Charisse Sampson (1,568).THE 600-CLUB
Senior Angel Goodrich led the Jayhawks with nine assists against in-state rival Kansas State (Jan. 2). 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 630 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 57 assists away from becoming the all-time leader at Kansas, while Davis already is atop the all-time career field goal percentage chart. 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.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. 30 nationally with 3.1 steals per game.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.THIS IS RANK
After three-straight Big 12 losses, Kansas dropped out of the USA Today Coaches Poll for the first time all season this week. The Jayhawks are also out of the Associated Press Top-25 Poll, ending a nine-week run. KU received 20 votes in the coaches poll this week and 14 in the AP poll.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.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 6.5 assists per game, which ranks third in the Big 12 Conference and No. 12 nationally.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 77 times in her career with the Jayhawks and KU was victorious in 52 of those games for a .675 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.).
