Kansas Hosts Texas Tech Sunday on FOX Sports Net
Feb. 22, 2013
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The Kansas women’s basketball team enters Sunday’s game against Texas Tech in a three-way tie for fifth-place in the Big 12 Conference, while the Lady Raiders are in a three-way tie for second in the league. The crucial league contest will tip off at noon from Allen Fieldhouse and will be televised by FOX Sports Net.
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QUICK HITS ABOUT KANSASWBB
- Kansas enters the game as winners in four of its last seven games, but is coming off a game in which the Jayhawks surrendered 93 points, the largest point total against KU in Big 12 history. Texas Tech has won three of its last four.
- The Jayhawks are 3-6 all-time against Texas Tech in Lawrence, Kan., including a 62-43 win last season. That victory ended a six-game losing streak against the Lady Raiders in Allen Fieldhouse.
- Kansas has six players on its roster (Carolyn Davis, Monica Engelman, Angel Goodrich, Chelsea Gardner, Natalie Knight and CeCe Harper) with at least one 20-point scoring game this season.
- Goodrich is the all-time career assists leader in Kansas history and enters the game with 693 assists. With seven more, Goodrich would become the eighth player in Big 12 Conference history to post 700 or more assists.
- Kansas seniors Davis, Goodrich and Engelman are each members of the 1,000-point scoring club with Goodrich and Engelman joining this season.
- Goodrich is one of seven finalists for the 14th Annual Nancy Lieberman Award, which is presented to the nation’s top-collegiate point guard in women’s NCAA Division I basketball.
- Goodrich was named to the John R. Wooden Midseason Top-20 List on Jan. 22.
- Davis and Goodrich were 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 to open the season.
- Kansas is 13-1 this season when it outrebounds its opponent.
- Gardner and Davis are No. 2 and No. 4 in the Big 12 Conference rankings for season field goal percentage, respectively.
- Davis has put together back-to-back 20-point game efforts and enters the game averaging 23.5 points per game during that span.
ABOUT TEXAS TECH
- Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas, and has an enrollment of 32,611.
- The Lady Raiders return four starters from a team that went 21-14 last season, but finished ninth in the Big 12 Conference with a 6-12 mark. TTU advanced to the third round of the WNIT before falling to San Diego, 60-51.
- Texas Tech was tabbed to finish eighth in the Big 12 Conference Preseason Poll, as voted on by the league’s head coaches.
THE BEST OF ALL DIMES
Senior Angel Goodrich dished out 10 assists on Feb. 17 against Oklahoma and became Kansas’ all-time career assist leader in the process. Goodrich surpassed Lisa Braddy, whose 686 assists owned the school mark since 1990. Goodrich now has 693 career assists and with seven more, she will become the eighth player in Big 12 Conference history to post 700 or more career assists. Goodrich will join Erin Grant (844 – Texas Tech), Shalee Lehning (800 – K-State), Stacey Dales (764 – Oklahoma), Danielle Robinson (726 – Oklahoma), Toccara Williams (724 – Texas A&M), Lyndsey Medders (719 – Iowa State) and Andrea Riley (707 – Oklahoma State).SENIOR MOVEMENT
As the regular season winds down, Kansas is getting great offensive play from its senior class – Carolyn Davis, Monica Engelman and Angel Goodrich. Over the last three games, the Jayhawk seniors have combined to score 178 points. During that stretch, KU as a team has scored 240 points with the seniors contributing 74.2 percent of the scoring.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 13 times this campaign and boast a 5-8 (.385) mark, including an 18-point comeback against Iowa State (Jan. 30) and a 23-point come-from-behind win at TCU (Feb. 13).BEST OF SEVEN
Angel Goodrich was named a finalist for the 14th Annual Nancy Lieberman Award on Feb. 21. The award will be presented during the 2013 Final Four to the nation’s top-collegiate point guard in women’s NCAA Division I basketball. Goodrich was joined on the list by Alex Bentley (Penn State), Skylar Diggins (Notre Dame), Chelsea Gray (Duke), Lindsey Moore (Nebraska), Odyssey Sims (Baylor) and Haley Steed (BYU).GOING FOR 30
Senior Angel Goodrich sank a career-best 31 points at Texas (Feb. 21), which was the first 30-point effort by a Jayhawk in over a year. Coincidentally, the last 30-point scoring game at KU was Carolyn Davis’ 34-point effort against Texas Tech last season at Allen Fieldhouse (Jan. 25, 2012).MONEY MONI
Senior Monica Engelman poured in a career-high 26 points at TCU, including 18 in the second half, and followed that performance with a 21-point game against Oklahoma in Allen Fieldhouse. The back-to-back 20-point games marked the first by Engelman since Dec. 19, 2010.ELITE COMPANY
With her 23 points and eight rebounds at Texas (Feb. 20), senior Carolyn Davis joined the elite 1,700-point and 700 rebound club at Kansas. She is only the seventh member, joining Lynette Woodard, Adrian Mitchell, Angela Aycock, Danielle McCray, Vickie Adkins and Lynn Pride.SENIOR CLASS GOES 3G
With 20 points against Texas on Jan. 23, senior Angel Goodrich became the 26th player in Kansas history to score 1,000 career points. 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. This year’s senior class is only 30 points shy of going 4G with a combined 3,970 points scored.TWENTY SOMETHING
When Carolyn Davis scores 20 or more points in a game, the Jayhawks usually come out on top. Davis has 34 20-point efforts in her career and KU boasts a 28-6 (.824) record in those contests.POSTS WITH THE MOST
Senior Carolyn Davis and sophomore Chelsea Gardner make more shots than they miss and the duo is among the best in the league for field goal accuracy. Gardner ranks second in the conference with a 57.2 field goal percentage, while Davis is fourth at 55.6 percent. Davis is also No. 14 nationally, while Gardner does not currently average enough made field goals per game to qualify for the national rankings.SIX SCORE AND …
A group of 20 units is known as a score and KU has six different players on its roster who have grouped together 20 points or more in a single game this season. Monica Engelman is the most recent member with a career-best 26 points at TCU on Feb. 13. Joining Engelman as 20-point scorers are Carolyn Davis, Chelsea Gardner, Natalie Knight, CeCe Harper and Angel Goodrich.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 33 swats in 14 league contests, after posting nine rejections during non-conference action. She ranks third in the league for Big 12 games only with 2.4 blocks per game.OFFENSE GOES THROUGH GOODRICH
Point guard Angel Goodrich has 348 points this season and 167 assists. By calculating two points for every assist, Goodrich is directly responsible for a total of 682 of Kansas’ 1,738 points, which comes out to 39.2 percent of the Jayhawks’ scoring.MOVING ON UP
With her 23 points at Texas, senior Carolyn Davis has scored 1,710 career points and is in sole possession of seventh place on the all-time scoring charts. The KU senior now needs 65 points to surpass Lynn Pride (1,774) for the No. 6 position.FILLING THE BOYD
As of late, Asia Boyd is filling it up from three-point range. Boyd has 17 three-pointers on the season, but 13 have come in the last seven games and 15 have been made in Big 12 Conference play.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 the all-time career leader at Kansas, while Davis is also 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.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 9.0 points and 6.4 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 31 points and her free throw success rate by 137 percentage points.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. 27 nationally with 3.0 steals per game. Goodrich needs just 13 more steals to crack into the top-10 of the Kansas’ single-season record book.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.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 6.7 assists per game, which ranks third in the Big 12 Conference and No. 10 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 100-11 record (.901) during her tenure. When KU opponents score less than 70 points, the Jayhawks are 131-69 (.655) during that span.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.).
