March 1, 2011
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#5/5 TEXAS A&M (24-3, 12-2) vs. KANSAS STATE (18-9, 8-6)
Game #28
March 2, 2011 • 7:00 p.m. (CT)
Bramlage Coliseum (12,528)
Manhattan, Kan.
Television: FS Kansas City
Radio: Texas A&M Sports Network (KZNE 1150 AM)
Series History: Kansas State leads 11-7
Internet: Free Live Statistics and Live Audio at www.AggieAthletics.com
GAME PREVIEW
The No. 5 Texas A&M women's basketball team (24-3, 12-2) closes out the road portion of its Big 12 Conference schedule on Wednesday, March 2 when the team travels to Manhattan, Kan., to face Kansas State (18-9, 8-6). Tipoff between the Aggies and the Wildcats is set for 7 p.m. (CT) at Bramlage Coliseum. With just two regular season games remaining, A&M has secured at least a second-place finish in the Big 12 race. K-State on the other hand is currently tied for fourth place and is looking to obtain the No. 4 seed and a bye on the first day of the Big 12 Championship.
ON THE TUBE
Texas A&M will appear on the tube before a television audience for the ninth time this season. Play-by-play announcer Brian Smoller and color analyst Kristin Waller will call the action live on FS Kansas City (Direct TV 672 and Dish Network 449) and on cable's FCS Central.
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SCOUTING KANSAS STATE
Kansas State closes out the home portion of its schedule Wednesday night. The Wildcats are coming off of a pair of loses at No. 3 Baylor (48-75) and against No. 24 Iowa State (51-58). The team was picked to finish ninth in the Big 12 Preseason Poll, but proved the league wrong when it started the Big 12 portion of its schedule at 6-2. Since then, however, K-State has lost four of its last six games. The team is led by sophomore guard Brittany Chambers who averages 15.7 points and adds 5.6 rebounds per game. Junior forward Jalana Childs (14.0 ppg) and sophomore guard Taelor Karr (10.0 ppg) also score in double digits, while junior forward Branshea Brown grabs a team-best 5.8 rebounds per game. Head coach Deb Patterson is in her 15th year at the helm of the K-State program and holds a 297-173 (.632) career record.
PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS
TEXAS A&M
No. Name 2010-11 Stats
51 Tanisha Smith scored the last five points of the run and capped it with a 3-pointer while coach Danielle Gant. Only one other player in school history, Jaynetta Saunders, has even earned six weekly awards, five of which were rookie of the week accolades.
HOT FROM THE LINE
In 37 all-time seasons of A&M women's basketball, this year's team boasts the best free-throw percentage (73.4) in program history. Junior Takia Starks to tally the most points of any A&M women's basketball player in two consecutive seasons. Starks previously held that mark with 1,141 points from 2007-09.
FROM THE SIDELINES
• Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair is 5-5 lifetime versus Kansas State in his 26 years as a Division I head coach. Of Blair's five all-time wins, A&M handed the Wildcats' their second-fewest points ever scored in a Big 12 game in a 66-39 rout on Jan. 11, 2006 in College Station. Four of his career wins versus the Wildcats have been in Big 12 Conference play with the Aggies and the other during his Stephen F. Austin days, an 82-59 victory in Dallas on Dec. 11, 1987 over a K-State squad coached by Matilda Mossman.
• Aside from Missouri, Danielle Adams and Tyra White were also recruited in high school by Big 12 North rival Kansas State growing up two hours East of Manhattan in Kansas City, Mo. Both of their paths to Aggieland were different, but shared the same common denominator of current Aggie assistant coach Johnnie Harris who recruited all three while an assistant at Arkansas and Arkansas-Fort Smith. Adams originally signed with Missouri out of high school, but did not qualify academically and attended Jefferson (Mo.) College to become eligible for Division I play. Smith played one season at Arkansas, before transferring to UA-Fort Smith. White originally signed with LSU, but decided to transfer after the departure of head coach Pokey Chatman.
AGGIES ON THE RADIO
All Texas A&M women's basketball games can be heard via a radio broadcast on the Texas A&M Sports Network. Play-by-play announcer Mike Wright will call the action live from Bramlage Coliseum alongside color analyst Steve Miller on KZNE 1150 AM. A live audio feed will also be available on AggieAthletics.com and RadioAggieland.com.