MORGANTOWN, W.Va.
— The West Virginia University women's basketball team will head out on a two-game road trip to Kansas, starting Wednesday with a tilt with K-State in Manhattan. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. ET inside Bramlage Coliseum.
Brian Smoller and Missy Heidrick will have the television call for FOX College Sports Central.
Dan Zangrilli and
Ayana Dunning will have the call for the Mountaineer Sports Network from Learfield IMG College on Jack-FM 100.9. The game can also be found on various affiliates across the state, the TuneIn Radio App and WVUsports.com.
West Virginia (19-7, 10-5) and K-State meet for the second time this season and 15th time overall on Wednesday. The Mountaineers previously earned a 60-30 win over the Wildcats on Jan. 26 at the WVU Coliseum. WVU's 30 points allowed were a program-record in Big 12 play and the fewest allowed in a Power 5 Conference game this season.
The Mountaineers are coming off an 80-69 loss to Oklahoma at home on Saturday. Redshirt junior guard
Tynice Martin turned in another 20-point effort with a team-high 22 points. Senior forward
Naomi Davenport scored in double figures for the 12th straight game, putting up 19 points along with eight rebounds, while freshman forward
Kari Niblack had 14 points and three blocks, finishing one shy of tying her career high.
Senior guard
Katrina Pardee returned, coming off the bench for her first action since Jan. 9 when she suffered an ankle injury against Oklahoma State. The Cedar Park, Texas, native had previously played in 72 straight contests with 71 consecutive starts, dating back to the 2015-16 season.
Davenport is just 18 points shy of scoring her 1,000th career point, sitting at 982 career points. Should she reach the plateau, she would be just the second junior college transfer in WVU history to score 1,000 points in two seasons. JD Drummonds (1979-81) previously achieved the feat. Davenport would be the second player reach the milestone this season as Pardee did so on Dec. 2 against Missouri and would join Pardee and Martin has 1,000-point scorers on the roster.
K-State is 17-10 on the season with an 8-7 mark in Big 12 play and has won back-to-back games, most recently topping TCU by a score of 75-72 on Saturday. The Wildcats are averaging 63.3 points and 34.9 rebounds per game and are shooting 40.6 percent from the field, 29.5 percent from the perimeter and 70.6 percent at the free-throw line.
A pair of Wildcats average in double-figure scoring, with Payton Williams leading the way at 15.0 points per game. Williams also leads the rebounding at 9.7 rebounds per game. Kayla Goth is good for 12.5 points per contest and boasts a team-best 177 assists on her resume. She's also the steals leader with 49 on the season, while Kali Jones has a team-high 36 blocks.
West Virginia will remain in the Sunflower State to face Kansas on Saturday in Lawrence.
