LITTLE ROCK – Little Rock women's basketball (3-6) will make its first visit to the state of Kansas since 1987 as it travels to Manhattan to face Kansas State (6-2) on Saturday at 2 p.m., at Bramlage Coliseum. The game will air live on ESPN3.
The Trojans and Wildcats have met just twice before with the last meeting occurring in Los Angeles in 2007-08. Little Rock and Kansas State are 1-1 against each other as the Wildcats took the last meeting with a 52-40 win. The first-ever meeting took place in the 1987-88 season opener in Manhattan and saw Little Rock come away with a 62-59 victory.
Kansas State is coming off a 70-56 victory over UT Arlington last Wednesday at home. Before that win, the Wildcats had lost two of their last three with a win against Penn State wedged between two losses against UCLA and Missouri. Kansas State is 4-0 at home this season.
- Little Rock is 1-0 when playing at Kansas State while the series is tied at 1-1.
- This will be Little Rock's first visit to Manhattan since the 1987-88 season opener.
- A win would be Little Rock's first road victory against a Big 12 school since defeating Oklahoma State 64-54 in Stillwater on Nov. 29, 2005.
- A Trojan victory would be just the second time Little Rock has defeated a Big 12 school on the road since the conference's inception.
- Little Rock is shooting 74.4 percent from the foul line this season — ranking 44th nationally and third in the Sun Belt.
- The Trojans' 127 turnovers through nine games are the fewest since committing 116 in the same number of games in 2008-09.
- Monique Townson leads the Sun Belt with 2.33 steals per game and 21 steals this season.
- At 124 career steals, Townson is three away from passing Anshel Cooper (2006-09) for the 10th-most in program history.
- Raeyana DeGray has scored at least 14 points and led the team in scoring in four of the last five games.
- Little Rock is scoring its most points in the second quarter this season with 149 total points — 16.55 points per quarter.
Little Rock will round out non-conference play at home against LSU on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., at the Jack Stephens Center.
