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Quickly...Wichita State (5-15, 2-6) plays host to Missouri State (13-7, 6-2) Saturday afternoon inside Charles Koch Arena in Wichita in the third game of a three-game homestand. 

-It's Girl Scout Day... FREE Admission for all Girl Scouts when they wear their uniform to the game; Additional family tickets $5; First 200 Girl Scouts receive a limited edition Shocker Patch.

-It's also Alumni Day. Approximately 40 former Shockers will play an Alumni game at 10:30 a.m., which is open free of charge to the public. Alumni who registered and are in attendance will also be introduced at halftime. The Alumni game will be coached by former WSU Head Coach, Olympic Coach and WNBA Coach Linda Hargrove, and women's athletics pioneer, Sue Bair.

-Last weekend, WSU defeated SIU, 57-48, Friday night, and Evansville, 58-50, for its first two Valley wins. Lockhart scored a game-high 19 points and was backed by Mike's 14 points against SIU, and Rangie Bessard had 26 points and seven boards in the win against Evansville.

-Bessard leads WSU in overall scoring with 15.3 points a game and also on the boards with 8.7 a game in the 13 games she has played in 2015-16 since becoming eligible after sitting out after transferring from Minnesota.
 
-TaQuandra Mike averages a team-second 11.7 points a game. Bessard also leads the Shockers in MVC-Only scoring at 15.0 points a game while Mike is second in loop games with 12.5 a game. Lockhard is third in MVC-only games with 7.8 points a game.

-WSU was led in scoring through the first six games by freshman Jyar Francis, who currently averages a team-fourth 7.7 points a game off the bench, before she missed four games with a concussion. She was cleared for the Tennessee Tech game Dec. 22.

-The Shockers returned five players from last year's NCAA Tournament team, including three who came off the bench for WSU. Junior guard Jaleesa Chapel returned with the most experience, having played in 63 games with two starts the previous two years, while Aundra Stovall and Brittany Martin both also played a year ago off the bench. 

-Eleven Shockers will suit up against the Bears. Freshman Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage was released against exhibition opponent Oklahoma Christian Dec. 29, to play after knee surgery prior to her arrival at WSU, and she got her first career start against Indiana State. Marija Pacar returned Dec. 11 after missing three games with a concussion, while the Shockers added Hannah Mortimer, a 5-4 transfer guard from Brown Mackie College in Salina, Kan. Mortimer was awarded a scholarship before the UNI game after showing an outstanding contribution to the team. Junior Brittany Martin was also released after a knee injury to play at Indiana State Jan. 1. WSU at times suited six players in the non-conference season due to injury this season.

-After playing just one home game in November, WSU played just one game on the road in December at Tennessee Tech. Six of the Shockers' seven games in December were at home, while four of five November games were away from Wichita.

Sixth Shocker N-O-W... Rangie Bessard has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Newcomer of the Week for the third time this season. A sophomore forward, Bessard averaged 17.5 points and 9.0 rebounds in the Shockers' two wins last week, while shooting 51.9-percent (14-of-27) from the field. She had nine points and 11 boards against Southern Illinois and 26 points and seven rebounds against Evansville. Bessard also had three assists, one block and one steal for the week.
 
The honor is the sixth for the Shockers in 2015-16, and Bessard's third of the season, while TaQuandra Mike, Jyar Francis and Diamond Lockhart have also been named Newcomer of the Week this season.

Newbies... As a testament to WSU's inexperience, WSU's most experienced Shocker, Jaleesa Chapel, just reached her 20th career start. in addition, the Shockers have won six Valley Newcomer of the Week honors. After a two-win weekend, sophomore transfer Rangie Bessard earned her third of the season, while TaQuandra Mike, Jyar Francis and Diamond Lockhart have also been named Newcomer of the Week this season.  

Rebounding Improving... After only out-rebounding two of its first 15 opponents, the Shockers have won the glass three times and tied once in the last four games. Rangie Bessard's team-leading effort the last five games has contributed to winning the glass, while she has led in 10 of the 13 games she has played.

Swat That...Despite missing eight games, Brittany Martin has 19 blocked shots in the 10 games she's played for an average of 1.9 blocks per game. The 19 blocks have come in just 196 minutes played.

Stepping Up to The Valley... TaQuandra Mike has scored double-figure in five-of-eight Valley games and 12-of-19 overall. Mike has also scored in double-figures in 12 of her last 16 games, including a stretch of seven-straight. In comparison, she had a total of nine points in the Shockers' first three regular-season games.

Getting Minutes... Five Shockers average more than 30 minutes a game led by Aundra Stovall's 35.5 a game. In addition, 10 of the 11 Shockers average more than 10 minutes a game.  

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On Missouri State...

Series History...Missouri State leads the all-time series 45-35, with WSU leading in Wichita, 19-16. WSU has won the last eight meetings overall, 20 of the last 24, and 10 straight at Koch Arena. 

Missouri State Basketball... (13-7, 6-2 MVC) 
Head Coach Kellie Harper is in her third season at MSU and carries a 45-39 record and a 212-168 record in 12 years as a head coach.

Scouting the Lady Bears...Missouri State is 13-7 overall and 6-2 in MVC games. Senior guard Tyonna Snow averages 14.9 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.9 steals, ranking fourth at MSU and eighth in MVC history with 301 career thefts, while preseason all-MVC selection Kenzie Williams averages 13.9 points per game on 39 percent from beyond the arc, and sophomore Liza Fruendt averages 10.6 points. Hillary Chvatal leads the club in rebounding at 7.6 per game. 

Player of the Week Last Week for MSU...Missouri State senior guard Kenzie Williams averaged 21 points, five rebounds, three assists and 1.5 steals while shooting 51-percent from the floor in wins against Evansville and Southern Illinois. 

Road Warriors... Missouri State holds the league's best record in true road games this season (7-1). In fact, the Lady Bears are one of just 11 teams in all of NCAA Division I that have one or fewer losses while playing seven or more away contests. Missouri State will look to improve to 8-1 on the road this season when they take on the Shockers in Wichita State this Saturday.

Around the MVC...
Panthers On Top... UNI took over sole possession of the top spot in the league standings after knocking off Drake on Sunday, 79-73. With the victory, the Panthers won their fifth consecutive game, their longest streak since stringing together six-straight wins during the 2013-14 season.

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Sticky Fingers... TaQuandra Mike leads WSU with 42 steals in 19 games played. Her 2.21 steals a game ranked 92nd in the country to open the week. Alex Harden holds the WSU season steals record with 108 a year ago. The Shockers' 9.1 steal a game also ranked 85th as a team.

Getting Healthy... With the return of Marija Pacar (concussion), Jyar Francis (concussion), Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage (knee) and Brittany Martin (knee), and the addition of non-scholarship Hannah Mortimer, the Shockers have adding depth to the bench. Pacar missed three games, Francis missed four games and Bessard (transfer) missed the first six games. Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage (knee) missed the first 11 games and was released to play the exhibition game Dec. 29. Brittany Martin missed eight games. WSU has 11 players eligible for the first time this season in the shockers' two Valley game to open the regular season. In all, Wichita State's five players who missed games due to injury or transfer rules, were not available for a total of 32 games.

Defending Champions Picked Fifth...WSU was picked in the Missouri Valley Conference Preseason poll to finish fifth, its lowest position in the preseason poll since 2010-11 when the Shockers were also picked fifth. WSU finished fifth that season, then finished third in 2011-12 after being picked third, before going onto three-straight titles.

Picking Up Speed... Rangie Bessard has now played her first 13 games as a Shocker. She collected her third double-double of the season at Bradley (27 pts/18 rebounds), her second double-double of the season with 14 points and 13 boards at Tennessee Tech, and also had 24 points and 10 rebounds against Prairie View A&M. She has already earned All-Tournament honors at the Winter Classic and earned MVC Newcomer of the Week honors three times in her short WSU career.

On Jody Adams... Adams (Tennessee, '94) is in her eighth season at Wichita State as the only Shocker women's basketball coach to make an NCAA appearance and win an MVC regular-season and MVC Tournament championship at WSU. Her 2012-13 team accomplished all of that, then the 2013-14 and 2014-15 teams repeated the exact same feat. WSU has won three-straight MVC regular-season and MVC Tournament titles and competing in three-straight NCAA Tournaments. 
At 29-5 overall, the 2014-15 team broke the school's season win record by three games.
She is 152-98 in her eighth season at WSU and 181-106 overall in her ninth season as a head coach, which includes a 24-8 record as head coach at Murray State in 2007-08.
In addition, WSU is 92-29 (.785) overall at home under Adams, including 16-0 in 2014-15.
Adams is first on the WSU all-time wins list. She passed Linda Hargrove, who won 113 games at WSU from 1989-98, on Fri., Feb. 21, 2014 in a win against Illinois State.

Next Up... Wichita State makes the turn into the second-half of the Valley season as it travels to Drake (Feb. 5) and UNI (Feb. 7). Drake defeated WSU, 87-56 on Jan. 10, while UNI topped WSU, 55-44, on Jan. 8.