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Quickly...Wichita State (3-10, 0-2) plays host to UNI (6-7, 1-1) Friday night on "Jam the Gym" night were all general admission tickets are $3. The Shockers complete the MVC weekend playing host to Drake (8-5, 1-1) on Sunday in the second Missouri Valley Conference regular season weekend of the season and the first at home.
-WSU is coming off a 0-2 start in the league with losses at Indiana State, 59-33, and at Illinois State, 70-49. TaQuandra Mike leads WSU in MVC-only scoring after two games with a 15.0 average. She had 18 at Indiana State and 12 at Illinois State. 
-WSU's offensive night at Indiana State (20.8 percent) contributed to the loss. TaQuandra Mike had a team-leading 18 points in 6-of-18 shooting while Rangie Bessard's seven boards led WSU on the glass.
-At Illinois State, WSU shot better (38.9 percent (21-54), but gave up 56.1 percent (23-41) to Illinois State defensively. ISU won the second quarter, 24-13, and the fourth quarter, 19-10. Mike had 12 points for WSU and Rangie Bessard had 11.
-Bessard leads WSU in overall scoring with 13.3 points a game and also on the boards with 7.9 a game in the eight games she has played in 2015-16 since becoming eligible after sitting out after transferring from Minnesota. 
-WSU's last home contest was an exhibition against Oklahoma Christian. WSU won that contest, 63-45. Most notable, WSU played 10 players in the game for the first time this season after battling injury through the fall semester.
-The Shockers last played in at home in a game that counted Dec. 18-19, in the Papa John's Winter Classic, and defeated Prairie View A&M (64-36) and North Carolina A&T State (55-53). 
-After playing just one home game in November, WSU played just one game on the road in December, Tuesday, at Tennessee Tech. Six of the Shockers' seven games in December were at home, while four of five November games were away from Wichita.
-WSU was led in scoring through the first six games by freshman Jyar Francis, who currently averages a team-third 10.1 points a game off the bench, but missed four games with a concussion before returning for the Tennessee Tech game. TaQuandra Mike averages a team-second 11.8 points a game.
-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 Panthers. Freshman Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage was released against Oklahoma Christian to play after knee surgery prior to her arrival at WSU, and she got her first career start against Indiana State. Marija Pacar recently returned after a concussion, while the Shockers added a non-scholarship player, Hannah Mortimer, a 5-4 transfer guard from Brown Mackie College in Salina, Kan. Junior Brittany Martin was also released after a knee injury to play at Indiana State. WSU has at times suited six players due to injury this season.
-At Tennessee Tech, Rangie Bessard collected her second double-double of the season with 14 points and 13 rebounds. She shot 36 percent (5-14) from the field and 44 percent (4-9) from the line. She also had three steals and two blocks. Francis had 11 points in her return at Tennessee Tech.

11 is Heaven...Wichita State had 11 players available for the first time this season in the Shockers' two Valley games last week. At times this season, the Shockers have had only six players available due to injury. Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage was released last week after knee surgery prior to coming to Wichita State and Brittany Martin was released to play after a knee injury three games into the season caused her to miss eight games. 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.

Just Like Mike...Newcomer TaQuandra Mike led Wichita State in scoring in the Shockers' two Valley games last week at Indiana State and Illinois State, with 18 and 12 points, respectively. She has scored in double-figures in nine of her last 10 games, including a stretch of seven-straight. In comparison, she had a total of nine points in the Shockers' first three regular-season games.

Swat That...Despite missing eight games, Brittany Martin has 13 blocked shots in the five games she's played for an average of 2.6 blocks per game. The 13 blocks have come in just 107 minutes played.

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On UNI Basketball (6-7, 1-1 MVC)... Head Coach Tanya Warren is in her ninth season as the head coach of the Panthers. The two-time Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year will look to take the Panthers to new heights after a strong 2014-15 season. She currently holds a UNI coaching record of 144-126. 
    Junior Madison Weekly scored a career-high 28 points against Southern Illinois, finishing with a career-high 11 made field goals. She is averaging 16.4 points per game this season, giving her 12.2 points per game in her career to rank her 11th all-time at UNI. Both of Weekly's career-high games have come against Southern Illinois. Her 28 points this season beat her previous career-high of 27 that she set against the Salukis last season on Jan. 9, 2015.

UNI-WSU Series... The series is tied 35-35 with WSU winning the last three games, including a 56-42 verdict in the 2015 MVC Tournament.

On Drake Basketball (8-5, 1-1 MVC)... Former University of Iowa standout and Des Moines native, Jennie (Lillis) Baranczyk (pronounced bah-rahn-check), was named the sixth head women's basketball coach at Drake University in April, 2012.  She is 56-51 at Drake in her three-plus seasons.
     Drake scored 94 points in its win over Evansville on Sunday at the Knapp Center. The 94 points are a season-high for the Bulldogs against a Division I opponent (William Penn, 101). Drake leads the MVC in scoring (80.2 points a game) and field goal percentage at 44.8-percent.
    In the MVC opener against SIU, junior Lizzy Wendell scored 16 points with 14 coming in the fourth quarter against the Salukis. After dropping in 23 points in the next game, a win over Evansville, Wendell has now scored 10 or more points in an impressive 58 games. Wendell has 1,481 career points, which ranks 36th among all active leaders in Division I.

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Finally Together... Wichita State's two leading scorers finally got the chance to play together at Tennessee Tech. Rangie Bessard (15.8) and Jyar Francis (12.4) had 14 and 11 points, respectively, in the game. Bessard became eligible after her transfer Dec. 11 against Tennessee, which was Francis' first of four games out with a concussion.

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.

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 eight games as a Shocker and collected her second double-double of the season with 14 points and 13 boards at Tennessee Tech. She also had 24 points and 10 rebounds against Prairie View A&M. She averages a team-leading 13.3 points and 7.9 rebounds a game, earned All-Tournament honors at the Winter Classic and earned MVC Newcomer of the Week honors 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 150-94 in her eighth season at WSU and 179-102 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 90-27 (.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.