WICHITA, Kan. - For the first time in 2019-20, Wichita State will take to the road. The Shockers head south to Tulsa, Okla., for a Veteran's Day matchup with Oral Roberts Monday night in the Mabee Center.

ON THE AIR
Monday's game can be heard on the radio at KFH 97.5 FM/1240 AM with the voice of Shocker Women's Basketball Steve Strain calling the action. Strain is in his sixth season broadcasting games for the women's program. The game will also be streamed at ORUAthletics.com

CHASING 600 
Wichita State enters the 2019-20 campaign with an all-time record of 596-684, needing just four wins to reach 600. They would become the 10th program in the American Athletic Conference with 600 or more victories. UCF (594) is right on the doorstep to 600 as well - needing only six wins to reach the milestone. Tulsa (349) is the only other active member shy of that mark.

LAST TIME OUT
Wichita State dropped its season and home opener Saturday night vs. UNI, 61-50. The Shockers fell to 24-22 all-time in season openers and 29-17 in home openers.  UNI ran its record to 40-35 in the series. WSU struggled on the offensive end, missing 11-of-12 attempts from three-point range and only converting 13-of-24 shots at the charity stripe. The Shockers also lost the rebounding battle by 13. WSU did force 27 UNI turnovers and held the Panthers to only 5-of-22 from long range, but UNI converted at the free throw line, going 18-of-20. Sophomore Trajata Colbert tied a career high with 12 points and senior Maya Brewer finished one point shy of a career best with 11.

SCOUTING THE GOLDEN EAGLES 
Oral Roberts is 2-0 in the early stages of its non-conference slate. The Golden Eagles defeated Central Christian, 114-60, in their season opener and Texas State, 63-57, Friday night. Keni Jo Lippe spearheads the ORU offense. The junior guard scored 27 points in the opener and followed that with a double-double vs. Texas State (10 points, 10 rebounds). Rylie Torrey scored a game-high 21 points vs. the Bobcats and Karly Gore tallied her second double-double of the season (12 points, 12 rebounds). Through two games Lippe (18.5 ppg) and Torrey (18.0) are neck-and-neck in the scoring column. The Golden Eagles are shooting above 40 percent from the field and beyond the arc to go with 20.0 assists a game. Their opponents have shot just 31.3 percent from the field and 22.7 percent from 3.

BUCKETS FOR BREMAUD 
A season ago, Carla Bremaud led the Shockers in scoring and was selected for the American Athletic Conference All-Freshman Team, becoming the first freshman to lead Wichita State in scoring for a season since Kiki Stephens in 2004-05. Now a sophomore, Bremaud will look to carry that momentum into 2019-20, while also coming off a summer with the French U20 National Team.

A SHOCKER WIN WOULD...
... make them 1-1 on the season
... snap a two-game losing streak dating back to last season
... close the gap in the all-time series with ORU to 10-11
... be their second straight win in the series vs. ORU
... run Adams' career coaching record to 438-282
... make Adams 311-245 at the Division I level
... make Wichita State 597-684 all-time

A SHOCKER LOSS WOULD...
... drop them to 0-2 to begin the season
... extend their losing skid to three in a row
... drop WSU to 9-12 all-time vs. Oral Roberts
... give ORU four straight wins at home vs. WSU
... lower Adams' career coaching record to 437-283
... make Adams 310-246 at the Division I level
... make Wichita State 596-685 all-time

OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS > DEFENSIVE REBOUNDS
Redshirt senior forward Raven Prince finished the 2018-19 season with more offensive rebounds than defensive rebounds. In 30 games last season, Prince pulled down 126 total rebounds and 71 of them came on the offensive end. That means 58 percent of her rebounds gave the Shockers another opportunity to score. Wichita State finished with 347 total offensive rebounds and Prince made up 21 percent of that number.

BASTIN'S BOARDS
Sophomore guard Seraphine Bastin finished her freshman campaign as one of Wichita State's best rebounders. The 5-foot-8 point guard pulled down six or more rebounds in 10 of the last 15 games, including a season-high 10 three times (vs. Memphis, ECU and Tulsa on Jan. 12, Jan. 29, March 8). She averaged 6.2 rebounds per game over that 15-game stretch.
In conference play (16 games), Bastin had a team-high 93 rebounds - four more than the next closest Shocker (Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage, 89) - good for a 5.8 rebound per game average.

WIN NO. 300
Wichita State head coach Keitha Adams collected her 300th career win at the Division I level in Wichita State's overtime win vs. Missouri State on Nov. 10, 2018. She compiled 284 wins in her 16 seasons at UTEP and has accumulated 26 in her first two plus seasons at Wichita State. She has a career record of 310-245.

OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN(S)
The votes are in. Wichita State women's basketball will feature three team captains in 2019-20 - senior Ashley Reid and sophomores Seraphine Bastin and Trajata Colbert. Selected by their teammates, the trio will be looked upon to lead the Shocker basketball program for the remainder of the campaign.

WICHITA STATE-ORU CONNECTIONS
Oral Roberts has a pair of Kansas natives on its roster this season in freshman guard Nena Taylor (Parsons, Kan.) and junior center Regan Schumacher (Olathe, Kan.). Likewise, Wichita State features two players from the Sooner State in redshirt senior forward Raven Prince (Oklahoma City, Okla.) and sophomore forward Shyia Smith (Idabel, Okla.).

THE SERIES VS. ORAL ROBERTS
Wichita State and Oral Roberts have met 20 times dating all the way back to Dec. 3, 1977. The two programs are familiar foes but haven't met regularly since the 1980s. Monday's matchup will be the 10th meeting in Tulsa. The Golden Eagles have had their way with the Shockers in home contests, winning seven of the nine meetings. The last time the two programs met in Tulsa was on Nov. 18, 2008, an 89-76 Oral Roberts victory.

LAST MEETING  
Wichita State and Oral Roberts last met on March 16, 2012 - a first round matchup in the 2012 WNIT. The Shockers took care of business to end the Golden Eagles' season with a 79-57 win. Wichita State forced 22 ORU turnovers and shot 45.5 percent from the field in the win. Haleigh Lankster and Jessica Diamond provided a dynamic 1-2 punch to power Wichita State. Lankster tallied a game-high 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting, while Diamond was right behind with 20 points on 8-of-13 from the field. Jazimen Gordon and Chynna Turner each grabbed eight rebounds. Then a freshman, Alex Harden scored nine points to go with four steals.

ABOUT THE GOLDEN EAGLES
Located in Tulsa, Okla., Oral Roberts University has an enrollment of 4,163 as a member of the Summit League. Oral Roberts returns nine letterwinners, including four starters off last year's squad that finished 18-13 and 10-6 in the Summit League, which was good enough for third place. Oral Roberts was picked to finish fourth in the 2019-20 Summit League Preseason Poll. Junior Keni Jo Lippe was named to the Preseason All-Summit League Second Team after averaging 13.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game in 2018-19. Head Coach Misti Cussen enters her eighth season with Oral Roberts, and has a career record of 111-106. Cussen was named the 10th head coach in program history in 2012 after spending 16 seasons as an assistant coach for the Golden Eagles. In her first season, she led the Golden Eagles back to the NCAA Tournament after guiding the team to win the 2012-13 Southland Conference regular season and tournament titles. It was the first NCAA Tournament berth since 2008. She earned her 100th career victory as head coach when the Golden Eagles defeated Western Illinois for the first time since the 2015-16 season, 68-64, at the Mabee Center.

UP NEXT
Wichita State returns to Charles Koch Arena for a Sunday matinee against Southern University on Nov. 17 at 2 p.m.