WICHITA, Kan. - Familiar foes square off in the 2019-20 season opener. Former Missouri Valley Conference rivals, Wichita State and Northern Iowa open the campaign on Saturday in Charles Koch Arena at 5 p.m. The game will follow the Wichita State men's basketball game vs. Texas Southern at 2 p.m. Fans that bring their men's basketball ticket from the Texas Southern game will receive FREE Admission.

Poster Giveaway & Postgame Autographs
Double Day - Receive FREE Admission with Nov. 9 Men's Basketball vs. Texas Southern ticket
**Parking Note - Women's Basketball gameday parking may be limited due to the Men's Basketball game prior.

ON THE AIR
Saturday's game can be heard on the radio at 98.7 FM/1330 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 nationally on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app.

CHASING 600 
Wichita State enters the 2019-20 campaign with an all-time record of 596-683, 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 improved to 4-0 in exhibition contests under current head coach Keitha Adams after Monday night's win over Missouri Southern, 80-33. The Shockers held the Lions to 7-of-48 (14.6%) from the field and 1-of-23 from beyond the arc. WSU's three-point defense was one of the best in The American a season ago and looks to be solid again this season. Maya Brewer led all scorers with 17 points, 16 after halftime, on 6-of-7 shooting and a perfect 4-of-4 from 3. Carla Bremaud added 16 points, making six of her eight attempts from the field. Freshman DJ McCarty dished out a game-best six assists in her first appearance as a Shocker.

SCOUTING THE PANTHERS 
Northern Iowa is coming off a 20-13 record in 2018-19 and an appearance in the first round of the WNIT. The Panthers return 10 letterwinners and two starters from that squad. They finished third in the MVC with a 12-6 mark. Junior guard Karli Rucker paced UNI with 15.0 points per game last year and will spearhead the backcourt, while Megan Maahs and Abby Gerrits anchor the frontcourt. Maahs appeared in only eight games last season after missing the rest due to injury. UNI is 1-0 to begin the season after defeating North Dakota State, 95-63, Wednesday.

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 1-0 on the season
... be their second straight season-opening win
... close the gap in the all-time series with UNI to 36-39
... snap a four-game losing streak vs. UNI
... run Adams' career coaching record to 438-281
... make Adams 311-244 at the Division I level
... make Wichita State 597-683 all-time

A SHOCKER LOSS WOULD...
... drop them to 0-1 to begin the season
... drop WSU to 35-40 all-time vs. UNI
... give UNI five straight wins in the series
... lower Adams' career coaching record to 437-282
... make Adams 310-245 at the Division I level
... make Wichita State 596-684 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 310-244.

WICHITA STATE-UNI CONNECTIONS
Wichita State and Northern Iowa were longtime members of the Missouri Valley Conference before the Shockers made the move to the American Athletic Conference. The two programs have met in women's basketball 74 times - the second most vs. a single opponent. The rivalry trails only Missouri State (87) for the most games against a single foe.

THE SERIES VS. NORTHERN IOWA  
Wichita State and Northern Iowa have met 74 times dating all the way back to Jan. 6, 1984. The two programs played every year from 1984-2017, before WSU's move to The American.
Saturday's matchup will be the 35th meeting in Wichita. The Shockers own a 19-15 mark against the Panthers when playing at home.

LAST MEETING  
Wichita State and Northern Iowa last met on March 2, 2017 - a game UNI won in Cedar Falls, 62-37. That would turn out to be the final meeting between the schools as members of the MVC. Wichita State struggled offensively in the matchup, missing all 10 three-point attempts and shooting only 29.2 percent from the floor overall. UNI also dominated the glass, outrebounding Wichita State, 42-26. Rangie Bessard was the lone Shocker in double-figures, tallying a team-high 13 points and six rebounds. Madison Weekly and Kennedy Kirkpatrick scored 14 points apiece and Megan Maahs, then a freshman, added 12 points and seven boards to pace the Panthers.

ABOUT THE PANTHERS
Located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa has an enrollment of 10,497 as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference. Northern Iowa returns 10 letterwinners, including a pair of starters off last year's squad that finished 20-13 and 12-6 in the MVC. Head Coach Tanya Warren enters her 13th season with Northern Iowa, and has a career record of 226-166. Warren is a three-time Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year and guided the Panthers to league regular-season titles in 2011 and 2016. Under her direction, the Panthers have appeared in postseason play in nine of the last 10 seasons, including back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths in 2010 and 2011. She led the Panthers to the program's first victory in a WNIT game during the 2012-13 season.

UP NEXT
A quick turnaround sends Wichita State on the road for the first time to Tulsa, Okla., to face Oral Roberts on Monday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m.