WICHITA, Kan. - Wichita State concludes regular season play Monday night when the Shockers travel to Orlando to face the UCF Knights.

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 televised nationally on CBS Sports Network.

LAST TIME OUT
Wichita State dropped its lone matchup against Cincinnati in a 75-54 loss Saturday in Charles Koch Arena. With the loss, Wichita State is now 0-4 all-time vs. the Bearcats. The Shockers allowed Cincinnati to shoot 52.5 percent from the field, just the fourth opponent to eclipse the 50 percent mark this season. Cincinnati finished just 1-of-6 from beyond the arc. The one made three-pointer was a season low for an opponent, while the six attempts tied a season low. Ashley Reid scored a team-high 10 points. Reid, Maya Brewer and Raven Prince played their final home game in the Black & Yellow.

SCOUTING THE KNIGHTS
UCF enters the matchup at 18-9 overall and tied for second place at 10-5 in league play. This will be the lone regular season meeting between the two programs. UCF is led by senior guard Kay Kay Wright who averages a team-best 17.0 points and 4.0 assists per game to go with 57 steals. Wright tops the conference in free throw percentage (84.9 percent), while her scoring and steals rank fourth. Brittney Smith ranks second in scoring at 10.7 a game. Masseny Kaba leads the Knights in rebounding at 6.7. As a team, UCF ranks in the top 50 nationally in turnovers forced (30th), scoring defense (43rd) and turnover margin (44th). Since joining the American Athletic Conference, Wichita State is 0-2 vs. UCF.

THE SERIES VS. UCF
Wichita State and UCF have met only twice prior to Monday. The Shockers have never beaten the Knights and are 0-1 in the program's only trip to Orlando back in Jan. 2018. Wichita State and UCF have met just one time in each of the last two seasons due to the unbalanced American Athletic Conference schedule. This will be the second trip to Addition Financial Arena, formerly CFE Arena.

LAST MEETING
Wichita State dropped the only meeting during the 2018-19 campaign, a 57-49 win for the Knights in Wichita. Wichita State and UCF went into halftime tied at 29, before the Knights pulled away late in the fourth quarter when UCF held Wichita State to just nine points. Wichita State missed 10 of its 14 attempts from beyond the arc and shot 37 percent overall, while UCF converted 46 percent of its tries. Despite a 2-for-14 mark from three-point range and going 9-for-17 at the free throw line, UCF was able to win the turnover and rebound battle. Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage registered a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds, while adding four steals as well. Raven Prince also added 10 points.

ABOUT THE KNIGHTS
Located in Orlando, Fla., the University of Central Florida has an enrollment of more than 67,000 as a member of the American Athletic Conference. UCF returns five letterwinners and only two starters off last year's squad that finished 26-7 and 13-3 in The American. The Knights were picked to finish tied for third by the league's coaches in the American Athletic Conference Preseason Poll. UCF returns the preseason Co-Player of the Year in guard Kay Kay Wright. Head Coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson is in her fourth season leading the Knights, and has a career record of 327-147 after spending six seasons at Albany and five at her alma mater Missouri State. In her three seasons at the helm, UCF has posted the program's first three-consecutive 20-win seasons in the Division I era. She has led the Knights to their best finish in the American Athletic Conference in all three seasons, including their first-ever appearance in The American Championship title game.

A SHOCKER WIN WOULD...
... make them 16-13 on the season
... make them 8-8 in conference play
... be their first-ever win against UCF
... run Adams' career coaching record to 453-294
... make Adams 326-257 at the Division I level
... make Wichita State 612-696 all-time

A SHOCKER LOSS WOULD...
... drop them to 15-14 overall this season
... make them 7-9 in conference play
... drop them to 0-3 all-time against UCF
... lower Adams' career coaching record to 452-295
... make Adams 325-258 at the Division I level
... make Wichita State 611-697 all-time

BREMAUD SURPASSES 500 CAREER POINTS 
Wichita State sophomore guard Carla Bremaud scored her 500th career point on Saturday, Feb. 29 vs. Cincinnati. She now has 502 for her career through her first two seasons as a Shocker. She is the active career scoring leader for Wichita State and is averaging 8.8 points per game in the 57 games she's suited up. Bremaud is on pace to become the 21st Shocker to score 1,000 career points in the Black & Yellow.

BASTIN NABS THIRD HONOR ROLL SELECTION 
Sophomore Seraphine Bastin picked up her team-leading third American Athletic Conference Weekly Honor Roll accolade on Feb. 24. Bastin, a Dinant, Belgium, native averaged 10.0 points, 10.5 rebounds, 5.5 assists in Wichita State's two games last week against SMU and Tulsa. She opened with eight points, six rebounds and seven assists vs. SMU, and concluded the week with her second career double-double at Tulsa. Bastin finished with 12 points and a career-high 15 rebounds in the win.

DISH IT OUT
Wichita State handed out a season-high 21 assists at Temple on Feb. 5. Sophomore Seraphine Bastin had a season-high eight and senior Ashley Reid added six. The 21 assists were the most since dishing out 26 vs. Temple in Feb. 2018.

OH MY MARIAH
Junior Mariah McCully has been on a  scoring tear for the Shockers this season. She has scored 10 or more in 17 of the last 19 games, including two 20-point outings. Her 17-game double-digit streak was snapped at Tulsa on Feb. 23 when she finished with nine points. McCully's 18 games of 10 or more points this season rank first on the team and she is Wichita State's leading scorer on the year at 13.3 per game. The Shockers have three 20-point outings this season, two of which belong to McCully.

REBOUNDING IS THE KEY
When Wichita State wins the rebound battle, the outcome has been positive this season. The Shockers are 11-1 when winning the battle of the boards and 4-12 when they don't. In Wichita State's 15 wins this season, the Shockers are outrebounding their opponents by an average of 4.5 boards a game and grabbing 37.8 in those games. In the 12 losses, they average only 33.8 rebounds and are outrebounded by 5.9.

TURNOVER TULANE 
Wichita State set a season high with 17 steals and forced 26 turnovers - the second most this season. Wichita State has recorded 12 or more steals eight times this season. It was the 13th time forcing 20 or more turnovers. Mariah McCully was responsible for seven of the team's 17 steals - the most since TaQuandra Mike had seven against Northern Iowa on Jan. 1, 2017.

UP NEXT
Wichita State gears up for postseason play at the 2020 Air Force Reserve American Athletic Conference Championship, held March 6-9 in Uncasville, Conn., at the Mohegan Sun Arena. First Round action tips off Friday, March 6 with matchups TBA.