PRAIRIE VIEW A&M (2-3) vs. WICHITA STATE (2-5)
Monday, Dec. 2, 2024 | 6:00 p.m. CT
Wichita, Kan. | Charles Koch Arena
TV: ESPN+ with Shane Dennis and Tracy Anderson
Radio: GoShockers.com/Listen with Pat Strathman 
 
OPENING TIP
Wichita State returns home looking to right the ship after falling to No. 9 Oklahoma, RV Creighton and Missouri.
The Shockers take on Prairie View A&M as the teams meet for the third time in history with the Shockers leading the series 3-0, all three wins in Charles Koch Arena.
Wichita State has entered year two of the Terry Nooner era. The Shockers return their leading scorer from conference play, sophomore Salese Blow.
With nine newcomers on the team, the Shockers return just 37.6 percent of their scoring.
Blow has led the Shockers in scoring in two games with 16 points against Belmont and 17 points against Missouri State, shooting 4-for-7 from three in the latter.
George Mason transfer and Wichita native Taylor Jameson came home for her final season of collegiate basketball and is making a splash early in the season. She finished in double figures in each of the first four games and dished out a career-high seven assists against Missouri State, earning AAC Honorable Mention weekly recognition on Nov. 18. She averages 29 minutes per game.
Junior transfer from TCU, Bre'Yon White, opened the season with a game-high four steals in the win over Oklahoma Christian and has led the Shockers in rebounding in four of the last six games. She got her first career start in game four and has started each game since.
Redshirt-junior Jayla Murray scored a career-high 16 points in against Creighton and recorded her first career double-double in game one.
All but one win in the Terry Nooner era have come when holding opponents to less than 70 points.
 
LAST TIME OUT
Missouri led wire-to-wire, defeating the Shockers, 85-57, in the second round of the Emerald Coast Classic Tuesday evening in Raider Arena.
 
Five Tigers finished in double figures, led by Ashton Judd with 22 as Missouri improved to 6-3 and Wichita State fell to 2-5.
 
Taylor Jameson, KP Parr and Jasmine Peaks led the Shockers in scoring with nine apiece, and Ella Anciaux grabbed a team-high seven rebounds.
 
Missouri out-rebounded the Shockers 44-30 and shot 33-for-65 (.508) from the field.
 
Wichita State shot just 16-for-49 (.327) from the field and 4-for-17 (.235) from behind the arc, and the Tigers scored 21 points off 18 Shocker turnovers.
 
After struggling from the charity stripe early in the season, Wichita State recorded its second-straight game at or above 75 percent from the line, shooting 21-for-28 (.750).
 
Missouri led by as many as 17 in the first half as Wichita State struggled from the field, shooting just 7-for-25 (.280) in the half, but the Shockers hit 16 of 20 free throws, including three from Peaks in the final seconds of the half. Jameson shot 100 percent from the field and from the free throw line in the first half to score all nine of her points.
 
Missouri stretched its lead to as many as 32 in the second half with help of 13 points from Judd, and Wichita State, despite a strong fourth quarter from Jayla Murray with eight points, couldn't cut the deficit.
 
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
After seven games, the Shockers rank third in the American Athletic Conference in bench points per game, averaging 20.7.
 
Taylor Jameson ranks sixth in the conference in overall assists (28) and assist/turnover ratio (1.87) and ranks seventh in assists per game (4.0) with a career-high seven against Missouri State and Creighton.

SCOUTING THE PANTHERS
Led by 25^th-year head coach (seventh at PVAMU) Sandy Pugh, Prairie View A&M is coming off three-straight losses to Incarnate Word, Washington and Georgia. The Panthers are 2-3 this season after ending the 2023-24 season 11-18 (7-11 SWAC). Prairie View A&M was picked sixth of 12 teams in the SWAC Preseason Poll. The Panthers rank seventh in the NCAA in bench points per game (37.8), leading the SWAC, and also rank No. 1 in the SWAC in field goal percentage (43.5) and three point percentage (36.1). Two Panters are averaging double figures through the first five games with freshman CJ Wilson averaging 11.8 and Crystal Schultz scoring 10.2 per game. Amauri Williams is the team's leading rebounder with 5.0 per game, and she is also averaging 9.8 points per game.
 
LEADING LADIES
Through seven games, Taylor Jameson is leading the team with 10.9 points per game, with Salese Blow and Jayla Murray close behind with 9.9 points per game. Bre'Yon White is the team's leading rebounder, averaging 6.6 rebounds per game.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES VS. PRAIRIE VIEW A&M
Wichita State and Prairie View A&M meet for just the third time in program history with the Shockers leading the series 3-0 dating back to 2006. All three meetings have taken place in Charles Koch Arena. The Shockers' biggest win over the Panthers came in 2015 when they claimed a 64-36 victory.
 
LAST MEETING
The last time the two teams met, the Shockers claimed an 86-71 victory in Wichita, Kan. In Jane Asinde's first career start, she produced her first career double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds.
 
NOT SO NEW-COMERS
Between the nine new additions to the 2024-25 Wichita State roster, they combine for 20 years of collegiate basketball experience. Nooner brought in three Division I transfers: Taylor Jameson from George Mason, Aicha Ndour from Illinois and Bre'Yon White from TCU.
 
Princess Anderson (Pratt CC), Kyleigh Ortiz (Coffeyville CC), Jasmine Peaks (Indian River State), and Maimouna Sissoko (Cloud County CC) all transferred from junior colleges, joining Jayla Murray (Florida SouthWestern State) and Ornella Niankan (Odessa College) to make six Shockers who began their careers in the NJCAA.
 
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR
The Shockers' roster features international athletes from five different countries, including Canada (Ornella Niankan), France (Fiona Diomande), Mali (Maimouna Sissoko), Mozambique (Carla Budane), and Senegal (Aicha Ndour).
 
T-TIME
Wichita native Taylor Jameson was named to the AAC weekly Honorable Mention list on Nov. 18 after averaging 17 points, 6.5 assists and 4 steals in two games. She has led the Shockers in points three times and assists three times in seven games.
 
BOBO DA SHOW
Salese Blow, nicknamed BoBo by her mom when Salese couldn't pronounce the L in her last name as a kid, enters her sophomore season after claiming three American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Week awards in 2023-24. As a freshman, she increased her scoring from non-conference to conference play, leading the Shockers in points per game against AAC opponents with 13.5. She recorded 21 double-figure scoring games with five 20+ point performances.
 
MURRAY ON THE RISE
Redshirt-junior Jayla Murray is back and better than ever after a summer spent in the gym and improving her nutrition. Further removed from her ACL injury, Murray, who averaged 7.1 points per game a season ago, is playing with more confidence. She led the Shockers in scoring against No. 9 Oklahoma and Creighton and recorded her first career double-double in the home opener against Oklahoma Christian.
 
NEW HEIGHTS
Senior transfer from Illinois, Aicha Ndour, is the tallest player in Wichita State history at 6-6.
 
SUMMER WELL SPENT
The Shockers embarked on a trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands from July 28-August 2, where they played two games against Canadian team, Regina. The trip allowed the team to bond and experience a different culture, growing as a unit on and off the court. Wichita State won the first game 81-76 and the second game 69-60.