Ok-State Units Non-Convention Schedule for 2022-23 Season

August 23, 2022

MANHATTAN, Kansas – Kansas State girls’s basketball head coach Jeff Mittie introduced the whole non-conference schedule for the upcoming 2022-23 season on Tuesday. The Wildcats’ non-conference slate options 10 house video games, together with a go to from defending Large Ten champion Iowa, participation within the 2022 Paradise Jam, a singular impartial website matchup in opposition to Wisconsin within the Brew Metropolis Battle and internet hosting South Dakota State in a impartial website recreation at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas Metropolis in mid-December.

Ok-State’s 2022-23 non-conference schedule contains 5 video games in opposition to groups that reached the postseason in 2021-22, together with two groups that performed within the NCAA Match (Iowa and Arkansas) and three groups that performed within the WNIT (Houston, Kansas Metropolis and South Dakota State).

Ok-State formally begins its fifty fifth season of motion on Monday, November 7, because the Wildcats host Central Arkansas. This would be the second straight season Ok-State will face the Sugar Bears to open the season, because the Wildcats captured a 103-40 win over Central Arkansas to start the 2021-22 season. That is the second time in program historical past through which the Wildcats will open consecutive seasons with the identical opponent.

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Central Arkansas completed the 2021-22 season with an total file of 9-19 and a 4-12 mark of their first season as a member of the ASun Convention. Ok-State leads the collection with Central Arkansas, 4-0.

The Wildcats will play the primary recreation away from Bramlage on Friday, November 11, as Ok-State faces Wisconsin on the house of the Milwaukee Brewers, American Household Subject, within the Brew Metropolis Battle. 

This would be the first time within the 55-year historical past of Ok-State girls’s basketball through which Ok-State will play a recreation in a Main League Baseball stadium. The Wildcats will play its second impartial website recreation within the state of Wisconsin within the Mittie period, as Ok-State confronted Arizona State in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on December 16, 2018.

This would be the second assembly within the collection between the colleges, because the Badgers captured the inaugural recreation on Nov. 24, 2006, in Las Vegas, through the UNLV Girl Insurgent Shootout.

Wisconsin, led by second-year head coach Maria Moseley, ended the 2021-22 season with an 8-21 total file and a Large Ten mark of 5-13.

Initially introduced in mid-Might, the Wildcats will face its second straight Large Ten foe as they host 2022 All-American Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes on Thursday, November 17, at 8 p.m. 

Ok-State leads the all-time collection in opposition to the Hawkeyes, 4-1, together with a 3-0 mark in video games performed in Manhattan. This marks the primary common season go to from a Large Ten opponent to the Little Apple because the Hawkeyes confronted the Wildcats on December 3, 2011.

Following its assembly with the Hawkeyes, Ok-State returns to Bramlage the following day to host UTRGV on Friday, November 18. That is the second straight season Ok-State will play a house recreation on consecutive days, because the Wildcats performed on two straight dates through the 2021 Preseason WNIT. The Wildcats maintain the benefit within the collection, 4-0, together with a 79-66 win on December 28, 2019.

UTRGV completed the 2021-22 season with an total mark of 14-19 and an 8-10 file within the WAC. The Vaqueros are led on the sideline by former Pittsburg State head coach Lane Lord, who’s in his fifth season in Edinburg, Texas.

Ok-State completes its livid weekend three-game house stand by welcoming in Utah Tech on Sunday, November 20. This would be the first assembly between the packages.

Utah Tech completed the 2021-22 season with a 10-19 total file together with a 6-12 mark within the WAC.

In the course of the Thanksgiving vacation, the Wildcats will play within the twenty third version of the 2022 U.S Virgin Islands Paradise Jam on the College of the Virgin Islands Sports activities and Health Middle situated in St. Thomas. The video games will happen from November 24-26, 2022, with the video games streamed on ESPN3.

This will probably be Ok-State’s third-ever look within the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam (2001, 2016). The Wildcats personal a 5-1 file in its earlier six video games on the island, profitable the 2016 occasion.

Ok-State has been assigned to the Reef Division and can face Clemson on Thursday, November 24, at 7 p.m. (CT), Northern Arizona on Friday, November 25, at 4:45 p.m. (CT) and Arkansas on Saturday, November 26, at 7 p.m. (CT).

Clemson completed the 2021-22 season with a 10-21 total file and a 3-15 mark within the ACC. Ok-State leads the collection with the Tigers, 2-1. That is the primary matchup between the packages since November 25, 1990.

Northern Arizona tallied a 17-14 total file and a 12-8 file in Large Sky play. The Lumberjacks reached the title recreation of the 2022 Large Sky Convention event. Ok-State leads the collection with Northern Arizona, 2-0, and can face the Lumberjacks for the primary time since December 20, 2001.

Arkansas reached the 2022 NCAA Match with an 18-14 total file and a 7-9 file in SEC play. The collection between the Wildcats and Razorbacks is tied at 3 apiece. This would be the first impartial website matchup within the collection, because the earlier six had been performed on one of many two campuses.

The Wildcats will start the month of December with a go to from future Large 12 member, Houston, on Sunday, December 4. This would be the second-ever assembly between the packages, because the groups final squared off on Nov. 24, 1977, in Plainview, Texas, a 77-64 Ok-State win.

Houston completed the 2021-22 season with an total file of 18-16 and a file of 7-9 in AAC motion. The Cougars reached the spherical of 16 within the 2022 Postseason WNIT.

Ok-State will tangle with Kansas Metropolis on Wednesday, December 7. The Wildcats lead the general collection with Kansas Metropolis, 11-3, together with a present eight-game profitable streak.

Kansas Metropolis will probably be led by first-year head coach Dionnah Jackson-Durrett, who took the reins of this system in March after serving because the affiliate head coach at Texas. The Roos accomplished the 2021-22 season with a 23-9 total file and a 12-6 file in Summit League motion, leading to a bid into the 2022 Postseason WNIT.

For the second time in 4 seasons, Ok-State will play a daily season recreation in Municipal Auditorium in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, because the Wildcats host South Dakota State on Saturday, December 10. Ok-State owns a 7-0 file within the collection with the Jackrabbits, together with a 79-73 win in Brookings, South Dakota, on December 11, 2021.

South Dakota State ended the 2021-22 season with a 29-9 total file and a 17-1 mark in Summit League play. The Jackrabbits represented the Summit League within the 2022 Postseason WNIT and captured the title with an 82-50 drubbing of Seton Corridor within the championship recreation in Brookings.

Ok-State will shut out its 2022-23 non-conference common season schedule with a pair of first time opponents. The Wildcats will face Northern Colorado on Sunday, December 18, after which host Morgan State on Wednesday, December 21.

Northern Colorado registered a 15-16 total mark and a 11th of September file in Large Sky play.

Morgan State capped its 2021-22 season with an 18-8 file and an 11-3 mark in Mid-Japanese Athletic Convention motion.

In preparation for the 2022-23 non-conference schedule, Ok-State will host a pair of exhibition video games. The Wildcats will face Fort Hays State on Monday, October 31. Ok-State will then host Newman on Friday, November 4. Among the many teaching employees at Newman is Wildcat legend, Nicole Ohlde-Johnson. This will probably be Ohlde-Johnson’s first go to to Bramlage as an assistant coach.

The Wildcats enter the 2022-23 season two wins shy of 1,000 in its historical past. Mittie will start the 2022-23 season one victory shy of 600 in his teaching profession and 5 wins in need of 150 throughout his time in Manhattan.

For the 2022-23 season, Kansas State returns seven letter winners together with all 5 starters from final season. The Wildcats will probably be led by All-American heart Ayoka Lee and the sophomore trio of Brylee Glenn, Jaelyn Glenn and Serena Sundell

The seven¬ returning letter winners had been accountable for 87 % of Ok-State’s scoring, 77 % of the group’s assists and 72 % of the group’s rebounding within the 2021-22 season. The Wildcats may even welcome in graduate switch Sarah Shematsi, senior Gabby Gregory, redshirt sophomore Heavenly Greer, sophomore Gisela Sanchez and freshmen Mimi Gatewood, Ja’Mia Harris, Eliza Maupin and Mikayla Parks.

The 2022-23 Large 12 schedule, recreation instances, promotional and tv schedules will probably be launched later this summer time. 

The 2023 Phillips 66 Large 12 Ladies’s Basketball Championship will probably be contested on the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, March 9-12, 2023. Ticket info will probably be obtainable later this yr.

Ok-State girls’s basketball season tickets for the 2022-23 season can be found now for buy. For extra info on season ticket packages for the Wildcats’ 19-game house schedule, contact the Ok-State Athletics Ticket Workplace by calling 1-800-221-CATS or go to www.kstatesports.com/tickets.