MANHATTAN, Kansas – K-State dropped its second straight home game, as Texas Tech was red-hot from the field on its way to an 85-65 win over the Wildcats on Saturday evening at Bramlage Coliseum.
Texas Tech (14-4, 2-3) shot 52.8 percent from the field for the game, a season-high by a K-State opponent. Tech scored 20 or more points and shot 50.0 percent or better in the first three quarters to control the contest.
The Lady Raiders were led by the duo of Bre'Amber Scott and Jasmine Shavers with 37 and 26 points, respectively. Scott finished 9-of-14 from the field and set the opponent Bramlage Coliseum records for free throws made (17) and attempted (19). She also hauled in 11 rebounds.
K-State (12-6, 1-4 Big 12) featured three players in double figures, led by sophomore Brylee Glenn with a career-high 24 points. This was her first career game with 20 or more points. She tied her career-best with eight made field goals and equaled her career-high with 3 three-pointers.
Joining Glenn in double figures were sophomore Serena Sundell with 11 points and five rebounds, while graduate transfer Sarah Shematsi tallied 10 points, four rebounds and tied her career high with three assists.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- K-State trailed 20-12 after the first quarter, but pulled to within four, 24-20, with 8:10 to play in the second quarter after back-to-back 3-pointers from Sarah Shematsi and Brylee Glenn.
- Texas Tech responded with a 15-2 run to build a 39-22 lead with 3:56 left in the second frame. During the run, Bre'Amber Scott recorded seven of the 15 points. The Lady Raiders would hold a 44-31 advantage at halftime.
- The Lady Raiders expanded their lead to 20, 66-46, late in the third quarter before an Emilee Ebert steal and layup brought the Wildcats within 18 at the end of the frame, 66-48.
- The Wildcats were only able to close the gap to 13, 66-53, early in the fourth quarter, as Brylee Glenn buried her third three-pointer of the game and then finished a layup with 9:15 to play.
- Texas Tech ended any chance of a K-State comeback with a 7-0 run to rebuild its lead to 20, 73-53, with 7:14 remaining.
- K-State ended the day shooting 39.7 percent (23-of-58) from the field, including 23.3 percent (7-of-30) from 3-point range.
QUICK FACTS
- K-State leads the series with Texas Tech, 28-16. The Wildcats have won 15 of its last 19 meetings against the Lady Raiders.
- Kansas State owns a 251-189 record in the month of January including a 31-37 mark in the Jeff Mittie era.
- K-State is 9-2 in games played in Bramlage Coliseum this season. Over the last two seasons, the Wildcats are 23-5 in games played in Bramlage.
TEAM NOTES
- Saturday's starting five were Sarah Shematsi, Jaelyn Glenn, Serena Sundell, Brylee Glenn and Gabby Gregory. This was the sixth time this group started a game together this season (3-2).
- The Wildcats trailed at halftime, 44-31. This was the eighth time this season K-State trailed on the scoreboard after the first 20 minutes.
PLAYER NOTES
- Brylee Glenn carded her ninth game this season and the 19th of her career with 10 or more points.
- Brylee Glenn was 3-of-7 from 3-point range, tying her career-high for 3-point field goals made in a game. This was her ninth career game and her second this season with two or more connections from beyond the arc.
- Shematsi notched her third game with 10 or more points this season and the fifth of her career.
- Shematsi was 2-of-5 from 3-point range, the ninth time in her career she has made two or more 3-pointers in a game and the third time at K-State.
- Sundell reached double figures in points for the 11th time this season and the 30th time in her career.
- Sundell has recorded a blocked shot in nine straight games.
FROM THE HEAD COACH
K-State Head Coach Jeff Mittie
On his initial thoughts…
"I think it's obvious that I've got a team that's struggling right now and struggling with confidence, struggling with trying to figure things out internally. And boy, a ton of missed assignments today I couldn't even, you're always gonna have some right, you're always gonna have some and you cover them up with efforts or cover them up with this, but I mean it was you could just see that mentally they their focus was elsewhere."
On the energy level tonight…
"I think our confidence level is a big impact on on our energy level. So you know when you're a team that's trying to figure it out, you got to fight your thoughts getting strayed. As an athlete, you gotta fight that especially, I'm a big baseball guy and when hitters go through slumps they're thinking so much, they're thinking so much that they forget so they try to get back to the mechanics, they try to get back to the mechanics and about the time they do they hit a line drive right at somebody, right? And then the thoughts keep going, right? And basketball is a little bit the same way, you make a great move, and it rolls out and then you're just like right back down and you made the move that you were coached and worked on or you got an open look from three and it just kind of rimmed out. But we're letting it affect us, there isn't any doubt about that. And defensively, this was as bad as we've been as a team and as bad as we've been individually at what we talked about to play well today."
On Brylee Glenn's performance…
"It looked like she was healthy. But at the same time late, it looked like she got fatigued and I thought a couple of the travels might be ankle-related. So that's why I took her out because she had to play a lot of minutes today, but it was really good to see her play really well. I thought she was competitive. I thought she was the one that was maybe in the present the best out of our group and it was good to see her play well."
On Bre'Amber Scott and Jasmine Shavers…
"I think they're good players. Yeah, I mean, Bre'Amber has been a good player. She scores at three levels. If you let her do what she did today, she's going to have big games. If you're not assignment correct and I can go over all the things that just as I talked about earlier, I thought early on Shavers, they did a good job. She was on the back end of a lot of plays and they did a good job of skipping it to her, finding her and she got hot, and then she played really well after that. So, you know, confidence is a is a great thing. Shavers really grew in confidence as the game wore on today, and she was a problem."
KRISTA GERLICH, TEXAS TECH HEAD COACH
Opening Statement…
"Huge, huge road win for us today in a place that I think is really difficult to play, and I have so much respect for Jeff Mitte and what he does. I thought that our kids came out and just played with a lot of fight, with a lot of effort. They played with a lot of poise and they just really followed a game plan to a tee and just really proud of just the consistency that they played with. We've played pretty well at times in the Big 12 up until now but I thought this was our best 40 minutes by far. And a lot of it had to do with this senior right here, just being in the zone of just being an attack mode, playing within herself, playing great defense and just doing whatever we asked her to do, but we had lots of kids step up today and really, really proud of this win."
FROM THE FLOOR
BRE'AMBER SCOTT, TEXAS TECH SENIOR GUARD
On scoring 37 points…
"I don't think I really just knew that but like I said I just wanted to come out and help lead my team to a victory. We really needed this win tonight and I feel like everybody contributed and played great. Kilah Freelon came in and did great, like as a freshman. Coach has been lifting her up, telling her to just keep doing what she's doing and she came in and she really put it into the game plan today. So I'm really happy for her."
On back-to-back road wins…
"It's really important especially to win on the road. Everybody wants to protect their house so for us to come in and get two back-to-back raod wins. That is huge. We have to keep it going use momentum and taking into our next game. And yeah, just keep it going. But it was huge for us."
UP NEXT
K-State will make a midweek stop at (18/17) Baylor on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Wednesday's game will air on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and can be heard on the K-State Sports Network.