No. 19/23 Texas (6-4, 0-0) at Kansas (11-0, 0-0)
Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2005: 6 p.m. (Central)
at Allen Fieldhouse (capacity 16,300), Lawrence, Kansas - BIG 12 SEASON OPENER
Game Day Information & Quick Facts
TV: CSTV (Ann Schatz, play-by-play; Debbie Antonelli, color analyst)
In the Austin area, CSTV is found on Time Warner Cable digital TV (Channel 438); on DIRECTV (Channel 610) and DISH Network (Channel 152).
Internet TV: none
Radio: Texas: KVET Radio/Sports Radio 1300 (1300 AM), Austin; Jayhawk Radio Network (Kansas)
Teams at A Glance
National Rankings (as of Dec. 27): Texas: #19, Associated Press; #23, USA Today/ESPN;
Kansas: not ranked
Last Year: Texas (22-9, NCAA 2nd Rd.); Kansas (12-16)
All-Time Series Record: 16th meeting: UT leads, 10-5 ... (Texas is 4-2 at home, 3-3 away, 3-0 neutral)
Series Streak: +6, Texas
Last Meeting: Jan. 5, 2005: #7 Texas 66, Kansas 51 (at Austin, Texas)
Last Kansas victory: Feb. 3, 2001: Kansas 70, #21 Texas 60 (at Austin, Texas)
Texas Coach Jody Conradt (Baylor '63): 37th year overall: 1,158 games: 875-282 (.756); 30th year at Texas: 978 games: 758-220 (.775)
Kansas Coach Bonnie Hendrickson: 9th year overall: 259 games:181-78 (.699); 2nd year at Kansas: 39 games: 23-16 (.590)
Jody Conradt vs. Kansas: 10-5
Quick Glance at the Teams
Texas, ranked No. 19 in last week's Associated Press Top 25 Poll, brings its 6-4 mark into tonight's Big 12 Conference opener against undefeated Kansas (11-0) ... UT stood No. 23 in last week's USA Today/ESPN weekly poll ... Kansas is receiving votes in both polls...The Longhorns saw their three-game win streak snapped in their last outing, a 63-49 loss to No. 9 Rutgers in Piscataway, NJ ... Freshman guard Erika Arriaran (13 points) and All-America junior forward Tiffany Jackson (10 points, eight rebounds) led the way for the Horns, who were held to their lowest scoring output in 31 games - dating back to last season's 51-47 loss to Rutgers on Jan. 2, 2005.
Kansas, WHICH HAS NOT PLAYED ON THE ROAD YET THIS YEAR, is coming off a 75-72 win over La Salle at Allen Fieldhouse on Dec. 30 - and set the school record for most consecutive wins (11) to start a season ... This gives KU its first 11-game winning streak since the 1993-94 season.
Conradt One Win Away From Tying Rupp for No. 3 in Wins:
With ONE MORE WIN, Texas head coach Jody Conradt will tie the legendary Adolph Rupp for the No. 3 spot in all-time college basketball victories ... Conradt has 875 career wins, while Rupp has 876 ... With four more wins, Conradt will tie Dean Smith for No. 2 in all-time college wins (SEE FULL CHART in PDF notes, pg. 3).
Big 12 Openers - with Jayhawks, Take Three
For the third year in a row, UT and KU open up Big 12 play against each other ... Last year, the Longhorns won in Austin, 66-51 (Jan. 5, 2005); Texas also won in Lawrence, 73-54, on Jan. 7, 2004...In all-time Big 12 openers, Texas is 8-1 ... UT has won its last seven league openers, after its only opening loss in 1997-98 (82-61 to Oklahoma State on Jan. 3, 1998).
UT on 3-Game Road Swing
Texas has hits the road for three straight nationally-televised road games against tough opponents - this ties UT's longest road swing of the year ... After the Dec. 30th game at Rutgers, Texas plays at KU tonight and then goes to defending NCAA titlist and No. 4/4 Baylor (Sat., Jan. 7, 3 p.m. on FSN) ... To date this year, Texas is 4-2 at home, 0-2 in away games and 2-0 at neutral sites.
Texas Meets Undefeated Foes Back-to-Back
As of Jan. 7, there were seven undefeated Division I women's basketball teams - and two of them (Kansas and 10-0 Baylor) are UT's next two opponents... The other five undefeated squads are Tennessee, Duke, LSU, North Carolina, Virginia Tech.
Second-Toughest Schedule in Land
This week, according to the CollegeRPI.com, UT's schedule is rated the SECOND toughest in the nation while the Horns are ranked No. 11 overall in RPI ... Kansas stands No. 72 in the RPI, and its schedule is ranked No. 278... Of last week's AP Top 25 teams, seven are on Texas' regular season schedule: No. 1 Tennessee, No. 2 Duke, No. 4 Baylor, No. 8 UConn, No. 9 Rutgers, No. 16 New Mexico and No. 20 Oklahoma.
Texas Stat Leaders
Versatile All-America 6-3 junior Tiffany Jackson leads the Longhorns in scoring (13.9 ppg), rebounding (7.7 rpg) and steals (28, 2.8 spg), is second in blocks (19, 1.9 bpg) and third in assists (16) ... Freshman Erika Arriaran (11.8 ppg) and senior Nina Norman (8.0) follow in scoring, with Arriaran first in UT assists (25, 2.5 apg), free throw percentage (.885, 23-26) and 3-pointers (15) ... Freshman 6-4 post Ashley Lindsey (7.1 ppg, 5.8 rpg) is next, with UT's next two leading scorers (freshman PG Carla Cortijo, 7.5 ppg and freshman F Earnesia Williams, 5.2 ppg, out with injuries) ...Texas' defense has been strong in the last four games, holding opponents to just 58.3 ppg (a total of 233 points).
Texas-Kansas Series
This will be the 16th meeting between these two schools, with Texas leading the play, 10-5 ... Texas holds a six-game win streak in the series, as the last loss to Kansas came on Feb. 3, 2001 (70-60) in Austin ... These two teams met once last year - in Austin, with No. 7 UT winning 66-51 on Jan. 5 behind 21 points from then-sophomore Tiffany Jackson and 18 from senior Heather Schreiber ... Texas held Kansas to just 18 rebounds - the lowest single game rebound total in Jayhawk history, as UT out-rebounded KU by a 31-18 edge...Guard Erika Hallman led KU with 20 points and four assists...Texas shot 56 percent in the game (25-45), while KU made 42 percent (21-50) of its shots.
Jackson Strong Against Jayhawks
In her two prior games against Kansas, 6-3 junior Tiffany Jackson has put up impressive numbers, with 37 points and 16 rebounds in two games (16 points, 9 rebounds as a frosh; 21 points, 7 boards last year).
In the NCAA Statistics
The NCAA will resume its weekly statistical rankings on January 3rd (today) after taking the Christmas holiday week off ... In the last NCAA statistics, Texas ranked No. 5 nationally in blocked shots per game in the last stats (69, 6.9 bpg), with 6-4 freshman Ashley Lindsey No. 15 in blocked shots (25, 2.5 bpg) ... She has 36 percent of UT's blocks to date ...UT also was No. 24 nationally in steals (115, 11.5 spg).
For Kansas, the Jayhawks are tied with six other teams with an undefeated record to date, and ranked No. 7 nationally in team assist average (17.9), No. 7 in turnovers per game (12.4) and No. 8 in 3-point field goal percentage (.400, 62-155)... That 3-point ranking was due largely to Erica Hallman, who was tied for No. 1 nationally in 3-point field goals per game (25 treys, 2.7 per game average)...Guard Ivana Catic stood No. 6 in Division I assist average.. She dishes out 6.3 assists per game.
Texas Picked Second in Big 12 Race
Texas was picked second in the 2005-06 Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Preseason Poll as voted on by the league coaches ... Defending NCAA champion and league champion Baylor was first in the poll, gathering 113 points and six-first place votes... Texas was just edged out by the Lady Bears, as UT gained 110 points, including two first-place votes. Last year, UT was the runnerup in the Big 12 race ...Texas won back-to-back Big 12 regular season titles in 2003 and 2004, winning outright in 2003 and tying with Kansas State the next year.
Texas Home & Away in Big 12
What a difference a venue makes ... In all-time HOME regular season games against Big 12 opponents, the Longhorns stand 59-13 in 72 games - an .819 winning percentage - including an 8-0 mark last year ... But, on the road in Big 12 regular season games, the Horns are 38-34 (.539) in 72 games, including a 5-3 record last year.
Longhorn Record Watch
Senior guard Nina Norman has 361 all-time assists to stand No. 8 in all-time UT steals ... She is 42 away from the No. 7 spot, held by Angie Jo Ogletree (403, 1993-97)... Norman led the Longhorns in assists the last two years, dishing out a career-best 142 in 35 games (4.1 as a sophomore) and 98 (3.5 apg) in 28 contests last year.
With 123 career blocks, Tiffany Jackson stands No. 6 in career rejections .. Jackson needs 6 blocks to tie for the No. 5 position, held by Tracy Cook (129, 1999-2002) ... She is 27 blocked shots shy of the No. 4 position.
Double Figure Scorers
Junior Tiffany Jackson and freshman Erika Arriaran lead UT's double-figure scorers to date ... Jackson has netted 10-plus points in eight of the 10 games, and Arriaran in seven of 10 played ... Jackson has been in double-figure scoring the last seven games, collecting 108 points in this span for a 15.4 ppg average ... Arriaran has notched double-digit scoring in six of the last eight games, and in the last five (vs. Duke, S.F. Austin, North Texas, TAMUCC and Rutgers), collected 58 points and 19 rebounds for averages of 11.6 ppg and 3.8 rpg in this span.
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