Wednesday, November 16
Lawrence, KS
7 p.m.
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Mustangs Play At Kansas Wednesday At 7 P.M. CT
Nov 14 | Women's Basketball
| Â SMU (1-0) at Kansas (0-1) | |
| Â Date & Tip Time | Â Wed., Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. CT |
|  Location |  Allen Fieldhouse – Lawrence, Kan. |
| Â Video | Â ESPN3 |
|  Radio |  KAAM 770 AM – Dallas |
| Â Live Stats | Â SIDEARM Stats |
| Â Game Info | Â Game Notes (.pdf) |
| Â SMU Basketball on Social Media | |
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First-year head coach Travis Mays faces his first road test as the SMU women's basketball team plays at Kansas Wednesday at 7 p.m. CT in Allen Fieldhouse. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3 and Jayhawk TV online, as well as KAAM 770 AM in the Dallas area.Â
ABOUT SMU
The Mustangs added four transfers, including three graduate transfers who are eligible to play immediately, to a roster of nine returning letterwinners and four returning starters. McKenzie Adams led the Mustangs in scoring last season, averaging 13.4 points per game, and was named American Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Year. Alicia Froling was named to the all-conference team after finishing the season as one of three players in the league to average a double-double, scoring 12.3 points per game with 10.6 rebounds. SMU went 13-18 last season.
LAST TIME OUT - TEXAS STATE
Mays led the Mustangs to a 64-56 win against Texas State in his head-coaching debut, led by Alicia Froling's 20th career double-double with 15 points and 15 rebounds, both game highs. Mikayla Reese and Dai'ja Thomas also reached double figures, scoring 11 points each in the win. Thomas also had 10 rebounds for her first career double-double. Kamray Mickens had four of SMU's 12 steals.Â
SCOUTING KANSASÂ
The Jayhawks lost 87-64 to Missouri State in their season opener. Kansas made six of 24 3-point attempts, but Missouri State went 8-for-15 from behind the arc, and shot 53.3 percent overall in the win. McKenzie Calvert led the Jayhawks with 20 points, and Jessica Washington scored 15. The duo was a combined 4-of-18 from 3-point range, making two each. Kansas went 6-25 last season, including a 73-64 loss at SMU.Â
SERIES HISTORY - KANSAS
SMU is 2-3 all-time against Kansas, losing both games played in Lawrence. The Mustangs first played the Jayhawks Nov. 15, 1996, losing 77-67 at Kansas. It was more than 10 years before the two teams played again, with SMU winning the first game in Moody Coliseum 68-56 Nov. 24, 2007, in the championship game of the SMU Thanksgiving Classic. Kansas won the next two games, played in December 2010 and 2011, before SMU won last season.Â
UP NEXT - AT TCU
The Horned Frogs defeated Incarnate Word 88-40 in their season opener. Amy Okonkwo led the team with 21 points, going 7-for-9 from the field and 3-for-4 from behind the arc. She also grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds. Incarnate Word shot just 19.6 percent, going 11-for-56 from the field and 5-for-19 from 3-point range. TCU was 33-for-64, shooting 51.6 percent. Jordan Moore also reached double figures, scoring 10 points with nine rebounds. All 12 TCU players scored at least four points.Â
SERIES HISTORY - TCU
SMU is 42-18 all-time against TCU, but has lost the last two and four of the last six contests, including three games in Fort Worth. The Mustangs are 19-11 all-time on the road against the Horned Frogs, but have just one win in the last eight trips to Fort Worth, a 79-75 victory on Dec. 30, 2008. SMU won the first game in the series, a 58-52 victory in Fort Worth in November 1976. The two teams have played every season since the first meeting, except 1980-81 and 1981-82.Â
LOOKING AHEAD
The game at Kansas starts a stretch of four of five games on the road. SMU plays Sunday at TCU, a team that went 18-15 last season, including an 89-79 win at SMU. The Mustangs host Prairie View A&M on Nov. 22, before playing games on Nov. 25 and 26 in the Omni Hotel Classic in Boulder, Colo. Tickets to the women's game against Prairie View A&M will be $10 until 6:30 p.m., when admission will increase to $25 for the men's game that follows.
UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP
For the first time since 1991, SMU has a new head coach on the sidelines. Travis Mays was announced as the fourth head coach in program history on April 7, 2016, after the retirement of Rhonda Rompola, who spent 25 seasons as the head coach of the Mustangs. Mays worked for three Hall of Fame coaches during 12 seasons as a collegiate assistant, helping guide teams to eight NCAA Tournament appearances with a trip to the Final Four with LSU in 2008. A 1990 second-round NBA draft pick out of Texas, Mays' staff includes fellow Longhorns Edwina Brown and Amie Smith Bradley, and associate head coach Mike Brandt, who spent 14 seasons as the head coach at USC Aiken.
ALL-CONFERENCE HONORS
McKenzie Adams was named American Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Year after leading the Mustangs in scoring with 13.4 points per game during the 2015-16 season. She scored a season-high 24 points against Kansas, and reached double figures in 25 of 31 games, including 17 conference games. Alicia Froling was named to the All-American Athletic Conference Third Team, finishing the year as one of three conference players to average a double-double with 12.3 points and 10.6 rebounds per game. She set a school record with 22 rebounds at Cincinnati, and also scored a career-high 33 points against the Bearcats. Froling was also named to the All-American Athletic Conference Preseason Team.
THE AMERICAN PRESEASON RANKINGS
SMU was picked to finish fifth in the conference by the league's coaches, behind four-time defending national champion Connecticut, Temple, USF and Tulane, respectively. SMU returns two all-conference honorees among nine returning letterwinners.
ANNUAL BLOCK PARTY
As a freshman, Alicia Froling recorded 54 blocks, surpassing Sarah Davis' mark of 53 blocks during the 2005-06 season. After breaking a record that stood for nine seasons, the Australian's name stayed at the top of the list for only one year. Fellow Australian and sophomore Stephanie Collins posted 73 blocks in her first full season. Collins enters the 2016-17 campaign with 98 career blocks, while Froling has 96. The duo would become the first pair of teammates of the same class to each record 100 blocks in program history. The last player to eclipse the century mark was Janielle Dodds who finished with 109 blocks from 2004-08. Sarah Davis holds the school record with 180 blocks from 2003-06.
SMU CAREER BLOCKS
1.   Sarah Davis (2003-06)   180
2.   Karlin Kennedy (1996-00)   139
T-3.   Katie Remke (1997-01)   109
T-3.   Janielle Dodds (2004-08)   109
5.   Stephanie Collins (2015-Present)   98
6.   Alicia Froling (2015-Present)   96
7.   Christine Elliott (2008-12)   95
SMU SINGLE-SEASON BLOCKS
1.   184      2015-16
2.   160      2014-15
3.   142      2005-06
4.   129      2002-03
5. Â Â Â 120Â Â Â Â Â Â 2004-05
NATIONALLY RANKED
Stephanie Collins ranked 36th in the nation with 73 blocks last season, setting an SMU single-season record. The sophomore averaged 2.43 blocks per game, 34th in the country. The Australian needs 83 blocks to become the career leader at SMU.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Alicia Froling represented Australia at the 2015 FIBA U19 Women's World Championships in Russia, winning a Bronze medal with the team, her second career medal at the World Championships with Australia. A native of Queensland, Australia, Froling averaged 8.1 points per game, reaching double-figures twice, including a tournament-high 19 points during group play. She also averaged 6.9 rebounds, and shot just under 70 percent from the free throw line. Stephanie Collins also represented Australia at the 2012 World University Games.
ALICIA FROLING
Alicia Froling scored 381 points, averaging 12.3 per contest. She was one of three players in the American Athletic Conference to average a double-double, grabbing 10.6 rebounds per game, and set an SMU single-season record with 328 rebounds. As a sophomore, Froling finished with 14 double-doubles, the most since Shasta Smothers-Johnson had 15 in the 1984-85 season, and the second most recorded in a season. Froling reached double figures in points 21 times, scoring a career-high 33 points against Cincinnati, becoming the 14th player in SMU history to score 30 points in a game. A Mustang has scored at least 30 points 25 times. She also set an SMU single-game record with 22 rebounds against the Bearcats, the third highest in conference history (24 by UCF's Brittni Montgomery twice). Froling recorded her 20th career double-double with 15 points and 15 rebounds against Texas State in the season opener.Â
SMU SINGLE-SEASON REBOUNDS
1.   Alicia Froling (2015-16)   311
2.   Shasta Smothers-Johnson (1984-85)   310
T-3.   Rhonda Rompola (1981-82)   278
T-3.   Kim Nowak (1979-80)   278
5.   Karlin Kennedy (1999-00)   267
SMU SINGLE SEASON DOUBLE-DOUBLES
1.   Shasta Smothers-Johnson (1984-85)   15
2.   Alicia Froling (2015-16)   14
3.   Rhonda Rompola (1981-82)   13
4.   Janielle Dodds (2005-06)   12
McKENZIE ADAMS
McKenzie Adams led the team and ranked 12th in The American, scoring 13.4 points per game last season, earning conference Newcomer of the Year accolades. She scored a season-high 24 points against Kansas, and reached double figures 25 times, including a streak of 11 straight games. The transfer from Arkansas was 11th in the conference, shooting 78.3 percent from the free throw line, making 94 of 120 attempts. She also had a team-high 76 assists with 28 steals.Â
STEPHANIE COLLINS
Stephanie Collins was second in The American and 36th in the NCAA with 73 blocks, breaking the SMU single-season record Alicia Froling set with 54 blocks as a freshman in 2014-15. Collins posted 25 blocks in 20 games as a freshman, and with 98 total, is fifth in a career at SMU. She was third on the team in scoring, averaging 8.5 points per game with 5.9 rebounds, second on the team. Collins shot 47.9 percent from the floor, ninth in the league, and scored at least 10 points 17 times with a season-high of 16 points against Northwestern State.Â
INDIVIDUAL SEASON BLOCK LIST
1.   Stephanie Collins (2015-16)   73
2.   Alicia Froling (2014-15)   54
3.   Sarah Davis (2005-06)   53
4.   Karlin Kennedy (1997-98)   47
5.   Sarah Davis (2003-04)   45
MORGAN BOLTON
Morgan Bolton was second on the team with 62 assists and averaged 5.7 points per game as the starting point guard. She banked in a three as time expired in regulation against East Carolina, helping the Mustangs to an overtime victory. The junior scored at least 10 points seven times, including a career-high 15 points against then-No. 20 USF in the conference tournament.Â
DAI'JA THOMAS
Dai'ja Thomas averaged 5.0 points with 4.1 rebounds per game as a freshman, averaging 16.4 minutes with action in 30 of 31 contests. She scored 12 points three times, against Northwestern State, at Temple and against UCF in the conference tournament. Thomas had at least five rebounds 10 times, with a season-high nine twice, against Northwestern State and against Memphis. Thomas scored 11 points with 10 rebounds against Texas State for the first double-double of her career.
TRANSFERS AND ROSTER ADDITIONS
SMU adds four transfers to a roster that includes eight 2015-16 letterwinners. Klara Bradshaw, who sat out last season after transferring from TCU, and Kiara Perry, who missed the season due to injury, give Mays two additional weapons to include in the rotation.Â
Tiara Davenport, a former Duncanville High School standout, played in 60 games over two seasons at Louisiana Tech. The 6-foot guard was named to the Conference USA All-Freshman Team after shooting 42 percent from the field and averaging 5.9 points and 3.0 rebounds per game. She scored at least 10 points eight times, and led the team in scoring twice.Â
Former Plano West High School teammates Devri Owens, a Utah graduate, and Kiran Lakhian, a Stanford alumna, also join the team. Owens, a 5-8 guard, played in 61 games over three seasons at Utah, but was limited to just the first six games of her second season before suffering a season-ending injury. Owens returned from injury and played in 26 games during the 2015-16 season. Lakhian spent two seasons with the Cardinal, playing in 17 games during her fourth year in Palo Alto. She scored a career-high nine points against Cornell, going 3-for-4 from 3-point range on Dec. 19, 2015.Â
Amaura Brandt, daughter of associate head coach Mike Brandt, led the NCAA Division II with a 50.9 3-point shooting percentage (89-of-175), leading Limestone College to a third-straight conference championship. She also played two seasons for her father at USC Aiken.
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