From K-State
Kansas State women’s basketball will open the Big 12 portion of the 2019-20 season on Sunday, January 5 in Bramlage Coliseum against West Virginia, as the league office has announced the complete Big 12 Conference schedule.
The conference schedule features a double round robin format for the seventh-consecutive year consisting of 18 games with squads playing each other twice. The team(s) that finish with the highest winning percentage in league games will be crowned the Big 12 regular season champion. The Big 12 is the only of the five peer conferences in which teams have to face each other twice during the regular season.
The Wildcats and Mountaineers will meet in a league season-opener for the first time in the history of the series.
Kansas State will play four of its seven games in the month of January in Bramlage Coliseum. In addition to hosting West Virginia to begin the month, K-State will host Oklahoma State on Wednesday, January 15. K-State will continue a two-game home stand against Texas on Sunday, January 19. The Wildcats host Oklahoma on Saturday, January 25, to end its home slate in the first month of the new year.
K-State’s road schedule in the month of January unfolds with a trip to Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday, January 11, to tangle with Texas Tech. K-State returns to the road on Wednesday, January 22, at Iowa State and closes out the road slate in January with a trip to Lawrence, Kansas, for the Dillons Sunflower Showdown on Wednesday, January 29.
In the month of February, the Wildcats will play four of their nine games at home. K-State’s home schedule in the second month begins after a two-game road trip with a visit from Texas Tech on Wednesday, February 5. The Wildcats host defending national champion Baylor on Saturday, February 8. K-State welcomes in TCU on Wednesday, February 19, and ends its February home schedule against Iowa State on Wednesday, February 26.
Kansas State’s February road slate starts at TCU on Saturday, February 1. After a two-game home stand, the Wildcats visit Morgantown, West Virginia, to face the Mountaineers on Tuesday, February 11, and face Oklahoma on Sunday, February 16, at 2 p.m. K-State’s final two road trips of the February are Saturday, February 22, at Texas and Saturday, February 29, at Baylor. This will be K-State’s third straight game on a Leap Day and the fifth time in program history.
In the month of March, K-State travels to Oklahoma State on Tuesday, March 3, and will celebrate Senior Day against Sunflower Showdown rival Kansas on Sunday, March 8.
The 2020 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship will be contested at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, March 12-15, 2020. The postseason event returns to Kansas City for the first time since 2012.