Date: Sun., Nov. 15, 2009 Tip: 3 p.m. CST Location: Fort Collins, Colo. Arena: Moby Arena (8,745) Radio: KFH 1240 AM Talent: Brian Petrotta (pbp) Series: WSU leads, 3-2 Fort Collins Weather
• The Wichita State women’s basketball team opens the 2009-10 regular season when the new-look Shockers travel to Fort Collins, Colo., Sunday to take on Colorado State at 3 p.m., CT. It marks the second-straight year the teams have met as WSU returns the game after defeating the Rams in overtime to open the 2008-09 season a year ago.
• The game will be broadcast live on KFH 1240 AM with Brian Petrotta on the call. Fans can also listen worldwide through the web stream at ShockerRadio.com.
• Sunday’s contest will be played in Fort Collins, but the game will have a familiar feel for Shocker fans. CSU head coach Kristen Holt was an assistant at Wichita State before taking a position with the Rams in 2007. Former Shocker Taylor Steven is an assistant coach on Holt’s staff as well. Steven, who finished her WSU career in 2008, still owns the WSU single-season free-throw percentage record, connecting on 86.7-percent of her trips to the stripe in 2005-06.
• The Shockers have won three-straight in the series, but each of the last two meetings have been settled in overtime. WSU prevailed in overtime, 76-69, last season in Wichita to give Jody Adams her first win as Shocker head coach, while the Shockers needed two overtimes to turn back the Rams, 74-73, in 1986 in Fort Collins.
• WSU’s first road test of the season provides the Shockers a chance to end a seven-game losing skid in non-conference road games, one that dates back to Dec. 17, 2005. WSU defeated UMKC, 74-62 in Kansas City that year. The Shockers snapped two other road streaks last season, posting a win over Bradley in the regular-season finale last season after turning back Jacksonville State in Memphis to snap WSU’s streak of 27-straight losses away from home.
• Jody Adams is 1-0 in season openers as Shocker head coach after last year’s win over the Rams in Wichita. The Shockers have won two-straight season openers, and three of the last four after a loss to Hofstra in the first round of the Preseason WNIT in 2006. WSU has not won a season opener on the road since 1999, when WSU defeated UMKC 64-58 in Kansas City en route to a 20-win season.
• Wichita State is 8-9 all-time against the Mountain West Conference. The Shockers have played Colorado State five times, which equals the number of games played against TCU as the most against a MVC foe.
• Colorado State defeated Montana 72-64, Friday night in Fort Collins in the Rams' season opener.
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