GAMEDAY Womens Basketball
West Virginia 72, Kansas State 64
Associated Press
MANHATTAN, Kan. - Esmery Martinez scored 23 points on 11-of-15 shooting and grabbed 12 rebounds to help No. 20 West Virginia beat Kansas State 72-64.
Kysre Gondrezick added 14 points, Kirsten Deans and 13 points and nine assists, and Jasmine Carson scored 11 points for West Virginia (19-4, 13-4 Big 12).
Kansas State (8-16, 3-14) scored 10 consecutive points to take its first lead at 20-19 with 49 seconds left in the first quarter, but Martinez answered with a layup 30 seconds later and the Mountaineers led the rest of the way.
Ayoka Lee, a 6-foot-6 sophomore center, scored 26 points on 11-of-18 shooting and grabbed 14 rebounds for Kansas State. The rest of the Wildcats made just 14 of 45 (31%) from the field.
Kansas State, which is tied with Kansas at the bottom of the conference standings, closes its regular season Sunday at Oklahoma.
The Mountaineers play No. 6 and Big 12-leading Baylor on Monday with a chance to lock up the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament, which begins March 11 in Kansas City, Missouri.
March 3, 2021
| West Virginia | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| E. Martinez | F | 37 | 11-15 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 3-12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 23 |
| K. Niblack | F | 23 | 0-2 | 6-10 | 0-0 | 1-6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| K. Gondrezick | G | 40 | 5-14 | 2-2 | 2-8 | 0-2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 |
| K. Deans | G | 38 | 5-12 | 0-2 | 3-5 | 0-4 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
| J. Hemingway | G | 22 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 2-4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| J. Carson | 28 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | |
| B. Ejiofor | 12 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |
| Totals | 200 | 27-54 (.500) |
8-14 (.571) |
10-19 (.526) |
8-34 | 20 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 72 | |
| Kansas State | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| A. Lee | C | 38 | 11-18 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 9-14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 26 |
| E. Ebert | G | 36 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| C. Carr | G | 34 | 5-20 | 3-4 | 2-8 | 1-5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
| R. Ranke | G | 30 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 3-8 | 0-2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| C. Goodrich | G | 13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Goodson | 32 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 2-4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
| L. Macke | 14 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| T. Lauterbach | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| J. Moore | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| A. Ray | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 200 | 25-63 (.397) |
7-10 (.700) |
7-22 (.318) |
13-35 | 20 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 64 | |
Officials: Julie Krommenhoek, Bryan Enterline, Brian Hall
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