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MORGANTOWN -- The West Virginia University women's basketball team (23-6, 13-5 Big 12) opens postseason play in the Quarterfinal Round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship today.
The No. 4-seeded Mountaineers will face No. 5 Kansas State. Tipoff inside the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri is set for noon.
The contest against Kansas State will be broadcast on ESPNU with Eric Frede and Christy Thomaskutty on the call.
The Mountaineers enter the tournament as a four-seed for the second time in program history. WVU is 0-1 all-time as the seed, last entering the tournament as the seed in 2019.
WVU has advanced to the title game three times across 12 seasons, most recently making an appearance in 2021. WVU also reached the finals in 2014 and 2017. WVU won the conference tournament during the 2017 season as a six seed and defeated the top three seeds to collect the programs first conference title. The Mountaineers are 12-10 all-time in tournament play and added five trips to the semifinals.
Head coach Mark Kellogg has reached 23 regular season wins in both of his first two seasons in Morgantown. West Virginia finished with the fourth-best record in the Big 12 regular season at 13-5. His .774-win percentage as the man in charge is the best winning percentage by a WVU head coach in program history.
JJ Quinerly was named the Big 12's Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight season, an All-Big 12 First Team selection for the third time. Jordan Harrison earned her second straight all-conference honor this season after being named to third-team honors. Both Quinerly and Kyah Watson were two-of-five named to the conference's defensive team