No. 25 Women’s Basketball Preview: Texas Tech

Well. 25 Texas (13-5, 4-1 Big 12) at Texas Tech (14-4, 2-3 Big 12)

Game 19

Wednesday 18 January 2023 at 19:00 in the city centre

United Supermarkets Arena Lubbock, Texas

GameDay quick facts

TELEVISION: The game will be televised nationally on Big 12 Now/ESPN+ with Ron Thulin, Brandi Poole and Arielle Schafer.

RADIO: The game will be broadcast on 105.3 FM in Austin. Craig Way (pxp) and Kathy Harston (analyst) call for action. The broadcast will be broadcast liveTexasSports.Com.

SERIES: Texas leads the all-time series 77-31.

Considerable

RORI HARMON: Sophomore All-American Harmon Road made history Jan. 4 in the Longhorns’ win over TCU, becoming the fourth player in program history to record a triple-double. Harmon scored 17 points and added 11 assists and 10 rebounds. After missing the first five games of the season due to injury, the Longhorns are 11-2 with Harmon this season. In Big 12 play, Harmon is averaging 11.4 rpg, 9.2 rpg, 7.0 rpg and 2.2 sg.

DEFENSE DONE: Last time out, the Longhorns held an Iowa State team that averaged 78.7 points per game to 53 points. Texas gave up six points in the fourth quarter to the Cyclones, marking the 14th time this season an opponent has been held by single digits for a quarter. Texas is 12-0 on the season when opponents score 59 points or fewer in a game. Texas leads the Big 12 standings at No. 7^thIn the NCAA in blocked shots per game 5.6.

FORCING TURNS: The Longhorns commit 22.4 turnovers per game. In their last eight games, they have a 209-68 advantage over opponents in scoring. Texas ranks 8th in the NCAA in turnovers per game and 11th in the NCAA in margin of victory.

FAYE/GASTON DUO:Khadija Faye and DeYona Gaston enhance in its absence Aaliyah Moore, who is out with a season-ending ACL injury. Faye, who transferred from Texas Tech, has four double-doubles on the season. In Big 12 play, Gaston is averaging 14.6 points per game and shooting 58.5 percent from the field.

AT A DISTANCE: Harmon Road has played 40 minutes in three of the Longhorns’ five conference games and has missed six minutes over five games. Harmon has reached double figures in assists in four of his last six games, and despite the first five games of the season, Harmon ranks 18th.^th96 total assists in the NCAA (7.4 per game).