The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
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20-11, 7-9
Texas Tech (First Round)
16-15, 4-12
Women's Basketball moves to Big 12 quarterfinals with 75-63 victory over Texas Tech
03.11.2008 | Women's Basketball
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Brittainey Raven scored a game-high 16 points and Texas used a dominant first-half run to cruise past Texas Tech 75-63 Tuesday night in the first round of the Big 12 women's tournament.
The Longhorns, who had four players with at least 13 points, move on to face second-seeded Baylor on Wednesday. Texas split the season series with the Bears this year, including a 61-51 win in Austin, Texas, the last time the two teams met.
Ashley Lindsey and Kathleen Nash each scored 14 points and Erneisha Bailey added 13 for Texas (20-11), which held Texas Tech without a field goal for more than nine minutes in the first half. The Longhorns went on a 19-3 run during that stretch to take a 23-13 lead, and they never led by less than nine for the rest of the game.
Dominic Seals scored 15 points and Jordan Murphree had 14 for Texas Tech (16-15), which committed 23 turnovers in its fourth straight loss.
Those turnovers led to 29 points for the Longhorns, who have won four straight after snapping a three-game losing skid. Fourteen of Texas Tech's turnovers came before halftime, when the Lady Raiders fell behind by as many as 18 before closing the gap to 40-29 at the break.
Texas Tech held the deficit around 10 for much of the second half, but the Longhorns never let the game get close.
Maria Moore's 3-pointer cut the lead to 64-55 with just over six minutes left, but the Longhorns responded with a 9-0 run to put the game away. Raven, Texas' leading scorer at 15.5 points per game, scored on back-to-back fast-break lay-ups during that spurt.
The Lady Raiders and the Longhorns played for the second time in less than a week. Texas won 70-55 in Austin on Wednesday in the season finale for both teams.
The only thing that kept Texas Tech close was outside shooting. Ten of the Lady Raiders' 19 made field goals were 3-pointers, but they weren't enough.
POSTGAME NOTES
- The win was Texas' fourth in a row ... the victory moves Texas to 20-11 on the season as UT reached the 20-victory plateau for the first time since 2004-05 when Texas finished 22-9 and advanced to the NCAA Championship second round in doing so
- Texas is now 9-8 in games away from Austin this year, going 5-7 in away games and 4-1 at neutral sites
- This was Texas' 15th game at Municipal Auditorium in Big 12 Championship play, and UT is now 8-7 in tourney games here in Kansas City
- Texas moves to Big 12 quarterfinal play to face No. 2 seed Baylor ... This year, Texas and Baylor split their home-and-home series, with No. 6 Baylor beating No. 25 Texas, 61-60, on a late 3-pointer by Angela Tisdale in Waco (Jan. 30) before unranked Texas upset No. 8 Baylor, 61-51 in Austin (Feb. 13) two weeks later
- Sophomore guard Brittainey Raven (game-high 16 points) notched double-figure scoring for the 30th time in 31 games this year (a team-high) ... Raven has now hit for double-digit scoring in the last 10 games and has 73 points in the last four games
- Junior post Ashley Lindsey also logged her Big 12 tourney-best numbers to date, scoring 14 points with a game-high rebounds ... Lindsey's prior bests were last year with four points vs. Oklahoma and four rebounds against Missouri in the 2007 championship's first round ... this also marked the 18th time that Lindsey has reached double-figure scoring this year which is second-best to Raven's 30 times
- This also was Lindsey's fifth double-double (points and rebounds) on the year, a team best
- Raven's 16 points also were a Big 12 Championship high for her in this her third conference tourney game .. Her prior high was 8 points against No. 2 seed Oklahoma in last year's quarterfinal game
- This was the third time that Texas and Texas Tech had met this season, and the second time in the last six days as UT defeated the Lady Raiders, 70-55 on March 5 in Austin ... Texas went 2-1 against TTU this year ... the Texas-Texas Tech series is the longest series in Longhorn basketball history, as tonight's game was the 79th in the series which is led by Texas (55-24)
- This also was the fourth time Texas and Texas Tech met in Big 12 tournament play ... UT is now 3-1 against the Lady Raiders at the Phillips 66 Big 12 tourney .. This was the first time these two teams played in the first round, as they previously met in the championship game (2003- won by Texas), the 2001 quarterfinals (won by TTU) and the 2000 semifinals (won by Texas)
- Freshman guard Kat Nash added 14 points, reaching double-figure scoring for the 10th time
- With a 48.4 percent shooting effort in the first half, the Longhorns had their best FIRST half shooting performance in 18 games, dating back to the Jan. 4 contest against Texas-Pan American in Austin when Texas shot 58.8 percent in the first half to lead 51-20
- The 10 3-pointers by Texas Tech were the second-most against the Longhorns this season ... The most 3-pointers yielded by Texas this year was 12, as No. 12 DePaul went 12-for-27 from 3-point range on Dec. 28 in a 91-81 Texas win in San Diego (at the Maggie Dixon Surf 'N Slam Classic first round)
