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No. 12 Women's Basketball preview: Texas Tech [Jan. 21, 2017]
01.19.2017 | Women's Basketball
Longhorns and Lady Raiders meet at 6 p.m. CT Saturday in Lubbock.
No. 12/14 Texas Longhorns (13-4, 7-0 Big 12) vs. RV/NR Texas Tech Lady Raiders (11-6, 3-3 Big 12)
Time: Saturday, January 21, 2017 | 6 p.m. CT
Location: Lubbock, Texas | United Supermarkets Arena (15,098)
TV: None
Online: TexasTech.TV ($)
Radio: 105.3 FM (Roger Wallace, Fran Harris)
Game Notes | Live Video | Live Stats | Live Audio |
AUSTIN, Texas – The No. 12/14 Texas women's basketball team looks to sweep the season series with Texas Tech for the fourth consecutive year on Saturday when it travels to Lubbock, Texas, to take on the Lady Raiders. Tip-off at United Supermarkets Arena is slated for 6 p.m. CT.
Saturday's Texas women's basketball game at Texas Tech will not be televised. The radio broadcast will be available at 105.3 FM in Austin, at TexasSports.com/audio and on the University of Texas mobile and tablet application. The game is a road game that has not been selected for television by the Big 12 Conference. Texas Tech is providing a subscription-based live stream of the game at TexasTech.TV. Fans can purchase a 24-hour pass through TexasTech.TV for $6.95 to watch the game. Select "Sign Up" at the top of the TexasTech.TV Web site to purchase the 24-hour pass for $6.95. Under upcoming events, there will be two links to this game. One link says "audio only" - that is the link to the Texas Tech radio broadcast. The other link, which does NOT say "audio only" is the live video stream.
The Longhorns (13-4, 7-0 Big 12 Conference) are riding an 11-game winning streak and are off to a 7-0 start in Big 12 play for the first time in program history.
Texas and Texas Tech meet for the 98th time in the history of the two programs. The Lady Raiders are the Longhorns' most frequent opponent. Texas holds a 68-29 (.701) advantage in the all-time series, including a 22-17 edge when the game is played in Lubbock. The Longhorns have won the past seven meetings between the two teams, including a 67-47 victory on Dec. 29 in Austin.
Texas head coach Karen Aston is in search of her 103rd win at UT. That win would move her past Gail Goestenkors (102 wins) into second-place on the all-time wins list on the Forty Acres, behind Jody Conradt's 783 victories.
Texas has won the rebound battle in 15 of its 17 games so far this season and holds a rebound margin of +12.2. The Longhorns rank fourth nationally in rebound margin. Additionally, the Longhorns rank 18th nationally in blocked shots per game with 5.8 blocks per game.
Junior point guard Brooke McCarty leads the way for the Longhorns, averaging 13.8 points per game, which ranks 12th in the Big 12 Conference. She is averaging a squad-best 3.4 assists per game and ranks fifth in the Big 12 with 2.2 three-pointers made per game. McCarty is playing a team-high 31.9 minutes per game as one of 12 players in the Big 12 averaging better than 30 minutes per game.
Junior guard Ariel Atkins follows with 13.1 points per game and ranks third in the Big 12 Conference with 2.1 steals per game. Freshman guard/forward Joyner Holmes adds 11.6 points per game, 7.1 rebounds per game and 1.2 blocks per game.
Senior center Kelsey Lang is the team's leading rebounder, averaging 8.7 boards per game. She adds 9.7 points per game and a team-high 2.1 blocks per game. Lang is close to becoming the 41st member of the school's 1,000-point club. She has 942 career points and needs 58 more to reach 1,000.
Texas Tech enters Saturday's game with an 11-6 overall record and a 3-3 conference mark. The Lady Raiders, who are coming off a 66-45 loss to Oklahoma last Saturday, are receiving votes in this week's Associated Press poll. Texas Tech is 10-0 at home this season. Sophomore Recee Caldwell is the Big 12 Conference's third-leading scorer at 16.9 points per game.
QUICK NOTES
• Texas women's basketball is in the midst of its 43rd season of intercollegiate basketball.
• The Longhorns have won 12 conference regular season titles and 10 conference tournament titles.
• Texas is one of just eight programs in NCAA Division I women's basketball history to reach 1,000 all-time wins. The Longhorns achieved the milestone on January 27, 2016. Texas ranks fifth all-time in NCAA history with 1,025 all-time victories.
• The Longhorns consistently play a rigorous non-conference schedule. The Longhorns' schedule consists of six non-conference opponents that advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 or further during the 2015-16 campaign.
• Texas head coach Karen Aston is 102-50 (.671) on the Forty Acres. She needs one more victory to move past Gail Goestenkors into sole possession of second place on UT's all-time wins list.
• Since the start of the 2013-14 season, Texas is 56-6 (.903) when playing in the Frank Erwin Center. The Longhorns are 27-2 (.931) at home over the past two seasons.
• Texas has won the rebound battle in 15 of its 17 games so far this season and holds a rebound margin of +12.2. The Longhorns rank fourth nationally in rebound margin.
• The Longhorns rank 18th nationally in blocked shots per game with 5.8 blocks per game.
• Texas is 2-4 this season against teams ranked in the Associated Press Top-25. The Longhorns were 7-5 (.583) against ranked foes last season.
• Senior center Kelsey Lang currently ranks eighth in UT school history with 146 career blocks. She needs 11 more blocks to surpass Joy Williams (156) for seventh place all-time.
• Lang has played in 121 games in her UT career. She needs to play in 12 more games to move into the all-time Texas top-10 list in career games played.
• Junior guard Brooke McCarty has 142 career three-pointers made, which ranks eighth all-time in UT school history. She needs 11 more three pointers to surpass Erika Arriaran (152) for seventh place all-time.
• McCarty ranks fourth in school history in three-point field goal percentage with a .397 clip (142-of-358). Current Texas assistant Jamie Carey holds the school record in three-point field goal percentage at .418. Just three players in UT history - Carey, Kat Nash and Vicki Hall - have shot better than .400 beyond the three-point arc for their careers.
• Up next, Texas visits Fort Worth, Texas, to take on TCU on Wednesday. Tip-off is slated for 8 p.m. CT and the game will be televised by Fox Sports Southwest Plus.
