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No. 20/23 Women’s Basketball preview: Texas Tech
02.07.2023 | Women's Basketball
No. 20/23 Texas (18-6, 9-2 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech (16-7, 4-6 Big 12)
Game 25
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 – 7:00 p.m. Central
Moody Center – Austin, Texas
GameDay Quick Facts
TELEVISION: The game will be nationally televised on Longhorn Network. Alex Loeb (pxp) and Andrea Lloyd (analyst) will have the call.
RADIO: The game will be carried on 104.9 FM in Austin. Craig Way (pxp) and Kathy Harston (analyst) will call the action. The broadcast will be streamed on TexasSports.Com.
SERIES: Texas leads the all-time series 77-32.
Notables
DEFENSE GETTING IT DONE:
Texas is 15-0 on the season when they hold an opponent to 59 points or less. 16 times this season Texas has held an opponent to single digits for a quarter. The Longhorns held an Oklahoma offense averaging 87.3 points per game to 58 points. Against Iowa State, a team averaging 78.7 points per game they scored 53 against Texas. For the season Texas is allowing opponents 58 per game. In the fourth quarter against WVU Texas allowed 11 points and held the Mountaineers to 27.3 percent shooting from the field.
RORI HARMON:
Sophomore All-American Rori Harmon made history on Jan. 4 in the Longhorns win over TCU as she became the 4th 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 16-3 with Harmon in the lineup this season. In Big 12 play Harmon is averaging 11.9 ppg, 7.8 apg, 6.2 rpg and 2.2 spg. Harmon leads the Big 12 in assists per game and steals per game. Harmon recently passed 300 career assists (316 now) and is No. 6 on the UT all-time list for assists for sophomores with 136. Harmon was named to the Nancy Lieberman Award Mid Season Top-10 list. This week Harmon was named to the Naismith Trophy Player of the Week Midseason Team.
GASTON COMING UP BIG:
DeYona Gaston notched her second double-double of the season with 13 points and 11 rebounds in the win over Baylor. Gaston scored 15 of her 19 points in the first half against Oklahoma. Gaston scored a career-high 24 points in the Texas win at Kanas last time out.
NANCY LIEBERMAN AWARD TOP 10. Rori Harmon was named to the mid season top-10 list for the Nancy Lieberman Award, which goes to the top point guard in NCAA DI women's college basketball.
FORCING TURNOVERS:
The Longhorns are forcing 21.4 turnovers per game. In the last 13 games they hold a 299-137 advantage over opponents in points off turnovers. Texas ranks 14th in the NCAA in turnovers forced per game.
ON THE GLASS: The Longhorns are 15-3 this season when they outrebound their opponent. Texas has been effective on the offensive glass as they lead the Big 12 and rank 18th in the NCAA in offensive rebounds per game at 15.0. Against West Virginia, the Longhorns grabbed 14 offensive rebounds and only have up four offensive boards to the Mountaineers.
LEADING THE PACK: The Longhorns currently rank first in the Big 12 standings with an 9-2 mark in conference play.
