The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Thursday, September 21
Austin, TX
7 PM
University of Texas
vs
Texas Tech
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Texas will look to extend its 19-match unbeaten streak in Big 12 play to 20 with Thursday’s matchup against Texas Tech
AUSTIN, Texas – Following a seven-day break in action, The University of Texas women's soccer program will return to action on Thursday, Sept. 21, when the Longhorns play host to No. 25 Texas Tech at 7 p.m. It'll mark the first home match for UT since a 0-0 tie against then-No. 23 Gonzaga on Sunday, Sept. 10.
Alex Loeb (play by play) and Glenn Davis (analyst) will be in the booth during the match's broadcast on Longhorn Network and the ESPN app.
KICKING OFF
- A win for Texas over Texas Tech on Thursday night would mark the 150th all-time victory for the Longhorns over a Big 12 Conference opponent.
- Texas will enter Thursday evening's match against the Red Raiders with a 149-67-30 (.667) all-time record against Big 12 foes.
- Texas holds an 18-9-4 all-time record against Texas Tech, including a 10-3-3 mark against the Red Raiders in matches played in Austin.
- Texas Tech was the last Big 12 women's soccer program to knock off Texas during the regular season when the Red Raiders won, 1-0, in Lubbock on Nov. 6, 2020.
- The Longhorns have responded from that loss by winning their next 19 consecutive regular season conference matches entering Thursday's action.
- Texas Tech was the last Big 12 women's soccer program to knock off Texas during the regular season when the Red Raiders won, 1-0, in Lubbock on Nov. 6, 2020.
- Texas is 0-0-1 in top-25 matchups this season after playing to a 90-minute 0-0 tie against then-No. 23 Gonzaga on Sunday, Sept. 10, when the Longhorns were ranked No. 17.
- Texas is looking for its first win against a top-25 ranked opponent at home as a top-25 ranked team since then-No. 17 Longhorns knocked off then-No. 5 West Virginia, 1-0, on Sept. 24, 2017.
- If Texas knocks off Texas Tech Thursday night, it would mark the third consecutive season the Longhorns have opened Big 12 play by not dropping its first two conference matches, which would tie the longest such streak under 12th-year head coach Angela Kelly.
- The Longhorns also accomplished the feat from 2017 to 2019.
- Texas has never started four straight seasons by not dropping its first two conference matches.
- Texas will enter Thursday's match as the only Division I women's soccer program to feature multiple student-athletes ranked among the top five in the country in both total goals and total assists.
- Lexi Missimo is second in the country with 12 goals and first with 15 assists.
- Trinity Byars is fifth in the nation with 10 goals and tied for fourth with seven assists.
- A clean sheet by two-time Big 12 Goalkeeper of the Week Mia Justus against Texas Tech would mark the fifth consecutive solo clean sheet for the first-year Longhorn, which would be the longest such streak in program history.
- Mia Justus, Aug. 31 – Sept. 14, 2023
- Savannah Madden, Sept. 25 – Oct. 9, 2022
- Savannah Madden, Oct. 3 – 21, 2021
- Nicole Curry, Sept. 22 – Oct. 3, 2019
- Dianna Pfenninger, Oct. 12 – 26, 2008
- A clean sheet against the Red Raiders would be the seventh solo clean sheet by Justus, which would tie for seventh on the program's single-season clean sheet list.
- With her next point, Lexi Missimo will become just the third different Longhorn women's soccer student-athlete to score 40-or-more points in a single season.
- 46, Kelly Wilson (2004)
- 43, Trinity Byars (2022)
- 39, Lexi Missimo (2023)
- Lexi Missimo is three goals shy of becoming the first student-athlete in program history to record a 15-goal, 15-assist season.
- Missimo already has 15 assists on the season and will enter Thursday's match against Texas Tech with 12 goals following a brace against Baylor last week.
- Her next assist will set a new single-season program record.
- Missimo already has 15 assists on the season and will enter Thursday's match against Texas Tech with 12 goals following a brace against Baylor last week.
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