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No. 5/5 Women’s Basketball preview: Texas Tech
02.19.2024 | Women's Basketball
#5/5 Texas (24-3, 11-3 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech (16-11, 5-9 Big 12)
Game 28
Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 7:00 PM CT
Moody Center | Austin, Texas
GameDay Quick Facts
TELEVISION: The game will be televised nationally on Longhorn Network. Tyler Denning (pxp) and Andrea Lloyd (analyst) will call the game.
RADIO: All women's basketball games will air in Austin on 103.1 FM, along with the web streams on TexasSports.com and the Longhorn App. Craig Way and Eryn McMahan will call the game on radio.
Notables
• MADISON BOOKER: Madison Booker is showing why she is one of the best players in the country. This week Booker earned both the Big 12 Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week honors. Booker has earned six Big 12 weekly honors and three national weekly honors this season. Against ranked opponents this season Booker is averaging 20.8 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.3 assists over six games. Only Caitlin Clark and Hannah Hidalgo have better averages against ranked opponents. Booker has eight games scoring 20 or more points this season and has scored in double figures in 16 straight games. In Big 12 play Booker is shooting 48.9 percent from the field and 91.9 percent from the free-throw line.
• 400/100 FOR VIC SCHAEFER: On Feb. 14 at Houston, Texas head coach Vic Schaefer recorded his 400th career victory as a head coach. Schaefer, the 2X national coach of the year, has 20 wins over AP top-25 teams in his time at Texas and 19 wins over AP top-10 teams in his career. With the Texas 81-60 win over Iowa State on Saturday, Coach Schaefer recorded his 100th win at Texas.
• BOOKER ON WOODEN AWARD/NAISMITH LISTS: Booker was named to the Wooden Award top 20 watch list for the player of the year award. Booker is one of three freshmen on the list and one of two players in the Big 12 on the list. Booker was also named to the Cheryl Miller Award top 10 finalist list, the award for top female collegiate small forward. Last week, Booker earned a place on the Naismith Trophy Player of the Year Midseason Team.
• NCAA TOP 16 REVEAL: The NCAA selection committee revealed their first top 16 on Feb. 15 and they have the Longhorns at No. 8. The committee will do another reveal on Feb. 29 and selection Sunday is March 17.
• RANKED WINS IN THE SCHAEFER ERA: The win over Kansas State represented the Longhorns 20th win over an AP top 25 team under head coach Vic Schaefer. That is tied for fifth most among all D1 programs over that time. It was also the 19th time in his career as a head coach that Schaefer has beat a top-10 opponent.
• SHAY HOLLE LOGGING THE MINUTES: Senior Shay Holle has been a critical piece for the Longhorns this season. Holle is averaging 37.8 minutes per game in conference play and has played 40 minutes in eight games. Last time out, in the win over Iowa State, Holle scored 16 points and added six assists, four rebounds and three steals with zero turnovers.
• DEFENSE GETTING IT DONE: In the last six games the Longhorns are holding opponents to 54.7 points per game. 22 times this season Texas has held an opponent to single digits for a quarter. In 16 games this season the Longhorns have held their opponent to under 40 percent shooting.
• POUNDING THE PAINT: The Longhorns are +16.0 points per game over opponents in points in the paint this season.
• GETTING TO THE FREE-THROW LINE: This season the Longhorns have made 411 free-throws, which is 127 more than their opponents.
• MARGIN OF VICTORY: The Longhorns rank third in the NCAA in margin of victory on the season at +25.5. 23 of the Longhorns 24 wins this season have been by double digits. 15 of their wins have been by 20 or more points. Most recently Texas won their game over Iowa State by 21 points.
