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Texas is coming off a close 68-65 home loss to A&M which left the Longhorns at 6-8 in conference play. They have gone 1-4 after winning five in a row, including losing their last three. On the other hand, Tech has gone 4-1 in the last five games, including an 84-60 loss to A&M in College Station two games ago. They are coming off a 57-48 win over OSU in Lubbock. Horns lead the series 59-25, including a win earlier this season in Lubbock. Horns have won the last three games against the Lady Raiders and are looking to make it four in a row.
Remaining Big 12 games:
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Tech Texas
Oklahoma @OSU [/pre]
Tech has only one player in double digit scoring in league play: Kierra Mallard (# 20, 6-3 Jr. F/C) at 11.0 ppg. Three others are just under at 9.7, 9.6, and 9.1 ppg. Respectively, they are Chynna Brown (# 00, 5-8 Soph. G), Teena Wickett (# 4, 6-3 Sr. F/C) and Casey Morris (# 15, 5-9 Soph. G). Morris (22-61, 36.1% from BTA) is the only Lady Raider to have made more than 8 3s in league play. She has attempted about two and a half times more 3s than the next closest Lady Raider, Brown who is 8-25 for 32.0% from BTA. Monique Smalls (# 23, 5-6 Soph. G) is the most accurate shooter who has attempted at least 10 3s, going 7-15 for 46.7%. Teena Wickett (4-10, 40.0%), Jordan Barncastle (# 1, 6-2 Jr. F) (6-18, 33.3%) and Mary Bokenkamp (# 24, 5-9 Soph. G) (5-13, 38.5%) are the other Lady Raiders that have attempted at least 10 treys. Tech has seven players that have stepped up to the FT line at least 10 times. Christine Hyde (# 5, 5-10 Soph. G) at 36-60, 60.0%, has gotten to the FT line 20 more than Wickett, who is 24-40, 60.0%. Mallard, Morris and Smalls are all hitting at least 70% of their FTs. Brown (22-25, 88.0%) has the best percentage . Mallard is the top rebounder at 7.4 rpg while Wickett adds 5.4 rpg. Six Lady Raiders have 12 or more assists in league play, topped by Smalls’ 49. Mallard, with 27 blocks, is the only Lady Raider in double figures in that category. Smalls, with 32 steals, leads six players with 11 or more steals.
Tech has fourteen players on their roster. All fourteen have gotten into at least one league game. The main rotation has nine players that average 10 or more minutes a game and a tenth that averages 8 minutes a game. Smalls, Morris, and Mallard all average between 30 and 33 minutes a game. Those three have started all 14 league games. Five others have started at the other two positions. These five are: Wickett-10 starts; Brown-2 starts; Hyde-5 starts; Barncastle-7 starts; and Shauntal Nobles (# 33, 6-3 F/C)-4 starts. In the last six games, Hyde has started the last five. Barncastle has started one. Nobles has started four and Wickett has started two, including the last one. Against OSU, the starting lineup consisted of Mallard, Smalls, Morris, Hyde and Wickett.
Four Horns are averaging double figure scoring: Chassidy (17.6 ppg); Kat (11.7 ppg); Yvonne (11.1 ppg) and Ashleigh (10.2 ppg). Chassidy (31-84, 36.9%) and Kat (24-71, 33.8%) have pretty much doubled up on 3 pt attempts on the others. Yvonne (17-39, 43.6%) and Tiffany (5-12, 41.7%) are the players hitting over 40% from BTA for Texas. Seven Horns have gotten to the FT line at least 19 times, led by Chassidy’s 56-65 (86.2%). She and Kat (28-32, 87.5%) are the only Horns hitting over 70 % from the FT line. Kat is averaging 7.7 rpg in league play with both Kristen (5.6 rpg) and Ashleigh (5.1 rpg) over 5 rpg. Ashleigh’s 45 assists leads four Horns with a minimum of 20 assists in 14 league games. Ashley leads with 39 blocks while Kristen has 12. Three Horns have 20+ steals: Ashleigh (23); Chassidy (21) and Yvonne (21).
All 11 players on the roster have played in at least 2 Big 12 games. Seven are averaging at least 12 minutes a game with four over 30 minutes a game. Chassidy, Kat and Ashleigh have started every Big 12 game. Yvonne, Kristen, Ashley, and Chelsea have split the other starts with Yvonne and Ashley starting the most recent games.Projected starting lineups based on the last game. Texas has had seven players start in Big 12 games. Horns have had three players start all 12 conference games while ISU has two.
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Texas Tech
Kat (6-2) Wickett (6-3)
Ashley (6-4) Mallard (6-3)
Yvonne (5-7) Morris (5-9)
Chassidy (5-10) Hyde (5-10)
Ashleigh (5-8) Smalls (5-6) [/pre]
In the last game these two played, Ashley had 14 pts on 6-8 FGs and 2-3 FTs and Kristen had 11 pts on 4-6 FGs and 3-4 FTs. That’s 25 pts from our posts. If they can replicate that, Horns will present a big problem for Tech. Chassidy was on fire from BTA, going 4-4 on her way to 22 pts. Kat had 12 pts despite only hitting 1-4 from BTA. Tech also had four players in double figures although none had more than 13 pts.
Tech could look at the last 2-3 games and conclude that they don’t have to worry about the Texas posts scoring. Or they could look at how much trouble they had scoring inside with Ashley going off for six blocks. Yvonne has stepped up her scoring recently while Kat has been steady and Chassidy has been in a mini slump. For Tech Morris has led the team in scoring 3 times in the past five games. The last game was close with neither team getting much separation. Texas hit 8 FTs and a 3pter in the last 2 minutes to pull out the W.
Texas is going to slow down or stop Mallard, Morris and Wickett. Smalls, although not usually a scorer, has scored big 3s when she has needed to. Tech is to look to keep Chassidy struggling to hit shots. Yvonne’s recent scoring output has to be a concern for Tech as they will need to account for another outside scorer. Will that allow Ashley and Kristen room inside to hit double figures each?
Big 12 stats through 02/23/11. Texas is 6-8. Tech is 7-7 in league play. Big 12 rankings are in parentheses. A tie with other teams is denoted by a (t)
TEAM STATISTICS Texas Tech
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SCORING................. 957 847
Points per game....... 68.4 (4) 60.5 (8)
Scoring margin........ -3.0 (7) -0.7 (6)
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 345-888 314-774
Field goal pct........ .355 (8) .406 (7)
FGs made per game .... 24.6 22.4
FGs Att. per game .... 63.4 55.3
FGs Att. per minute... 1.59 1.38
2 POINT FG-ATT........... 252-626 252-600
2-point FG pct........ .403 .420
2-pt FG made per game. 18.0 18.0
2-pt FG Att. per game. 44.7 42.6
3 POINT FG-ATT........... 93-262 62-174
3-point FG pct........ .355 (4) .356 (3)
3-pt FG made per game. 6.6 (1) 4.4 (10)
3-pt FG Att. per game. 18.7 12.4
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 174-259 157-233
Free throw pct........ .672 (8) .674 (7)
F-Throws made per game 12.4 11.2
F-Throws Att. per game 18.5 16.6
REBOUNDS................ 565 493
Rebounds per game..... 40.4 (2) 35.2 (10)
Rebounding margin..... -0.4 (6) -0.9 (7)
ASSISTS................. 156 173
Assists per game...... 11.1 (t-9) 12.4 (5)
TURNOVERS............... 223 224
Turnovers per game.... 15.9 16.0
Turnover margin....... -1.5 (t-8) +0.4 (4)
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.70 (9) 0.77 (8)
STEALS.................. 91 131
Steals per game....... 6.5 (8) 9.4 (2)
BLOCKS.................. 66 51
Blocks per game....... 4.7 (3) 3.6 (6)
ATTENDANCE.............. 37136 55161
Home games-Avg/Game... 7-5305 (7) 7-7880 (3)
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total
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Texas............... 413 525 19 - 957
Tech................ 420 409 12 6 - 847
Ave. Score by Half: 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total
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Texas............... 29.5 37.5 1.4 - 68.4
Tech................ 30.0 29.2 0.9 0.4 - 60.5
Tech plays a slow down game, only once scoring more than 61 pts in the past five games. While they are as good a 3pt shooting team as Texas, they don’t depend on the 3 as much as Texas. Texas is tops in the league averaging 6.6 3s per game. Thirty percent of Texas’ FG attempts are 3s while Tech only takes a 3 about every five shots (22%). Tech is a better shooting team overall (40.6% to 35.5%) but Texas takes eight more shots a game, resulting in an average of two more FGs made a game. Through 14 Big 12 games, Texas is grabbing five more rebounds than Tech and outrebounded the Lady Raiders by 17 in the first game. Tech will focus on not letting that happen in this game. Where Tech has an advantage is taking the ball away from opponents. They have quick hands and good anticipation, averaging almost 3 steals more than Texas.
Didn’t see anything listed in Bevo’s Bargains for this game.
I think this is senior night for our three seniors: Kat, Kristen and Sarah. Gonna miss those three.
The game won’t be televised. You can get a free online feed from the texassports.com site. Game time is 7 PM this Wednesday. KVET 1300 AM will carry the game with the pregame starting at 6:45PM.
Texastech.com preview
Remaining Big 12 games:
[pre]
Tech Texas
Oklahoma @OSU [/pre]
Tech has only one player in double digit scoring in league play: Kierra Mallard (# 20, 6-3 Jr. F/C) at 11.0 ppg. Three others are just under at 9.7, 9.6, and 9.1 ppg. Respectively, they are Chynna Brown (# 00, 5-8 Soph. G), Teena Wickett (# 4, 6-3 Sr. F/C) and Casey Morris (# 15, 5-9 Soph. G). Morris (22-61, 36.1% from BTA) is the only Lady Raider to have made more than 8 3s in league play. She has attempted about two and a half times more 3s than the next closest Lady Raider, Brown who is 8-25 for 32.0% from BTA. Monique Smalls (# 23, 5-6 Soph. G) is the most accurate shooter who has attempted at least 10 3s, going 7-15 for 46.7%. Teena Wickett (4-10, 40.0%), Jordan Barncastle (# 1, 6-2 Jr. F) (6-18, 33.3%) and Mary Bokenkamp (# 24, 5-9 Soph. G) (5-13, 38.5%) are the other Lady Raiders that have attempted at least 10 treys. Tech has seven players that have stepped up to the FT line at least 10 times. Christine Hyde (# 5, 5-10 Soph. G) at 36-60, 60.0%, has gotten to the FT line 20 more than Wickett, who is 24-40, 60.0%. Mallard, Morris and Smalls are all hitting at least 70% of their FTs. Brown (22-25, 88.0%) has the best percentage . Mallard is the top rebounder at 7.4 rpg while Wickett adds 5.4 rpg. Six Lady Raiders have 12 or more assists in league play, topped by Smalls’ 49. Mallard, with 27 blocks, is the only Lady Raider in double figures in that category. Smalls, with 32 steals, leads six players with 11 or more steals.
Tech has fourteen players on their roster. All fourteen have gotten into at least one league game. The main rotation has nine players that average 10 or more minutes a game and a tenth that averages 8 minutes a game. Smalls, Morris, and Mallard all average between 30 and 33 minutes a game. Those three have started all 14 league games. Five others have started at the other two positions. These five are: Wickett-10 starts; Brown-2 starts; Hyde-5 starts; Barncastle-7 starts; and Shauntal Nobles (# 33, 6-3 F/C)-4 starts. In the last six games, Hyde has started the last five. Barncastle has started one. Nobles has started four and Wickett has started two, including the last one. Against OSU, the starting lineup consisted of Mallard, Smalls, Morris, Hyde and Wickett.
Four Horns are averaging double figure scoring: Chassidy (17.6 ppg); Kat (11.7 ppg); Yvonne (11.1 ppg) and Ashleigh (10.2 ppg). Chassidy (31-84, 36.9%) and Kat (24-71, 33.8%) have pretty much doubled up on 3 pt attempts on the others. Yvonne (17-39, 43.6%) and Tiffany (5-12, 41.7%) are the players hitting over 40% from BTA for Texas. Seven Horns have gotten to the FT line at least 19 times, led by Chassidy’s 56-65 (86.2%). She and Kat (28-32, 87.5%) are the only Horns hitting over 70 % from the FT line. Kat is averaging 7.7 rpg in league play with both Kristen (5.6 rpg) and Ashleigh (5.1 rpg) over 5 rpg. Ashleigh’s 45 assists leads four Horns with a minimum of 20 assists in 14 league games. Ashley leads with 39 blocks while Kristen has 12. Three Horns have 20+ steals: Ashleigh (23); Chassidy (21) and Yvonne (21).
All 11 players on the roster have played in at least 2 Big 12 games. Seven are averaging at least 12 minutes a game with four over 30 minutes a game. Chassidy, Kat and Ashleigh have started every Big 12 game. Yvonne, Kristen, Ashley, and Chelsea have split the other starts with Yvonne and Ashley starting the most recent games.Projected starting lineups based on the last game. Texas has had seven players start in Big 12 games. Horns have had three players start all 12 conference games while ISU has two.
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Texas Tech
Kat (6-2) Wickett (6-3)
Ashley (6-4) Mallard (6-3)
Yvonne (5-7) Morris (5-9)
Chassidy (5-10) Hyde (5-10)
Ashleigh (5-8) Smalls (5-6) [/pre]
In the last game these two played, Ashley had 14 pts on 6-8 FGs and 2-3 FTs and Kristen had 11 pts on 4-6 FGs and 3-4 FTs. That’s 25 pts from our posts. If they can replicate that, Horns will present a big problem for Tech. Chassidy was on fire from BTA, going 4-4 on her way to 22 pts. Kat had 12 pts despite only hitting 1-4 from BTA. Tech also had four players in double figures although none had more than 13 pts.
Tech could look at the last 2-3 games and conclude that they don’t have to worry about the Texas posts scoring. Or they could look at how much trouble they had scoring inside with Ashley going off for six blocks. Yvonne has stepped up her scoring recently while Kat has been steady and Chassidy has been in a mini slump. For Tech Morris has led the team in scoring 3 times in the past five games. The last game was close with neither team getting much separation. Texas hit 8 FTs and a 3pter in the last 2 minutes to pull out the W.
Texas is going to slow down or stop Mallard, Morris and Wickett. Smalls, although not usually a scorer, has scored big 3s when she has needed to. Tech is to look to keep Chassidy struggling to hit shots. Yvonne’s recent scoring output has to be a concern for Tech as they will need to account for another outside scorer. Will that allow Ashley and Kristen room inside to hit double figures each?
Big 12 stats through 02/23/11. Texas is 6-8. Tech is 7-7 in league play. Big 12 rankings are in parentheses. A tie with other teams is denoted by a (t)
TEAM STATISTICS Texas Tech
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SCORING................. 957 847
Points per game....... 68.4 (4) 60.5 (8)
Scoring margin........ -3.0 (7) -0.7 (6)
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 345-888 314-774
Field goal pct........ .355 (8) .406 (7)
FGs made per game .... 24.6 22.4
FGs Att. per game .... 63.4 55.3
FGs Att. per minute... 1.59 1.38
2 POINT FG-ATT........... 252-626 252-600
2-point FG pct........ .403 .420
2-pt FG made per game. 18.0 18.0
2-pt FG Att. per game. 44.7 42.6
3 POINT FG-ATT........... 93-262 62-174
3-point FG pct........ .355 (4) .356 (3)
3-pt FG made per game. 6.6 (1) 4.4 (10)
3-pt FG Att. per game. 18.7 12.4
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 174-259 157-233
Free throw pct........ .672 (8) .674 (7)
F-Throws made per game 12.4 11.2
F-Throws Att. per game 18.5 16.6
REBOUNDS................ 565 493
Rebounds per game..... 40.4 (2) 35.2 (10)
Rebounding margin..... -0.4 (6) -0.9 (7)
ASSISTS................. 156 173
Assists per game...... 11.1 (t-9) 12.4 (5)
TURNOVERS............... 223 224
Turnovers per game.... 15.9 16.0
Turnover margin....... -1.5 (t-8) +0.4 (4)
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.70 (9) 0.77 (8)
STEALS.................. 91 131
Steals per game....... 6.5 (8) 9.4 (2)
BLOCKS.................. 66 51
Blocks per game....... 4.7 (3) 3.6 (6)
ATTENDANCE.............. 37136 55161
Home games-Avg/Game... 7-5305 (7) 7-7880 (3)
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total
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Texas............... 413 525 19 - 957
Tech................ 420 409 12 6 - 847
Ave. Score by Half: 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total
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Texas............... 29.5 37.5 1.4 - 68.4
Tech................ 30.0 29.2 0.9 0.4 - 60.5
Tech plays a slow down game, only once scoring more than 61 pts in the past five games. While they are as good a 3pt shooting team as Texas, they don’t depend on the 3 as much as Texas. Texas is tops in the league averaging 6.6 3s per game. Thirty percent of Texas’ FG attempts are 3s while Tech only takes a 3 about every five shots (22%). Tech is a better shooting team overall (40.6% to 35.5%) but Texas takes eight more shots a game, resulting in an average of two more FGs made a game. Through 14 Big 12 games, Texas is grabbing five more rebounds than Tech and outrebounded the Lady Raiders by 17 in the first game. Tech will focus on not letting that happen in this game. Where Tech has an advantage is taking the ball away from opponents. They have quick hands and good anticipation, averaging almost 3 steals more than Texas.
Didn’t see anything listed in Bevo’s Bargains for this game.
I think this is senior night for our three seniors: Kat, Kristen and Sarah. Gonna miss those three.
The game won’t be televised. You can get a free online feed from the texassports.com site. Game time is 7 PM this Wednesday. KVET 1300 AM will carry the game with the pregame starting at 6:45PM.
Texastech.com preview
