LUBBOCK, Texas – With a season-long three-match road trip in the books, No. 5/3 Texas Tech Soccer returns home Sunday for a 1 p.m. date with Kansas State.

Prior to the final weekend match of the regular season, Texas Tech will honor its six seniors: GK Faith Nguyen, Defender Macy Blackburn, Defender/Midfielder Molly Skurcenski as well as Midfielders Kate Leibel, Peyton Parsons and Chloe Japic.

Despite Thursday’s setback against No. 22/7 Colorado, the Red Raiders still sit right in the thick of the Big 12 regular season title race with two matches remaining. The Red Raiders can capture the regular season with two wins over K-State (Sunday) and UCF (Thursday) as well as one TCU loss and one non-win (tie or loss) by Colorado and West Virginia.

The. Red Raiders have already clinched a spot in the eight-team 2025 Big 12 Tournament sponsored by Allstate. The event begins one week from Monday (Nov. 3) at TCU.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP:

MATCHUP: No. 5/3 Texas Tech (12-2-2, 6-1-2 Big 12) vs. Kansas State (7-5-4, 2-4-3 Big 12)

DATE: Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025

TIME: 1 p.m.

LOCATION: Lubbock, Texas (John Walker Soccer Complex)

BY THE NUMBERS:

20: Since the start of the 2022 season the Red Raiders have scored 20 times in the first 10 minutes of a match and have at least two matches with a goal in the first 10 minutes in every one of those seasons. After scoring four times in the 2022 season within the first 10 minutes, Tech did it twice in 2023 and five times in 20a24. The Red Raiders have scored eight times this season in the first 10 minutes. The Red Raiders have won 13-straight when scoring in the first 10 mins and are 15-0-2 in the 17 matches.

2: While putting the ball in the back of the net is the name of the game, scoring twice has been critical for the Red Raiders success as since the start of the 2022 season, the Red Raiders are now 45-0-1 (lone tie at No. 7 BYU in 2023) when scoring two goals. When you expand that mark out to the beginning of the 2021 season, Tech is 54-2-1 when scoring twice in a match.

32-1-1: In Sunday’s win over Arizona, defender Macy Blackburn recorded her 33rd career game with an assist. In those 33 games the Red Raiders are an impressive 32-1-1 with the lone loss coming in heartbreaking fashion in last season’s series finale against BYU. The Red Raiders have now won their last 10 overall when Blackburn records an assist and 26 of the last 27 games. Blackburn needs just one helper to tie the all-time program single season mark.

QUICK KICKS:

• With just two matches to go in the Big 12 and regular season, No. 5/3 Texas Tech Soccer returns home for Senior Day on Sunday afternoon against Kansas State.

• Prior to Sunday’s contest against Kansas State the Red Raiders will honor its six seniors (GK Faith Nguyen, D Macy Blackburn, D/MF Molly Skurcenski, MF Peyton Parsons, MF Kate Leibel and MF Chloe Japic).

• The Red Raiders by virtue of Thursday’s tough loss at No. 22/7 Colorado have fallen from first to fourth in the congested Big 12  standings, as four teams are separated by just two points, with Baylor sitting in fifth just five points behind first place TCU.

• And while the top of the Big 12 standings features five teams separated by just five points, the middle of the league table is just as tight, as six teams are within three points of the eighth and final spot in the 2025 Big 12 Tournament sponsored by Allstate.

• Moving to an eight team format, the event begins one week from Monday with the Quarterfinals hosted by TCU. The events Quarters and Semis will be hosted by the Horned Frogs with the events finals moving to Waco on Saturday, Nov. 8.

• Despite Thursday’s setback to Colorado, the Red Raiders remain right in the thick of the Big 12 title race. The Red Raiders most likely scenario to a conference title will be a pair of wins over Kansas State and UCF as well as a TCU loss against Arizona State (Sunday) or Houston (Thursday).

•  The Red Raiders would also need a non-win (loss or draw) from WVU and Colorado over the final two matches. The Buffaloes host Arizona on Sunday while WVU welcomes OSU.

• Tech saw a pair of road conference streaks snapped against CU, as the Red Raiders had won their last nine road Big 12 matches dating back to a scoreless draw in Fort Worth last September and were unbeaten in road Big 12 regular season matches dating back to 2021.

• The Red Raiders road unbeaten streak sat at 20 matches (15-0-5) dating back to an Oct. 17, 2011 loss at No. 21 West Virginia. Also in Thursday’s match, the Red Raiders conceded three goals in a match against a league foe in the regular season for the first time since a 3-0 setback to Baylor on Oct. 6, 2017.

UP NEXT:

Texas Tech closes the 2025 regular season on Thursday night when UCF pays a visit to Walker. First touch is set for 7 p.m.