Texas Tech Lady Raiders (19-2, 6-2 Big 12) at Utah Utes (14-5, 5-2 Big 12)<\/p>\n
Salt Lake City; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: No. 19 Texas Tech faces Utah in Big 12 action Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Utes have gone 7-3 in home games. Utah averages 70.3 points and has outscored opponents by 8.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Lady Raiders have gone 6-2 against Big 12 opponents. Texas Tech is 1-0 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
Utah scores 70.3 points, 15.3 more per game than the 55.0 Texas Tech gives up. Texas Tech averages 7.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 more made shots on average than the 6.3 per game Utah allows.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Lani White is scoring 14.5 points per game and averaging 5.3 rebounds for the Utes. Avery Hjelmstad is averaging 1.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bailey Maupin is scoring 15.3 points per game with 3.6 rebounds and 3.2 assists for the Lady Raiders. Snudda Collins is averaging 13.3 points and 2.6 rebounds while shooting 38.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Utes: 8-2, averaging 71.9 points, 36.9 rebounds, 17.9 assists, 6.0 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lady Raiders: 8-2, averaging 69.0 points, 30.2 rebounds, 14.6 assists, 9.2 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 43.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 58.4 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech Lady Raiders (19-2, 6-2 Big 12) at Utah Utes (14-5, 5-2 Big 12) Salt Lake City;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-135125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}