{"id":135137,"date":"2026-01-23T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/135137\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:57:14","slug":"utah-hosts-no-19-texas-tech-in-conference-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/135137\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah hosts No. 19 Texas Tech in conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Tech Lady Raiders (19-2, 6-2 Big 12) at Utah Utes (14-5, 5-2 Big 12)<\/p>\n<p>Salt Lake City; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: No. 19 Texas Tech faces Utah in Big 12 action Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/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;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1890,2692,416,49066,168,170,169,57554,154,27,57656,415,1760,23046,2188,780,57655,14445,7787],"class_list":{"0":"post-135137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-big-12-conference","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-data-skrive","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-send-to-apple-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-texas-tech-lady-raiders-womens-basketball","19":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","20":"tag-tx-state-wire","21":"tag-ut-state-wire","22":"tag-utah","23":"tag-utah-utes","24":"tag-utah-utes-womens-basketball","25":"tag-womens-college-basketball","26":"tag-womens-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135137","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=135137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}