Texas Tech Lady Raiders (21-3, 8-3 Big 12) at Houston Cougars (7-15, 1-10 Big 12)<\/p>\n
Houston; Saturday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: No. 18 Texas Tech visits Houston after Snudda Collins scored 28 points in Texas Tech\u2019s 62-60 victory against the TCU Horned Frogs.<\/p>\n
The Cougars have gone 5-6 in home games. Houston has a 2-11 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Lady Raiders are 8-3 in conference matchups. Texas Tech is 19-1 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 15.3 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
Houston makes 37.5% of its shots from the field this season, which is 2.3 percentage points higher than Texas Tech has allowed to its opponents (35.2%). Texas Tech averages 8.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.9 more made shots on average than the 6.1 per game Houston gives up.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kyndall Hunter is shooting 30.8% from beyond the arc with 1.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Cougars, while averaging 9.6 points. Kierra Merchant is shooting 38.4% and averaging 9.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Collins is shooting 44.6% and averaging 15.5 points for the Lady Raiders. Bailey Maupin is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Cougars: 1-9, averaging 60.8 points, 28.6 rebounds, 9.9 assists, 8.1 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 37.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lady Raiders: 7-3, averaging 69.5 points, 30.2 rebounds, 14.2 assists, 8.5 steals and 6.4 blocks per game while shooting 42.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 62.0 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech Lady Raiders (21-3, 8-3 Big 12) at Houston Cougars (7-15, 1-10 Big 12) Houston; Saturday, 6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1770,1890,2692,416,49066,56,2742,63471,57554,154,27,10756,29,28,57656,415,1760,14445,7787],"class_list":["post-153529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-basketball","tag-big-12-conference","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-data-skrive","tag-houston","tag-houston-cougars","tag-kierra-merchant","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-christian-horned-frogs","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech-lady-raiders-womens-basketball","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-womens-college-basketball","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153529","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=153529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153529\/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=153529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}