{"id":160792,"date":"2026-02-12T01:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/160792\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:22:32","slug":"bailey-maupin-no-16-texas-tech-fend-off-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/160792\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailey Maupin, No. 16 Texas Tech fend off Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/27838357.jpg\"  alt=\"Syndication: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal\" class=\"w-full\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Texas Tech&#8217;s Bailey Maupin attempts a 3-pointer against Jacksonville during a non-conference women&#8217;s basketball game, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, at United Supermarkets Arena.   <\/p>\n<p>Bailey Maupin scored 12 of her game-high 23 points in the fourth quarter and lifted No. 16 Texas Tech to a 70-65 victory over Kansas on Tuesday in Lubbock, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Snudda Collins added 17 points and Sidney Love chipped in nine points and four assists for the Lady Raiders (23-3, 10-3 Big 12), who won their third game in a row after dropping three of four. They rebounded from a slow start and dug out of a 10-point first-quarter deficit.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech couldn&#8217;t maintain a six-point lead in the fourth quarter, and S&#8217;Mya Nichols evened the game at 59 with a three-point play at the 1:34 mark. However, the Lady Raiders made 11 of 12 free-throws attempts the rest of the way to escape.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols paced Kansas (15-11, 5-9) with 15 points, Jaliya Davis scored 14, Elle Evans had 11 and Regan Williams added 10. Kansas lost despite outshooting Texas Tech 45.5% to 35% from the field, as the hosts turned 11 offensive boards into 10 second-chance points and also benefited from the Jayhawks&#8217; 20 turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech&#8217;s Bailey Maupin attempts a 3-pointer against Jacksonville during a non-conference women&#8217;s basketball game, Wednesday, Dec. 17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-160792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160792","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=160792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}