{"id":171057,"date":"2026-02-19T08:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171057\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:06:13","slug":"no-15-baylor-wbb-throttled-by-no-20-texas-tech-in-87-56-road-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171057\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 15 Baylor WBB throttled by No. 20 Texas Tech in 87-56 road loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dylan Fink | Sports Writer <\/p>\n

The No. 15-ranked Bears traveled to Lubbock to continue their Big 12 campaign against the No. 20-ranked Lady Raiders on Wednesday. Baylor lost the battle 87-56 behind 21 turnovers and 3-for-17 shooting from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n

Facing their second top-20 matchup in the past 10 days, the green and gold came out seeking to get back in the win column. <\/p>\n

Baylor (22-6, 11-4 Big 12) struggled to find the bottom of the bucket early in the first quarter. The shooting struggles from the floor allowed Texas Tech (24-4, 11-4 Big 12) to jump out to a 15-7 lead seven minutes into the game. <\/p>\n

The Lady Raiders tried to force fast-break opportunities in the first half, pushing a quick pace and looking for buckets in transition. The quickness of the game got Baylor out of control, leading to seven turnovers just 13 minutes into the game. <\/p>\n

The Bears shot 42.3% from the field and 30% from three in the first half, and did not benefit from the high pace of play. Texas Tech shot over 64.5% from the field and 53.8% from three in the first two frames.<\/p>\n

Baylor entered the game 2-4 in ranked matchups this season and had no answer in the first half for the Lady Raiders\u2019 fast-break scoring approach, as they went into halftime trailing 48-28. The Bears, who have struggled recently with ball control, went into the break with 12 first-half turnovers. <\/p>\n

Of those 28 points, senior forward Darianna Littlepage-Buggs<\/a> and redshirt sophomore guard Taliah Scott combined for 20. At the break, Littlepage-Buggs was perfect from the floor and led the team in rebounds with three. <\/p>\n

The Bears appeared exhausted early in the second half as the Lady Raiders continued to run the ball at a high pace. Before long, the home team exchanged its early fast-break play for load-sharing, team basketball in response to adjustments Baylor made at the half.<\/p>\n

Baylor\u2019s starting five did not score a single point in the fourth quarter. The quintet went 0-for-7 before head coach Nicki Collen subbed them out with a 31-point deficit and four minutes remaining. The Bears lost 87-56.<\/p>\n

Littlepage-Buggs and Scott tied as the Bears\u2019 leading scorers, both totaling 13 points. The team finished with 21 turnovers and allowed 19 points off of those lost possessions.<\/p>\n

The Bears will look to bounce back from the 31-point loss against Arizona (11-15, 2-13 Big 12) at 7 p.m. Saturday at Foster Pavilion. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Dylan Fink | Sports Writer The No. 15-ranked Bears traveled to Lubbock to continue their Big 12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[440,2634,22846,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-171057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-event","9":"tag-icon","10":"tag-link","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171057","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=171057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}