{"id":209630,"date":"2026-03-18T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/209630\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:37:24","slug":"3-worrying-stats-from-texas-techs-alarming-slump-entering-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/209630\/","title":{"rendered":"3 worrying stats from Texas Tech\u2019s alarming slump entering March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a somewhat tricky thing to try to figure out how to feel about the Texas Tech women\u2019s basketball<\/a> team right now. Obviously it\u2019s an objectively great thing that Krista Gerlich and the Texas Tech Lady Raiders<\/a> made it back to the NCAA women\u2019s basketball tournament, but there\u2019s definitely a bit of concern about how Texas Tech has been playing recently<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So yeah, it\u2019s exciting. And also definitely nerve wracking. I\u2019m thrilled! And also more than just a little worried about Texas Tech\u2019s chances right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Texas Tech has lost four of its last six games and the Lady Raiders haven\u2019t exactly played all that great at times. With a matchup against Villanova coming up later this week, let\u2019s take a look at a few concerning stats from Texas Tech\u2019s struggles that will likely produce a bit of worry for some.<\/p>\n

Or, well, you know. The stats are a little alarming to me. I don\u2019t love them.<\/p>\n

No. 1: Scoring just a handful of points in the fourth quarter against Kansas State is pretty alarming for Texas Tech<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s start with one of the most recently produced stats of the bunch. Like the four points that Texas Tech managed to score in the fourth quarter of the Big 12 tournament matchup with the Kansas State Wildcats.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just a bad number, but there\u2019s a bit more that makes it worse.<\/p>\n

A bit of context that really showcases just how dreadful that number is would include that Kansas State allows teams to score 67.1 points per game. Break that out into quarters and teams are scoring over 16 points per quarter on average.<\/p>\n

When we look at the actual amount scored on the season in the fourth quarter against Kansas State, we\u2019ll see that the Wildcats have given up an average of 17.5 points per fourth quarter. And Texas Tech scored just four in the fourth quarter. Against a team that is 18-17 on the season.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not good.<\/p>\n

No. 2: Texas Tech\u2019s scoring output has taken a nosedive during the Lady Raiders\u2019 six most recent games<\/p>\n

And unfortunately for the Lady Raiders, it\u2019s not just fourth quarter scoring that has been bad in recent matchups (though that has been a bit worrying). Texas Tech is sliding into the NCAA women\u2019s basketball tournament averaging 72 points per game on the season, which is decent.<\/p>\n

But in the last six games that the Lady Raiders have played (a stretch during which Texas Tech has gone and won just two matchups), Texas Tech has averaged 64.7 points. And then in the four losses that Texas Tech suffered in that stretch, the Lady Raiders have averaged just 60.8 points per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All of that? Not good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No. 3: The Lady Raiders seemingly just simply can\u2019t make threes consistently anymore and that\u2019s a huge problem\u00a0<\/p>\n

One huge reason for those scoring woes listed above? Well, that\u2019d be the fact that Texas Tech has made just 29.4 percent of its three point attempts over the last six games. The Lady Raiders rely a bit upon made threes to drive the offense, but perimeter shooting has been a problem lately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the season, Texas Tech makes 34.3 percent of its attempts from deep. Unfortunately for Texas Tech, that just isn\u2019t happening lately. And the Lady Raiders need to get that fixed ASAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a somewhat tricky thing to try to figure out how to feel about the Texas Tech women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-209630","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\/209630","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=209630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}