Texas Tech women\u2019s basketball scored 33 points off 24 turnovers en route to a 82-51 victory over Washington State University on Friday in Pullman, Washington. The 31-point victory marks the fifth consecutive game that the Lady Raiders have beat their opponent by 20 points or more.<\/p>\n
Eight Tech athletes recorded at least one steal during the game, with senior guards Gemma N\u00fa\u00f1ez and Bailey Maupin snagging four each.<\/p>\n
The Lady Raiders started slow during the first quarter, allowing the Cougars to lead for 2:05. After tying the game at 10-10 at the 5:14 mark, Tech went on a 14-6 scoring run to lead the Cougars by eight points at the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n
Tech carried the momentum into the second quarter, opening up on a 14-0 scoring run. The run ended with a layup by Washington State sophomore guard Marta Alsina with 3:01 remaining in the second quarter. The Cougars ended the second quarter with four points.<\/p>\n
The Cougars came back from halftime with a new momentum, putting up 20 points during the third quarter. Junior guard Eleonora Villa led the Cougars\u2019 third quarter scoring efforts with eight points.<\/p>\n
Tech stayed ahead during Washington State’s 20-point third quarter by scoring 26 points. Half of Tech\u2019s third quarter points were scored by Maupin who ended the game with 19 total points.<\/p>\n
Washington State was unable to outscore Tech during the fourth quarter despite holding the Lady Raiders to their lowest-scoring quarter. The Cougars put up 11 points during the fourth quarter compared to the Lady Raiders\u2019 12 points.<\/p>\n
Tech junior guard\/forward Jalynn Bristow earned three fouls during the fourth quarter and fouled out for the second time this season with 3:29 remaining in the game.<\/p>\n
Washington State\u2019s 1-10 season start is the program’s worst beginning since it lost 21 consecutive games to start the 2002-03 season, according to Washington State Athletics.<\/p>\n
The Lady Raiders move to 11-0 for the third time in 12 years heading into a second consecutive road game against Abilene Christian University on Sunday in Odessa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech women\u2019s basketball scored 33 points off 24 turnovers en route to a 82-51 victory over Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,154,21575],"class_list":{"0":"post-86633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-womens_basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86633","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=86633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}