{"id":88350,"date":"2025-12-15T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88350\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:25:09","slug":"acus-free-throw-advantage-not-enough-to-overcome-texas-techs-dominance-in-67-57-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88350\/","title":{"rendered":"ACU&#8217;s free throw advantage not enough to overcome Texas Tech&#8217;s dominance in 67-57 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ODESSA, Texas \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/2000\/abilene-christian-wildcats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ACU women\u2019s basketball<\/a> team earned a dominant win last week over<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/2837\/east-texas-am-lions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> East Texas A&amp;M<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Three Wildcats scored in double figures in that victory, and they\u2019ll need a similar performance vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/2641\/texas-tech-lady-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Tech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Raiders entered this West Texas matchup a perfect 11\u20130, looking to solidify their status as one of the top teams in the country, making it a tall task for ACU.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Payton Hull made an acrobatic layup to cut into the lead; she led ACU with 23 points{ }{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c7a5cde0-5a54-4042-ad3f-1994f0166b28-PIC10.jpg\"\/>Payton Hull made an acrobatic layup to cut into the lead; she led ACU with 23 points{ }<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter, ACU was down 10-7, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5175545\/payton-hull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Payton Hull<\/a> made an acrobatic layup to cut into the lead; she led ACU with 23 points.<\/p>\n<p>Tech would then take a 27-22 lead, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4704453\/snudda-collins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Snudda Collins<\/a> found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4433526\/jada-malone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jada Malone<\/a> for an and-one; Malone finished with 14 points, and Collins had seven assists. <\/p>\n<p> In the 2nd half, Tech kept the lead, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5175487\/jalynn-bristow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jalynn Bristow<\/a> was getting rebounds, finishing with 9 for the game. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"One crazy stat about this game: ACU had 35 free throw attempts to Tech's 7, but that wasn't enough for the Wildcats{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/90323c5b-427d-41a7-8ac9-cb150ae66a30-PIC30.jpg\"\/>One crazy stat about this game: ACU had 35 free throw attempts to Tech&#8217;s 7, but that wasn&#8217;t enough for the Wildcats<\/p>\n<p>One crazy stat about this game: ACU had 35 free throw attempts to Tech&#8217;s 7, but that wasn&#8217;t enough for the Wildcats. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Tech would take this one 67-57, advancing to 12-0 on the season as ACU falls to 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ODESSA, Texas \u2014 The ACU women\u2019s basketball team earned a dominant win last week over East Texas A&amp;M.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-88350","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88350","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=88350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}