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No. 25 Texas (13-5, 4-1 Big 12) at Texas Tech (14-4, 2-3 Big 12) Wednesday, January 18, 2023 – 7:00 p.m. Central United Supermarkets Arena – Lubbock, Texas TELEVISION: The game will be streamed nationally on Big 12 Now/ESPN+ with Ron Thulin, Brandi Poole (Ex Texas Tech Assistant Coach) and Arielle Schafer on the call. RADIO: The game will be carried on 105.3 FM in Austin. Craig Way (pxp) and Kathy Harston (analyst) will call the action. The broadcast will be streamed on TexasSports.Com. RORI HARMON: Sophomore All-American Rori Harmon made history on Jan. 4 in the Longhorns win over TCU as she became the 4th player in program history to record a triple-double. Harmon scored 17 points and added 11 assists and 10 rebounds. After missing the first five games of the season due to injury, the Longhorns are 11-2 with Harmon in the lineup this season. In Big 12 play, Harmon is averaging 11.4 ppg, 9.2 apg, 7.0 rpg and 2.2 spg. DEFENSE GETTING IT DONE: Last time out the Longhorns held an Iowa State team that was averaging 78.7 points per game to 53 points. Texas gave up six points in the fourth quarter to the Cyclones, marking the 14th time this season they have held an opponent to single digits for a quarter. Texas is 12-0 on the season when they hold an opponent to 59 points or less for a game. Texas leads the Big 12 and ranks 7th in the NCAA in blocked shots per game at 5.6. FORCING TURNOVERS: The Longhorns are forcing 22.4 turnovers per game. In the last eight games they hold a 209-68 advantage over opponents in points off turnovers. Texas ranks 8th in the NCAA in turnovers forced per game and 11th in the NCAA in turnover margin. FAYE/GASTON DUO: Khadija Faye and DeYona Gaston are stepping up in the absence of Aaliyah Moore, who is out with a season ending ACL injury. Faye, who transferred from Texas Tech, has four double-double on the season. In Big 12 play, Gaston is averaging 14.6 points per game and shooting 58.5 percent from the field. GOING THE DISTANCE: Rori Harmon has played 40 minutes in three of the Longhorns five conference games and has only missed six minutes over the five games. Harmon has reached double-digit assists in four of her last six games and despite missing the first five games of the season, Harmon ranks 18th in the NCAA in total assists with 96 (7.4 per game). Embrace the hate and sharpen those elbows, this one could get ugly....

Hahahah!!!

She doesn't force her own offense either. Shoots .556.

Terry’s path to the job is CDC getting turned down by probably Oats first, then Musselman and then maybe Cal or whoever else CDC has on his “why not give them a call” list. If he keeps striking out suddenly Terry will be CDC’s favorite son and my fears will be realized. The press and the support of whatever players/recruits we have left and how far he gets in the tourney will be a small influence. *all bets are off if he wins the whole MF’er

I like Carolyn Peck trying to say what Iowa Sate needs to do to win down 17 with 1:14 to go. WTF?

This D is wicked. They have 2 points in the fourth Shaylee with the 3

I was too.

Hells yes. We got some separation now, let's keep building on it.

Amina running the floor well. She's gonna solid for us for years.

Yeah, go at the big girl.

I just hope we don’t “Sark” it and I have to google the shiny new coach's name to find out who he is.

Texas (12-5, 3-1 Big 12) vs No. 15 Iowa State (11-3, 3-1 Big 12) Sunday, January 15, 2023 – 4:00 p.m. Central Moody Center – Austin, Texas TELEVISION: The game will be nationally televised on ESPN2 with Courtney Lyle (pxp) and Carolyn Peck (analyst) on the call. RADIO: The game will be carried on 105.3 FM in Austin. Craig Way (pxp) and Kathy Harston (analyst) will call the action. The broadcast will be streamed on TexasSports.Com. TRIPLE-DOUBLE: Sophomore All-American Rori Harmon made history in the Longhorns win over TCU as she became the 4th player in program history to record a triple-double. Harmon scored 17 points and added 11 assists and 10 rebounds. After missing the first five games of the season due to injury, the Longhorns are 10-2 with Harmon in the lineup this season. In Big 12 play Harmon is averaging 12.8 ppg, 9.8 apg, 7.0 rpg and 2.0 spg. GONZALES GOES OFF: Last time out Shaylee Gonzales scored a season-high 26 points, including 14 in the fourth quarter to help the Longhorns to a 72-59 victory over No. 23 Kansas. Gonzales has scored in double-figures in 10 games this season and has three games where she has scored 20 or more points. SCORING INSIDE: The Longhorns have a 672-406 (39.5-23.8 per game) advantage in points in the paint over opponents this season. One of the factors have been the emergence of Khadija Faye, who is averaging 9.2 points and 8.8 rebounds a game over her last five games. Faye has posted four double-doubles on the season. FAYE/GASTON DUO: Khadija Faye and DeYona Gaston are stepping up in the absence of Aaliyah Moore. Over the last five games they have combined for 22.8 points per game and 12.8 rebounds per game. The duo has combined to shoot 45-75 (60 percent) from the field. Gaston has scored 20 or more points in four games this season, including two of her last three games. Gaston ranks second in the Big 12 and 28th nationally in field goal percentage at 56.6 percent from the field on the season. FORCING TURNOVERS: The Longhorns are forcing 22.6 turnovers per game. In the last seven games they hold a 183-53 advantage over opponents in points off turnovers. Texas ranks 9th in the NCAA in turnovers forced per game and 13th in the NCAA in turnover margin. TexasSports

Yeah, in a limited pool of candidates Cal ticks a lot of the important boxes. As stated before there are issues including his age but we are going to lose most of our team at the end of the year and we need a strong presence to keep recruits and pull in portal players. He would also possibly bring some Wildcats with him and he has coached well enough to win a Nat’l. Not too many guys with that on the resume. I think there are bigger hires out there, but the bigger they are, the less possible they seem. I could certainly get behind a long term “up-and-comer” but Cal would be the type of splash hire that would absolutely keep the party from hitting pause.

What a ride!

Fuck Yeah!

Ok, make the free throws Sir

Hunter is a liability, gets the pass from Carr and passes it right back. Needs to get his swagger back. Need Rice to get in and drive to the cup like he did in the overtime game.

Wow, letting them play.

Way to much talk in the press about keeping the present staff, making it more acceptable to do just that. CDC - Please don't Terry.

Furq. Well, by the end of the season we should be really good, so I don’t think anyone other than perhaps the top teams would want to see us coming to crash their regional.

Thank god we had Jones back for this game. With 4 fouls on Hadi we would have been in trouble with Jackson. Rori looks exhausted.

Shaylee with 22 points. 9 for 13

Kansas 10 points from the line. We are shooting 58% from the floor, Kansas 36.4% Biggest issue we have is Hadi with 3 fouls but at least Taylor is available for limited minutes.

Vic having to play the two freshman right now, dangerous time

Morris was hot, hate to see her pick up 2 quick fouls.