Texas Tech University Athletics
Lady Raiders Take On Spartak Moscow
November 12, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Nov. 12, 2002
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Tonight's Game
No. 7/7 Texas Tech will play an exhibition game tonight against Spartak Moscow. The Lady Raiders enter the game 0-1 after losing in their first game in the State Farm Classic to No. 15/16 Louisiana Tech, 85-76, last Sunday.
The Lady Raiders
Texas Tech is 0-1 on the year after losing to Louisiana Tech, 85-76, in the 10th-Annual State Farm Tip-Off Classic in Knoxville, Tenn., last Sunday. In that game, senior Plenette Pierson scored a game-high 25 points and grabbed a team-high eight rebounds. She also tallied a career-high six blocks. Also scoring in double figures were junior Jia Perkins with 16 points and freshman guard Erin Grant with 13. Grant had team highs of six assists and two steals. Junior Casey Jackson chipped in six rebounds. The Lady Raiders shot 44.9 percent from the field, 20 percent from three-point range and 65 percent from the free throw line.
Scouting the Opponent
Spartak Moscow makes it sixth stop in the United States with its game tonight against Texas Tech. Spartak enters the game with a 1-4 record, getting it's only win over Eastern New Mexico. They have suffered losses to Colorado State, UTEP, New Mexico State and Wayland Baptist.
A Look Ahead
Texas Tech will return home for its last exhibition game on Nov. 17 vs. the Houston Jaguars. The Lady Raiders will then host three-straight home games against Washington (Nov. 24), Valparaiso (Nov. 27) and Creighton (Dec. 4). Tech will take to the road for a game against Wyoming (Dec. 14) in Casper, Wyo. That game will be a doubleheader with the men's team.
Lady Raider Head Coach Marsha Sharp
One of the most respected and well-known coaches in Texas Tech history, head coach Marsha Sharp is 479-154 in her 21st year at the helm of the Lady Raiders. Entering the 2002-03 season, Sharp was the seventh active winningest coach among Division I coaches. She has led the Lady Raiders to 15 NCAA Tournament appearances, including 13 consecutive, and nine NCAA Sweet 16 and three Elite Eight appearances and the NCAA National Championship in 1993. Sharp led the Lady Raiders to three-straight Big 12 Conference regular-season titles (1998-2000) and two tournament crowns (1998, 1999). While in the SWC, coach Sharp and the Lady Raiders never finished below third, they won or shared the last five championships, and they captured three Post-Season Classic titles.
Sharp was also the head coach of the 2002 USA Basketball World Championship For Young Women Qualifying Team, which won the gold medal in Brazil.
A 1974 graduate of Wayland Baptist University, Sharp was named the National Coach of the Year in 1993 and 1994. She also reaped SWC Coach of the Year honors seven times, five consecutively.
