Texas Tech University Athletics
How Sweet It Is!
March 21, 2005 | General
March 21, 2005
DALLAS, Texas - How sweet it is.
For just the second time in school history, Texas Tech is sending both basketball teams to the Sweet 16 rounds of the NCAA Tournament.
The 14th-ranked Lady Raiders cruised past Middle Tennessee tonight at Reunion Arena behind the strong play of Alesha Robertson and Cisti Greenwalt. Robertson finished with 25 points and was 5-for-11 behind the arc while Greenwalt added 19. Marsha Sharp's squad will be making its 11th appearance in the NCAA Sweet 16 and sixth in the last seven years.
The 24th-ranked Red Raiders, led by senior All-America candidate Ronald Ross, will be making just the third Sweet 16 appearance in school history this week in the Albuquerque Regional. Tech will face the West Virginia Mountaineers, an upset winner of No. 2 seed Wake Forest, on Thursday evening at The Pit on the University of New Mexico campus. Game time has been set for 8:30 p.m. (CT) and will be televised nationally on CBS.
Texas Tech is one of just six schools nationally who have the potential to send both its men's and women's teams to the Sweet 16. The men's teams from Utah, Arizona, Duke, North Carolina and Michigan State have already punched their tickets to the Sweet 16 while the women's teams are currently playing in second-round action.
Texas Tech's success on the hardwood comes just months after the Red Raider football team captured the Holiday Bowl Championship by defeating the fourth-ranked Cal Golden Bears 45-31. Tech is currently the only school in the nation to garner a football bowl win and send both basketball teams to the Sweet 16. If the Utah Lady Utes can upset top-ranked Stanford later tonight, Utah can join Texas Tech in this elite status.
For more information on Texas Tech's Road To The Final Four, log on to the official source of Red Raider Athletics - www.texastech.com.
