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No. 18 Kansas State Too Much for Lady Raiders
January 21, 2009 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 21, 2009
LUBBOCK, Texas - Maria Moore and Kierra Mallard scored 13 points each for Texas Tech but it wasn't enough to hold off Kansas State as the Wildcats defeated the Lady Raiders 60-48 tonight at the United Spirit Arena.
Kansas State (16-1, 3-1) jumped out to a 5-0 lead before the Lady Raiders (11-6, 2-2) scored their first bucket at 16:56 on a jumper by Mallard. Tech knotted it up at 8-8 at the 13:52 mark and neither team scored for the next two minutes until Shalee Lehning hit a jumper for the Wildcats to take a lead they would never relinquish.
K-State got up by as many as eight points in the first half before Tech cut it to two points on a pair of free throws by Dominic Seals with 24 seconds to go in the half, as the Wildcats led 22-20 at the break.
The second half saw Kansas State go on a 16-2 run from 16:17 to 7:12, in which the only points for the Lady Raiders were two free throws by Tilmila Martin as the Wildcats led 47-31. The 16-point advantage was K-State's biggest lead of the night, which occurred again at 49-33 with just under seven minutes remaining in the game.
Mallard added eight rebounds to go with her 13 points.
Tech only shot 32.2 percent from the field (19-59), while K-State hit 44.9 percent of its shots (22-49). The Wildcats outrebounded the Lady Raiders 40-32.
The Lady Raiders host No. 5/4 Baylor on Sat., Jan. 24, at 1 p.m.
