LADY RAIDER RECAP: No. 2 Baylor 77, Texas Tech 62

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LADY RAIDER RECAP: No. 2 Baylor 77, Texas Tech 62

February 18, 2020 | Women's Basketball

Box Score Postgame Quotes

By: Harry Endicott

LUBBOCK, Texas – The Texas Tech Lady Raider basketball team battled for 40 minutes, but came up short of upsetting second-ranked Baylor on Tuesday night, falling to the defending national champion Bears, 77-62.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Lady Raiders were led by senior Brittany Brewer, who turned in an outstanding performance with 19 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks. It marked Brewer's 12^th double-double of the season, and her sixth game of 15-plus points, 10-plus rebounds and 5-plus blocks.

Texas Tech also got an outstanding performance from Lexi Gordon, who finished with 17 points, four rebounds and four assists. Sophomore Chrislyn Carr finished with 11 points, four rebounds and two assists.

The Lady Raiders were neck and neck with the Lady Bears through the first three quarters, but a late run from the Bears put the game out of reach for Tech. The game was closer than the final score indicated, with 10 lead changes and six ties throughout the contest.

Gordon scored eight in the first quarter, while Brewer added five points, six rebounds and a pair of blocks to keep Tech within three after one quarter. Baylor led, 23-20, through the first 10 minutes, thanks in part to a couple of triples from Gordon.

Texas Tech outscored Baylor in the second and third quarters, beginning with a 16-15 second period. Tech even led at multiple points in the quarter. The Lady Raiders were outshot by the Bears, but Tech outrebounded Baylor, 12-9, in the period and forced four Baylor turnovers while only giving up two of their own.

The third period was a similar story, as Tech outscored Baylor, 16-14, in the frame. The Lady Raiders held Baylor to 6-of-16 shooting in the quarter, as Lexi Gordon scored seven to pace Tech to a 46.7 percent mark from the floor—their best of the game.

Baylor got the best of Texas Tech in the fourth period, as the Bears outscored the Lady Raiders, 25-10, over the final 10 minutes to get away with the win.

NOTABLE
- For the fifth time this season, Texas Tech went with the starting five of Chrislyn Carr, Andrayah Adams, Sydney Goodson, Lexi Gordon and Brittany Brewer. The Lady Raiders moved to 1-4 this season when deploying this starting five.
- Texas Tech was within a score or in the lead for most of the game, tied at 52 heading into the fourth quarter. It was only the third time this season that Baylor wasn't leading heading to the final period.
- Tech is the only team to keep within 15 of Baylor twice this season. The Lady Raiders fell, 87-79, in Waco last month.
- Heading into this game, Baylor had only been outrebounded three times this season, and only once in Big 12 play. Tonight, Texas Tech outrebounded Baylor, 36-35.
- Senior Brittany Brewer added 19 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks on the night to lead the Lady Raiders. It was her 12th double-double of the season and 29th of her career.
- Brewer's 19 points pushed her to 1,367 for her career, moving her to 12th on Texas Tech's all-time scoring list.
- Brewer also recorded her 100th block of the season, becoming just the second player in program history to block 100 shots in a single season, and the first since Cisti Greenwalt in 2004-05..
- Brewer now has 104 blocks this season, just one from tying Greenwalt's program record of 105.

QUOTABLE
Head coach Marlene Stollings: "We want to thank our fans. We had a great turnout again tonight, over 5,000. We are top 20 in the nation in attendance so, I am really proud of how we are continually building our fan base back. And just proud of our team and our fight. Baylor is an incredible team. I think they are a team that can win the national championship again. They are just top to bottom, extremely loaded. We battled with them two games here now and I couldn't be more proud of our fight. Disappointed certainly in our loss, we are not into moral victories around here and we will never be. We couldn't put the ball in the basket in the 4th quarter and that really led to our demise in a lot of ways. We did out-rebound them, they are leading the conference, out-rebounding people by about 15 a game and we out-rebounded them by one which, again is credit to our team's heart and effort and fight during the game."

UP NEXT
The Lady Raiders will return to the court on Sunday afternoon when they travel to Ames, Iowa for a 2 p.m. tip at Iowa State.