LADY RAIDER PREVIEW: No. 24 West Virginia

LUBBOCK, Texas – The Texas Tech Lady Raider basketball team returns home this week to play the second and final game of the season series with West Virginia. The Lady Raiders and Mountaineers clash on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at United Supermarkets Arena. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.

GAME INFORMATION
Venue: United Supermarkets Arena
Place: Lubbock, Texas
Opponent: No. 24 West Virginia
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 27
Tip-off Time: 6 p.m.
TV: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
TV Talent: Ron Thulin and Baillie Burmaster
Radio: 107.7 FM
Radio Talent: Mark Finkner and Chuck Heinz

LADY RAIDER QUICK HITS
- Entering Wednesday's game, Vivian Gray has proven herself as one of the top all-around players in the nation. Through 15 games of the season, Gray is the only Power Five player in the country averaging 19-plus points, 8-plus rebounds and 3-plus assists per game, while also averaging 1.5 blocks and 1.1 steals per contest.

- Through 15 games, Lexi Gordon and Vivian Gray are the only duo in the Big 12 to rank in the top eight of the conference in scoring. Gordon (17.1 points per game) and Gray (19.4 points per game) are two of only five players in the conference who have recorded six or more 20-point games.

- Senior Maka Jackson has been huge for the Lady Raiders over the last four games. Prior to the team's first meeting with West Virginia, Jackson was averaging 4.0 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. Over the last four games, however, Jackson is averaging 10.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists. She has recorded a season-high 11 points in three of the last four games.

- With, 1,471 points for her DI career, Vivian Gray is 29 points away from becoming one of only 20 active DI players to register 1,500 career points. Perhaps more impressively, Gray has done so in only 75 games. If the senior reaches 1,500, she would be one of only two players --and the only active Power Five player--on the list of players with 1,500 or more points to have played less than 100 games. At 19.6 points per game for her career, Gray is the NCAA Division I active leader in scoring average.

THE SERIES
- The Lady Raiders and Mountaineers will be meeting for the 19th time in the two schools' histories this Wednesday.
- Texas Tech is 5-13 against West Virginia all-time and 3-5 in Lubbock.
- The Lady Raiders will be looking for their first win over the Mountaineers since 2017.
- The Mountaineers won a tight one in the first game of the season series in Morgantown, edging the Lady Raiders, 83-78. Vivian Gray led the way for Tech with 28 points, nine rebounds, three assists, three blocks and two steals.

EYEING THE OPPONENT
The West Virginia Mountaineers ride the Big 12's longest win streak into Lubbock, having won six in a row--including five conference games--entering Wednesday's game. The 24th-ranked Mountaineers are led offensively by Kysre Gondrezick, who rankes third in the conference in scoring at 20.5 points per game. Gondrezick also ranks fifth in the league in assists per game with a 4.5 average. Esmery Martinez has been a force as well, averaging 12.8 boards per game, which ranks fourth in the country, and has racked up the sixth-most double-doubles in the country with nine. The Mountaineers are led by Mike Carey, who is in his 20th season in Morgantown.

LAST TIME OUT
The Texas Tech Lady Raider basketball team fell, 61-53, on Saturday afternoon at Schollmaier Arena. The Lady Raiders were led by double-doubles from Vivian Gray and Lexi Gordon. It was the fifth double-double of the season for Gray and second for Gordon.

Gray finished with 16 points—including 14 in the second half—and 13 rebounds, tying her career high set last week against Texas. The senior also had a season-high five assists, a steal and three blocks in another all-around game. Gordon had 13 points, 10 rebounds and two assists.

Maka Jackson tied her season high in scoring for the third time in four games, adding 11 to go along with seven rebounds, two assists and two steals. As a team, the Lady Raiders had only 10 turnovers on the day to TCU's 14.

The Lady Raiders outscored the Horned Frogs in each of the first three quarters, but a run by TCU midway through the fourth would clinch the game for the home team.

LADY RAIDER PREVIEW: No. 24 West Virginia

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