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No. 12/4 Texas Tech heads to ASU for Thursday match
October 15, 2025 | Women's Soccer
The Red Raiders kick off a three-match road swing overall and a two-match road weekend in Arizona
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Sitting just a point out of first place, No. 12/4 Texas Tech Soccer kicks-off a three-match road swing on Thursday night with a late-night match at Arizona State.
First touch from Tempe is set for 9 p.m. (CT)/7 p.m. (PT).
Riding a seven-match Big 12 road winning streak dating back to a 0-0 draw at TCU last September, the Red Raiders will look to keep pace with first place Baylor in the congested and crowded Big 12 standings. Texas Tech (10-1-2, 4-0-2 Big 12), defeated Baylor back on Sept. 19 by a 1-0 scoreline in Waco, sits a point behind the Bears.
Tech sits tied for second with No. 24 WVU who also is 4-0-2 in Big 12 Conference and is sitting on 14 points. The Red Raiders and Mountaineers are one points clear of No. 14 TCU and No. 21 Colorado who are both 4-1-1 overall.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
MATCHUP: No. 12/4 Texas Tech (10-1-2, 4-0-2 Big 12) at Arizona State (9-3-2, 2-3-1 Big 12)
DATE: Oct.16, 2025
TIME: 9 p.m. (CT)/7 p.m. (PT)
LOCATION: Tempe, Ariz. (Sun Devil Soccer Stadium)
BY THE NUMBERS:
18: Since the start of the 2022 season the Red Raiders have scored 18 times in the first 10 minutes of a match and have at least two matches with a goal in the first 10 minutes in every one of those seasons. After scoring four times in the 2022 season within the first 10 minutes, Tech did it twice in 2023 and five times in 2024. The Red Raiders have scored seven times this season in the first 10 minutes. The Red Raiders have won 11-straight when scoring in the first 10 mins and is 13-0-2 in the 15 matches.
2: While putting the ball in the back of the net is the name of the game, scoring twice has been critical for the Red Raiders success as since the start of the 2022 season, the Red Raiders are now 43-0-1 (lone tie at No. 7 BYU in 2023) when scoring two goals. When you expand that mark out to the beginning of the 2021 season, Tech is 52-2-1 when scoring twice in a match.
10+: When she recorded her brace on Sunday afternoon (her third of the 2025 season and fourth career), Taylor Zdrojewski reached 10 goals in back-to-back seasons. Entering the week she's one of just three players in the country with 10 goals or more in consecutive seasons and she joined Janine Beckie and Kristy Franz as the only three Red Raiders with double-figure goals in consecutive seasons.
QUICK KICKS:
• With just five matches to go in the Big 12 and regular season, No. 12/4 Texas Tech Soccer hits the road for a three-game road-swing beginning with a double-road weekend in Arizona this weekend.
• Sitting in a tie with No. 24 WVU for second place in the congested and crowded Big 12 standings, Texas Tech finds itself just one point behind No. 10 Baylor at the midpoint of the 2025 league slate.
• The Red Raiders handed Baylor its lone overall loss and only Big 12 setback, 1-0 a month ago in Waco.
• The Red Raiders enter the weekend riding a pair of road conference streaks, as the Red Raiders have won their last seven road Big 12 matches dating back to a scoreless draw in Fort Worth last September and are unbeaten in road Big 12 regular season matches dating back to 2021.
• Texas Tech's road unbeaten streak sits at 18 matches (13-0-5) dating back to an Oct. 17, 2011, loss at No. 21 West Virginia. This week in the TopDrawer Soccer poll, Texas Tech climbed all the way to No. 4, marking the highest weekly ranking in the TDS poll in program history.
• The Red Raiders also checked in at No. 12 on Tuesday in the United Soccer Coaches poll. Back on the road for the first time since a Sept. 28 win at Iowa State, the Red Raiders will close its lone three-match road swing of the 2025 season next Thursday night when a date with No. 21/9 Colorado for the Red Raiders first trip to Boulder since 2009 when Colorado was in the Big 12 for the first time.
• In addition to the seven-match road Big 12 winning streak and the 18-match road conference unbeaten streak, the Red Raiders are always riding a three-match road clean sheet streak dating back to a 2-0 win over New Mexico State and including a pair of wins at Baylor (1-0) and a victory at Iowa State (2-0).
• Dating back to last season Nguyen has recorded five-straight clean sheets in Big 12 play. Nguyen has allowed just six total goals in 17 career Big 12 matches and has given up just one goal in seven career Big 12 road contests.
UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders close out the weekend at Arizona on Sunday afternoon for a nationally televised contest live on ESPNU. First touch is set for 2 p.m. (CT)/Noon (PT).
