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No. 18/13 Texas Tech welcomes No. 21 KU Sunday
October 04, 2025 | Women's Soccer
The Red Raiders will face their first top-25 team of the season
LUBBOCK, Texas – Fresh off its most-lopsided Big 12 win in over four years, No. 18/13 Texas Tech welcomes No. 21 Kansas Sunday afternoon for the first regular season matchup between the two conference rivals in three years.
First touch for the Pups at the Pitch game is set for 1 p.m.
Currently tied with Colorado atop the Big 12 standings, Texas Tech seeks its 20th Big 12 win in its last 24 games/since the start of the 2023 conference season.
Sunday's contest against KU will also serve as a "white-out" as all fans are encouraged to wear white.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
MATCHUP: No. 18/13 Texas Tech (9-1-1, 3-0-1 Big 12) vs. Kansas (8-2-2, 2-2-0 Big 12)
DATE: Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025
TIME: 1 p.m.
LOCATION: Lubbock, Texas (John Walker Soccer Complex)
BY THE NUMBERS:
13/18: After beginning the regular season ranked inside the top-25 and closing the 2024 season ranked side the top-25, the Red Raiders find themselves ranked inside the top-25 for the first time since the first poll of the regular season. On Monday, the Red Raiders found themselves ranked at No. 13 overall while the United Soccer Coaches poll had Tech at No. 18.
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 42-0-1 (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 51-2-1 when scoring twice in a match.
15: Through the season's first 11 matches Macy Blackburn has continued to level up her game, as the All-American and Big 12 Defender of the Year from 2024 has already tied her career-high in points through the season's first 11 matches as with her goal on Thursday night, Blackburn reached 15 points to tie her total from 2023. The Keller natives three goals scored are a new career-best, while she needs just two more shots and two more SOG to tie her career-best marks from 2021.
QUICK KICKS:
• Fresh off its most-lopsided Big 12 win since 2021 (a 7-0 win over Oklahoma), No. 18/13 Texas Tech Soccer continues its season-long three-match homestand on Sunday afternoon when No. 21 Kansas makes its first trip to Lubbock since the 2021 season.
• Sunday's matchup will also be the first regular season matchup between KU and Tech since the 2022 season when the Red Raiders went into Lawrence and downed KU 2-0.
• Tech and KU did not face each other in either of the 2023 season or the 2024 regular season, but did matchup in the 2024 Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City. In Thursday's thrashing of Oklahoma State, the Red Raiders got single goals from four different players including sophomore Millie Elwood who scored her first career goal in the 84th minute to provide the capper.
Elwood became the eighth different Red Raider to find the back of the net this season. The first goal of the night came off a beautiful up and under move from Peyton Parsons, while Macy Blackburn scored the Red Raiders second when she buried a rebound off a shot attempt from a Sam Courtwright free kick just outside the box.
• Parsons goal marked the third time in the last four games that the attacking mid has scored in a contest and was her eighth career game-winning goal which moved her into solo ninth place on the Red Raiders all-time game-winners list.
• With her goal on Thursday night, Blackburn also worked her way up the record books as the All-American recorded her 57th and 58th career points to move into solo eighth on the all-time points list. Blackburn needs just one point to tie Jessica Fuston for seventh all-time on the points list.
• Also back in the score sheet on Thursday, was Taylor Zdorjewski who scored for the first time since the win over New Mexico State (Sept. 2), a span of four games. Despite not scoring for that four-match span, Zdrojewski still kept the team lead in goals scored.
• The strike was Zdrojewski's 18th career and moved her into a tie for 10th on the all-time goals scored list. The goal was her 18th in her last 33 game.
UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders will close out a three-match homestand on Friday night when TCU pays a visit to the John Walker Soccer Complex. First touch is set for 7 p.m.
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