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No. 6 Tech, UNC, meet in Round of 32 Friday
November 18, 2025 | Women's Soccer
The Red Raiders will look to avenge a 2023 Round of 16 loss (1-0) to the Tar Heels Friday afternoon in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH – For the second time in the last three seasons, No. 6 Texas Tech Soccer and the University of North Carolina will meet in the NCAA Tournament.Â
After the Tar Heels took down Tech 1-0 in the 2023 Round of 16, the Red Raiders and UNC will meet Thursday afternoon (4 p.m.) at TCUs Harvey-Rosenthal Stadium in a Round of 32 contest.
The winner of Tech and UNC will advance to Sunday's NCAA Round of 16 to face the winner of No. 2 TCU and No. 7 Memphis. The Tigers and Horned Frogs clash at 7 p.m. on Thursday night.
Riding high after Friday's dramatic 2-1 win over UTSA, the Red Raiders are one of 11 teams in the country to have recorded three-straight NCAA Round of 32 appearances (only Big 12 team) and will look to make the NCAA Round of 16 for the third time in program history (2014, 2023).
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
MATCHUP: No. 6 Texas Tech (14-2-4) vs. North Carolina (13-6-0)
DATE: Nov. 20, 2025
TIME: 4 p.m.
LOCATION: Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium (Fort Worth, Texas)
BY THE NUMBERS:
21: Since the start of the 2022 season the Red Raiders have scored 21 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 eight times this season in the first 10 minutes. The Red Raiders are 15-0-3 in the 18 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 47-0-1 (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 56-2-1 when scoring twice in a match. The Red Raiders have won 26-straight when scoring twice.
13: On the Red Raiders opening goal of Friday's 2-1 win over UTSA, Macy Blackburn broke Allie Murphy's single-season program record for single season assists. The assist was also Blackburn's 46th career assist, the most in program history. The defender needs just one more helper to tie for third all-time on the Big 12 assist list. The Red Raiders are now 33-1-2 in the 36 contests she records an assist. Blackburn is the only player in the country with three-straight 10+ assist seasons. The 2024 and 2025 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, Blackburn is just the fourth player in Big 12 history to repeat as DPOY and the first since Kedeisha Buchanan was DPOY from 2013-16.
QUICK KICKS:
• Following a dramatic and at times dominant win over UTSA last Friday night at the John Walker Soccer Complex, No. 6 Texas Tech Soccer will head back to Ft. Worth for the second time this month, this time for an NCAA Round of 32 matchup with a familiar foe in North Carolina.
• After playing host to the Tar Heels back during Anson Dorrance's final season, the Red Raiders fell 1-0 to UNC in the first Round of 16 home match in program history. The win was Tech's eight postseason match in the last nine to be decided by a goal or fewer. The Red Raiders are 3-2-3 overall in those eight contests and have advanced in five of the eight matches.
• Friday's win over UTSA was Tech's 14th of the season, marking the third-straight season the Red Raiders have won 14 games.
• Tech is one of six teams in the country to have won 14+ games in three-straight years (Stanford, Saint Louis, Liberty, Lipscomb and Xavier), and one of two P4 teams (Stanford) with three-straight 14-win seasons. With a win the Red Raiders could join Stanford and potentially Lipscomb (The Bison would get to 15 wins for the third-straight season with a win against FSU) as the only three teams in the country with three-straight 15-win seasons.
• Back in Fort Worth, the Red Raiders played at Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium just over two weeks ago (Nov. 3) in the Quarterfinals of the 2025 Big 12 Tournament against Baylor.
• The Red Raiders are 3-9-4 all-time in Fort Worth but have earned a draw in the last three matches in FW: (2022 vs. TCU (0-0), 2024 vs. TCU (0-0) and 2025 vs. Baylor - a 1-1 draw in the Big 12 Tournament).
• The Red Raiders ended up falling in PKs in the 2025 Big 12s, despite leading 2-0 and 3-1. Tech ultimately fell 7-6 in nine rounds of PKs.
• The loss to Baylor snapped the Red Raiders three-match PK winning streak.
• The Red Raiders enter the NCAA Round of 32 as one of 11 teams in the country with three-straight Rof32 appearances. The list includes the Tar Heels, Stanford, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Florida State, Georgetown, Michigan State, Iowa, Penn State and Arkansas. Tech defeated FGCU before downing Princeton in PKs in 2023. In 2024 the Red Raiders defeated LSU, 2-1 in Lubbock. The Red Raiders closed out their third-straight Rof32 appearance last Friday night with the 2-1 win over UTSA.
• As they have all season, the Red Raiders outshot the Roadrunners in Friday's win. The Red Raiders were +12 (20-8) in shot margin marking the 20th time in 20 matches that the Red Raiders have outshot their opponent.
• In the 20 matches the Red Raiders have played, they have outshot teams 347-157 for a shot margin of +190 or 9.5/shots-per-game.
• The Red Raiders are giving up just 7.8 total shots per game.
• After recording just 14 total assists in 2022 on 23 goals in 2022, the Red Raiders have recorded 61, 51 and 50 assists the last three seasons.
• The Red Raiders are currently 10th in the country in total assists (50) and are one of two schools (Utah Valley) to have three-straight 50 assist seasons.
• Tech is also one of eight teams (ND, Milwaukee, Grambling, Michigan State, FSU and UNC) with 125+ points in three straight season.
• In addition to Macy Blackburn reaching the single season assist mark, forward Taylor Zdrojewski reached 16 goals for the season, the third-most in a single season in school history. The goal which was the game-winner, was Z's seventh game-winner in 2025, bringing her into a tie for first place in single-season game-winning goals. Zdrojewski also is now third in a season in points (35).
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