No. 24 Women’s Basketball preview: West Virginia

No. 24 Texas (16-6, 7-2 Big 12) at West Virginia (14-5, 5-3 Big 12)

Game 23

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 – 6:00 p.m. Central

WVU Coliseum – Morgantown, W.Va.  

GameDay Quick Facts 

TELEVISION: The sport will likely be streamed by Big 12 Now/ESPN+. Nick Farrell (pxp) and Meg Bulger could have the decision. 

RADIO: The sport will likely be carried on 105.3 FM in Austin. Craig Way (pxp) and Kathy Harston (analyst) will name the motion. The broadcast will likely be streamed on TexasSports.Com.

SERIES: Texas leads the all-time sequence 15-10.  

Notables

DEFENSE GETTING IT DONE: 

The Longhorns held an Iowa State workforce that was averaging 78.7 factors per sport to 53 factors. Texas gave up six factors within the fourth quarter to the Cyclones. Against Oklahoma, a workforce averaging 87.3 factors per sport, Texas held them to 58 factors for the sport and 6 factors within the third quarter. The Longhorns are 14-0 on the season when holding an opponent to 59 factors or much less and 15 instances this season they’ve held an opponent to single digits for 1 / 4.

RORI HARMON: Sophomore All-(*24*) Rori Harmon made historical past on Jan. 4 within the Longhorns win over TCU as she grew to become the 4th participant in program historical past to file a triple-double. Harmon scored 17 factors and added 11 assists and 10 rebounds. After lacking the primary 5 video games of the season resulting from damage, the Longhorns are 13-3 with Harmon within the lineup this season. In Big 12 play Harmon is averaging 12.0 ppg, 8.2 apg, 6.4 rpg and a couple of.1 spg. Harmon leads the Big 12 in assists per sport and steals per sport. Harmon not too long ago handed 300 profession assists and is No. 6 on the UT all-time checklist for assists for sophomores with 124.

GASTON COMING UP BIG:  DeYona Gaston notched her second double-double of the season with 13 factors and 11 rebounds within the win over Baylor. Gaston scored 15 of her 19 factors within the first half in opposition to Oklahoma. Gaston ranks second in area aim proportion within the Big 12 at 55.2 factors per sport.

FORCING TURNOVERS: The Longhorns are forcing 21.6 turnovers per sport. In the final 11 video games they maintain a 265-105 benefit over opponents in factors off turnovers. Texas ranks eleventh within the NCAA in turnovers compelled per sport and sixteenth within the NCAA in turnover margin.

NANCY LIEBERMAN AWARD TOP 10. This week Rori Harmon was named to the mid season top-10 checklist for the Nancy Lieberman Award, which works to the highest level guard in NCAA DI ladies’s faculty basketball.