RUSTON | The Louisiana Tech women's basketball team will play a pair of Conference USA road games this week, beginning with North Texas on Thursday, Feb. 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the Super Pit in Denton, Texas. The game can be seen on ESPN+. In addition, the live radio broadcast and live stats can be found on the LA Tech Athletics app.
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Thursday, Feb. 16 | 6:30 p.m. CT
Location: The Super Pit | Denton, Texas
TV/Stream: ESPN+
Radio: KNBB 97.7 FM | LA Tech Athletics app
Stats: LATechSports.com/Stats | LA Tech Athletics app
ABOUT LOUISIANA TECH (14-10, 7-7 C-USA)
Louisiana Tech swept a pair of conference home games last week over FIU and FAU in which they never trailed. LA Tech's bench has continued to produce and reached double figures 22 times this season.
Keiunna Walker became the 11th player in program history, surpassing 1,800 career points, and is only five points away from cracking the all-time top 10. Walker has reached double figures in 22 of 24 games, including 18 straight, and is No. 2 in C-USA at 17.3 PPG.
Anna Larr Roberson scored 16 in both games, returning to action from an injury, and sits at No. 37 on the all-time scoring list with 1,144 career points.
Lotte Sant is shooting 55 percent from three (31-56) in conference play this season, moved past Monica Maxwell for No. 7 on the all-time makes list with 128.
LA Tech currently leads C-USA in field goal percentage (.451), three-point percentage (.338), and free throw percentage (.787). Defensively, Tech ranks second in scoring defense (60.5 PPG) and defensive FG% (.386).
Tech is 10-0 this season when holding teams to less than 60 points and 9-0 when out-rebounding the opposition. Tech is also 8-1 when scoring more than 70.
ABOUT NORTH TEXAS (9-15, 6-8 C-USA)
After a 3-6 start to conference play, North Texas picked up three wins in a row to even their conference record but have since dropped their last two matchups before welcoming LA Tech to the Super Pit.
Five of the Mean Green's conference losses have been by single digits, including the last two against UAB (52-61) and Charlotte (61-69).
On the floor, UNT is led by last season's C-USA Preseason Player of the Year, Quincy Noble. Noble, a 5-10 senior guard from McKinney, Texas, has been atop the league in scoring this year and ranks No. 3 at 16.8 PPG heading into Thursday's matchup.
North Texas also features one of the league's best rebounders in Tommisha Lampkin, at 6.6 RPG, which ranks top-five. Lampkin is also top-five in blocks per game at 1.2.
North Texas is averaging 63.1 PPG on .425 shooting while giving up 67.5 per contest to opponents on .418.
THE SERIES
Wednesday's matchup will be the 21st overall meeting between the Techsters and the Mean Green and the second one this season. LA Tech took the first matchup in Ruston 81-66 to make it three in a row over North Texas.
LA Tech leads the overall series 16-4, winning the first 12 meetings from 1989-90 to 2017-18. North Texas took three of the next four before Tech swept the two-game set last season, giving the Techsters four of the previous five.
The Techsters have a 6-1 mark in Denton, with the Mean Green's lone win in the Super Pit coming in the series' only overtime game in 2019-20 (74-69).
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