LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech coach Kristy Curry knows what a win over a top- ranked team can do for her team.
“I thinked we upped our resume today,” Curry said Saturday after the Lady Raiders’ 56-45 win over No. 1 Baylor.
The win snapped the Lady Bears’ 21-game win streak and gave Texas Tech back-to- back wins over top-25 teams. Texas Tech beat No. 20 Iowa State 61-50 on Tuesday.
Baylor last lost in November to Connecticut.
Casey Morris, who led Texas Tech with 13 points, said the team believed it could win. The Lady Raiders (18-7, 6-6 Big 12) play No. 5 Texas A&M this Tuesday.
“I don’t think we ever had a doubt from the beginning,” said the sophomore, who was 4-for-11 from the field, including two 3-pointers. “I think we know we can beat Texas A&M. We know we can beat Baylor — we know we can beat anybody when we play as good as we can.”
Texas Tech’s win avenged a loss in Lubbock last year when Baylor star Brittney Griner was ejected for punching a Texas Tech player.
Griner finished with 15 points and six rebounds Saturday to lead Baylor (24-2, 11-1), which finished with season lows in shooting (25.9 percent) and scoring. The Lady Bears were averaging 81.7 points.
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey lauded Tech’s defense and saw her team lacking spunk.
“We just kept thinking, ‘We’re going to shoot better, we’re going to shoot better,’ and we just didn’t move,” she said. “We were just stuck in mud. We didn’t move.”
No. 5 Texas A&M 76, Oklahoma St. 67
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The score was tied 54-all with about five minutes remaining before Texas A&M scored 11 straight points. Sydney Colson scored the first five points in that run and Danielle Adams capped it with a jump shot with about two minutes left.
The Aggies (22-3, 10-2 Big 12) were up by 16 points in the first half before Oklahoma State (15-10, 3-9) took the lead midway through the second half.
Toni Young had 23 points and 17 rebounds for OSU.
