LUBBOCK, Texas – Fresh off its third-straight national seed and selection into the NCAA Tournament, No. 6 Texas Tech welcomes in-state foe UTSA Friday night for a 6 p.m. Opening Round NCAA Tournament match.
Sporting a 7-0-1 (advanced in all eight) all-time record in home First Round NCAA matches, the Red Raiders will look to advance to the Round of 32 for the ninth time in 10 all-time NCAA Tournament appearances.
The winner of Friday’s match will draw the No. 3 Tennessee/UNC winner in Thursday’s Round of 32 at a site to be determined. The Vols and Heels meet on Friday night in Knoxville at 5 p.m. (CT).
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
MATCHUP: No. 6 Texas Tech (13-24) vs. UTSA (10-5-6)
DATE: November 14, 2025
TIME: 6 p.m.
LOCATION: Lubbock, Texas (John Walker Soccer Complex)
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 46-0-1 (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 55-2-1 when scoring twice in a match.
12: On the Red Raiders lone goal of last Monday’s 1-1 draw, graduate student Macy Blackburn recorded her 12th assist of the season, tying Allie Murphy’s single-season program record. The assist was also Blackburn’s 45th career assist. The 45 helpers are the most in program history and are the fourth-most in Big 12 history. Blackburn needs just two more to tie for third all-time on the Big 12 assist list. The Red Raiders are now 32-1-2 in the 35 contests she records an assist.
QUICK KICKS:
• After a 10 day break following the heartbreaking (7-6) PK draw against Baylor, Texas Tech Soccer has earned a No. 6 seed for the 2025 NCAA Tournament and as such will host its ninth all-time home NCAA Tournament First round match and its third-straight home opening round match at Ft. Walker.
• The PK setback was the first for Tech since 2018 when the Red Raiders lost to Virginia in PKs in the Second Round of NCAAs. Tech had won three-straight PK matches dating back to that 2018 setback.
• Tech is 7-0-1 all-time in the previous eight matchups with the lone draw being the 2019 PK (4-3) clash with Pepperdine. Tech defeated UNT (2-0) at home in its first-ever NCAA Tournament match back in 2012. The Red Raiders downed Minnesota (3-0) a year later before dropping Prairie View A&M (8-0) in 2014. In 2015, the Red Raiders defeated UNT (1-0). After going on the road and losing in OT at Utah in 2016, the Red Raiders downed Princeton by a 3-0 scoreline in 2018. After advancing past Pepperdine in PKs in 2019, the Red Raiders downed FGCU (1-0) in their return to the NCAA Tournament in 2023. The Red Raiders downed LSU, 2-1 a year ago in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament behind first half goals from Taylor Zdrojewski (23rd minute) and Skylar Haase (42 minute). The Red Raiders withstood an early (27 seconds in) second half goal from the Tigers to advance past the Tigers 2-1.
• Dating back to the Red Raiders 3-0 win over Princeton in 2018, seven of the Red Raiders last eight NCAA Tournament matches have been decided by a goal or fewer. That stretch includes a PK loss in Waco to No. 3 Virginia, the PK win over Pepperdine, a 3-2 loss to Michigan in Chapel Hill.
• All three postseason results in 2023 were decided by a goal or less: the 1-0 win over FGCU, the PKs 0-0 draw against Princeton and the 1-0 setback to UNC. The lone non-one goal decision in the eight-game span was last year’s 3-0 setback at top-seeded Duke.
• Despite the early Courtwright goal in the Red Raiders were unable to advance past Baylor and into the Big 12 Semifinals for the first time since 2022. The goal, which came within the first five minutes, was the 21st time that Tech has scored inside the first 10 minutes of a match.
• And while that was usually a good omen for Tech, it was not meant to be last Monday in Ft. Worth, as the Red Raiders saw a 13-match winning streak snapped when scoring in the first 10 minutes. The winner of Friday’s opening round match will advance to the NCAA Round of 32 on Thursday night (Nov. 20) to face the winner between No. 3 Tennessee and UNC. The match will be hosted by the highest remaining seed between (No. 2 TCU, No. Tennessee, No. 6 Texas Tech and No. 7 Memphis). TCU faces off with Grambling on Friday night in Fort Worth.
