The University of Texas defeated Texas Tech University 81-69, raising expectations for the NCAA Tournament.
In a game where poor fan etiquette was evident, the Longhorns took the lead in the first half and succeeded in avoiding the NCAA Tournament bubble.
United Supermarkets Arena was nearly empty when the final whistle blew. After the students waited for Texas Long Horns to go to Labobok and finally met Raiders Red Technology Texas, Long Horns and Long Horns deleted the game to end the 81-69 victory, and the enemy I skipped the enemy for the possibility of attacking. 18 months after Texas players won Texas and were attacked by the fields of Jones AT & T Stadium.
Red Raders’ fans, Long Horn’s Max Abumas’s senior guard was excluded by Texas’s technical player, he said, “He’s a cat, Abima is Abima. He was bleeding on the ground. “Sometimes it’s hard to hear those words,” Texas senior forward Dylan Diss said. “Obviously, Max would have hated hearing that when he was bleeding, but when you hear an audience say something like that and the energy that they have, it’s like, you know what? It means we’re doing the right thing and I’m like, “Being in Texas, we’ve learned to embrace it.”
In the second half, Texas senior forward Brock Cunningham committed a physical foul on Texas Tech guard Darron Williams while chasing a loose ball, causing fans to throw objects onto the field, including on the Longhorns’ bench. The game got even tougher as he started pitching. Cunningham was charged with two gross infractions and ejected while Red Raiders fans underwent administrative procedures.
“Tonight we wanted to be proud of winning the ball 50-50. “Any ball, any opportunity, when we lost the ball, we were going to be the first ones on the field,” Texas head coach Rodney Terry said.
Texas Tech head coach Grant McCasland was forced to address the crowd directly as security removed the worst offenders. “Listen, everyone. Hey, here we are.
Let your voices be heard,” McCasland said over the public address system. “Anything thrown on the ground is a technical foul. listen to me. This has to stop. This has to stop. There’s nothing else on the floor. Am I clean? ”
Terry was so concerned about his team’s defense that he considered taking the team to the locker room until some degree of order was restored.
Inappropriate fan behavior overshadowed one of Texas’ best performances of the season, ending a three-game losing streak in Lubbock and giving Texas Tech its first home loss under McCasland. Terry attributed it to Saturday’s blowout loss to Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse.
“We won the game on Sunday. We lost hard to Lawrence, but we came back the next day and had probably the most physical and hardest practice of the year,” Terry said. “I thought our players today made plays that set the tone and started this game. “I thought we really came out, defended really well, competed at a really high level and really set the tone for the game. I did.”
Even without knowing that Texas Tech forward Warren Washington would miss the game with an injury, Texas’ game plan was to attack in the paint, send the ball to the post, and give Deeds and senior forward Kadyn Shedrick It was to send. After the Longhorns took an early 14-4 lead, a strategic shift by the Texas offense resulted in Diss scoring in the paint and Shedrick making a dunk and two layups. After removing Abmas as the primary ball handler as Texas Tech excelled in the pick-and-roll, Terry took advantage of Abmas coming off a screen without the ball and sent Disa to the post to start the offense. The plan worked, as the Horns scored 32 points in the paint. Leading the way were Diss’ 21 points on 9-of-16 shooting with just two 3-pointers, and Abmas’ 18 points as he rebounded from the worst crisis of his career with his 3-point shooting. The previous one. Opponents are holding him to 20 total points.
Senior guard E.T. Horton, who replaced sophomore guard Chandar Weaver as the starter, gave the Texas bench the lead as Weaver scored a season-high tying 15 points on 9-of-11 shooting from the free-throw line, leading Texas Tech to the lead. They defeated University 32-13. Eight. point. rebound and 2 assists. After injuring his back in the Big 12 opener against the Red Raiders, senior forward Kadin Shedrick finally got his energy back and added 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting and six rebounds.
Texas’ defense deserves a lot of credit for its big first-half lead and comfortable finish. Texas Tech never led in the game, shooting 24.2 percent through the first 20 minutes, but star guard Pop Isaacs missed 10 shot attempts. According to BartTorvik.com, the Longhorns’ fifth Quad 1 win of the season moves Texas out of the bubble and increases the team’s chances of making the NCAA Tournament to 98.6%.
Texas returns to the Moody Center on Saturday for a game against Oklahoma State.
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