What Happened Last Time Texas Tech Played Houston?

Round 1 went to nan Houston Cougars.

Round 2 has yet to beryllium determined, but Texas Tech is hosting this clip astatine United SuperMarkets Arena and will want revenge aft losing 69-65 astatine nan Fertitta Center.

When some schools met for nan first clip this season, nan Cougars were classed No. 7, and nan Red Raiders were classed No. 14 successful nan AP Top 25. Now some programs person moved up successful nan rankings and are looking to amended their ranking moreover further adjacent week if a triumph occurs connected Saturday.

In nan first contest, it was a back-and-forth matter wherever some were tied astatine 31 going to nan locker room, but Houston had much substance and reached nan decorativeness statement pinch much large plays connected offense.

Team Comparison

When a instrumentality looks astatine nan stats, Tech's shooting was amended than Houston's. From nan field, Tech was 41 percent, and from downtown, 32 percent. As for Houston, it was only 39 percent from nan field, going 24 percent from three. Houston did person 61 section extremity attempts compared to Tech, who had 56, but what yet made 1 of nan differences was knocking down free throws and points successful nan paint.

At nan kindness stripe, nan Cougars were 17 of 22 from nan statement while Tech was 10 of 11 but wasn’t capable to tie capable fouls to person much free trips. Another quality was really Houston was capable to crockery nan shot wrong and grounds 28 overgarment points, while Tech had only 20.

Defensively, coach Kelvin Sampson’s squad locked successful connected its assignments and gave coach Grant McCasland’s discourtesy trouble, which was not observant pinch nan basketball. Tech had 14 turnovers, which played a large domiciled against Houston, which posted only six each game.

Fastbreak points were besides a awesome class successful which nan Cougars recovered a measurement to win, scoring 9 points while nan Red Raiders had only two.

One class Houston besides won was nan rebound battle, wherever Tech vanished pinch less violative rebounds but much protect rebounds. At nan conclusion, Houston hardly won nan rebound conflict 36-35 but was capable to clang nan solid and container retired well.

Players That Had nan Biggest Impact

For nan Cougars, nan discourtesy had an tremendous time from freshman Kingston Flemings, who recorded 23 points, going 9 of 19 from nan section and 2 of 6 from deep. Nine of his points came successful nan last 3 minutes erstwhile he nailed a brace of 3s, made a jumper, and made a free throw. Another elite freshman was Chris Cenac Jr., who had a double-double pinch 11 points and 11 rebounds.  

As for Tech, their starring scorer, JT Toppin, vanished pinch 18 points but wasn't nan violative leader that evening, arsenic Jaylen Petty registered 20 points, going 5 of 9 from down nan arc. Lejuan Watts piled up nan astir rebounds pinch 7 and was successful foul problem pinch Toppin pinch 4 each, but couldn’t prevail successful nan last minutes.

To drawback nan 2nd matchup betwixt nan 2 programs, move connected nan tv connected Saturday astatine 5:30 p.m., erstwhile nan crippled will beryllium telecast connected ESPN.