Well, Texas Tech plays another basketball game today, at home for the first time in month on a Saturday, against Kansas State.
Last time against the Wildcats, Tech struggled in the second half, something that’s been a recurring theme of late. K-State played one of it’s worst games in conference play that day, according to the metrics.
That day Markquis Nowell, the 5’8” point guard, grabbed eight rebounds, just a summation of Texas Tech’s effort that day. Obviously, it will take a much better effort from the Red Raiders who have two really tough games over the next three days with Texas coming into town on Monday.
Since that win for K-State, they have struggled in conference play, having gone 1-3 over that stretch with a home loss to Texas last Saturday.
The Wildcats are a well-rounded team by the data as there aren’t any extreme outliers on the resume, but one of the best perimeter-defending teams in the nation, and Tech’s shooting against them in the Little Apple was below average (7-29).
K-State creates turnovers at a high rate, something Tech has cleaned up at times, but still is 285th in the nation in turnover rate. Lamar Washington is coming off a six turnover nightmare in Stillwater where the team turned it over 16 times.
Slowing down the red-hot Keyontae Johnson will be a challenge for Tech, something the Red Raiders struggled with in January when Johnson tallied a double-double with some key buckets down the stretch for K-State.
The Red Raiders and Wildcats tip-off at 6 p.m. at the United Supermarkets Arena on ESPN+.
Last time against the Wildcats, Tech struggled in the second half, something that’s been a recurring theme of late. K-State played one of it’s worst games in conference play that day, according to the metrics.
That day Markquis Nowell, the 5’8” point guard, grabbed eight rebounds, just a summation of Texas Tech’s effort that day. Obviously, it will take a much better effort from the Red Raiders who have two really tough games over the next three days with Texas coming into town on Monday.
Since that win for K-State, they have struggled in conference play, having gone 1-3 over that stretch with a home loss to Texas last Saturday.
The Wildcats are a well-rounded team by the data as there aren’t any extreme outliers on the resume, but one of the best perimeter-defending teams in the nation, and Tech’s shooting against them in the Little Apple was below average (7-29).
K-State creates turnovers at a high rate, something Tech has cleaned up at times, but still is 285th in the nation in turnover rate. Lamar Washington is coming off a six turnover nightmare in Stillwater where the team turned it over 16 times.
Slowing down the red-hot Keyontae Johnson will be a challenge for Tech, something the Red Raiders struggled with in January when Johnson tallied a double-double with some key buckets down the stretch for K-State.
The Red Raiders and Wildcats tip-off at 6 p.m. at the United Supermarkets Arena on ESPN+.
