National Basketball Association
Kansas 58, Texas Tech 57
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, December 17, 2020
Where: United Supermarkets Arena, Lubbock, Texas
Officials:
# Tony Padilla, # Terry Oglesby, # Keith Kimbell
Attendance:
4250
By Field Level Media
If this is how all the games between ranked Big 12 Conference teams are going to play out, fans of the league are in for a wild and bumpy ride.
Ochai Agbaji cut through the lane for a layup on an inbounds play to put 5th-ranked Kansas up by a point with 13 seconds left, and Jalen Wilson blocked Terrance Shannon's shot on the other end of the floor right before time expired to lift the Jayhawks to a 58-57 victory against No. 14-ranked Texas Tech on Thursday in Lubbock.
Those two points were the last of Agbaji's 23 points in a game during which the teams' defenses controlled most of the action. Marcus Garrett added 10 points, 10 rebounds and four assists for Kansas (7-1, 1-0 Big 12).
Mac McClung led the Red Raiders (6-2, 0-1) with 21 points, buoyed by a big first half. Shannon notched 20, including 13 in the second half, and buried four 3-pointers.
Texas Tech seemed to have control midway through the second half when Micah Peavy's jump shot extended the lead to 46-39. But the Jayhawks responded with a 10-0 surge and regained the lead when Dajuan Harris knocked down a 3-pointer with 7:18 remaining. It was the last of Kansas' four makes from outside the arc in the second half.
The rest of the game went back-and-forth, with both teams coming up big on both ends until the final seconds when the Jayhawks produced the game-winner and the Red Raiders couldn't respond.
Kansas led 29-26 at halftime, sparked by Agbaji's 12 points on 4-of-5 shooting from the floor. He also connected on 3 of 4 attempts from the free-throw line to help the Jayhawks go 9 of 10 from the stripe.
Texas Tech struggled to connect from the field in the opening 20 minutes, making only 9 of 28 (32.1 percent) attempts. McClung, who had been in a three-game shooting slump, kept the Red Raiders in range with 13 points but was the only Texas Tech player to make more than two field goals in the first half.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Kansas |
|
Texas Tech |
Ochai Agbaji 23 |
Scoring |
Mac McClung 21 |
Marcus Garrett 4 |
Assists |
Marcus Santos-Silva 3 |
Christian Braun 10 |
Rebounds |
Terrence Shannon Jr. 9 |
Marcus Garrett 4 |
Free Throws Made |
Mac McClung 9 |
Marcus Garrett 1 |
Steals |
Nimari Burnett 3 |
Ochai Agbaji 1 |
Blocks |
Marcus Santos-Silva 2 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
Kansas
|
58 |
40.4 |
6-18 |
14-15 |
13 |
36 |
3 |
3 |
16 |
Texas Tech
|
57 |
32.3 |
6-23 |
11-18 |
8 |
29 |
3 |
5 |
7 |