{"id":136983,"date":"2026-01-24T23:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/136983\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:48:15","slug":"no-12-texas-tech-stays-undefeated-at-home-picks-up-marquee-win-over-no-6-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/136983\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 12 Texas Tech stays undefeated at home, picks up marquee win over No. 6 Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUBBOCK \u2014 JT Toppin had 31 points and 12 rebounds for his 44th career double-double and Donovan Atwell hit consecutive 3-pointers late to put No. 12 Texas Tech<\/a> ahead to stay in a 90-86 win over No. 6 Houston on Saturday, ending the Cougars\u2019 11-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

True freshman Kingston Flemings had a season-high 42 points with six assists for the Cougars (17-2, 5-1 Big 12), who had won their past 16 true road games \u2014 all conference games \u2014 since a loss at No. 8 Kansas two years ago. That was a school record and the nation\u2019s longest active streak.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech (16-4, 6-1) had 10 made 3s in the first half when scoring 55 points against a Houston team that coming in ranked second nationally allowing only 60.1 points. The Red Raiders made only two from beyond the arc after halftime, Atwell hitting the go-ahead 3 with 5:55 left and adding another 34 seconds later.<\/p>\n

There were eight lead changes and eight ties in the game that Houston led for 18 minutes, 41 seconds, and Tech led 18:12.<\/p>\n

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Tech is 11-0 at home this season and has won five games in a row overall, and nine of 10 \u2014 the loss in that span being 69-65 at Houston on Jan. 6. Tech was the only Big 12 team to beat the Cougars last season, when they were conference champs and national runner-up.<\/p>\n

Atwell, who finished with five 3s, and Jaylen Petty both had 18 points. Christian Anderson had 12 points with nine assists.<\/p>\n

Emmanuel Sharp had 20 points for Houston.<\/p>\n

Toppin\u2019s 44 career double-doubles are the second most for active players behind Michigan\u2019s Yaxel Lendeborg (48). Toppin has 32 in 52 games with Tech since transferring from New Mexico after his freshman season.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Houston at TCU on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech has a break before going to UCF next Saturday.<\/p>\n

Takeaways from No. 12 Texas Tech\u2019s win over No. 6 Houston: Toppin outduels Flemings<\/a>2026 NCAA football transfer portal: Tracking moves for Texas Tech, SMU, other area schools<\/a><\/p>\n

Find more college sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Find more Texas Tech coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK \u2014 JT Toppin had 31 points and 12 rebounds for his 44th career double-double and Donovan Atwell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[732,3688,42435,154,27,29,28,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-136983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-grant-mccasland","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}