{"id":156640,"date":"2026-02-09T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156640\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:16:12","slug":"no-13-texas-tech-snaps-losing-skid-with-70-63-win-at-wvu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156640\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 13 Texas Tech snaps losing skid with 70-63 win at WVU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MORGANTOWN, W.V. (KCBD) &#8211; After two frustrating bouts with UCF and Kansas, the No. 13 Texas Tech Red Raiders (17-6, 7-3 Big 12) returned to the win column Sunday afternoon with a 70-63 win at West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Forty-nine seconds into the game, Donovan Atwell finished a fast break with a three-point jumper, his first of four, giving the Red Raiders a 3-0 lead. From there, they never once trailed in the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Forward JT Toppin led with 22 points and nine rebounds, one shy of a double-double. Atwell registered 15 points and point guard Christian Anderson posted 13. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While the Mountaineers outscored Tech 38-20 in the paint, 39 of the Red Raiders\u2019 70 points came from three-point shots. Anderson and Jaylen Petty also made three three-pointers each, and Toppin was 2-for-4 from behind the perimeter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders will return to the USA Wednesday evening for a rematch with the Colorado Buffaloes- a team they beat 73-71 in Boulder on Jan. 10. Tip-off scheduled for 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORGANTOWN, W.V. (KCBD) &#8211; After two frustrating bouts with UCF and Kansas, the No. 13 Texas Tech Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,55540,2692,29902,168,170,169,4862,49638,1769,8177,33227,415,873,64348,9814,64527],"class_list":{"0":"post-156640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-big-12","9":"tag-big-12-mens-hoops","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-hoops","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-mens-college-basketball","16":"tag-mens-college-hoops","17":"tag-texas-tech","18":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","19":"tag-texas-tech-mens-basketball","20":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","21":"tag-texas-tech-university","22":"tag-west-virginia-basketball","23":"tag-west-virginia-mountaineers","24":"tag-west-virginia-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156640","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=156640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}