Colorado Buffaloes (14-10, 4-7 Big 12) at Texas Tech Red Raiders (17-6, 7-3 Big 12)<\/p>\n
Lubbock, Texas; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: No. 16 Texas Tech plays Colorado after JT Toppin scored 22 points in Texas Tech’s 70-63 victory against the West Virginia Mountaineers.<\/p>\n
The Red Raiders have gone 11-1 at home. Texas Tech is sixth in the Big 12 with 16.0 assists per game led by Christian Anderson averaging 7.5.<\/p>\n
The Buffaloes are 4-7 against Big 12 opponents. Colorado is 0-1 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech scores 82.3 points per game, 4.2 more points than the 78.1 Colorado allows. Colorado averages 7.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.6 more makes per game than Texas Tech allows.<\/p>\n
The matchup Wednesday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Donovan Atwell is shooting 44.0% from beyond the arc with 3.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Red Raiders, while averaging 12.3 points. Toppin is shooting 54.4% and averaging 22.7 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Isaiah Johnson averages 1.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Buffaloes, scoring 16.3 points while shooting 39.8% from beyond the arc. Barrington Hargress is averaging 14.7 points and 3.8 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Red Raiders: 7-3, averaging 80.5 points, 33.6 rebounds, 16.8 assists, 5.4 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Buffaloes: 3-7, averaging 73.9 points, 28.2 rebounds, 15.0 assists, 5.9 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.9 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Buffaloes (14-10, 4-7 Big 12) at Texas Tech Red Raiders (17-6, 7-3 Big 12) Lubbock, Texas; Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[65545,732,1770,2692,416,168,170,169,4862,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-159507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-65545","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-college-sports","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news","16":"tag-mens-college-basketball","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159507","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=159507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}