{"id":160952,"date":"2026-02-12T03:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/160952\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:27:06","slug":"no-16-red-raiders-stifle-colorado-for-78-44-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/160952\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 16 Red Raiders stifle Colorado for 78-44 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The No. 16 Texas Tech Red Raiders (18-6, 8-3) turned in their strongest defensive performance so far this season with a dominant 78-44 victory over the Colorado Buffaloes. Wednesday night\u2019s win was a much different outcome than from their Jan. 10 outing where Tech men escaped Boulder with a 73-71 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In their defensive effort, the Red Raiders accounted for ten steals and nine blocks and held Colorado to 29 percent shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Guard Donovon Atwell accounted for 20 points and continued to state his case as a prolific three-point shooter and was 6-for-10 from behind the three-point line. Forward JT Toppin scored 16 points but made 18 rebounds. Christian Anderson registered 14 points and was 3-for-6 in three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After going into the break with a 39-22 lead, the Red Raiders were off to a fast start in the second half with an 11-1 run and sat comfortably ahead with a 50-23 score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This victory comes three days after their 70-63 win at West Virginia, in a game where they never trailed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders now turn their attention to the No. 1 Arizona Wildcats, who they will face 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the McKale Center in Tucson, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The No. 16 Texas Tech Red Raiders (18-6, 8-3) turned in their strongest defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,55539,58948,6625,168,170,169,8177,33227,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-160952","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-hoops","10":"tag-big-12-mens-basketball","11":"tag-colorado-buffaloes","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","16":"tag-texas-tech-mens-basketball","17":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160952","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=160952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}