{"id":166218,"date":"2026-02-16T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166218\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:36:08","slug":"texas-techs-grant-mccasland-did-not-stutter-about-stat-of-the-game-vs-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166218\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech\u2019s Grant McCasland did not stutter about \u2018stat of the game\u2019 vs. Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Tech\u2019s Grant McCasland did not stutter about \u2018stat of the game\u2019 vs. Arizona<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tech basketball<\/a> team defeated Arizona on Saturday, to win its third consecutive game. Texas Tech head coach Grant McCasland praised the play of his team afterward. He specifically looked at one stat<\/a>, to showcase his team\u2019s strength.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGoing into this game watching film, you see how physical they are in the way they dominate the paint,\u201d McCasland said, per Sports Illustrated. \u201cWe talked about having a hit-first mentality. If you don\u2019t hit first, you\u2019re losing. On everything. On transition defense, when they\u2019re at the rim, sealing. When you\u2019re on a ball-screen, if you\u2019re not the most physical one when the shot goes up. We were 26-26 in the paint. That\u2019s the stat of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas Tech won in overtime, 78-75, to hand Arizona their second straight loss. The Red Raiders got a monster performance from big man JT Toppin<\/a>, who had yet another double-double. He finished the game with 31 points and 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech improved to 19-6 overall this season with the victory. Arizona meanwhile has now dropped back-to-back games, to the Red Raiders and Kansas.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech basketball is going for a Big 12 championship<\/p>\n

The Red Raiders are now in a three-way tie for third place in the conference. Texas Tech, Kansas and Iowa State now all have 9-3 Big 12 marks.<\/p>\n

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McCasland said his team just has a ton of fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the fight of this team,\u201d McCasland said. \u201cJT and Christian weren\u2019t going to let us lose. You don\u2019t come into this building and win unless you\u2019re fighting and competitive. I love being part of this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Red Raiders have put together an incredible resum\u00e9, heading into the NCAA tournament. Texas Tech now has wins this season over Arizona<\/a>, Duke and Houston.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not guessing \u2014 this isn\u2019t luck,\u201d McCasland said. \u201cThese dudes practice hard and put themselves in position every day. There\u2019s no shortcuts to this. It\u2019s a grind, and you\u2019ve got to love it. These dudes love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Texas Tech next plays at Arizona State on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Related: Gonzaga basketball\u2019s Mark Few calls for Graham Ike to get All-American attention<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Mark Pope cops to big \u2018mistake\u2019 that cost Kentucky basketball vs. Florida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech\u2019s Grant McCasland did not stutter about \u2018stat of the game\u2019 vs. Arizona appeared first on ClutchPoints.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6550,8147,42435,168,170,169,42436,1769,8177],"class_list":["post-166218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-state","tag-grant-mccasland","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-mccasland","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166218","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=166218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}