{"id":179004,"date":"2026-02-25T02:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179004\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T02:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:56:13","slug":"no-16-texas-tech-takes-down-cincinnati-80-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179004\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 16 Texas Tech takes down Cincinnati, 80-68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Christian Anderson notched a double-double to lead the No. 16 Texas Tech Red Raiders to a 80-68 win over the Cincinnati Bearcats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anderson scored 31 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. He led all scorers in the game while also leading Texas Tech in assists with seven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bearcats started the game making all nine of their first baskets before their first miss. Texas Tech then flipped things around after taking a 34-32 lead with 3:35 left in the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LeJuan Watts and Donovan Atwell scored double-digits on the night with 13 and 12, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As for the Bearcats, four of their five starters scored over 10 points, led by Moustapha Thiam\u2019s 21 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders shot 53% from the field and 40% from beyond the arc on the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Up next, Texas Tech hits the road to take on No. 4 Iowa State at 3 p.m. on Saturday inside the Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Christian Anderson notched a double-double to lead the No. 16 Texas Tech Red Raiders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1770,15408,29904,9914,71904,71905,71903,21870,66,168,35106,1775,154,27,29,28,1769,8177,299,35105,42880],"class_list":{"0":"post-179004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bearcats","10":"tag-big-12-basketball","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-bearkcats","13":"tag-cincinnati-bearkcats-basketball","14":"tag-cincy","15":"tag-hoops","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-lubbock","18":"tag-red-raider-basketball","19":"tag-red-raiders","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-texas","22":"tag-texas-headlines","23":"tag-texas-news","24":"tag-texas-tech","25":"tag-texas-tech-basketball","26":"tag-ttu","27":"tag-ttu-basketball","28":"tag-ttu-hoops"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179004","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=179004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}