November 15 – Christian Anderson scored 18 points to lead five players in double figures as No. 11 Texas Tech pulled away from Milwaukee for an 80-63 win Friday night in Lubbock, Texas.<\/p>\n
Donovan Atwell tallied 17 points, Tyeree Bryan scored 13 points and Jaylen Petty came off the Red Raiders’ bench to add 11 points. LeJuan Watts chipped in 10 points.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech leading scorer JT Toppin had been averaging 33.0 points per game, but he was held to seven points and made 3 of 10 field-goal attempts. He did grab 10 rebounds for the Red Raiders (3-1).<\/p>\n
Danilo Jovanovich led Milwaukee with 17 points, Sekou Konneh scored 12 points and Seth Hubbard added 11 points for the Panthers (2-3).<\/p>\n
Milwaukee hit its first three 3-point attempts and jumped out to a 9-3 advantage.<\/p>\n
But the Red Raiders also drilled three straight shots from beyond the arc to tie the game at 9. A Jovanovich turnaround jumper capped a 6-0 run to give Milwaukee a 15-9 lead. Over that span, Texas Tech was 0 of 6 on field goal attempts.<\/p>\n
The Milwaukee hot shooting from beyond the arc was limited to the early going. The Panthers finished the game making 4 of 17 three-point attempts while the Red Raiders connected on 13 of 31 shots from the perimeter.<\/p>\n
On a possession with a pair of offensive rebounds, Petty hit a three from the wing to cut the Milwaukee lead to 21-18 with 8:42 left in the first half.<\/p>\n
The Red Raiders finally took their first lead on a 11-0 run that featured threes from Atwell and Petty, and was capped by a Bryan layup that gave Texas Tech a 29-23 lead with 6:13 left in the first half.<\/p>\n
However, Milwaukee hung tough. Josh Dixon’s fadeaway jumper beat the buzzer to cut the halftime deficit to 41-36.<\/p>\n
Anderson nailed a wing three to give Texas Tech a 51-43 lead with 15:24 to play. The Red Raiders forced 13 turnovers which led to 18 points. Texas Tech only had nine turnovers which led to eight points for the Panthers.<\/p>\n
The Red Raiders gradually pulled away over the second half. Another Anderson 3-pointer with 4:03 left gave Texas Tech its first 15-point lead, and the margin remained 12-plus points the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
–Field Level Media<\/p>\n
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