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The No. 15 Texas Tech Red Raiders face the Wake Forest Demon Deacons Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET<\/a> in the Baha Mar Championship. The winner faces the winner of No. 1 Purdue vs. Memphis. <\/p>\n Wake Forest vs. Texas Tech will air on CBS Sports Network, and streams live on DIRECTV (free trial)<\/a>.<\/p>\n What: NCAA men\u2019s basketball regular season, Baha Mar Championship<\/p>\n Who: Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs. No. 15 Texas Tech Red Raiders<\/p>\n When: Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025<\/p>\n Where: Baha Mar Convention Center, Nassau, Bahamas<\/p>\n Time: 8:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n TV: CBS Sports Network<\/p>\n Stream: DIRECTV (free trial)<\/a>, fuboTV (free trial)<\/a>, Sling<\/a><\/p>\n Here\u2019s a recent college basketball story via the Associated Press:<\/p>\n CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) \u2014 Andrej Stojakovic scored 23 points and blocked a potential tying 3-pointer in the final seconds as No. 14 Illinois defeated No. 11 Texas Tech 81-77 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Kylan Boswell had 22 points and three players \u2014 David Mirkovic, Keaton Wagler and Zvonimir Ivisic \u2014 each scored 11 for the Fighting Illini (3-0), who let a 13-point halftime lead slip away before rallying to win.<\/p>\n All-American and reigning Big 12 player of the year J.T. Toppin had 35 points and 11 rebounds for Texas Tech (2-1). It was his 33rd career double-double. LeJuan Watts scored 21 for the Red Raiders.<\/p>\n Texas Tech had an opportunity to tie the game after Watts sank two free throws with 12.5 seconds left to make it 80-77 following a flagrant foul on Boswell. But then Stojavokic blocked Christian Anderson\u2019s 3-point try and Wagler hit a free throw to seal it.<\/p>\n The Red Raiders wiped out Illinois\u2019 45-32 halftime lead by making 12 straight shots to start the second half. Texas Tech moved in front 56-55 on a three-point play by Watts with 12:49 to go.<\/p>\n Illinois bounced back and took the lead for good 66-65 on a layup by Ivisic with 8:19 remaining.<\/p>\n Texas Tech jumped out to a 7-0 lead, but the Illini responded with an 11-point run \u2014 ignited by back-to-back 3s from Boswell \u2014 and took their biggest lead of the half when Stojakovic drove for a layup at the buzzer.<\/p>\n Illinois went 16 for 23 at the free-throw line, while Texas Tech was 3 of 4.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Texas Tech: Home vs. Milwaukee on Friday night. The Red Raiders have won 40 straight nonconference home games.<\/p>\n Illinois: Home vs. Colgate on Friday night, the finale of a four-game homestand to start the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you purchase a product through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. The No. 15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9265,27,29,28,9266],"class_list":{"0":"post-58403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-9265","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-news","12":"tag-wspix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58403","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=58403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}