{"id":71423,"date":"2025-12-01T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71423\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:04:09","slug":"texas-tech-mens-hoops-extends-non-conference-home-win-streak-to-44-with-win-over-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71423\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech men\u2019s hoops extends non-conference home win streak to 44 with win over Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">LUBBOCK \u2014 JT Toppin scored 27 points and had nine rebounds as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\">No. 20 Texas Tech<\/a> outlasted Wyoming for a 76-72 win Sunday that extended the Red Raiders\u2019 non-conference home winning streak to 44 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">LeJuan Watts added 19 points and Christian Anderson 15 for the Red Raiders (6-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Leland Walker had 28 points and was the only player scoring in double figures for Wyoming (6-2). He had a 3-pointer to make it 75-72 before a timeout with 8.8 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Cowboys lost 96-49 in Lubbock early last season, but this game had eight ties and seven lead changes.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Texas Tech led 36-26 on Toppin\u2019s layup with 2:49 left in the first half, then went more than 7 1\/2 minutes without a field goal. The Red Raiders missed their last three shots before halftime and started the second half 0 for 6 until Watts\u2019 jumper with 15:07 tied the game at 41.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Wyoming\u2019s only lead after that was on a layup by Uriyah Rojas with 7:38 left that made it 56-55. Toppin, the preseason AP All-America junior forward, then scored on consecutive possessions for the Red Raiders, a putback layup and a fastbreak layup, part of his 10 points in that closing stretch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Red Raiders haven\u2019t lost a non-conference home game since an overtime loss to No. 15 Kentucky in January 2020. The only teams with longer active streaks are Auburn at 67 and Big 12 foe Baylor with 47. Third-year Tech coach Grant McCasland is 21-0 at home in non-conference home games.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Wyoming is home Saturday against Dartmouth College. Texas Tech plays LSU next Sunday at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Texas Tech coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK \u2014 JT Toppin scored 27 points and had nine rebounds as No. 20 Texas Tech outlasted Wyoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3688,138,140,139,154,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-71423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-colleges","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-headlines","11":"tag-el-paso-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71423","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=71423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}