{"id":87026,"date":"2025-12-13T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/87026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:56:07","slug":"texas-tech-loses-momentum-in-second-half-falls-vs-arkansas-at-american-airlines-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/87026\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech loses momentum in second half, falls vs. Arkansas at American Airlines Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Trevon Brazile scored 18 of his 24 points after halftime and finished with 10 rebounds as No. 17 Arkansas overcame No. 16 Texas Tech<\/a> 93-86 on Saturday in a rematch of a Sweet 16 game in last season\u2019s NCAA Tournament.<\/a><\/p>\n

Arkansas (8-2), which trailed by as many as 10 points before halftime, went ahead for good on Brazile\u2019s driving layup that made it 78-77 with 5:20 left. A minute after that, coming out of a timeout, he made a move near the baseline that got JT Toppin in the air and drove by the preseason AP All-American for an emphatic one-handed slam dunk.<\/p>\n

Brazile is one of the three starters for the Razorbacks who played in the Sweet 16 game last March, when they had a 16-point lead midway through the second half before Tech rallied for an overtime victory.<\/p>\n

Toppin had 30 points and 11 rebounds for the Red Raiders (7-3), while Christian Anderson had 26 points and 11 assists. They were the only Tech starters back from that comeback to the Elite Eight. It was Toppin\u2019s 24th double-double in 42 games with Tech the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

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Darius Acuff Jr. and Karter Knox both had 20 points for the Razorbacks.<\/p>\n

Brazile\u2019s slam ended a nearly five-minute stretch for the Razorbacks in which he scored 12 points \u2014 and Acuff scored their other seven in that go-ahead stretch.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks led only once before halftime at 43-42 when Knox made a 3-pointer with 1:40 left that capped their 17-6 run in which he also had a dunk and a layup.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech went back in front with the last seven points of the half, starting with back-to-back layups by Toppin.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Texas Tech is home against Northern Colorado on Tuesday, the same night Arkansas hosts Queens.<\/p>\n

Find more Texas Tech coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Trevon Brazile scored 18 of his 24 points after halftime and finished with 10 rebounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2485,732,3688,154,27,29,28,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-87026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-american-airlines-center","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-colleges","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87026","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=87026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}