LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 LeJuan Watts scored 36 points on 12-of-13 shooting, JT Toppin scored 23 and No. 19 Texas Tech extended its nonconference home winning streak to 45 games with a 101-90 win over Northern Colorado on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech (8-3) never trailed after leading by as many as 14 points, but needed a spurt by Watts in the second half to go ahead for good.<\/p>\n
Northern Colorado (9-2) tied the game twice on baskets by Brock Wisne a minute apart in the second half. Wisne, who finished with 29 points, made it 70-all on a fast-break layup with 13:03 left, and after Toppin’s jumper, Wisne made a tying jumper that capped a 19-5 run by the Bears.<\/p>\n
The Red Raiders then responded with a 13-4 run in just over three minutes. Christian Anderson hit two foul shots before Watts made two free throws, two jumpers and a 3-pointer. A dunk by Toppin ended the go-ahead spurt.<\/p>\n
Anderson had 14 points and six assists. Jaylen Petty also had 14 points, and Donovan Atwell. 10.<\/p>\n
Zach Bloch had 17 points and eight assists for the Bears, and Vincent Delano scored 16 points.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech hasn’t dropped a nonconference home game since an overtime loss to No. 15 Kentucky in January 2020. Third-year Red Raiders coach Grant McCasland is 22-0 at home in nonconference home games.<\/p>\n
Northern Colorado hosts Denver on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech plays No. 3 Duke at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 LeJuan Watts scored 36 points on 12-of-13 shooting, JT Toppin scored 23 and No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19642,943,42435,42837,168,170,169,23681,202,196,42838,42094,42839,942,27,42834,42836,42835],"class_list":{"0":"post-90938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-christian-anderson","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-grant-mccasland","11":"tag-jaylen-petty","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","16":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","17":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","18":"tag-product-32556-ap-online-college-game-stories","19":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","20":"tag-product-40777-ap-colorado-sports-only","21":"tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","22":"tag-texas","23":"tag-texas-tech-northern-colorado-score","24":"tag-vincent-delano","25":"tag-zach-bloch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90938","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=90938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}