{"id":91007,"date":"2025-12-17T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/91007\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:05:08","slug":"lejuan-watts-monster-outing-lifts-no-19-texas-tech-to-win-vs-northern-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/91007\/","title":{"rendered":"LeJuan Watts\u2019 monster outing lifts No. 19 Texas Tech to win vs. Northern Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">LUBBOCK \u2014 LeJuan Watts scored 36 points on 12-of-13 shooting, JT Toppin scored 23 and <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. 19 Texas Tech<\/a> extended its nonconference home winning streak to 45 games with a 101-90 win over Northern Colorado on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">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<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">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\u2019s jumper, Wisne made a tying jumper that capped a 19-5 run by the Bears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">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<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\">Anderson had 14 points and six assists. Jaylen Petty also had 14 points, and Donovan Atwell. 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Zach Bloch had 17 points and eight assists for the Bears, and Vincent Delano scored 16 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Texas Tech hasn\u2019t 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<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Northern Colorado hosts Denver on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/2025\/05\/21\/texas-tech-reportedly-set-for-nonconference-showdown-with-duke-at-madison-square-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/2025\/05\/21\/texas-tech-reportedly-set-for-nonconference-showdown-with-duke-at-madison-square-garden\/\">Texas Tech plays No. 3 Duke at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/2025\/12\/16\/texas-tech-coordinators-shiel-wood-mack-leftwich-raises\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech football acts proactively, signs coordinators, GM through 2028<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/2025\/12\/16\/chuck-neinas-big-12-commissioner-obituary-college-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former interim Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas dies at 93<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more college sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/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 LeJuan Watts scored 36 points on 12-of-13 shooting, JT Toppin scored 23 and No. 19 Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1638,3688,154,27,29,28,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-91007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-brief","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91007","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=91007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}