It’s the time of year when people begin to talk about the quadrants a team’s wins fit into. And prior to Wednesday, the Texas Tech basketball team owned just one Quadrant-1 win on the season, the gold standard of college basketball victories when it comes to consideration for the NCAA Tournament.
But by taking down No. 12 West Virginia 89-81 in Lubbock, Chris Beard and his team put an end to a two-game winning streak and moved off the early tournament bubble, at least for now. It was a game that featured 54 fouls, 72 free throws, four technical fouls, an intentional foul, and 33 turnovers between the two teams.