LUBBOCK, TEXAS - DECEMBER 06: Terrence Shannon Jr. #1, Mac McClung #0, Marcus Santos-Silva #14, Kyler Edwards #11, and Jamarius Burton #2 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders walk onto the court after a timeout during the first half of the college basketball game against the Grambling State Tigers at United Supermarkets Arena on December 06, 2020 in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images)

As the Texas Tech basketball team faces Kansas tonight in Lubbock, keep an eye on these three critical individual matchups.
If Chris Beard’s team wants to get off to a positive start in Big 12 play, it is going to have to walk up to the biggest bully on the block and land a haymaker.