I’ll admit it. After the first half of Saturday’s game, I had not only given up on the Texas Tech basketball team’s chances of beating the Texas Longhorns, I had also become quite frustrated with the way Chris Beard’s team had played over the course of the last 80 minutes of basketball.
After Tech was guilty of sleepwalking through most of Tuesday’s 69-61 victory over Oklahoma in Lubbock, a game in which the Sooners seemed to take the fight to Tech for much of the evening, it was fair to expect a renewed sense of intensity and focus for this team on Saturday.