Entering Tuesday night’s showdown, both the Texas Tech basketball team and Baylor were led by impressive young guards. For Tech, freshman Jahmius Ramsey was putting up 17.4 points per game while Baylor’s sophomore Jared Butler was almost matching him at 17.3 p.p.g.
So had you told Red Raider fans that their star would outscore the Bear’s star by 15 points, we would have been rather confident in the home team’s chances. But despite the fact that Ramsey showed up Butler to the count of 20-5, Tech couldn’t pull out the win.
Lost in the minutia of this game is going to be the fantastic job Chris Beard’s team did defensively on Butler.