For about 30 of the 40 minutes in the Texas Tech basketball team’s 77-63 victory over Kansas State on Tuesday night in Manhattan, the Red Raiders were by far the better team. But the first ten minutes of the second half had folks in Scarlet and Black biting their nails.
After staking their claim to a 37-30 halftime lead, the Red Raiders almost certainly spent the majority of the intermission talking about the need to protect the basketball being as they gave the ball away 12 times in the first half. In fact, that was the only reason Tech wasn’t up by 20 points after the first 20 minutes of play.