Texas Tech made a Final Four run last season on the strength of an elite defense and a lottery pick in Jarrett Culver.
Culver is gone, as are three of the other top five scorers from last year’s team that lost to Virginia in the national championship.
But defense still dominates for Chris Beard’s squad, a lesson No. 1 Louisville learned the hard way Tuesday in a stunning 70-57 loss to the unranked Red Raiders at Madison Square Garden.
Texas Tech logged the upset as leading scorer Jahmi’us Ramsey watched from the bench with a hamstring injury.