2026 Big Dance Round 1 - Texas Tech

[Let'sGoZips94]

GREAT finish to the half. About as poor a shooting performance as possible and we're going to go into the half with a 5 pt deficit. 

[UAZipster0305]

Down five or less at half with how this half has gone is not a terrible outcome.

 

If we make bunnies, we have the lead. Fix that and it's going to be a solid second half.

[Reslife4Life]

Good effort by Evan at the end there. Come out with some good D and gotta make our FTs

[akzipper]

1 minute ago, UAZipster0305 said:

Down five or less at half with how this half has gone is not a terrible outcome.

 

If we make bunnies, we have the lead. Fix that and it's going to be a solid second half.

 

Make the easy ones, capitalize on TT's mistakes and we'd have the lead. 

[MDZip]

12 minutes ago, Westie said:

This 3:54 is our season. Get this to 7-8

How about 5? 😉

[UAZipster0305]

TT is shooting better from three (6/11) than they are from the FT line (4/9). That is so strange.

[1981 grad]

Tevari will pick it up in the second half.  He has had some balls just fall off the rim.  

[zippy5]

We weathered the storm. Not our A game by any stretch and it's a two possession game. Gotta start the second half on the right foot though 

[csims0917]

Shammah and Amani are doing really good. Tavari needs to slow it down. He always feels the pressure. Need to get Bowen open
 

[Spin]

3 minutes ago, UAZipster0305 said:

TT is shooting better from three (6/11) than they are from the FT line (4/9). That is so strange.

Too much time to think about it?

[Zippy87]

Shammah and Amani have accounted for 25 of our 35 points. 

[Reslife4Life]

If Sharron can hit a couple of threes it will open up this offense 

[Westie]

They shot 58%. We shot 39%. Down 5.

 

Close that gap in the second half and it’s a barnburner at the end. And we win barnburners.

[Zippy87]

Amani has 2 fouls. Tech went on a big run when he was out. He has to stay out of foul trouble. 

[ewbrooman1]

17 minutes ago, UAZipster0305 said:

If Scott and Young aren't too small, Tavari isn't either. He just needs to get his head in the game.

They throw big guards at him in games like this. He can't even get a shot off. He can usually adjust and drive to the basket, but interior defense is better on this team. Young isn't lighting anything up either. 

 

On 3/16/2026 at 12:38 PM, csims0917 said:

 

 

[csims0917]

Don’t be remember as a man who crumbles under pressure Tavari cmon. I believe 

[zippy5]

2 minutes ago, ewbrooman1 said:

They throw big guards at him in games like this. He can't even get a shot off. He can usually adjust and drive to the basket, but interior defense is better on this team. Young isn't lighting anything up either. 

 

 

Biggest issue so far is he hasn't been able to kick it out once yet. Even being able to drive and find the open man will be huge. They're just swallowing him up and he's not seeing the floor underneath 

[LZIp]

More Bowen please.

[UAZipster0305]

2 minutes ago, zippy5 said:

Biggest issue so far is he hasn't been able to kick it out once yet. Even being able to drive and find the open man will be huge. They're just swallowing him up and he's not seeing the floor underneath 

Exactly, if the shot isn't there, he needs to be a facilitator, which hasn't happened yet. We need John Stockton from him in the second half, not Allen Iverson.

[UAZipster0305]

8 of 13 on threes. Unreal!

[Reslife4Life]

6 points in 55 seconds. Need better rotations

[Let'sGoZips94]

Not the start we needed to the 2nd half. 

[akzipper]

Way to come out with some fire after halftime Zips. 

[kreed5120]

You can't leave Atwell open. He's one of the best volume 3-point shooters in the country. Keep someone glued to him.

[Zippy87]

Can't let the 5th best 3-point shooting team in the nation continually take wide-open threes.