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Kansas City, Mo. – Caleb Love scored 27 points to lead the Arizona Wildcats Friday, in digital disadvantage Texas Tech 86-80 in a semi-final match of the Big 12 tournament at the T-Mobile Center.
The rubber victory of Arizona, to come after the teams divided the regular season series, moved the Arizona to 22-11 and in the championship match of the Big 12 tournament against Houston on Saturday at 3 p.m. He may also have given the Wildcats into consideration for a preferential seeded of the NCAA tournament.
Texas Tech fell at 25-8 and should receive a seeded n ° 3 on Sunday.
Arizona fired 50% and maintained Texas Tech at only 42%, although the Red Raiders reached more than 50% of their goals on the field in the second period to maintain the match at a figure during most of the second half.
LOVE scored its 27 points on the shot of 10 for 15 while reaching 5 of the 8 3 points. KJ Lewis added 12 points, eight rebounds and six assists despite the continuation of facing a painful wrist, tearing off an envelopment during the first half.
Kevin Overton led Texas Tech with 19 points, but the Red Raiders played without two of their three best scorers: the striker of the first All-Big 12 team, Darrion Williams, wore a boot on Friday after playing against Baylor in a quarter-final match on Thursday, and the lucky striker McMillian did not play due to tension of the upper body.
In addition, the Texas Tech striker, JT Toppin, the player of the year of the Big 12, vomited in a trash can in a tunnel adjacent to the court due to excessive hydration, according to the coverage of the game by ESPN. Toppin only collected 10 points and five rebounds in 24 minutes while missing the two points he took.
Because the Big 12 semi-finals of the tournament did not have for the first time nor the Kansas, the Kansas State or the Iowa State, depriving the event of the interest of rooting nearby, the support of the Wildcats fans was audible inside the T-Mobile Center half empty.
Although this is not the kind of “McKale North” atmosphere supporting the Wildcats during the recent PAC-12 tournaments, Fans of the AU was the largest group at hand for the end of the semi-final on Friday.
Leading 47-39 at halftime, Arizona took tracks at the start of the second half of up to 14 points before the Red Raiders moved away. TTU scored seven consecutive points, crowned by a 3 Overton points, to reduce AU’s advance to 64-59 with 9:08 on the left.
Overton then struck his fourth 3 of the right corner to draw the RED raiders in the 70-66 with 6:14 on the left and at that time, TTU pulled 57.1% of the field after having only made 32.4% in the first half.
But Texas Tech has never approached there.
In the first half, Love scored 17 points while Arizona held Texas Tech only 32.4% percent and took an advance of 49-37 at halftime.
Arizona pulled 65.4% in the field, although the Red Raiders equalized UA with 17 rebounds and scored four more points on the Frank of Launches.
The Wildcats outstripped the Red Raiders 9-4 during the 2:01 finals of what was a game to a possession for most of the first half, with the little-used toe Conrad Martinez transforming a flight into a lay-up with 1:12 to do.
The Wildcats took an advance of 9-0, with Love marking the first seven points of the match of a pointer of 3, a 12 feet and two free throws. But Texas Tech struck 5 of the 6 3 in the next six minutes to take a 22-19 advance after Christian Anderson and Kevin Overton hit 3 on the successive possessions of TTU.
The match score remained with three points, Texas Tech missing its last 12 points of half-time, until Townsend hits a pair of free throws to give UA a 40-35 lead with 2:01 to do in half-time.
The Arizona entered the Friday match at 21-11 and Texas Tech was 25-7. The Red Raiders are fighting for a potential NCAA NCAA 2 tournament while UA should hover between 4 and 5.
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