By The Associated Press<\/p>\n
Iowa State Cyclones (26-6, 13-6 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders (22-9, 12-6 Big 12)<\/p>\n
Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 12:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Cyclones -5.5; over\/under is 143.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: No. 16 Texas Tech takes on No. 7 Iowa State in the Big 12 Tournament.<\/p>\n The Red Raiders’ record in Big 12 play is 12-6, and their record is 10-3 against non-conference opponents. Texas Tech has a 20-9 record against opponents above .500.<\/p>\n The Cyclones are 13-6 against Big 12 opponents. Iowa State is third in the Big 12 giving up 65.0 points while holding opponents to 42.5% shooting.<\/p>\n Texas Tech makes 47.1% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.6 percentage points higher than Iowa State has allowed to its opponents (42.5%). Iowa State averages 8.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 more made shots on average than the 6.6 per game Texas Tech allows.<\/p>\n The teams square off for the second time this season. Texas Tech won the last meeting 82-73 on Feb. 28. Donovan Atwell scored 18 to help lead Texas Tech to the victory, and Joshua Jefferson scored 22 points for Iowa State.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: JT Toppin is averaging 21.8 points, 10.8 rebounds and 1.7 blocks for the Red Raiders. Atwell is averaging 16.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Tamin Lipsey is averaging 13.2 points, five assists and 2.2 steals for the Cyclones. Jefferson is averaging 15.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Red Raiders: 6-4, averaging 75.7 points, 33.0 rebounds, 14.9 assists, 5.2 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 68.6 points per game.<\/p>\n Cyclones: 6-4, averaging 72.2 points, 29.6 rebounds, 15.0 assists, 8.5 steals and 2.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.4 points.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … against non-conference opponents. Texas Tech<\/span> has a 20-9 record against … second time this season. Texas Tech<\/span> won the last meeting 82-73 … 18 to help lead Texas Tech<\/span> to the victory, and Joshua … Press created this story using technology<\/span> provided by Data Skrive and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}