Texas Tech upsets Tennessee
Texas Tech might want to petition to play in the Jimmy V Classic every season. The unranked Red Raiders make a habit of rankling the ranked teams in New York.
Terrence Shannon Jr. had 18 points and 12 rebounds, and Texas Tech continued its run of Jimmy V Classic shockers in an offensively anemic 57-52 overtime win over No. 13 Tennessee on Tuesday night.
“In OT, we knew the tougher team was going to win,” Shannon said.
The Red Raiders (7-1) were also unranked when they knocked off No. 1 Louisville in 2019 at Madison Square Garden.
Tuesday’s game was classic in title only. Want offense? You wouldn’t find it at MSG, where the Vols (6-2) missed a whopping 34 of 40 three-point attempts overall and shot only 27% overall from the floor. John Fulkerson led the Vols with 10 points. The Vols went eight for 16 from the free-throw line.
“I don’t know if we can be any worse on offense and we were in the game,” coach Rick Barnes said. “One or two more and maybe we would have got the lid off it it.”
Those one or two makes never became the three or
four needed for a run to possibly hold off the Red Raiders.
Tennessee missed 14 straight shots over a 10-minute stretch in the second half and had missed 27 threepoint attempts until Santiago
Vescovi buried the tying three-pointer with 1:55 left to make it 41-41. Josiah-Jordan James hit another tying three-pointer with 31 seconds left and sent the game into overtime tied at 44.
Tennessee missed 20 of its first 23 three-point attempts overall.
No. 6. Villanova 67, Syracuse 53:
Justin Moore scored 18 points, Collin Gillespie had 14 and the Wildcats beat the Orange in the Jimmy V Classic. Jermaine Samuels added 13 for Villanova (7-2) in its 22nd win at Madison Square Garden since 2014. Jimmy Boeheim led Syracuse (5-4) with 21 points and Joe Girard III had 11.
No. 8 Kansas 78, Texas El Paso 52:
Ochai Agbaji scored 23 points, Christian Braun added 20 and Kansas tuned up for this weekend’s return of the Border War with a blowout of UTEP in Kansas City, Mo.
at No. 10 Kentucky 76, Southern 64:
Oscar Tshiebwe scored 18 of his 23 points after halftime despite being in foul trouble, TyTy Washington Jr. added 14 points and both Wildcats keyed small runs to help Kentucky top Southern for its seventh consecutive victory.
at No. 12 Arkansas 86, Charlotte 66:
J.D. Notae recorded his first career double-double and Arkansas rolled over Charlotte. Notae finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds as the Razorbacks (9-0) took control of the game in the first half and never let up.