Texas Tech University Athletics
Red Raiders Travel To Austin To Take On Texas
February 12, 2001 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 12, 2001
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Texas Tech at Texas
Frank Erwin Center
Austin, Texas - 7 p.m.
THE COACHES
Texas Tech head coach James Dickey enters the game with a 165-117 record over 10 seasons in Lubbock. Dickey has led the Red Raiders to two NCAA and one NIT appearance during his tenure.
Rick Barnes is in his third season at Texas and carries a 60-29 mark at the school into the game. Overall, Barnes has a 262-163 record in 14 seasons.
LONGHORNS HAVE WON LAST SEVEN, LEAD SERIES 53-50
Not only does Texas Tech have a current six-game losing streak to worry about, the Red Raiders also haven't beaten Texas in the last seven meetings. The last time a Texas Tech team knocked off the Longhorns was during the 1996-97 season. And the last time Tech won in Austin came a year earlier.
Texas leads the series 32-21 in Austin, while the Red Raiders are 28-15 on their home floor. Tech's longest win streak was 10 games from 1969-74.
Since the inception of the Big 12 Conference at the start of the 1996-97 season, Texas leads 8-1.
TWO SLIP AWAY LAST SEASON
Texas Tech had opportunities in both games against the Longhorns last season to come away victorious, but couldn't seal the deal at the end.
The Longhorns took advantage of trips to the free throw line to pull away from Tech in the closing minutes in Lubbock, while the Red Raiders ran out of gas in Austin.
In UT's 72-59 win in Lubbock, Chris Mihm led five UT players in double figures with 15 points and 10 rebounds. Rayford Young led all scorers with 18 points, while Mario Layne and Jayson Mitchell added 11 points each.
Mihm led UT in the second meeting, a 76-60 win in Austin, with 23 points and 15 rebounds. Four other players also scored in double digits.
Layne led Tech with 20 points, followed by Young's 13.
RED RAIDER LEADERS AGAINST TEXAS
Andy Ellis leads Texas Tech with 14 points per game in two games against the Longhorns. Cliff Owens leads Tech with seven games played and is averaging 8.1 points and 5.6 rebounds.
SCOUTING THE LONGHORNS
Darren Kelly leads Texas with 17.1 points per game, while Maurice Evans and Chris Owens follow with 15.4 and 13.8 points, respectively. Owens leads the team on the boards with 8.1 rebounds per game and Kelly leads with 3.2 assists per game.
Texas is shooting 40.4 percent from the field on the season, but drop to 39.1 in Big 12 Conference games. The Longhorns are holding the opposition to 38.6 percent from the field and 28.7 percent from beyond the three-point arc. Texas is hitting 33.2 percent from three and 63.1 percent from the foul line.
The Longhorns are averaging 70.2 points per game and hold a 4.2 point-per-game advantage over their opponents.
RED RAIDERS TRAVEL TO TEXAS FOR FIRST MEETING OF THE SEASON
Texas Tech and Texas face each other for the first time this season at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. Tue., Feb. 13.
The Red Raiders (8-12, 2-7 Big 12) are coming off of a disappointing 72-70 loss to Texas A&M at the United Spirit Arena in Lubbock Saturday. Cliff Owens led the Red Raiders with 17 points and 10 rebounds for his fifth double-double of the season. Andy Ellis had 13 points and seven rebounds, while Jayson Mitchell added 11 points. Andre Emmett and Marcus Shropshire came off of the bench for 10 points each.
The Longhorns dropped a 75-54 decision to Oklahoma in Austin over the weekend. Only two Texas players managed double figures as Maurice Evans and Brian Boddicker scored 12 and 10 points, respectively. Texas shot just 32.2 percent for the game.
A WIN AGAINST TEXAS WOULD
- Improve Tech's record to 9-12 overall and 3-7 in league play.
- Snap Tech's five-game losing skid.
- Snap Tech's seven-game losing streak in the series.
- Move Tech's league win total to three games, tying last season's win total.
- Give Tech its first win in Austin since Feb. 24, 1996.
- Up James Dickey's career coaching record to 166-117.
- Improve Tech's all-time record to 1,100-?834.
A LOSS AGAINST TEXAS WOULD...
- Extend Tech's losing streak to six games, including its sixth-straight on the road.
- Mark the 13th game of the last 14 Big 12 road contests the Red Raiders have dropped.
- Mark the first six-game losing streak since the eight-game drought midway through last season.
NOTING THE LOSS TO TEXAS A&M
- The loss was the second in a row for the Red Raiders in Lubbock.
- Tech's 15-4 run to close the game erased a 13-point deficit in the final six minutes.
- Tech has out-rebounded three of its last four opponents.
- Tech dropped to 2-10 when giving up 70 or more points.
- Five Red Raiders scored in double figures (Mitchell, Owens, Ellis, Emmett, Shropshire).
- Cliff Owens notched his fifth double-double of the season with 17 points and 10 rebounds. The point total was his highest since scoring 22 at Oral Roberts and the rebound number was the most since grabbing 10 against Kansas.
- Jayson Mitchell scored in double-digits for the third-straight game with 13 points.
- The Red Raiders need to win their last two home games to salvage a winning mark at the United Spirit Arena.
- Andy Ellis and Mitchell combined for 14-of-18 from the foul line and accounted for 14 of the Red Raiders 20 free throws made.
- Marcus Shropshire and Jamal Brown each dished out five assists. Shropshire also posted a career-high four steals.
LEADING THE RED RAIDERS
Andy Ellis continues to lead the team with 15.2 points per game. Cliff Owens and Jamal Brown follow with 12.5 and 11.9 points, respectively. Owens leads the team on the boards with 7.5 rebounds per game and Ellis follows with 6.7. Brown ranks sixth in the nation and third in the Big 12 with 6.9 assists per game. Owens is shooting 56.2 percent from the field and is the only Red Raider over the .500 mark.
BROWN PLAYING ABOVE THE RIM
Jamal Brown is third on the team this season with 11.9 points per game, but has elevated his game during the Big 12 season. In league games only, Brown leads the team with 13.8 points per game. Over the last six games, the junior college transfer is averaging 14 points per outing. He currently ranks thirdin the Big 12 and sixth nationally with 6.9 assists per game. Brown has posted four double-digit assist games this season. He dished out 11 in each game against UL Lafayette and UTEP. Brown handed out 10 balls against Texas A&M-CC and 10 more at TCU. In addition to his assists total, he has recorded three double-doubles this season.
DRE ENDS DRY SPELL
Andre Emmett came off of the bench at Oklahoma to score a career-high 15 points and followed that performance with 10 points against Texas A&M. He was 4-of-6 from the three-point arc in the two games. Emmett had struggled in the two previous games against Missouri and Baylor with nine points on 30 percent shooting from the field.
START ME UP
Senior guard/forward Jayson Mitchell has scored 41 points combined in the last three games, after managing only 24 points in the previous six games. In the last three games, Mitchell scored 12 points off the bench at Baylor, logged a team-high 16 points at Oklahoma and 13 against Texas A&M.
DICKEY THIRD IN TENURE
Red Raider head coach James Dickey ranks third in tenure among coaches who have coached in the Big 12. Roy Williams is in his 13th season at Kansas, while Eddie Sutton is in his 11th at Oklahoma State. Dickey is in his 10th season at Tech.
TECH TIED FOR FIRST IN DOUBLE-DOUBLES
Tech is tied for first with Iowa State in the Big 12 with five different players having posted double-doubles this season.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
Texas Tech is 0-7 on the season when out-rebounded by its opponent the Oklahoma loss was the first for the Red Raiders when they post a higher field goal percentage than their opponent the Red Raiders are 7-1 in games when posting a higher percentage Tech is 2-10 when allowing 70 or more points to the opposition and 1-11 when trailing at the half.
DICKEY USES FIFTH DIFFERENT LINEUP
Texas Tech head coach James Dickey unveiled the team's fifth starting lineup of the season at Oklahoma. Jamal Brown, Andy Ellis, Cliff Owens, Mikey Marshall and Jayson Mitchell made up the fifth different starting five this season.
PHILLIPS REACHES CENTURY MARK
Senior center Johnny Phillips played in his 100th-career game at Texas Tech at Oklahoma. Phillips has now played in 101 games. Senior forward Cliff Owens follows with 97. Tony Benford is the all-time games played leader at Tech with 121 from 1982-86.
HEY MIKEY, HE LIKES IT!
Freshman guard Mikey Marshall posted the first double-digit scoring game of his career with 10 points at Oklahoma. Marshall also played a career-record 31 minutes. His previous scoring high was nine points at Oral Roberts, while he twice played 26 minutes.
ELLIS TURNING IN STRONG SEASON
Center Andy Ellis leads the team with 15.2 points per game and is second on the boards with 6.7 rebounds and ranks 12th in the Big 12 in scoring. He posted back-to-back double-doubles earlier this season against UTEP and Ball State. Ellis has scored in double-figures in all but one game this season and has led the team in scoring in eight games and has four game-high honors. He also leads the team with five 20+-point games.
OWENS ON THE GLASS
Throughout his career senior forward Cliff Owens has had a knack for crashing the boards and leading Texas Tech in rebounding. Owens led the Red Raiders with 7.7 rebounds per game as a sophomore in 1997-98 and paced the team again the following season with 7.0 boards per game. After sitting out last season with an ankle injury, Owens once again leads the team on the glass. He is currently averaging 7.5 rebounds and has led the team in 12 games. Five times he has garnered game-high honors.
BENCH PRODUCTION
Texas Tech is receiving an added boost this season from the bench. Tech's nonstarters are averaging 19.8 points per game ? 25.7 percent of the team total. Last season, bench scoring averaged 11.2 points per game. The Red Raiders are 5-3 on the season when the Tech bench out-scores the opposition's bench.
TECH SUCCESSFUL WHEN LEADING LATE
Texas Tech is 6-2 when leading with five minutes remaining in the game. The first loss came to UTEP after Tech held a seven-point lead with five minutes to play. The Red Raiders led Missouri by two with five minutes to play, but dropped a two-point decision. The Red Raiders did not lead the Sooners at the five minute mark in the second half Wednesday night, but did manage a two-point advantage with 3:42 to play.
BIG 12 SATURDAYS NOT KIND TO TECH
Texas Tech has lost six-straight Saturday games, all Big 12 contests. The Red Raiders won their first three Saturday games of the season over UL Lafayette, Stephen F. Austin and Western Michigan. The last five, however, haven't come so easy ? (7) Kansas, at Oklahoma State, Colorado, at Missouri, at Baylor and at home against Texas A&M. Here's a breakdown of the last six weekend games:
LEADING AT THE BREAK
Texas Tech is 6-1 on the season when leading at halftime. The lone loss came to UTEP after the Red Raiders entered the intermission period with a 46-39 advantage.
TEXAS TECH VS. THE BIG 12
Texas Tech is 202-222 all-time against members of the Big 12 Conference.
TECH GETS FIRST WIN OVER RANKED OPPONENT IN TWO YEARS
Texas Tech's 60-59 win over No. 21 Oklahoma was the first for the Red Raiders over a ranked team since knocking off 24th-ranked Kansas 90-84 on Feb. 13, 1999. Both games were in Lubbock. The last time Tech defeated an opponent ranked higher than 21st was a 77-68 win over 11th-ranked New Mexico on Dec. 4, 1996. During that same season, the Red Raiders also defeated No. 21 Fresno State.
ELLIS NAMED TO PRESEASON TEAMS
Texas Tech junior center Andy Ellis has been tabbed by three college basketball publications as a preseason All-Big 12.
Ellis is listed as a second-team All-Big 12 selection by The Sporting News and Athlon Sports. Street and Smith's has Ellis listed as an All-Big 12 selection along with Jamaal Tinsley (Iowa State), Kimani Ffriend (Nebraska), Drew Gooden (Kansas) and Bernard King (Texas A&M).
Ellis, who injured his hand last month, averaged 16.9 points per game and 8.9 rebounds during the 1999-00 season before dislocating his left shoulder against Nebraska in the 14th game of the season that forced him to sit out the remainder of the year.
