Texas Tech University Athletics
Texas Tech Athletics
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Texas Tech Falls to USF, 90-72
December 04, 2005 | Men's Basketball
Dec. 3, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) - Jerome Gumbs scored a career-high 31 points and Armondo Surratt recorded the first double-double of his career with 13 points and 11 assists, leading San Francisco to an 90-72 win over Texas Tech on Saturday night.
Alan Wiggins added 20 points and six rebounds for the Dons, who snapped a three-game losing streak.
The two teams met last year in Lubbock, Texas, with the Red Raiders winning in a blowout, 97-53. Dons' coach Jessie Evans was ejected early in the second half of that game but was on hand for the entire game Saturday and saw his San Francisco team put together its highest-point total of the season against a Texas Tech team that trailed for all but two minutes of the game.
The Dons, who were coming off their worst shooting performance of the season in an overtime loss to Pacific four nights earlier, shot 54.2 percent from the floor against the Red Raiders and made 13 3-pointers.
Dior Lowhorn scored 20 points and had four rebounds to lead Texas Tech (5-3), which saw its three-game winning streak end. All three of the Red Raiders' losses this season have come on the road.
Gumbs scored 17 points in the first half when San Francisco took a nine-point lead. The Dons' senior forward hit five of his first six shots from the floor and finished the game 12-for-19 from the floor.
San Francisco led 65-58 with nine minutes left to play in the second half when the Dons went on a 15-2 run to take control for good. Gumbs started the run with a 3-pointer off an assist by Surratt, then following a 3 and a dunk by Wiggins, the duo teamed up again. This time Surratt fed Gumbs cutting through the key for a layup that gave San Francisco its largest lead of the game at 80-60.
San Francisco began the second half with a 7-2 run to open a 14-point lead on Texas Tech, which struggled shooting from 3-point range. The Red Raiders missed nine of their first 13 3's and trailed 49-35 with 17:54 left to play.
Texas Tech cut the deficit in half two minutes later then pulled within 53-49 on a short jumpshot by Dior Lowhorn with 14:09 remaining.
The Red Raiders couldn't sustain the momentum, though, and Gumbs' 3-pointer with 8:23 began San Francisco's game-clinching run.
Playing before its largest home crowd of the season, San Francisco opened the game with a 15-6 run against the Red Raiders. Dominic Ingerson and Gumbs combined for three 3-pointers and Surratt dished out five assists in the first six minutes to ignite the Dons' early run.
San Francisco, which shot just 28.6 percent from the floor in a 75-71 overtime loss to Pacific on Monday, was 16-for-30 from the field in the first half against Texas Tech.
The Red Raiders trailed most of the first half but closed within 29-27 on a pair of free throws by Dazzmon Thornton with 5:53 left. Texas Tech went cold from there, missing four of its next six shots which allowed the Dons to take a 42-33 halftime lead.
