Texas Tech University Athletics
Texas Tech Travels to Manhattan
February 10, 2009 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 10, 2009
Lubbock, TX - The Texas Tech Red Raiders (12-11, 2-6) travel to Manhattan, Kansas for Wednesday night's game against the Kansas State Wildcats. The game begins at 8 PM and will be televised on ESPNU.
Viewers in the ACC Market will see the Red Raiders and Wildcats on ESPN due to blackout restrictions on the North Carolina at Duke game.
Dave Armstrong will call the play-by-play. Rich Svosec will provide the game analysis.
Mark Finkner will call the action against the Wildcats from Manhattan on Wednesday evening along with analyst Corky Oglesby on the Texas Tech Sports Network local station Sports Radio 1340.
The Red Raiders and the Wildcats are meeting for the twenty-fourth time since the series began on December 6, 1955. Overall, Texas Tech leads the series, 12-11. Tech holds a 7-4 advantage when the teams have played in Lubbock. KSU has the advantage in Manhattan, 6-3. Texas Tech has won two of the three neutral court games.
The Wildcats opened conference play with four losses. They lost to Oklahoma, at Kansas, at Nebraska, and to Baylor. Since those four games, Kansas State has won their last five games. KSU won at Colorado, over Missouri, at Texas, against Iowa State, and at Texas A&M.
K-State has two starters who are each averaging double figures for the 2008-2009 season. Denis Clemente leads all starters with 14.3 points per game. Jacob Pullen averages 13.7 points per game.
Denis Clemente hit for 44 points in the win over Texas in Austin. He made 13-of-25 field goal attempts - including all six three-point attempts. Additionally, he was perfect from the free throw line with 12 points.
With Texas Tech's 83-76 win on Saturday evening over Baylor, Tech ended their four-game slide and extended Baylor's losses to five games.
In the first half, the score was tied four times and the lead changed twice. Texas Tech held a three-point lead at the half on John Roberson's long three-pointer with three seconds on the clock, 41-38.
In the second half, the Red Raiders fell behind by as many as 12 points with 13:21 left in the game. At the 2:23 mark, the teams were tied for the sixth time in the half before Robert Lewandowski's lay-up gave Tech the lead, 75-73.
The Red Raiders extended the margin to eight points (81-73) before a BU three-pointer closed the gap to within five-points with 16 seconds on the clock. Alan Voskuil's two free throws at 00:14 were the final points of the game in the Texas Tech win, 83-76.
Three Red Raiders are averaging double figures for the season. John Roberson is scoring 14.7 points per game. Alan Voskuil is averaging 14.0 points per game. Mike Singletary is adding 10.1 points per game.
Alan Voskuil's missed free throw attempt at the 5:03 mark of the second half against the Bears was his first miss since the December 23 game against Centenary. He had made 28 consecutive free throws.
After the missed free throw, he made his next five attempts taken against Baylor.
Following the game in Manhattan on Wednesday night, the Red Raiders are at Oklahoma on February 14 before they return home to face Oklahoma State on Wednesday, February 18.
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