PREVIEW: vs. No. 15 Kentucky

Saturday, January 25

Lubbock, Texas

5 p.m.

Texas Tech Athletics

No. 15 Kentucky

January 23, 2020 | Men's Basketball

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By: Wes Bloomquist

LUBBOCK, Texas – No. 18 Texas Tech is set to host No. 15 Kentucky at 5 p.m. on Saturday in a Big 12/SEC Challenge matchup at the United Supermarkets Arena.

The Red Raiders (12-6, 3-3 Big 12) are coming off a 65-54 road loss at TCU on Tuesday, while the Wildcats (14-4, 5-1 SEC) earned an 89-79 win over Georgia at home and have now won six of their last seven games. Tech has won 54 straight non-conference home games, is 9-1 on its home court this season and 9-3 in non-conference play, while UK is also 9-3 in non-conference action. The Red Raiders are 0-2 in ranked vs. ranked matchups this season with losses to No. 1 Baylor and No. 14 West Virginia, but also have a 70-57 win over Louisville which was ranked No. 1 when they were unranked.

Texas Tech will resume Big 12 play when it hosts No. 14 West Virginia next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the USA before traveling to play No. 3 Kansas on Saturday, Feb. 1 in Lawrence, Kansas.

With a 73.3 winning percentage (184-67) as a NCAA coach, Texas Tech head coach Chris Beard has the ninth best percentage among active coaches and is 88-37 at Texas Tech. Kentucky head coach John Calipari is third with a 77.2 winning percentage with 722 wins in his career. The Red Raiders are led in scoring by freshman Jahmi'us Ramsey (15.5 ppg.) who is seventh in the Big 12 and graduate transfer Chris Clarke who is at 7.9 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game which both rank in the top-10. Clarke is currently 38th nationally in assists (100 total) and 51st with a 2.27 assist-to-turnover ratio, while Davide Moretti is seventh nationally with a 91.5 percentage at the free-throw line. Kyler Edwards was named the Big 12 Player of the Week on Monday after averaging 23.0 points per game last week, including scoring a career-high 24 at Kansas State and then dropping 22 with a career-best five 3-pointers last Saturday against Iowa State. He was the first Red Raider to earn Big 12 Player of the Week this season.

PROGRAM MARKS: Texas Tech is coming off its winningest season in program history after going 31-7 and 14-4 in Big 12 play last year. The Red Raiders won the Big 12 regular-season championship before advancing to the Final Four and NCAA National Championship Final for the first time in program history. The program is now 1,437-1,118 all-time after its wins over Kansas State and Iowa State last week. Tech is 8-2 in the NCAA Tournament over the past two years after making the 2018 NCAA Elite Eight and reaching the NCAA National Championship Final. The 8-2 mark is the best in the nation over that span.

STREAKING: Texas Tech has won 54 straight non-conference home games after a 73-58 win over CSU Bakersfield on Dec. 29 in its last non-conference game before starting conference play. The program came into the season following a 67-64 win over Arkansas to complete a 9-0 mark in those games last year. TTU started the streak with a 100-69 win over St. Mary's on Dec. 30, 2013. Chris Beard is 34-0 in non-conference home games as the team's head coach. Butler leads the nation with a 58-game non-conference home winning streak after a 67-36 win over Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday, Dec. 28 in its last home non-conference game at the Hinkle Fieldhouse. Duke had the previous active record at 150 games before falling to SFA on Nov. 27 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Red Raiders are currently 7-0 in non-conference home games this season with wins over Eastern Illinois, Bethune-Cookman, Tennessee State, Long Island, Southern Miss, UTRGV and CSU Bakersfield.

HOME DOMINANCE: Beard has helped lead the Red Raiders to a 59-7 record at home in his four seasons, including starting this year with a 9-1 record win Big 12 home wins over Oklahoma State and Iowa State to go along with the non-conference wins. Tech has gone 17-1 at home in the past two seasons with 8-1 records in conference play on its home court. Along with home court winning, the program's attendance has dramatically risen under Beard. The team has sold out four games this season and currently ranks 18th nationally with 14,045 fans per game coming off a 15,098 sell-out last Saturday against Iowa State. Tech's attendance this season ranks second in the Big 12 and is the best in the state of Texas followed by the University of Texas which is drawing 9,437 fans which is 40th nationally, Baylor (7,593), Texas A&M (6,664), Houston (6,619) and TCU (6,136).

STAT RANKINGS: Texas Tech comes into the game against Kentucky ranked 19th nationally with 16.4 assists and 17.39 turnovers forced per game. The Red Raiders are leading the Big 12 in both categories along with topping the conference with 295 total assists through 18 games. The team is 31st in the country by holding teams to 61.8 points per game and have a 10.9 scoring margin advantage which is 37th. Tech is second in the Big 12 with a 1.18 assist-to-turnover ratio, 274 free throws made and a 75.7 free-throw percentage. Individually, Davide Moretti is tied for the NCAA active career lead at 91.1 percent for his career and is seventh this season at 91.5 percent. Moretti is 54 of 59 this season, including going 7 of 8 in the past three games. Kentucky's Emmanuel Quickley is sixth at the free-throw line this season at 91.8 percent, while Nick Richards is sixth nationally by shooting 67.4 percent from the field and Ashton Hagans is sixth with 131 total assists. At 7.3 assists per game, Hagans ranks ninth nationally.

GAME COVERAGE: The game between Texas Tech and Kentucky will be broadcasted on ESPN with Karl Ravech and Jimmy Dykes and on the Texas Tech Sports Network's flagship station Double T 97.3 in Lubbock with Geoff Haxton and Chris Level. Fans can also find the game on any streaming device by using the ESPN app and can follow the game at @TexasTechMBB.

POLL REPORT: Texas Tech is nationally ranked for the sixth straight week after being slotted No. 18 in the Associated Press Top 25 along with coming in at No. 25 in the NCAA NET Rankings. Tech, which was at No. 23 in last week's poll, moved up five spots after the wins over KSU and ISU. The team has now been ranked in 10 of 12 polls this season, including starting at No. 13 in the preseason ranking for the highest point in program history following its run to the NCAA National Championship Final last season.

BIG 12/SEC CHALLENGE: Texas Tech is 4-2 all-time in the Big 12/SEC Challenge after earning a 67-64 win over Arkansas after securing a 70-63 victory at South Carolina the year before. The Big 12 won the Challenge last season with a 6-4 advantage and are 35-25 over the SEC since the start in the 2014 season. Under Beard, Texas Tech is 3-0 in the Big 12/SEC Challenge and 4-1 against SEC opponents. The Red Raiders also have wins over Auburn and LSU in the challenge with their losses coming to Alabama and Arkansas in a 2016 matchup. The Big 12 is 35-25 against the SEC going into the seventh year of the challenge. In last year's win over the Razorbacks in the Challenge, Moretti led the Red Raiders with 21 points after hitting three 3-pointers and going 6 of 7 from the free-throw line.

SERIES HISTORY: Texas Tech and Kentucky will be meeting for the fifth time with the Wildcats owning a 4-0 advantage in the all-time series. The teams have met once in Lubbock with UK earning an 89-73 win at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum on Dec. 22, 1965. In the last meeting, Kentucky won 83-68 in a neutral-court game on Dec. 17, 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Red Raiders are 131-142 all-time against the Southeastern Conference, including going 4-1 against the SEC under Beard.

PLAYER NOTES: Texas Tech is led by junior Davide Moretti who has competed in 93 games (70 wins) with the Red Raiders, dynamic freshmen and graduate transfers Chris Clarke and TJ Holyfield who bring experience to a team that lost four starters and the leading reserve off last year's historic team. Moretti is averaging 13.0 points per game this season and has made at least one 3-pointer in 16 of 18 games this season and in 68 of 93 games in his career. He is tied for the NCAA active career lead in free throws at 91.1 percent by shooting 175 of 192 and is the Big 12 leader this season at 91.5 percent (54 of 59). A junior from Italy, Moretti was held without a free-throw attempt at TCU and for only the third time this season. He scored eight points against the Horned Frogs with two 3-pointers after he had made four against West Virginia and three against Kansas State and Iowa State. Moretti scored a career-high 23 points earlier this season against Creighton where he hit three 3-pointers and was 4 of 4 at the free-throw line and has scored in double figures in 13 of 18 games. Moretti has started 56 straight games for the Red Raiders after a sophomore season where he started all 38 and averaged 11.5 points per game, shot 49.8 percent from the field, 45.9 percent on 3-pointers and led the nation at 92.4 percent. He was named to the 2019 All-Big 12 Third Team and earned the NCAA Elite 90 Award. A 6-foot-2 guard, he is on the Bob Cousy Award Watch List and comes into the game against Kentucky having scored 800 points with 139 3-pointers made in his career.

Clarke has proven to be a dynamic player for the Red Raiders where he is leading the team with 7.9 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game this season. A grad transfer who played three seasons at Virginia Tech, Clarke is coming off a game where he had seven rebounds and three assists against TCU and leads Tech with two double-doubles this season coming with 11 points and 10 rebounds against Iowa and then 14 points and 11 rebounds against Southern Miss. He scored a season-high 17 points against Creighton and has two 12-rebound performances this season against Tennessee State and Louisville. A 6-foot-6 guard from Virginia Beach, Virginia, Clarke recorded a career-high 11 assists earlier this season and eight games with six or more assists. For his career, Clarke has scored 843 points, secured 660 rebounds and has 310 assists through 97 games played in his collegiate career. A Virginia Tech, Clarke recorded the first triple-double in program history with 12 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists against the Citadel and scored a career-high 22 points in games against Florida State and UMBC during his sophomore season. Clarke was named the Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year and earned Big 12 Newcomer of the Week on Dec. 23 after averaging a double-double in wins over Southern Miss and UTRGV. Along with his 12 rebounds to help knock off then-No. 1 Louisville, Clarke added six assists and seven points. In conference play, he has a high of 10 rebounds and eight assists in the win over Oklahoma State.

Kyler Edwards was named the Big 12 Player of the Week on Monday and comes into the matchup against Kentucky averaging 11.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game. A sophomore from Arlington, Edwards recorded a career-high 24 points last Tuesday at Kansas State and followed it with a career-best five 3-pointers in a 22-point performance last Saturday against Iowa State. During the two-game span, he went 8 of 10 on 3-pointers to earn the conference award. He is coming off scoring nine points and having five rebounds and four assists at TCU on Tuesday night. Edwards has started all 18 games this season after playing a reserve role in all 38 last year as a freshman. Through 18 games of his sophomore season, Edwards has scored in double digits in 10 games and had a career-high nine rebounds at West Virginia. He has scored 20 or more in three games this season after recording freshman-season best of 19 point when he went 7 of 7 from the field with four 3-pointers against Northern Colorado. Edwards enters this weekend having scored 421 points, securing 166 rebounds and with 97 assists through 56 games in his career.

Jahmi'us Ramsey is seventh in the Big 12 in scoring at 15.5 points per game and fifth by shooting 40.3 percent on 3-pointers through 14 games play. A freshman from Arlington, Ramsey led the Red Raiders with 15 points on Tuesday at TCU and also had five rebounds. It was his 11th game scoring in double figures this season and the ninth game with five or more rebounds. Ramsey earned Big 12 Newcomer of the Week on Nov. 25 after scoring a career-high 27 points against Long Island where he was 10 of 16 from the field and 5-for-6 on 3-pointers. He would record his second game with five 3-pointers when he dropped 20 points against Baylor on Jan. 7 and now has 31 made 3-pointers after hitting one against the Horned Frogs. Along with his 27-point performance against LIU, Ramsey scored 25 against Houston Baptist and 20 against CSU Bakersfield to give him four games with 20 or more points this season. Sidelined for four games after injuring his hamstring with 10 minutes remaining against Iowa on Nov. 28 in Las Vegas, he has played over 30 minutes in all eight games since his return. He is shooting 44.7 percent from the field and is also averaging 4.9 rebounds, 1.8 assists and is 11th in the conference with 1.5 steals per game.

For a season, Texas Tech has only been led in scoring by two freshmen with Jordan Tolbert averaging 11.5 points per game in the 2011-12 season and Rick Bullock who had 13.8 ppg. in 1972-73.

Terrence Shannon, Jr. is averaging 11.4 points and 4.3 rebounds through 16 games this season after scoring 10 points at TCU on Tuesday. A 6-foot-6 guard from Chicago, Shannon missed games at West Virginia and Kansas State due to injury but has played the last two where has averaged 10.5 point per game after dropping 11 on Iowa State last Saturday in his return. Shannon scored a career-high 24 points at DePaul on Dec. 4 in his hometown return after going 9 of 18 from the field with two 3-pointers. He was also 4 of 5 from the free-throw line in the game and leads the Red Raiders with 60 made free throws this season (83.3 percent). Through 16 games played, he has scored in double figures in 10 games and has a season-high nine rebounds coming in the game against Iowa. He is shooting 45.4 percent from the field and also has nine blocked shots. Shannon was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week on Dec. 16 after scoring 13 points in the win over Louisville at Madison Square Garden.

Holyfield is the most experienced player on the Texas Tech roster having made 119 starts in 119 games played in his collegiate career. A grad transfer who played in 101 games at SFA before transferring, Holyfield has scored 1,237 points and secured 678 rebounds in his career. Through 18 games with the Red Raiders, Holyfield is averaging 8.7 points and 4.6 rebounds per game after going for 10 points at TCU. He has scored double figures in six games, including a season-high 21 points against Houston Baptist where he shot 9 of 10 from the field after scoring 20 against Bethune-Cookman on 8 of 11 shooting. A 6-foot-8 forward from Albuquerque, New Mexico who earned Big 12 Newcomer of the Week honors on Nov. 11 after those scoring performances, Holyfield leads Tech by shooting 54.5 percent from the field and with 18 blocked shots. He has two games with three blocked shots coming against Oklahoma State and Iowa State and now has 151 blocks in his career. Along with a season-best nine rebounds against UTRGV, he has 11 games with five or more rebounds.

Avery Benson and Kevin McCullar continue providing sparks from the bench for the Red Raiders with McCullar averaging 4.1 points per game and Benson at 2.5 points and 1.7 rebounds per game. A redshirt freshman from San Antonio, McCullar graduate high school early and enrolled at Texas Tech in the 2019 spring semester where he redshirted last season. He has played in a reserve role in all 18 games this season and has scored 10 points in games against Kansas State, UTRGV and Long Island. A 6-foot-6 guard, he is averaging 2.2 rebounds per game to go along with his scoring and also has 16 steals. Last Tuesday at KSU, McCullar matched his career-high by going 3 of 6 from the field and also knocked down four free throws. He's currently shooting 45.8 percent from the field and had a season-high five rebounds in the wins over Louisville and KSU. McCullar was limited to two points on 1 of 2 shooting at TCU. Benson, who is in his third year at Texas Tech, is a redshirt sophomore from Arkansas who scored a career-high 10 points against Louisville by going 3-for-3 from the field with a 3-pointer. He was coming off a game against Iowa State where he had three points, but was held scoreless in nine minutes of play at TCU. He as a Big 12-high of five points at WVU where he also provided four rebounds in 18 minutes. Benson played in 20 games last season and is currently 8 of 17 (47.1 percent) on 3-pointers and 7 of 7 from the free-throw line this year. Two players on the Tech roster have not played this season with Joel Ntambwe having his NCAA transfer request denied and Tyreek Smith missing all 18 games due to injury. Ntambwe averaged 11.8 points and 5.5 rebounds per game at UNLV as a freshman last season before deciding to transfer to Tech. He scored a career-high 31 points against Wyoming last year where he started all 31 games and recorded four double-doubles.

Texas Tech is currently 8-2 with the starting rotation of Holyfield, Moretti, Edwards, Shannon and Ramsey. The starting five of Holyfield, Clarke, Moretti, Edwards and Ramsey has started the past four games.

OPPONENT 19: Kentucky comes into Lubbock with a 14-4 overall record and a 5-1 mark in SEC play following an 89-79 win over Georgia on Tuesday at home. The Wildcats are currently 3-3 away from home this season and are 3-3 all-time in the Big 12/SEC Challenge after earning a 71-63 win over Kansas last season. Nick Richards leads Kentucky at 13.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game following going for 20 points and eight rebounds against Georgia. A junior from Jamaica, Richards also leads the team with 44 blocked shots and with a 67.4 shooting percentage. Ashton Hagans was named a Naismith Defensive Player of the Year candidate this week and is also averaging 13.6 points per game and leads the Wildcats with 131 assists, while Immanuel Quickly is also at 13.6 points per game and leads the team with 30 3-pointers. A sophomore from Georgia, Hagans led UK with 23 points and nine assists on Tuesday against the Bulldogs where he made eight shots and also went 7 of 8 from the free-throw line. Hagans is the only Wildcat to start all 18 games this season, while Texas native Tyrese Maxey has is averaging 13.3 points per game with 15 starts. From Garland and having played at South Garland HS, Maxey has provided 53 assists and has 13 steals in his freshman season. EJ Montgomery, a 6-foot-10 forward from Florida, is adding 7.0 points per game and is second on the team with 16 blocked shots.

The Wildcats are averaging 75.7 points per game by shooting 46.4 percent from the field and 31.6 percent on 3-pointers. The team is limiting opponents to 64.7 points per game and 38.7 percent shooting through 18 games, while dominating the glass with a 6.4 rebounding margin advantage. Kentucky opened its season with a win over preseason No. 1-ranked Michigan State and also knocked off Louisville in its non-conference schedule.

TEXAS TECH COACHING STAFF: The Red Raiders are led by head coach Chris Beard who is in his fourth season. Beard was named the Associated Press National Coach of the Year last season along with earning Big 12 Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season. Beard has led the Red Raiders to an 88-37 record coming into the game against Kansas State. Beard is joined on the coaching bench by assistant coaches Mark Adams, Brian Burg and Ulric Maligi, Tim MacAllister (Chief of Staff), Bob Donewald (Player Development), Sean Sutton (Executive Advisor), John Reilly (Strength & Conditioning), Mike Neal (Athletic Trainer) and graduate assistants Casey Perrin, Ronald Ross, Matt Temple, Elliott De Wit, Khristian Smith, Joey Kuhl, Rusty Grafel and Mike Fallone, Jr. Adams was named the TABC Assistant Coach of the Year last season for his role in helping Beard and the Red Raiders reach the national championship final. Burg was listed by The Athletic as one of the top rising assistants in the game as he enters his fourth season at Tech and fifth with Beard after also being at Little Rock with Beard and Adams. Maligi is in his first season at Texas Tech after working at Texas A&M last year. Neal is also new to the program, joining the Red Raiders after working at Little Rock where he was also a player before going into athletic training. Adams and Burg were previously on Beard's staff at Little Rock along with athletic trainer Mike Neal who is in his first season at Tech. MacAllister was named to the NABC 30 Under 30 list after last year and enters his second season with the Red Raiders. Along with being 13 wins away from 100 at Tech, Beard is 184-67 as a collegiate head coach after prior leadership at Little Rock, Angelo State and McMurry.

A NEW SHINE: Through 12 weeks, Texas Tech has already had four different players earn Big 12 Newcomer of the Week with Chris Clarke most recently after his performances against Southern Miss and UTRGV where he averaged a double-double. The weekly award has gone to TJ Holyfield (Nov. 11), Jahmi'us Ramsey (Nov. 25), Terrence Shannon, Jr. (Dec. 16) and Clarke (Dec. 23). The Red Raiders, who have 10 newcomers and three returners on the roster, are the only team in the conference to have three or more players receive a weekly award.

SPANNING THE GLOBE: The Red Raiders are represented by eight players by five international players: Moretti (Italy), Nadolny (France), Ntambwe (Congo), Savrasov (Russia) and Tchewa (Cameroon). The program his two players from Arlington, Texas in Kyler Edwards and Jahmi'us Ramsey, Kevin McCullar is from San Antonio and four from out of state: Avery Benson (Arkansas), TJ Holyfield (New Mexico), Tyreek Smith (Louisiana) and Terrence Shannon, Jr. (Illinois). Ntambwe will redshirt this season after having his transfer waiver denied by the NCAA, while Smith has not played his season after suffering an injury during the preseason.

SIGNING CLASS: Beard announced the signings of Chibuzo Agbo, Nimari Burnett and Micah Peavy to their national letter of intent for the 2020-21 academic year on November 13. Burnett was named to the McDonald's All American Games on Jan. 23 to become the first player in Red Raider history to earn the honor. The trio of talented recruits is ranked No. 5 nationally by Rivals.com and join a program that has advanced to the 2018 Elite Eight and to the 2019 NCAA National Championship Final over the past two season. Agbo signs with Texas Tech as a 4-star prospect by Rivals and 247Sports after being named the 2019 Western League Player of the Year playing for Saint Augustine High School. He enters his senior season as the 2019-20 San Diego Preseason Player of the Year after averaging 20 points and 9.0 rebounds per game and shooting 42.0 percent on 3-pointers as a junior. He is currently ranked No.70 by 247Sports and No. 87 nationally by Rivals. Agbo chose Texas Tech over USC and was also recruited by Arizona, Cal, San Diego State and Marquette. Burnett, who was named to the 2020 Naismith High School Award Watch List, is the highest rated recruit to sign in Texas Tech basketball history with a 5-star ranking by ESPN, Rivals and 247Sports. A Chicago, Illinois native, Burnett is ranked No. 19 nationally in the 2020 signing class by ESPN, No. 22 by Rivals and No. 28 in the 247Sports rankings. Peavy helped lead Duncanville High School to a Class 6A State Championship last season as a junior where he averaged 16 points and 6.6 rebounds per game. He signs with Texas Tech as a 4-star prospect by ESPN, Rivals and 247Sports and is the No. 2-ranked prospect in Texas according to Mike Kunstadt's Texas Hoops. Peavy is the No. 32-ranked player in the nation by ESPN and No. 34 by Rivals.

DEPARTURES: Texas Tech was tasked with following the winningest team in program history that is now without Jarrett Culver, Matt Mooney, Tariq Owens, Brandone Francis and Norense Odiase. Culver declared for the NBA Draft after his sophomore season and was selected No. 6 overall. After leading the Red Raiders with 18.5 points per and 6.4 rebounds per game and earning Big 12 Player of the Year and Consensus All-America honors, Culver is now on the Minnesota Timberwolves. Mooney was the team's third leading scorer behind Culver and Moretti and signed a two-way contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers on Jan. 15 after playing with the Memphis Hustle in the G-League, while Owens established a new program single-season record with 92 blocked shots and was with Odiase on the Northern Arizona Suns (G-League) before signing a two-way contract on Jan. 15 with the Suns. Francis was a member of the 2018 Elite Eight run and 2019 runner-up team and is on the Iowa Wolves roster. Along with players from last year's team, Max Lefevre is now with the Timberwolves working in video and athletic trainer Chris Williams joined the Timberwolves and Iowa Wolves athletic training staff.

OVERTIME GAMES: With back-to-back overtime losses against DePaul (65-60) and Creighton (83-76), Texas Tech is now 51-51 all-time in overtime contests and 4-5 under coach Beard. The Red Raiders were 1-1 in overtime last season with an 84-80 overtime win over Oklahoma in conference play before falling 85-77 in overtime to Virginia in the championship final. Tech has had back-to-back overtime games twice now under Beard after falling to West Virginia and Iowa State in the 2016-17 season on Feb. 18 and 20. The program has had four occasions of back-to-back overtime games with the only time that three straight games have gone to overtime coming in the 1984-85 season against Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico State.

UP NEXT: Texas Tech will host No. 14 West Virginia at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the USA. The Mountaineers earned a 66-54 win in the first matchup of the season between the two teams on Jan. 11 in Morgantown, West Virginia. Tech is now 5-13 all-time against WVU and is 3-4 against them in Lubbock. West Virginia hosts Missouri at 11 a.m. on Saturday for its Big 12/SEC Challenge in Morgantown, West Virginia.

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