No. 12 Texas Tech basketball not overlooking Arizona State squad looking for answers

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Grant McCasland knows most people will look at the end result of the Texas Tech basketball team’s loss to Arizona on Saturday.

The 82-73 setback snapped the 12th-ranked Red Raiders’ seven-game winning streak and prevented a season sweep of the Wildcats. For McCasland, it’s not about the end result — another single-digit loss to a quality team. Rather, it’s about all the little things that added up to the defeat in Tucson.

“My message to the team is let’s not get consumed with the things that everybody wants to talk about publicly, which is the win or the loss,” McCasland said, “and let’s get consumed with how do we get better as people and as basketball players.”

McCasland continued saying he knows that’s a simplistic way of looking at things, but with everything still in front of the Red Raiders, it’s the best approach to take.

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Each of Texas Tech’s next three games — starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday on CBS Sports Network against Arizona State — are against teams in the bottom half of the Big 12 Conference standings. As it stands, ASU, Oklahoma State and TCU are all barely above .500 on the season (each with 12-11 records) and have losing records in league play.

The latter two are also opponents Texas Tech has already beaten on its home floor. While the Red Raiders have almost certainly locked up an NCAA tournament bid, McCasland knows the team still has a fighting chance at the conference championship. That will require taking care of teams Texas Tech should, at least on paper, have few problems with.

That task begins with the Sun Devils, who McCasland became more familiar with when Warren Washington and Devan Cambridge transferred to Tech from ASU in his first season. He noted coach Bobby Hurley’s teams tend to pick up wins late in the season some might not expect, like last year when the Sun Devils bested then-No. 21 Washington State.

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Author : Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Publish date : 2025-02-12 10:13:00

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