Thanks to an early onslaught from the perimeter, the Texas Tech basketball team knocked off a short-handed No. 7 Kansas 79-50 in United Supermarkets Arena on Monday night.
The Red Raiders came out swinging and never let up to pick up a marquee win on their home floor, giving Grant McCasland his first win over a Top-10 team in his Red Raider tenure.
Kansas coach Bill Self got himself ejected with 5:49 left in the game. Pop Isaacs hit the four technical free throws to put the game out of reach for good. The Jayhawks were without all-America candidate Kevin McCullar Jr. and dropped to 1-5 on the road this season.
Texas Tech starts with three-point barrage
The Red Raiders opened the game with a flurry of three-pointers to put the Jayhawks on their heels.
At one point in the first half, Texas Tech had hit eight threes while Kansas had just seven total makes (The Jayhawks finally got ahead in this regard at the break, having nine total makes to Tech’s eight triples).
The outside shooting helped the Red Raiders open up a 15-point lead, which was Tech’s biggest advantage in any game since going up 21 against Oklahoma State back on Jan. 9. This would be squashed in the second half, when Tech led 73-48