Harmon, Obanor lead Texas Tech to 74-67 win over No. 6 Texas

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — De’vion Harmon scored 25points and Kevin Obanor added 19 as Texas Tech defeated its secondranked opponent in three days, upending No. 6 Texas 74-67 on Mondaynight.

Fardaws Aimaq had a season-high 12 points for the Red Raiders,who led by 13 in the second half before fending off the Longhornsdown the stretch.

Texas Tech (14-12, 3-10 Big 12) also topped No. 12 Kansas Stateon Saturday.

“Obviously, I’m extremely excited for these guys,” Red Raiderscoach Mark Adams said. “It was a great team effort. That is a goodbasketball team that we beat. Texas plays hard. We matched theirintensity and played, I thought, 40 minutes of greatbasketball.”

Texas (20-6, 9-4) tied the game at 64 on a 3-pointer by DylanDisu, but Tech responded by scoring the next six points as Obanorhad two dunks and Aimaq converted a tip-in. Harmon added a drivingbasket with 35.1 seconds remaining, and the Red Raiders heldon.

“Give them credit,” Texas interim coach Rodney Terry said. “Theymade shots. Our guys had great effort. We just didn’t do enough toput ourselves in position to win. In our league, anybody can beatanybody.”

Marcus Carr led the Longhorns with 23 points, and Disu scored11.

“We’re a team that has been through a lot of adversity thisseason,” Obanor said. “It’s like being in a boxing match, and youget beat up, but it speaks to your character when you get back up,have a sense of urgency and refuse to give up.”

Texas Tech scored on seven consecutive possessions spanninghalftime, taking a 51-38 lead. Texas used a 12-4 spurt to getwithin 59-54, and a 3 by Tyrese Hunter trimmed it to 64-61 beforeDisu’s tying shot.

Harmon had 21 points in the first half and scored his team’sfinal seven as the Red Raiders took a 44-35 lead at the break. Bothteams connected on more than 45% of their shots. Tech went 7 of 12from 3-point range, and Texas countered by shooting 6 for 11 frombeyond the arc.

After the Longhorns pulled to 37-35 on Carr’s 3-pointer with1:40 remaining in the half, Harmon answered with a short jumper inthe lane, two free throws and a 3-pointer as the buzzersounded.

Texas’ shooting cooled in the second half as the Longhornsconnected on 10 of 30 shots overall and went 5 of 16 from 3-pointrange. Texas Tech tightened its defense after halftime, forcing theLonghorns to work on every possession.

“They play well here,” Terry said. “Texas Tech has goodpersonnel and a coach who does a great job getting them inposition.”

BIG PICTURE

Texas Tech has won 10 of the past 12 meetings and holds a 37-29edge in Lubbock. ... The Red Raiders have beaten three ranked Big12 opponents at home this season, including Iowa State inovertime.

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Texas hosts Oklahoma on Saturday.

Texas Tech visits West Virginia on Saturday.