TEXAS TECH 61,
MICHIGAN ST 51
WHEN: 8:49
PM ET, Saturday, April 6, 2019
WHERE: U.S. Bank Stadium,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
OFFICIALS: # Bo Boroski, # Jeffrey
Anderson, # Doug Shows
ATTENDANCE: 72711
MINNEAPOLIS -- One of the first summertime meetings coach
Chris Beard held with Texas Tech's basketball team in July included a challenge
to the team: Make a reservation to play in the NCAA Tournament final.
The win gets Texas Tech that reservation for Monday night
in the national championship game against Virginia.
Michigan State trailed for 30 minutes, 7 seconds in the
40-minute game and shot 31.9 percent from the field (15 of 47). Big Ten Player
of the Year Cassius Winston had a team-best 16 points but shot 4 of 16 and
committed four turnovers.
Mooney, in his first year at Texas Tech as a graduate
transfer and his third college overall, filled the hero role. Teammate Jarrett
Culver, the Big 12 Player of the Year, was quiet until a raindrop right-handed
runner gave Texas Tech its first field goal in five minutes and a 54-51 edge
with 2:28 left.
Culver finished with 10 points.
A bid by Michigan State senior Matt McQuaid to tie the
game with a long 3-point attempt with 1:52 to go rattled in and out, and Culver
made the first of two free throws 20 seconds later.
On Michigan State's next possession, Texas Tech got the
ball back with its fourth steal of the game, this one by senior Norense Odiase.
Culver then hit an uncontested trey from the top of the key, putting the Red
Raiders up 58-51.
Odiase made two free throws to seal it with 39.7 seconds
left after the Spartans' Kenny Goins clanked a 3-point try.
The Spartans stayed in the game at the free-throw line,
making 14 of their 18 attempts.
Sophomore Xavier Tillman rattled in two free throws after
Winston connected on four consecutive shots from the stripe, and Michigan State
whittled a 12-point deficit to five (52-47) with 5:38 remaining.
The Spartans cut it to three with just over three minutes
to play on freshman Aaron Henry's two makes, then made it 52-51 when Henry's
slashing layup went in with 2:44 left.
Texas Tech roared out of the halftime locker room with
buckets on four of five possessions and took an eight-point lead -- 39-31 -- on
a three-point play by Kyler Edwards. The freshman drove hard from the left
baseline and moved the ball from his right to left hand, putting it off the
glass as he was fouled.
On the next possession, Mooney connected on a 3-ball from
the wing, and after a Michigan State turnover, he drilled another to stake Texas
Tech to a 45-33 advantage, prompting a red-faced Izzo to call timeout.
Most of the damage was done while Culver watched from the
bench with three fouls.
Suffocating defense won the first half on either end, and
neither team could find its legs. Only 15 of 49 field-goal attempts went
through, and Texas Tech led 23-21 at the break.
Texas Tech's reservation awaits.
TOP GAME
PERFORMANCES
|
TEXAS TECH
|
|
MICHIGAN ST
|
|
Matt Mooney 22
|
Scoring
|
Cassius Winston 16
|
|
Jarrett Culver 2
|
Assists
|
Kenny Goins 2
|
|
Norense Odiase 9
|
Rebounds
|
Kenny Goins 8
|
|
Jarrett Culver 3
|
Free Throws Made
|
Cassius Winston 6
|
|
Norense Odiase 2
|
Steals
|
Cassius Winston 1
|
|
Tariq Owens 3
|
Blocks
|
Kenny Goins 1
|
TEAM STATS SUMMARY
|
TEAM
|
POINTS
|
FG%
|
3PM-3PA
|
FTM-FTA
|
ASSISTS
|
REBOUNDS
|
BLOCKS
|
STEALS
|
TURNOVERS
|
|
Texas Tech
|
61
|
43.1
|
9-23
|
8-13
|
8
|
30
|
4
|
4
|
7
|
|
Michigan St
|
51
|
31.9
|
7-24
|
14-18
|
6
|
32
|
2
|
1
|
11
|
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