National Basketball Association
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Kansas 58, Texas Tech 57
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, December 17, 2020
Where: United Supermarkets Arena, Lubbock, Texas
Officials: # Tony Padilla, # Terry Oglesby, # Keith Kimbell
Attendance: 4250

If this is how all the games between ranked Big 12 Conference teams are going to play out, fans of the league are in for a wild and bumpy ride.

Ochai Agbaji cut through the lane for a layup on an inbounds play to put 5th-ranked Kansas up by a point with 13 seconds left, and Jalen Wilson blocked Terrance Shannon's shot on the other end of the floor right before time expired to lift the Jayhawks to a 58-57 victory against No. 14-ranked Texas Tech on Thursday in Lubbock.

Those two points were the last of Agbaji's 23 points in a game during which the teams' defenses controlled most of the action. Marcus Garrett added 10 points, 10 rebounds and four assists for Kansas (7-1, 1-0 Big 12).

Mac McClung led the Red Raiders (6-2, 0-1) with 21 points, buoyed by a big first half. Shannon notched 20, including 13 in the second half, and buried four 3-pointers.

Texas Tech seemed to have control midway through the second half when Micah Peavy's jump shot extended the lead to 46-39. But the Jayhawks responded with a 10-0 surge and regained the lead when Dajuan Harris knocked down a 3-pointer with 7:18 remaining. It was the last of Kansas' four makes from outside the arc in the second half.

The rest of the game went back-and-forth, with both teams coming up big on both ends until the final seconds when the Jayhawks produced the game-winner and the Red Raiders couldn't respond.

Kansas led 29-26 at halftime, sparked by Agbaji's 12 points on 4-of-5 shooting from the floor. He also connected on 3 of 4 attempts from the free-throw line to help the Jayhawks go 9 of 10 from the stripe.

Texas Tech struggled to connect from the field in the opening 20 minutes, making only 9 of 28 (32.1 percent) attempts. McClung, who had been in a three-game shooting slump, kept the Red Raiders in range with 13 points but was the only Texas Tech player to make more than two field goals in the first half.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
 
Kansas   Texas Tech
Ochai Agbaji 23 Scoring Mac McClung 21
Marcus Garrett 4 Assists Marcus Santos-Silva 3
Christian Braun 10 Rebounds Terrence Shannon Jr. 9
Marcus Garrett 4 Free Throws Made Mac McClung 9
Marcus Garrett 1 Steals Nimari Burnett 3
Ochai Agbaji 1 Blocks Marcus Santos-Silva 2
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Points FG% 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA Assists Rebounds Blocks Steals Turnovers
Kansas 58 40.4 6-18 14-15 13 36 3 3 16
Texas Tech 57 32.3 6-23 11-18 8 29 3 5 7