In the Texas Tech basketball team’s second game in the Las Vegas Invitational, the Red Raiders learned a lesson that the Tech football team had to learn in 2019; falling into a huge hole early is no recipe for success. For the second-straight night, a poor shooting first half and a lack of execution defensively put Chris Beard’s team at a double-digit deficit at the break for the second-straight game and just like in Thursday’s loss to Iowa, the Red Raiders could not claw their way out of a loss.
Davide Moretti notched 23 points and Chris Clarke added 17 but their efforts were not enough in an 83-76 loss to Creighton, the team’s second-straight defeat in Sin City.