For most of the first half Friday night, the Texas Tech basketball team appeared to still be on Christmas break. But after a sluggish start, the Red Raiders came alive in the second half to blow out UT-Rio Grande Valley 71-46.
Playing for the first time since a loss to Duke on December 20th, the No. 11 team in the nation lacked energy and played with little emotion allowing the visiting Vaqueros to hang around in the game’s first ten minutes. Starting out 8 of 11 from the field, UTRGV tied the game at 21-21 with 11:07 to play in the first half making some think that Tech was in for a fight at home for the first time this season.