TEXAS TECH 2018 NCAA Elite Eight BASKETBALL TexasTech.com 17 NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES 1954 • 1956 • 1961 • 1962 • 1973 • 1976 • 1985 • 1986 • 1993 • 1996 • 2002 • 2004 • 2005 • 2007 • 2016 • 2018 • 2019 G33 No. 9 Texas Tech (26-6, 14-4) vs Northern kentucky (26-8, 13-5) BOK CENTER • TULSA, OKLAHOMA • FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2019 • 12:30 P.M. (CST) TV: TNT • RADIO: DOUBLE T 97.3 FM • LUBBOCK, TEXAS • TUNE-IN RADIO APP NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY TexasTech.com Game Notes OVERALL: Texas Tech, 11-18 (16 appearances) NO. 9 TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS NOrtHERN KENTUCKY NORSE LAST YEAR: R1: TTU 70, SFA 60; R2: TTU 69, Flordia 66; 2018-19 Record 26-6 • 14-4 Big 12 2018-19 Record 26-8, 13-5 Horizon League S16: TTU 78, Purdue 65; E8: Villanova 71, TTU 59 Current Rankings AP: 9; USA TODAY: 10; NET: 10 Current Rankings AP: NA; USA TODAY: NA; NET: 115 TOURNAMENT NOTE: Texas Tech is making its 17th Last Game L • 79-74 • vs. West Virginia Last Game W • 77-66 • vs. Wright State NCAA Tournament appearance in program history and Head Coach Chris Beard Head Coach John Brannen Texas Tech Record 71-30 • 3rd Season NKU Record 81-49 • 4th Season is back in consecutive seasons for the fourth time. TTU NCAA Career Record 167-60 • 7th Season Career Record 82-50 • 4th Season (1-1 interim at Alabama) is 6-10 in opening round matchups at the tournament. Leading Scorer Jarrett Culver • 18.5 PPG Leading Scorer Drew McDonald • 19.1 PPG Leading Rebounder Jarrett Culver • 6.3 RPG Leading Rebounder Drew McDonald • 9.5 RPG UP NEXT NCAA Second Round vs.TBD TEXAS TECH RED RAIDER PROBABLE STARTERS (25-5 AS A FIRST-FIVE GROUP) Sunday, March 24 Tulsa, Oklahoma - BOK Center MEDIA COVERAGE TELEVISION • TNT • Brad Nessler • Play-by-Play Steve Lavin • Analyst Jim Jackson • Analyst Evan Washburn • Reporter RADIO • Double T 97.3 FM • Geoff Haxton • Play-by-Play NORENSE ODIASE MATT MOONEY TARIQ OWENS DAVIDE MORETTI JARRETT CULVER Chris Level • Analyst 32 6-9 • Senior • Center 13 6-3 • Senior • Guard 11 6-10 • Senior • Forward 25 6-3 • Soph. • Guard 23 6-6 • Soph. • Guard 4.0 ppg; 5.2 rpg 10.9 ppg; 3.3 apg. 8.8 ppg; 2.4 bpg FG: 50.5; 3PT: 47.8; 18.5 ppg; 3.7 apg FG: 56.0; 1.0 bpg 1.7 spg; 3.2 rpg. 5.7 rpg; FG: 60.2 FT: 93.3; 11.6 ppg. 6.3 rpg; FG; 48.5 SOCIAL MEDIA • Facebook • No. 9 Texas Tech vs. Northern Kentucky (Full preview article at www.TexasTech.com) www.Facebook.com/TexasTechMBB KEY POINTS: Texas Tech is headed to Tulsa as the No. 3 seed in the West State and then recording his fourth double-double of the season with 26 • Twitter • Instagram • Coach Beard • Region where the Red Raiders will play Northern Kentucky at 12:30 p.m. on points and 10 rebounds in the Big 12 Championship quarterfinals against @TexasTechMBB • @CoachBeardTTU Friday in the opening round of the NCAA tournament... The No. 9-ranked West Virginia. Culver averaged 7.5 points and 5.0 rebounds per game in last Red Raiders (26-6) earned their first Big 12 Conference regular-season year’s NCAA Elite Eight run, including scoring 11 points against Florida and championship after going 14-4 in conference play and will be making their Villanova. 17th NCAA tournament appearance in program history. The No. 14-seeded Norse (26-8) are the Horizon League Tournament champion and regular- STACKING WINS: The Red Raiders have now won 25 games or more four season co-champion. Tech, which advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight last times in program history after earning the win over Texas. The team won season, made its tournament debut in 1954 and are back in consecutive 27 games last season, 25 in the 1975-76 season and set the program record seasons for the fourth time. The Red Raiders and NKU have met once in with 30 wins in the 1995-96 season. Tech reached the 20-win milestone program history with Tech earning a 75-69 win on Dec. 4, 2012 in Lubbock. with its victory over Oklahoma State and has now recorded 20 wins in a season 13 times in program history. The team went 27-10 last season and PLAYER NOTES: Davide Moretti was named an All-Big 12 Conference Third has now had back-to-back 20-win years for the first time since the 2003-04 Team selection as one of the top shooters in the nation. He currently leads and 2004-05 under head coach Bob Knight. We are in the midst of the only the nation by shooting 93.3 percent at the free-throw line after going 84- time in program history with two straight 25-win seasons. for-90 in games leading into the national tournament... Owens has record three blocks in four straight games to take his new single-season program ELITE DEFENSE: Texas Tech has allowed only three opponents to score over record to 78 entering the national tournament. He also had a season-high 14 70 points and has limited 11 to under 55 points. Opponents are averaging rebounds in the win over the Cyclones in the regular-season finale and then just 60.8 points per game during nine-game winning streak and have went for 14 points against WVU at the tournament... Mooney is averaging been limited to 37.1 percent shooting from the field and 35.8 percent on 10.9 points, 3.3 assists and 1.7 steals per game for the Red Raiders entering 3-pointers. Texas was held to 29.6 percent shooting in Tech’s regular-season the first NCAA tournament of his career. A graduate transfer, Mooney earned home finale which made them the sixth opponent this season to shoot Texas Tech sophomore Jarrett Culver was named the Big 12 Big 12 Conference Second-Team honors along with being named to the Big under 30 percent against the Red Raiders. Conference Player of the Year and has also earned USBWA 12 All-Newcomer Team and Big 12 All-Defensive Team. A sophomore from and Sporting News All-America honors. Culver leads the Lubbock, Culver enters the NCAA tournament having scored 1,008 career ONLINE: Full preview available at TexasTech.com along with media links, Red Raiders with 18.5 points and 6.3 rebounds per game points after recording a career-high 31 in the regular-season finale at Iowa additional roster info and record book links. and 117 assists this season. MEN’S BASKETBALL CONTACT | WES BLOOMQUIST | [email protected] • CELL: 512.966.6971 0 EDWARDS • 1 Francis • 3 Corprew • 10 Ondigo • 11 Owens • 13 Mooney • 20 Hicks WWW.TEXASTECH.COM 21 Moore • 23 Culver • 24 Benson • 25 Moretti • 30 Sorrells • 32 Odiase • 35 Mballa TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS UNIVERSITY • ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT INFORMATION 2018-19 SCHEDULE Location Lubbock, Texas DATE [DAY] OPPONENT LOCATION TIME Founded 1923 Nov. 6 [Tue.] Incarnate Word United Supermarkets Arena W, 87-37 Enrollment 38,246 Nov. 9 [Fri.] Mississippi Valley State [2] United Supermarkets Arena W, 84-52 Nickname Red Raiders Nov. 13 [Tue.] Southeastern Louisiana [2] United Supermarkets Arena W, 59-40 Colors Scarlet (PMS 485c) and Black (Process Black) Nov. 19 [Mon.] vs. Southern Cal [3 • ESPN2] Kansas City, Mo. W, 78-63 Official Mascot Masked Rider Nov. 20 [Tue.] vs. No. 25 Nebraska [3 • ESPN2] Kansas City, Mo. W, 70-52 Unofficial Mascot Raider Red Nov. 24 [Sat.] Northern Colorado United Supermarkets Arena W, 93-62 Facility • Capacity United Supermarkets Arena • 15,098 Dec. 1 [Sat.] vs. Memphis [4] Miami, Fla. W, 78-67 KYLER EDWARDS BRANDONE FRANCIS DESHAWN CORPREW MALIK ONDIGO TARIQ OWENS Conference Big 12 • Charter Member Dec. 5 [Wed.] Arkansas-Pine Bluff United Supermarkets Arena W, 65-47 0 6-3 • Freshman • Guard 1 6-5 • Senior • Guard 3 6-5 • Soph. • Forward 10 6-10 • Soph. • Forward 11 6-10 • Senior • Forward Chancellor Tedd L. Mitchell, M.D. Dec. 12 [Wed.] Northwestern State United Supermarkets Arena W, 79-44 Arlington, Texas La Romana, Dominican Rep. Norfolk, Virginia El Mirage, Arizona Odentown, Maryland President Dr. Lawrence Schovanec Dec. 15 [Sat.] Abilene Christian [5] Lubbock Municipal Coliseum W, 82-48 Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt Dec. 20 [Thur.] vs. No. 2 Duke [ESPN2] New York City, N.Y. L, 69-58 Deputy Director of Athletics • Men’s Basketball Sport Administrator Tony Hernandez Dec. 28 [Fri.] UTRGV United Supermarkets Arena W, 71-46 NCAA Faculty Representative Brian Shannon Jan. 2 [Wed.] at West Virginia [Big 12 • ESPN2] Morgantown, W.V. W, 62-59 Jan. 5 [Sat.] Kansas State [Big 12 • ESPNU] United Supermarkets Arena W, 63-57 LAST SEASON Jan. 8 [Tue.] Oklahoma [Big 12 • ESPNews] United Supermarkets Arena W, 66-59 Jan. 12 [Sat.] at Texas [Big 12 • LHN] Austin, Texas W, 68-62 2017-18 Record 27-10 (Home: 17-1 • Away: 4-6 • Neutral: 6-3) Jan. 16 [Wed.] Iowa State [Big 12 • ESPNU] United Supermarkets Arena L, 68-64 2017-18 Big 12 Record • Finish 11-7 • T-2nd Jan. 19 [Sat.] at Baylor [Big 12 • ESPNU] Waco, Texas L, 73-62 2018 Big 12 Tournament Semifinals • West Virginia Jan. 22 [Tue.] at Kansas State [Big 12 • ESPN2] Manhattan, Kansas L, 58-45 2018 Postseason NCAA Tournament • Elite Eight • Villanova Jan. 26 [Sat.] Arkansas [6 • ESPN2] United Supermarkets Arena W, 67-64 Letterwinners Returning/Lost 7/7 Jan. 28 [Mon] TCU [Big 12 • ESPN] United Supermarkets Arena W, 84-65 Starters Returning/Lost 2/3 Feb.