Kansas Jayhawks vs Texas Tech Red Raiders Match Player Stats On Dec 17, 2020

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