Northern Colorado Bears (6-2) at Texas Tech Red Raiders (5-1)
Lubbock, Texas; Friday, 8 p.m. EST
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Red Raiders -21; over/under is 153.5
BOTTOM LINE: Texas Tech plays Northern Colorado after Darrion Williams scored 20 points in Texas Tech's 79-74 victory over the Syracuse Orange.
The Red Raiders have gone 4-0 in home games. Texas Tech is sixth in the Big 12 in team defense, allowing 65.2 points while holding opponents to 41.8% shooting.
The Bears are 1-2 on the road. Northern Colorado leads the Big Sky with 19.3 assists. Jaron Rillie leads the Bears with 5.9.
Texas Tech makes 52.7% of its shots from the field this season, which is 10.8 percentage points higher than Northern Colorado has allowed to its opponents (41.9%). Northern Colorado has shot at a 51.6% rate from the field this season, 9.8 percentage points greater than the 41.8% shooting opponents of Texas Tech have averaged.
TOP PERFORMERS: JT Toppin is scoring 19.8 points per game and averaging 10.3 rebounds for the Red Raiders.
Langston Reynolds is averaging 17.5 points, 3.1 assists and 1.5 steals for the Bears.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
