Big 12 men’s basketball tournament live updates, scores, results, how to watch

Tech’s main scorer exterior of the injured JT Toppin is out of the sport after he slipped on the courtroom and appeared damage. He’s out of the sport in the intervening time and Texas Tech is already in huge hassle, trailing 65-45 with 6:48 to go.

Texas Tech was a nationwide title contender with a wholesome JT Toppin. Now, the Red Raiders look removed from a Final Four crew.

Tech remains to be excellent; however there are hardly any groups that may face up to the lack of their All-American greatest participant and nonetheless be a reputable nationwide title risk.

Joshua Jefferson hits 1,000 profession factors at Iowa State, and extra importantly he’s taking this sport over with a game-high 15 factors to go along with 11 rebounds to date.

Cyclones in command of Texas Tech 53-39 on the 12:22 mark.

The Cyclones are performing some work inside and so they’ve constructed the lead to 47-39 after a scorching begin to the second half.

The motion has began for the second half in Kansas City.

The Cyclones really feel like a reasonably stable No. 3 seed, however might even transfer up to the No. 2 line in the event that they win the Big 12 tournament.

Kansas City can be a fan of that. Iowa State and Kansas are by far the 2 strongest fanbases yearly on the Big 12 tournament and so they’re on reverse sides of the bracket. A Saturday matchup within the championship sport can be electrical.

The Red Raiders began the sport off and had a 17-5 lead early, however the Cyclones settled in after that.

Jamarion Batemon drilled a 3-pointer simply earlier than the buzzer to give Iowa State the halftime lead.

TTU’s LeJuan Watts leads all gamers on the break with 11 and teammate Chrisian Anderson has 10. Tamin Lipsey leads the Cyclones with 10.

The two groups are buying and selling leads as the sport ticks towards halftime.

We’re below the two-minute mark now.

The Cyclones are proper again within the sport after a flurry and took the lead on a 3-ball from Tamin Lipsey. He has 8 factors and Joshua Jefferson has 7 for Iowa State.

The Red Raiders’ suffocating protection is already inflicting the Cyclones issues. Iowa State has made simply two of its first 10 pictures and Texas Tech is out to a 17-5 lead within the early minutes.

For Iowa State’s half, the Cyclones have received two straight after Wednesday’s 91-42 blowout of Arizona State, however they’re on a little bit of a slide. They’ve dropped three of their final six video games, together with one at dwelling in opposition to Tech.

That mentioned, they’re nonetheless taking a look at a 3 seed or presumably even a 2 seed in the event that they make a run within the Big 12 tourney.

Christian Anderson and Donovan Atwell have been shouldering the scoring load for the Red Raiders since JT Toppin’s harm.

Here’s how the stat sheet has damaged down for Texas Tech:

Since dropping JT Toppin, the Red Raiders are 3-2. In addition to the Iowa State win, additionally they beat Cincinnati and Kansas State.

But they’ve misplaced their final two video games coming into the Big 12 tourney, in opposition to TCU at dwelling and BYU on the street.

For the sake of the Big 12 tournament although, that is the No. 4 Red Raiders taking over the No. 5 Cyclones.

The two groups have solely performed one another as soon as this season and it was current. Texas Tech went into Ames and delivered a powerful 82-73 street win on Feb. 28. The Red Raiders had six gamers in double figures in that win, which has form of been the theme for them since star JT Toppin went down with a season-ending harm on Feb. 17.

Good morning of us and welcome to our Big 12 convention tournament live tracker!

The Big 12 has the marquee sport of the morning at this time as No. 7 Iowa State will tackle No. 16 Texas Tech. Tip-off is scheduled for 12:30 ET.