An old sports adage says that you can’t win a game in the first half but you can certainly lose it. But after watching the Texas Tech basketball during its current eight-game winning streak, one might argue with the notion that games can’t be put away before halftime.
In every game during the program’s longest ever Big 12 winning streak, Chris Beard has seen his team jump out to a double-digit first-half lead. It has been a nightly occurrence for the Red Raiders to put together a stretch of fantastic basketball in the game’s first twenty minutes and in nearly every case, the opposing team has been unable to respond as the leads Tech has built in the opening half have been more than enough to carry the team to victory.