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Red Raider men's basketball knocks out East Central in record-setting victory
Alex Ybarra
Issue date: 11/21/08 Section: Sports
Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach may not have the best offense in Lubbock anymore, or at least his football team is not getting all the attention.
His buddy and Tech basketball coach Pat Knight made a case to overtake him in the offensive production department in a wild, record-setting 167-115 win over East Central (Division II) on Thursday in the United Spirit Arena in the first round of the Legends Classic.
"Guys got minutes, guys got shots up. It was a good experience," Knight said. "For me, it's just another day of working basketball. We worked on some things that helped us."
Knight said he thought ECU (0-1) coach Terry Shannon was kidding when he told him before the game he planned to push the ball up court all game, which is exactly what he did.
"Wow, that was fun wasn't it?" Shannon said. "We came in with a couple of ideas. We wanna play an up-tempo game. We wanna force people to play our pace; we didn't have to force them. They went with us and boy they shot the ball well.
The most points Tech (3-0) had ever scored in a game was 128 points against Texas in a double-overtime win in 1994. That same game also set the record for most points by two teams combined with 253, but add up Thursday's final score and Tech has another record with 282 total points scored in an NCAA basketball game.
Forward Trevor Cook led the Red Raiders with a career-high 20 points, while guards Alan Voskuil and John Roberson had 17 each. Wally Dunn and Mike Singletary chipped in 16 points apiece; Nick Okorie had 15 points; D'walyn Roberts had a career-high 13 points; Rogdrick Craig had a career high 11, as did Darko Cohadarevic and Michael Prince.
After the game, Knight said there is no validity to his basketball team having a better offense than Mike Leach's, whose No. 2 Red Raiders play No. 5 OU on Saturday.
"No, no, it's a little different," Knight said. "The game we just played (was against) East Central Oklahoma, (Tech football) is playing Oklahoma, so there's a huge difference."
His buddy and Tech basketball coach Pat Knight made a case to overtake him in the offensive production department in a wild, record-setting 167-115 win over East Central (Division II) on Thursday in the United Spirit Arena in the first round of the Legends Classic.
"Guys got minutes, guys got shots up. It was a good experience," Knight said. "For me, it's just another day of working basketball. We worked on some things that helped us."
Knight said he thought ECU (0-1) coach Terry Shannon was kidding when he told him before the game he planned to push the ball up court all game, which is exactly what he did.
"Wow, that was fun wasn't it?" Shannon said. "We came in with a couple of ideas. We wanna play an up-tempo game. We wanna force people to play our pace; we didn't have to force them. They went with us and boy they shot the ball well.
The most points Tech (3-0) had ever scored in a game was 128 points against Texas in a double-overtime win in 1994. That same game also set the record for most points by two teams combined with 253, but add up Thursday's final score and Tech has another record with 282 total points scored in an NCAA basketball game.
Forward Trevor Cook led the Red Raiders with a career-high 20 points, while guards Alan Voskuil and John Roberson had 17 each. Wally Dunn and Mike Singletary chipped in 16 points apiece; Nick Okorie had 15 points; D'walyn Roberts had a career-high 13 points; Rogdrick Craig had a career high 11, as did Darko Cohadarevic and Michael Prince.
After the game, Knight said there is no validity to his basketball team having a better offense than Mike Leach's, whose No. 2 Red Raiders play No. 5 OU on Saturday.
"No, no, it's a little different," Knight said. "The game we just played (was against) East Central Oklahoma, (Tech football) is playing Oklahoma, so there's a huge difference."
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