Game Info
Good Guys: Texas Tech Red Raiders (7-2, 0-0)
Bad Guys: Vanderbilt Commodores (4-5, 0-0)
When to Watch: Saturday, December 16th @ 6:30 pm
Where to Watch: Dickies Arena | Fort Worth, Texas
How to Watch: ESPN+
How to Listen: 97.3 FM | Affiliates | Varsity Network
The Line: Texas Tech -8.5
Advanced Stats
| TEXAS TECH | STAT | VANDERBILT |
|---|---|---|
Lineups
| THE STARTERS | Pts / Reb | |
|---|---|---|
| POINT GUARD | Joe Toussaint (6-0/195) | 14.7 / 3.9* |
| SHOOTING GUARD | Pop Isaacs (6-2/180) | 13.6 / 3.3 |
| SMALL FORWARD | Kerwin Walton (6-5/210) | 6.3 / 1.5 |
| POWER FORWARD | Darrion Williams (6-8/225) | 10.0 / 7.7 |
| CENTER | Warren Washington (7-0/235) | 9.1 / 8.7 |
| THE BENCH | Pts / Reb | |
| SIXTH MAN | Chance McMillian (6-3/185) | 7.4 / 3.8 |
| SEVENTH MAN | Lamar Washington (6-4/200) | 4.3 / 1.8 |
| EIGHTH MAN | Robert Jennings (6-7/230) | 1.3 / 2.2 |
| NINTH MAN | KyeRon Lindsay (6-8/215) | 2.0 / 0.0 |
| TENTH MAN | Eemeli Yalaho (6-8/240) | 0.4 / 0.4 |
| ELEVENTH MAN | D’Maurian Williams (6-3/195) | 0.7 / 0.7 |
| TWELFTH MAN | Drew Steffe (6-5/200) | – / – |
| THIRTEENTH MAN | Jack Francis (6-3/185) | 0.00 / 0.00 |
| FOURTEENTH MAN | Devan Cambridge (6-6/210) | Out for Year |
| THE STARTERS | Pts / Reb | |
| POINT GUARD | Ezra Manjon (6-0/170) | 16..1 / 3.9* |
| SHOOTING GUARD | Tyrin Lawrence (6-4/200) | 13.2 / 2.4* |
| SMALL FORWARD | Evan Taylor (6-6/205) | 10.4 / 3.2 |
| POWER FORWARD | Ven-Allen Lubin (6-8/230) | 12.2 / 6.4 |
| CENTER | Carter Lang (6-9/235) | 3.5 / 5.0 |
| THE BENCH | Pts / Reb | |
| SIXTH MAN | Colin Smith (6-8/215) | 8.3 / 7.5 |
| SEVENTH MAN | Tasos Kamateros (6-8/240) | 6.8 / 1.7 |
| EIGHTH MAN | Jason Rivera-Torres (6-6/180) | 7.0 / 3.2 |
| NINTH MAN | Paul Lewis (6-2/170) | 4.9 / 2.4* |
| TENTH MAN | Malik Presley (6-6/180) | 1.0 / 1.7 |
* Assists.
Starting 5
1. Stats. Vanderbilt is okay offensively, but they don’t shoot very well. The Commodores are 271st in 3-pont shooting and 206th in 2-point shooting. That’s their biggest issue. They are passable in turnover percentage, 129th, and offensive rebounding, 150th, and quite good at getting to the line, 47th. Defensively, there are a lot of extremes. The defense is 352nd in allowing 3-point shots, opponents are making all of their free throws, 338th, and block percentage is terrible, 335th. Vandy also doesn’t turn teams over, 280th overall. The only good things are that they don’t allow offensive boards or free throws, 43rd and 49th respectively.
2. Scouting. Manjon is a good player and decent shooter with a high assist rate, but probably isn’t shooting enough (which is fine with me). Kamateros is the best shooter on the team and he’s almost exclusively a 3-point shooter, only 6 2-point attempts all season. Lubin is decent inside and a good rebounder along with Lang, Smith and Rivera-Torres. It really looks like the biggest issue is that Vandy just doesn’t share the ball, Manjon and Lewis will dish out some assists, but that’s it.
3. How They Match Up. T-Rank thinks that Texas Tech wins by 9. Interestingly, after Texas Tech’s win over Oral Roberts, the defensive rankings went down by 10 or so by KenPom and T-Rank. And don’t look now, but Texas Tech is a good offensive team now, largely because Toussaint, Walton, and Williams are all fantastic and Washington and McMillian aren’t far behind. I think this is a decent statement game, but it is a game that Texas Tech should win pretty easily. Crazy stat? Walton is shooting 59% from beyond the arc and Isaacs is shooting 23%. That is quite the range.
4. lagniappe | something given as a bonus or extra gift.
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— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) December 15, 2023
5. Official Site. The official site has their preview right here:
The Red Raiders (7-2) are coming off an 82-76 win over Oral Roberts on Tuesday in Lubbock with Warren Washington leading the team with 18 points and 12 rebounds, while the Commodores (4-5) took a 73-60 loss to San Francisco last Wednesday in their most recent game. Against ORU, Darrion Williams added 15 points and 10 rebounds to give Tech two players with double-doubles in a game for the first time since the 2019 NCAA Tournament and Kerwin Walton provided 17 points with four 3-pointers in his first start of the season. The Red Raiders led by as many as 19 in the win where they overpowered ORU with a 48-29 rebounding advantage, a 32-16 scoring in the paint advantage, and a margin of 25-9 on second-chance points. Tech finished with a season-high 21 offensive rebounds and held ORU to only seven offensive rebounds.