The top and worst team in the Big 12 are about to go at it to being the week, with the Texas Longhorns visiting the Texas Tech Red Raiders down in Lubbock a day after the Super Bowl. Check out our preview of this Texas vs Texas Tech matchup in the 2022-23 NCAA basketball season. There are more college basketball previews to read here at TopBet, so feel free to look around and make bets once you’re ready.
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Betting Preview for the Texas Longhorns vs Texas Tech Red Raiders NCAA College Basketball Game on February 13 2023
Where: United Supermarkets Arena, Lubbock, TX
When: Monday, February 13, 2023, 9:00 PM ET
Line: Texas Longhorns (-4.0) vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders (+4.0) – view all 2023 NCAAB lines
TV Broadcast: CBS
Betting on the Texas Longhorns (-4.0)
Record: 20-5 Overall/9-3 Conference
The Longhorns are the top team now in the Big 12 conference after notching their ninth win in league play via a 94-60 roasting of the West Virginia Mountaineers at home on Saturday. That was a nice recovery of a win for Texas, which previously lost to the Kansas Jayhawks in Lawrence, 88-80. Sir’Jabari Rice came off the bench and fired 20 points for the Longhorns versus West Virginia, while Marcus Carr dropped 16 on 7/11 shooting. Those two combined for 38 points in Texas’ 72-70 win in Austin over the Red Raiders back in mid-January.
Texas is 3-1 against the spread in its last four games.
Betting on the Texas Tech Red Raiders (+4.0)
Record: 13-12 Overall/2-10 Conference
Texas Tech is arguably the worst team in the Big 12 so far this season, but the Red Raiders are coming off a huge victory. The Red Raiders defeated the Kansas State Wildcats at home on Saturday, 71-63. They have snapped a two-game winless streak and have now won three of their last five games. And two of those wins during that five-game stretch were against top 25 programs. The Red Raiders got 20 points from senior De’Vion Harmon in the Kansas State game while also forcing 23 Wildcats turnovers. That kind of tenacious defense plus their rebounding will be crucial for Texas Tech versus the Longhorns, whom the Red Raiders outrebounded in January, 40-32.
Texas Tech is 8-2 against the spread in its last 10 meetings with the Longhorns, dating back to 2019.
Writer’s Prediction
Texas wins, 75-70.
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