Texas Tech Scores 167 in Win

Can you say "beat down?"

The Texas Tech Red Raiders beat the East Central University Tigers in basketball 167-115. Texas Tech scored 90 points in the second half, and 10 players reached double figures.

The Associated Press story quoted East Central coach Terry Shannon like this: "Wow, that was fun, wasn't it? We came in with a couple of ideas. We want to play an up-tempo game. We want to force people to play our pace. We didn't have to force them. They went with us and boy they shot the ball well."

Wow?

That was fun?

What is so fun about losing a basketball game by 52 points? Coach, your team got destroyed.

I get his point of view. Up tempo games are fun, but still, they lost by 52! Whew that's ugly.

Oh, and they went in with "a couple of ideas." They must have gone in with the wrong ones because they gave up 167 points. Here are two ideas they needed and didn't use: defense and slowing the game down.