I’m Ciara with your KTXT Sports Update
The Texas Tech men’s basketball team took on Oklahoma State Wednesday night, but came up short against the Cowboys in Stillwater, 63-43. Freshman Keenan Evans scored career high 18 points for the Red Raiders, while Le’Bryan Nash score 16 for the Cowboys. Despite their quick start, the Red Raiders have lost eight of their last nine games, falling to 10-9 on the season, and 0-6 in the Big 12, ranking 10th in the conference. Iowa State heads to the United Supermarkets Arena on Saturday to take on the Red Raiders at 3 p.m.
The Lady Raiders were also in action on Wednesday, taking on Kansas at the USA, dropping the match 68-66 after Kansas came back from being down 17 points in the second half. Amber Battle scored 16 points for the Lady Raiders, but it wasn’t enough to hold of the Jayhawks Asia Boyd, who laid in the winning basket with only seconds remaining in the game. The Lady Raiders, who are 12-6, 2-4 in conference play, take on Oklahoma on Saturday at 3 p.m. in Norman.
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick said he was “completely and totally unaware” of the situation involving his team’s reported use of underinflated footballs in the AFC Championship Game against Indianapolis. Speaking at a regularly scheduled press conference on Thursday before the Patriots begin preparations for the Super Bowl, Belichick made a lengthy statement about the controversy and said he was “shocked” when he heard the news reports on Monday morning and added that he learned “a lot more about this process in the last three days than I knew or had talked about in the last 40 years that I coached in this league.” The Patriots rolled to a 45-7 win over the Colts last Sunday in a rain-soaked game at Gillette Stadium and reports began to surface in the hours after the contest that balls were not correctly inflated, which would apparently allow for a better grip in inclement weather.
And finally for the NASCAR fans, Jeff Gordon has announced that 2015 will be his last season as a full-time driver on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit. The four-time champion told his Hendrick Motorsports team about the decision Thursday morning, not calling it a retirement and saying there is a possibility he will run a few “selected events,” but also has no current plans to do so. Gordon has driven for Rick Hendrick since November 1992, winning Cup championships in 1995, ’97, ’98 and 2001. The 43-year-old California native is third on the all-time wins list with 92, behind only Richard Petty’s 200 and David Pearson’s 105. He has three Daytona 500 victories, a record five Brickyard 400 wins and is the circuit’s all-time winningest road course driver with nine victories.
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