Texas Tech basketball: Why the Red Raiders lost to No. 4 Baylor

No one but Jahmi’us Ramsey could hit from outside with any consistency

Take Ramsey’s 5-10 effort from 3-point range out of the equation and the rest of the Red Raiders were as woeful from deep as they were at the free-throw line.  Going just 2-13 from behind the arc, Ramsey’s teammates couldn’t find the range and it proved to be costly.

Most notable was Davide Moretti who went 0-6 from 3-point range.  This was only the second time this season that the junior has not hit at least one long-range bomb in a game.

Coming into this one, he had hit 4 of his last 8 looks over the last two contests giving us reason to think that he was coming out of a rare shooting slump that had slowed him for most of December.  Unfortunately, his struggles returned against the Bears.

After shooting 45.9% from deep last year, he’s now shooting just 35.9% this year.  That’s not going to cut if for this team.

Meanwhile, the only player other than Moretti and Ramsey to attempt multiple 3’s on Tuesday was Edwards, who was just 2-6.  On one hand, it was nice to see the sophomore hit a couple of outside looks, the fact remains that he’s still shooting only 25.4% from behind the arc this year after being a 44.9% sniper a season ago.

Senior T.J. Holyfield was the only other Red Raider to shoot a 3-pointer, which he missed.  After going 2-3 from deep against Oklahoma State in his previous game, he was unable to keep his hot hand going from outside.

"“If you get a good look, you have to make it because it won’t happen a lot,” Beard said. “I thought we had some good looks but it’s not like we got a ton of them. I think when you are coming down the court tonight and having to work for a shot, that is a compliment to Baylor’s defense.”"

This too was an area where Tech’s struggles were self-inflicted.  There wasn’t anything Baylor was doing to harass Tech’s outside shooters as most of these misses were wide-open looks.  Moving forward, the Red Raiders have to knock those down.