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Texas Tech basketball: Terrance Shannon Jr.’s 5 best games of 2019-20

By Matthew Conner

LUBBOCK, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 24: Guard Terrence Shannon #1 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders attempts a dunk during the second half of the college basketball game against the LIU Sharks on November 24, 2019 at United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 24: Guard Terrence Shannon #1 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders attempts a dunk during the second half of the college basketball game against the LIU Sharks on November 24, 2019 at United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images) /
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Terrence Shannon Jr. #1 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders  (Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images)
Terrence Shannon Jr. #1 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders  (Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images) /

No. 1: @ DePaul

Eight games into one’s college career is a tough time for a player to have to be his team’s hero but that was the case for Shannon when the Red Raiders took on DePaul in Chicago.  Though the game eventually went the way of the Blue Demons, had it not been for Shannon’s 24 points and 8 rebounds, the 65-60 game would have never reached overtime.

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Scoring 40% of his team’s points, Shannon helped take up the slack for the absence of the injured Ramsey.  What’s more, he contributed only two points less than the team’s other four starters combined.

With Kyler Edwards only 5-11 for the game and Davide Moretti just 1-11, the burden of the offense unexpectedly fell on the freshman’s shoulders as grad transfers T.J. Holyfield and Chris Clarke combined four just four points, all from Clarke.  That day, Shannon took a season-high 18 shots, making nine.  Most of those were sweeping drives to the rim that he initiated with a long and deceptively quick first step.

But he was also able to hit two of his season-high six shots from behind the arc.  It was one of only two times in 2019-20 that he managed to make more than one three-pointer in a game.

When he hit the second of those three-pointers, he put Tech up 60-58 with just 1:58 to play in OT and it appeared that he might be the game’s hero.  Unfortunately, that would be the last basket the Red Raiders would make as DePaul closed the game on a 7-0 run.

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However, the outcome of this contest doesn’t change the way we should view Shannon’s performance.  It was his best game of the year and it proved that he has the ability to take over games.  Hopefully, we see that version of him more often in his sophomore season.

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