Texas Tech Red Raiders NCAA Basketball Betting
A successful season for the Texas Tech Red Raiders came to an end in the Elite Eight with a loss to the Florida Gators. Head coach Grant McCasland’s Red Raiders seemed to have victory in hand before a furious Florida rally tipped the scales at the end. Still, it was a successful second season for McCasland and a program that was in danger of falling into a abyss before his arrival. McCasland will not focus on a critical offseason in which he must solidify his roster for the increasingly difficult Big 12 schedule.
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2025 Texas Tech Red Raiders Season Recap
Overall, the Texas Tech Red Raiders are 28-8 straight up, 17-14 against the spread, and 16-14-1 over/under the total. Texas Tech has national metrics of 32nd for scoring offense, 63rd for field goal percentage, 22nd for 3-point field goal percentage, 41st for free throw percentage, and 113th for offensive rebounding. While defensively, Texas Tech is 54th for scoring defense, 107th for field goal percentage permitted, 73rd for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 69th for defensive rebounding.
Late on, Texas Tech has covered two of its previous six games and has gone over the total in eight of its last nine outings. JT Toppin is first among Texas Tech scorers with 18.2 points per game.
Coach Todd Golden cut the final strand of the net, waved it to the crowd and performed the famed Gator Chomp. A celebration that seemed completely improbable just a few minutes earlier was in high gear. Florida is heading back to the Final Four. Walter Clayton Jr. rescued top-seeded Florida with two late 3-pointers, and the Gators rallied from nine points down late to beat Texas Tech 84-79 in the NCAA Tournament's West Region final on Saturday.
The Gators trailed 75-66 with less than three minutes to play before staging a furious rally against the third-seeded Red Raiders, who had done the same in the Sweet 16 against Arkansas.
Clayton dribbled out of the paint and hit a fadeaway 3 with 59 seconds left to give Florida a 78-77 lead, and the Gators held on from there to advance to their first Final Four since 2014 in Golden’s third season. Florida will face the South Region champion - either Auburn or Michigan State - next Saturday in San Antonio.
Clayton, who began his college career at Iona, scored 30 points to lead the Gators. Thomas Haugh added 20 points and 11 rebounds off the bench, including the two 3-pointers that started the comeback.
Clayton then tied it with his shot from long range after Texas Tech missed a second straight front end of a one-and-one as Golden called for the Gators to foul early to prolong the game.
After Darrius Williams scored down low for Texas Tech, Clayton's last 3 put Florida ahead to stay, and the Gators sealed it at the foul line. Williams missed two 3s late. He had sunk the game-tying basket late in regulation and game-winner in the closing seconds of overtime against Arkansas on Thursday night.
Texas Tech fell just short of its second Final Four trip ever after being on the wrong side of a late-game comeback. The Red Raiders rallied from 13 points in the final five minutes to beat the Razorbacks in the Sweet 16. Williams scored 23 points to lead Texas Tech and JT Toppin added 20.
The game was tight most of the way with neither team able to build a lead bigger than six points for the first 30 minutes as Texas Tech capitalized on turnovers and second-chance points and Florida repeatedly got to the foul line. Clayton got fouled twice on 3-pointers early in the second half, leading to five points on the six foul shots. The Red Raiders went on a 12-2 run to go up by 10, but couldn’t hold on late.
Latest NCAA Tournament Results
| YEAR |
RESULT |
| 2025 |
Lost Elite Eight vs. (1) Florida 79–84 |
| 2024 |
Lost First Round vs. (11) NC State, 67–80 |
| 2022 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (2) Duke, 73–78 |
| 2021 |
Lost Second Round vs. (3) Arkansas, 66–68 |
| 2019 |
Lost National Championship vs. (1) Virginia, 77–85 (OT) |
| 2018 |
Lost Elite Eight vs. (1) Villanova, 59–71 |
| 2016 |
Lost First Round vs. (9) Butler, 61–71 |
| 2007 |
Lost First Round vs. (7) Boston College, 75–84 |
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