#3 Texas Tech Faces #14 UNC Wilmington to Start NCAA Tournament

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00:00The three seed in the West region is Texas Tech. Of all teams on the three line in the tournament,

00:06the Red Raiders have the best price to win a national championship at 31 to 1. The Red Raiders

00:12a hefty favorite today in their opening game against the champions out of the CAA, Takao

00:18Siddle and UNC Wilmington. How do you approach the opening round matchup for Grant McCaslin

00:24and his Texas Tech team? Yeah, I'm still pissed at Grant McCaslin for shooting 19% in the second

00:31half of that game against Baylor where I had a ton on Texas Tech laying five and a half of them

00:35only to win by two. So it's kind of surprising for me that I'm actually willing to go back to the

00:40well with this Texas Tech team. One, I think they're an Elite Eight team and I think they're

00:44playing for a right to go to the Final Four out of this bracket when it's all said and done.

00:49But this for them again is really about their offense. We know their defense is going to

00:52perform. I don't think there's really any question. It's how consistent can their offense be.

00:56Again, I talked about that game a couple of weeks ago against Baylor a week or so,

00:59you know, they shoot the lights out in the first half and then 19% in the second half. They can't

01:03have a lull like that in the NCAA tournament. There's too many teams playing with house money

01:07that are going to take advantage of it where there is no tomorrow. So they've got to get this

01:11offense moving and be able to push 80 points and really kind of put the fear of God into people

01:16that, hey, you know what, we're going to beat you on both ends of the floor for a full 40 minutes.