The loss to UCF may have been the wakeup call the Texas Tech basketball team needed, and wins over Utah and BYU were the result of getting tougher.

Texas Tech will try to make it a clean sweep of Big 12 teams in Utah when the Red Raiders travel to Provo to face BYU on Tuesday. Following a

Hawkins has shown a lot of growth shooting the ball from beyond the arc, something that helped Tech get out to an early lead and changed the way Tech was defended by Utah. Hawkins entered the night with just eight made threes on the year and knocked down four en route to the win.

The Utah basketball program learned a tough lesson in its first-ever Big 12 game. Winning -- especially on the road -- is not going to come easy in this conference.

Hawkins had eight 3s through his first 10 games at Tech, but has started a breakout from beyond the arc, which started against UCF on New Year’s Eve. He also knocked down four against Utah and it continued against the Cougars. Hawkins drilled six shots from deep, accounting for most of Tech’s shots from three, en route to his 22-point performance.

BYU Basketball’s back in the friendly confines of the Marriott Center to play the Red Raiders of Texas Tech on Tuesday night. The BYU Cougars are 10-3 on the season and 1-1 in Big 12 play. Their most recent game was on Saturday afternoon at Houston (who was ranked no.

BYU thought No. 14 Houston was difficult to defend? Boy, wait until they get a load of Texas Tech. The Cougars surrendered 16 3-pointers in Saturday’s 86-65 loss at Houston, suffered 15 turnovers and were badly outrebounded.

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