PROVO, Utah (AP)
Elijah Hawkins hit a career-high six 3s and scored 22 points, Darrion Williams added 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting and Texas Tech beat BYU 72-67 on Tuesday night to end the Cougars’ 14-game home win streak.
Chance McMillian made three 3s and finished with 16 points and eight rebounds for Texas Tech (11-3, 2-1 Big 12).
Fousseyni Traore led the Cougars with 14 points and Mawot Mag scored 11.
Trey Stewart hit a 3-pointer – his second made basket this season – to close the first half and give BYU a 34-32 lead.
Traore scored six points and Baker hit a 3-pointer before Egor Demin’s dunk with 8:20 left in the game capped an 11-3 spurt and gave BYU a five-point lead – the biggest by either team to that point. Hawkins answered with a 3-pointer and McMillian followed with another to spark a 17-5 run that gave the Red Raiders a 65-58 lead with 3:01 to play.
Richie Saunders made a driving layup and then hit two free throws to pull the Cougars within three points with 1:56 remaining but Williams hit a cutting McMillian for a layup. Mag’s putback of a miss by Traore made it 67-64 with 1:03 to go but Williams scored, missed the and-1 free throw and Hawkins made two fouls shots with 35 seconds left to make it 71-64.
BYU (10-4, 1-2) suffered its first Big 12 loss of the season last time out, an 86-55 setback to No. 15 Houston on Saturday – the Cougars’ first 30-point loss since the 2018-19 season.
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| TOP SCORERS | |||||
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E. Hawkins G | 22PTS | 4REB | 5AST | |
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F. Traore F | 14PTS | 5REB | 0AST | |
| STARTERS | PTS | REB | AST | PF |
| E. Hawkins | 22 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| D. Williams | 18 | 7 | 4 | 1 |
| C. McMillian | 16 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
| J. Toppin | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| K. Walton | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| BENCH | PTS | REB | AST | PF |
| K. Overton | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| F. Federiko | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 |
| C. Anderson | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| C. Green | – | – | – | – |
| J. Francis | – | – | – | – |
| E. Yalaho | – | – | – | – |
| L. Horner | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 72 | 33 | 12 | 19 |
| STARTERS | PTS | REB | AST | PF |
| E. Demin | 12 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| R. Saunders | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| D. Hall | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| K. Catchings | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| K. Keita | 2 | 10 | 1 | 3 |
| BENCH | PTS | REB | AST | PF |
| F. Traore | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| M. Mag | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| T. Knell | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| T. Stewart | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Baker | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| J. McGregor | – | – | – | – |
| B. Kozlowski | – | – | – | – |
| M. Triplett | – | – | – | – |
| E. Crawford | – | – | – | – |
| M. Boskovic | – | – | – | – |
| K. Mboup | – | – | – | – |
| T. Tripple | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 67 | 34 | 13 | 13 |