Northern Colorado visits Williams and Texas Tech

Northern Colorado Bears (6-2) at Texas Tech Red Raiders (5-1)

Lubbock, Texas; Friday, 8 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Texas Tech hosts Northern Colorado after Darrion Williams scored 20 points in Texas Tech’s 79-74 victory against the Syracuse Orange.

The Red Raiders have gone 4-0 in home games. Texas Tech scores 88.3 points and has outscored opponents by 23.1 points per game.

The Bears are 1-2 in road games. Northern Colorado scores 88.5 points while outscoring opponents by 17.4 points per game.

Texas Tech makes 52.7% of its shots from the field this season, which is 10.8 percentage points higher than Northern Colorado has allowed to its opponents (41.9%). Northern Colorado averages 10.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.6 more made shots on average than the 6.8 per game Texas Tech gives up.

TOP PERFORMERS: JT Toppin is scoring 19.8 points per game and averaging 10.3 rebounds for the Red Raiders.

Langston Reynolds is scoring 17.5 points per game and averaging 4.8 rebounds for the Bears.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.