Sport Unranked Texas Tech stuns No. 1 Louisville as leading scorer Jahmius Ramsey watches from the bench

Texas Tech made a Final Four run last season on the strength of an elite defense and a lottery pick in Jarrett Culver.

© AP Texas Tech center Russel Tchewa (54) looks to grab the ball as Louisville forward Aidan Igiehon (22) tries to stop him during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Jimmy V Classic, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Culver is gone, as are three of the other top five scorers from last year’s team that lost to Virginia in the national championship.

But defense still dominates for Chris Beard’s squad, a lesson No. 1 Louisville learned the hard way Tuesday in a stunning 70-57 loss to the the unranked Red Raiders at Madison Square Garden.

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Iowa held off No. 12 Texas Tech 72-61 on Thursday in the third round of the Las Vegas Invitational. Iowa (5-1) will play in the championship game Friday night against San Diego State or Creighton.BOX SCORE: IOWA 72, NO. 12 TEXAS TECH 61Joe Wieskamp had 16 points and six rebounds for the Hawkeyes, and CJ Fredrick scored 10. His 3-pointer off a broken play as the shot clock expired put Iowa up 64-59 with 1:29 left. He followed that up with two free throws with 1:07 remaining to put it away.

His team featured Louisville recruiting targets Jahmius Ramsey , Drew Timme and Victor Iwuakor. Ramsey visited U of L over the weekend with Williamson's pledge comes eight days after Louisville landed four-star North Carolina forward Jaelyn Withers. Another prospect from the Tar Heel State

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BOX SCORE: TEXAS TECH 70, NO. 1 LOUISVILLE 57

Texas Tech logged the upset as leading scorer Jahmi’us Ramsey watched from the bench with a hamstring injury. It broke a three-game losing streak in the process.

The loss marks the fourth this season for a top-ranked team and likely means college basketball will see a fifth change on the top line when the seventh AP poll of the season comes out next week.

Louisville jumped out to an early 12-5 lead. But Texas Tech leaned on its defense, responding with an 11-0 run that saw the Cardinals held scoreless for more than six minutes.

From there, the Red Raiders fought back every Louisville rally attempt as good looks at the basket for the Cardinals were few and far between.

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The 2012 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the Big 12 Conference. Tommy Tuberville lead the Red Raiders in his third season as the program's fourteenth head coach.

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