When your coach and leading scorer are both ejected in the opening minutes of a road game against a higher-ranked team that's won 33 straight at home, you're supposed to lose. No real person would take issue with that sentence,

JT Toppin and Grant McCasland were both ejected from the Texas Tech basketball team's game against Houston less than 4 minutes into the game.

The Cougars take on Texas Tech in a Big 12 Conference showdown between ranked squads. Houston is ranked No. 6 in this week’s Associated Press poll and No. 5 in the latest USA Today coaches’ poll, while the Red Raiders come in ranked No.