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  LUBBOCK, Texas -- Forced into the starting lineup after Zach Smith twisted his ankle in warmups, junior transfer Niem Stevenson led Texas Tech with a career-high 16 points, five rebounds and three assists in a 87-50 drubbing of the University of Texas-San Antonio Wednesday. Abraham Almonte Jersey .Its next man up, Stevenson, a transfer from Kansas Seward County Community College, said. Zach couldnt play this game. Just running the offense. Devon (Thomas) finding people, everybody sharing the ball. They trust me to take them shots.Keenan Evans scored 16 points and teammate Matthew Temple scored a career-high 13 points.Justin Gray and Anthony Livingston finished with 10 points apiece for Texas Tech. Thomas added seven points, six rebounds and six assists.Im probably tougher on Devon than anybody on this team because I know that we gotta get something out of him to kind of have the kind of season we all want to have, Texas Tech coach Chris Beard said of Thomas.Texas San Antonio (2-7) was led by 10 points from Jeff Beverly and eight points apiece from Byron Frohnen and Giovanni De Nicolao.Beverly entered the game averaging 15.8 points per game.We just couldnt get any rhythm going, Texas-San Antonio coach Steve Henson said. Tech does a good job, again, on both ends of the floor. Their defense was good. Obviously, people are paying a lot of attention to Jeff.The Red Raiders, who never trailed, won the points off a turnover margin of 23-8. Texas Tech outrebounded the Roadrunners 36-27.Beard, in his first season as Texas Techs coach, has his team on a five-game winning streak.The Red Raiders only loss came to Auburn on Nov. 22, 67-65.After UTSA was held scoreless for the final three minutes of the first period, Texas Tech led 42-21 at halftime.Entering the game, Texas Tech was No. 4 in the nation in shooting percentage with 52.3 percent. Against the Roadrunners, it finished shooting 52 percent from the floor.BIG PICTURETexas-San Antonio: The Roadrunners, which last won a game on Nov. 25 against Texas State, are in their first season under Henson. Henson is one of 10 Division I mens basketball coaches that have both played and coached in the NBA.Texas Tech: The Red Raiders have thrived even without standout forwards Norense Odiase and Aaron Ross, who are out with lower leg injuries. Smith, a forward who averages 11.3 points per game, was a late scratch after sustaining an injury during warmups.We miss Norense, Beard said. And we miss Ross. Now, tonight, the deal with Zach was just a freaky thing. We just have to get healthy more than anything.UP NEXTTexas-San Antonio hosts Southeastern Oklahoma State Saturday.Texas Tech faces Nicholls State at home on Dec. 14. Michael Saunders Jersey . Luis Suarezs double powered Liverpool to a 4-0 victory over Fulham, and Southampton easily overcame Hull 4-1 to continue the south coast clubs impressive start to the season. Liverpool and Southampton sent Chelsea down to fourth place as the west London club was held to 2-2 at home. Blaine Boyer Jersey . At a Manhattan federal court hearing, attorney Jordan Siev said his law office has gotten more evidence nearly every day to support its lawsuit accusing MLB and Selig of going on a "witch hunt" to ruin Rodriguezs reputation and career. He said the defendants went "way over the line. http://www.royalsteamproshop.com/Royals-Kelvin-Herrera-Kids-Jersey/ ;. Newcastle dominated in the early stages but City weathered the storm and then raised its game in extra time. Negredo broke the deadlock from close range after a simple move in the 99th minute before Dzeko took the ball round goalkeeper Tim Krul to seal the victory in the 105th. On the morning of June 26, a number of Dota 2 teams gathered in the cavernous reception hall of the Longxi International Hotel in Wuxi, China, for the The International 6 China Qualifier. They were explicitly told to arrive early for the 9:30 a.m. opening ceremony.Only one team did as instructed, making it by 9 a.m.: Wings Gaming.We shouldnt have come early, said its manager, Zaizai, looking on restlessly as he and his players waited and waited. Indeed, Wings was making what in Dota circles might be considered a rookie mistake of sorts: The squad did as it was told, and ended up having to wait for others who did not.Some vets can play it slick because theyve been around the block and know better. Others, already burdened by an endless parade of qualifiers and online tournaments, recognize that the tournaments they attend often need them more than the other way around. Not Wings. Young and still untouched by fame, fortune and burnout, its biggest accomplishments likely still lie ahead; as the organization fights to establish itself, for the moment it aims to follow the rules.One team battling for a TI6 spot through the China Qualifier didnt even bring its uniforms for the official photo shoot, which had to be rescheduled for the following day. Someone eventually delivered them by driving a few hours from the teams training base in Shanghai to neighboring Jiangsu Province, where the idyllic, wealthy little town of Huaxi (known as one of Chinas model socialist villages) and its colossal central hotel, the LAN site, is located.The team was not Wings, whose uniforms are little more than t-shirts with Wings lettered across. Very homely compared to the crisp, sponsored designs that other Chinese teams seem to bring afresh to each LAN. Every other team has a home base in the high-rent coastal metropolis of Shanghai. Not Wings, who are still in faraway, foggy Chongqing; had it left the uniforms at base, it mightve been easier to find a shop to make new ones than fly them in from nearly a thousand miles away.Most household-name Chinese teams revolve around or are captained by an accomplished old guard, bringing in just enough new blood from the nations teeming youth and academy squads to stay elite. Mid players are usually a teams youngest in and outside China, singularly focused, brazen and mechanically brilliant, as the role is perhaps more dependent on individual skill than any other position. But fail to perform, and a player can be just a family issue away from banishment back to the meat grinder, his youthful inexperience deemed not ready for bright lights and veteran expectations.Not so for Wings. Its mid, Zhou bLink Yang, is by far its oldest player at 24 years old. Meanwhile, the team is captained by its youngest player, Zhang Y. Liping (also known as Innocence), who at 18 still needs his parents to sign off on his visa and travel applications. The two first teamed together two years ago after passing tryouts for Speed Gaming International alonng with offlaner Zhang Faith_bian Ruida; these three players eventually became the backbone of a Wings squad that came together in its current form at the end of last summer. George Brett Jersey. Some other Chinese teams have a safe, formulaic style and draft philosophy which stems from their captains preferences for stability and the ability to control as many variables as possible. Not Wings. Three of its players are still audacious teenagers, including Captain Y, whose willingness to experiment and pick just about anything is a breath of fresh air in a sometimes overly stale region. Through its ten-game group stage run at the TI6 Qualifier, Wings used core combinations ranging from Weaver and Juggernaut to Medusa and Void, Dragon Knight and Luna, Drow and Windranger, Huskar and Mirana, and Timbersaw and Anti-Mage. At Nanyang, Wings showed that even Pudge is part of an arsenal that can totally disregard the meta at a moments notice.Some Chinese teams star players have achieved so much and been through it all so many times that theyve earned lasting acclaim and financial security. A player who has truly made it in China can get paid much more to stream than from team salaries and domestic tournament payouts. But streaming generally requires lengthy hours to fulfill contracts, and its focus on providing entertainment to viewers can sometimes run at odds with individual and team improvement. Some Chinese streamers have even held off practicing for Dotas crown jewel event, The International. Many Chinese teams face tougher and tougher balancing acts between incentives for player and franchise. Not Wings. It doesnt have lucrative streaming deals yet and, for the time being, doesnt stream at all. Its still climbing the mountain, looking to prove itself, and hungering for more experience.Many of the throngs that came to Huaxi bearing signs and chanting for Vici Gamings BurNIng Legion didnt even stay for Wings matches, or its final triumph in the qualifier. There are old legends who earned a special place in the hearts of fans long ago, like guest commentator, streamer, and Dota legend Gong ZSMJ Jian, who peaked during the Dota 1 era. Not so for Wings. Some of these same rabid fans of Chinese Dota, shuttling daily to Huaxi through the rain because they were unable to book hotel rooms, couldnt yet match names and faces of the current Wings roster. Even in victory as the first to qualify for TI, no one mobbed the players as they did their old gods. 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