No. 10 Texas Tech will look to avoid a third Big 12 Conference loss in the past four games on Saturday afternoon when it travels to Lawrence, Kan., to face a Kansas team that is unranked for the first time since 2021.Texas Tech (21-7, 12-5) is coming off a 69-61 loss to No. 4 Houston on Monday, in which the Red Raiders played without their second- and third-leading scorers in Chance McMillian and Darrion Williams, who average a combined 30 points per game.Only six players registered minutes for the Red Raiders as they shot just 17 of 57 from the field and 6 of 30 from 3-point range.While McMillian and Williams remain questionable with lower-body injuries leading into Saturday’s matchup, Texas Tech still has its leading scorer and rebounder in JT Toppin, who is averaging 17.2 points and 9.2 rebounds per game.Toppin has led the team in rebounding in the last six games and has been the top scorer in five of those games. One of those performances was a career-high 41 points in a 111-106 double-overtime victory over Arizona State on Feb. 12.While being without McMillian and Williams has cost the Red Raiders, coach Grant McCasland insisted the return process wasn’t as simple as some make it out to be.”I just don’t make any decisions as to who plays,” McCasland says. “Every situation is so unique, you know, it really is. Everybody has their own version of what they can go through in order to continue to play. I just don’t have any conversations with anybody about that.”Sometimes you understand it and it’s clear in regards to what the best thing is for them, and sometimes it’s not clear. It’s a really hard decision to decide what to do in these scenarios.”Kansas (19-9, 10-7) enters Saturday’s matchup following back-to-back wins over struggling teams Oklahoma State and Colorado. Despite this, the Jayhawks were still stripped of their Top 25 ranking this week, having lost four of their first six games in February.