Flipped cars & tear gas: Chaos follows Texas Tech’s historic basketball victory (VIDEOS)
The Texas Tech Red Raiders defeated the Michigan State Spartans on Saturday night, 61-51. The victory has gained the team a spot in the National Championship and it’s now set to face the Virginia Cavaliers. This is the very first NCAA Championship Final Four for the Red Raiders.
While the win was spectacular, the celebrations will likely go down in Texas Tech’s history as well. As the team won, its supporters gathered at the university's campus in Lubbock to party, expecting it to be a likely venue for celebrations.
This is what Lubbock is gonna look like if Tech wins Saturday pic.twitter.com/Sp2NCnTRJT
— kristen elise 🐚 (@khopper1012) 5 апреля 2019 г.
The festivities swiftly escalated into rowdiness, however, with people dancing on top of cars…
if anybody wants to see what just happened in lubbock pic.twitter.com/oarQIIcfdx
— jila shwani (@JilaShwani) 7 апреля 2019 г.
… and flipping them.
This is why lubbock can’t have nice things pic.twitter.com/n5j8L6Al9P
— Shelby Buterbaugh (@heyitsshelby_4) 7 апреля 2019 г.
The ‘party’ turned into outright rioting, with the team's fans erecting roadblocks, setting scooters and even couches on fire, chaotic footage from the scene shows.
Texas Tech fans are going CRAZY after earning a spot in the men’s national championship basketball game. pic.twitter.com/VckBrkA6sI
— Max Hengst (@MaxHengstDT) 7 апреля 2019 г.
While local police asked the fans to behave, the call was apparently left unheeded. Law enforcement – wearing riot control gear – ultimately deployed tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Yooo tech wildin pic.twitter.com/crvhqoC2Hs
— kwentin🕊 (@mkwentin) 7 апреля 2019 г.
Local officials later warned the rowdy fans that similar behavior during the next game “will not be tolerated.”
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