Leading Off
It is your normal Friday schedule, we’ve got this Morning’s Stake, then Seven Points at 8:00 a.m., Staff & Community Predictions at 10:00 a.m., the Weekly Conversation at 12:00 p.m., and an open thread this evening. I’ve got my date night tonight, even though I still can’t fully breathe out of my nose from being sick earlier this week. Hope you all have a great day.
Texas Tech Volleyball
Friday night – It’s a party in the USA as we host ISU at 6 p.m.
Show your @TexasTechFB 🎟 for Saturday at the ticket office to receive the group rate.
🔴#WreckEm⚫️https://t.co/eTGQIHI5Wq
— Texas Tech Volleyball (@TexasTechVB) September 27, 2018
Texas Tech Soccer
We’ve got the Sooners at their place then the defending Big 12 champs at ours.
It starts tomorrow in Norman. Let’s do this. 👏#WreckEm https://t.co/HmtScq9Vml
— Texas Tech Soccer (@TexasTechSoccer) September 27, 2018
Texas Tech Cross Country
Our full preview for tomorrow’s meet in Madison includes a look at who else is going, quotes, and how to follow along 📰⬇️#WreckEm https://t.co/dKz1oDE71B
— Texas Tech T&F/XC (@TexasTechTF) September 27, 2018
Texas Tech Tennis
Our fall schedule rolls on, as we’ll be competing in Tulsa and Houston this weekend. Read about the upcoming events at the link below.
🔴#WreckEm⚫️
— Texas Tech Men’s Tennis (@TexasTechMTEN) September 27, 2018
Lady Raider Basketball
Thank you to all the fans who came out to the Lady Raider Tip-Off event tonight! We had a blast. Hope you did too!
📸: https://t.co/YpXwCoEQdE pic.twitter.com/H9iea7ZJsi
— Lady Raider WBB (@LadyRaiderWBB) September 28, 2018
Texas Tech Baseball
Oh yes.
Good to be back.
🔴#WreckEm⚫️ pic.twitter.com/Q4wZyYkgOj
— Texas Tech Baseball (@TTU_Baseball) September 28, 2018
Texas Tech Basketball
A-J Media’s Carlos Silva, Jr. reports that Texas Tech is hosting College of Southern Idaho’s Khalid Thomas (6-9/202), who averaged nearly 15 points and over 6 rebounds a game. Silva also reports that Antwan January will not visit this weekend, but will visit at a later point.
Texas Tech Football
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🔴#WreckEm⚫️ pic.twitter.com/zLGUvCFcKY
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) September 27, 2018
I thought this was pretty funny.
Watching Big 12 football this season pic.twitter.com/Il77pKJp1L
— Joe Buettner (@ByJoeBuettner) September 27, 2018
Links!
- A-J Media’s Don Williams has a notebook with how Texas Tech reached out to the little girl at an Astros game who was told to be quiet by another fan, additionally, the athletic department sent out an extensive survey to season ticket holders to ask them what they envision for the south end zone.
- Heartland College Sports has their preview and prediction of West Virginia vs. Texas Tech and Big 12 picks.
- MetroNews’ Alex Hickey writes about how West Virginia’s defense faces a real test against the Texas Tech offense.
- MetroNews’ Sean Manning writes about the history of West Virginia playing in Lubbock.
- The Dominion Post’s Alex Hickey writes about how brothers Jake Spavital, offensive coordinator for West Virginia, and Zac Spavital, co defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for Texas Tech, will go against each other for this game.
- ProFootballFocus says that Alan Bowman is the best freshman player in the country to date.
- USA Today has their picks for each game