Texas Tech Volleyball
Y’all, these three are ready to put on a show! @emilyhill_16, @BrookeKanas and @alex_kirby14 are heading to Colorado Springs, Colo., to try out for the U.S. Women’s National Team!
🔴#WreckEm⚫️ pic.twitter.com/JH5hO3qmbB
— Texas Tech Volleyball (@TexasTechVB) February 26, 2019
Texas Tech Track and Field
It’s week 6️⃣ and the largest victory in the history of the Big 12 means we’re not going anywhere in the national ranks. #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/mo2eGKGfHa
— Texas Tech T&F/XC (@TexasTechTF) February 26, 2019
Texas Tech Golf
We’ve wrapped up play at the 2019 Icon Invitational in Houston. Read about our final round at the link below.
🔴#WreckEm⚫️
— Texas Tech W Golf (@TexasTechWGolf) February 26, 2019
Texas Tech Tennis
Plenty of reasons to come out to both of our matches on Sunday!
We’ll have a youth clinic after our first match at 1 pm, followed by free food at our second match at 5:30.
🔴#WreckEm⚫️ pic.twitter.com/yMWePrFBnT
— Texas Tech Men’s Tennis (@TexasTechMTEN) February 26, 2019
Lady Raiders leap back into the #OracleITARankings Top 25 after a 2-1 weekend at the Blue Gray National! #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/wSCrzJnaU2
— Texas Tech Women’s Tennis (@TexasTechWTEN) February 26, 2019
Texas Tech Softball
🥎 #14 @SoftbalAmerica
🥎 #16 @USASoftball
🥎 #18 @NFCAorg🔴#WreckEm⚫️ pic.twitter.com/aoaftImvhs
— Texas Tech Softball (@TexasTechSB) February 26, 2019
Lady Raider Basketball
Another Heartbreaker. There have been so many of these this year. Ladies: keep those receipts for next year.
RECAP | Lady Raiders Suffer Last Second Heartbreaker
📰➡️https://t.co/CYPimolkFi pic.twitter.com/w4f5QmN1cD
— Lady Raider WBB (@LadyRaiderWBB) February 27, 2019
Texas Tech Baseball
Texas Tech 7, New Mexico State 0.
Well, that’s why Tadlock started Arkansas transfer Bryce Bonnin, from all accounts, he had some pretty terrific stuff, going 6 innings, allowing 4 hits, 2 walks (one of those was to start the game), and striking out 3. Trey Garlett, John McMillon, and Caleb Freeman all pitched an inning to close this out with the only hit allowed by Freeman, otherwise, it was a clean frame for each of them. Max Marusak started in center for Gabe Holt and went 1-5. Brian Klein went 3-5 with an RBI and scoring 2 runs. Cameron Warren went 1-4 with a 3-run home run in the 4th inning. Nice mid-week game.
Texas Tech Basketball
Fireside Chat. Another gem, this time recognizing local Lubbock band Flatland Calvary. Solid.
He’s brought 🔥 to the court all season and now @Sneaky_Bounce brings 🔥 to the @CoachBeardTTU #FiresideChat to talk music, some basketball, hot dogs and also helps us promote @CoachAdams_TTU picture night. #4To1
🎵@Goapele @FlatlandCavalry pic.twitter.com/MZL5e0LZ6i
— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) February 27, 2019
Player of the Year Rankings. NBC Sports’ Rob Dauster has his player of the year rankings and has Jarrett Culver 7th overall:
There was a point in time where it looked like Jarrett Culver had forgotten how to shoot the basketball. Starting at the turn of the calendar and extending through Texas Tech’s 79-63 loss to Kansas on Feb. 2nd, Culver had a stretch in Big 12 play where he shot 3-for-33 from three. In this recent five-game winning streak, however, Culver has found his rhythm again, hitting 10-for-25 from beyond the arc during that stretch. He’s the engine that runs a Texas Tech offense that, over the course of the last three weeks, has finally looked good enough to carry this team in March.
Darkhorse. An SI roundtable was asked about the three teams, Texas Tech, LSU, and Marquette, not being blue bloods, which do they most likely consider to make a final four and most picked Texas Tech:
Single: Texas Tech nearly made it to San Antonio last March on the strength of its back-alley-tough defense, and that was before the unit rose all the way to the top of kenpom.com’s efficiency rankings and Jarrett Culver blossomed into a do-everything scorer on the other end. For my bitcoin, the Red Raiders are the Big 12’s best team, and their recent run of red-hot shooting could be that extra confidence boost their inconsistent offense needs to survive the second weekend.
Shannon Prediction. Rivals’ Corey Evans was asked about 4-star small forward Terrence Shannon and where he’ll end up:
Top-60 wing Terrence Shannon had remained vocal about staying patient with the recruiting process this winter and is set on a group that consists of Florida State, DePaul, Georgetown, Illinois and Texas Tech. There has been a lot of talk about one of the home-state programs, DePaul and Illinois, being his eventual landing spot. Florida State had gained a ton of traction this fall, too, and Georgetown has long been viewed as a dark horse in his recruitment. Despite all of that, it looks as if Texas Tech has taken the pole position for him. There is still no timeline for a commitment, and while the Red Raiders could wrap this up in the coming weeks, his remaining finalists continue to pursue him.
Texas Tech Football
Alliance. Mercury News’ Jon Wilner has a story about how a former Big 12 president proposed a strategic alliance with the Pac-12, basically playing all of the non-conference games against each other. I don’t see how this would happen, but Jon Wefald, a former K-State president was asked by West Virginia president Gordon Gee to come up with a way to strengthen the Big 12 and this was the idea he came up with.