Leading Off
Ultramarathon Update. Just to give all of you a heads-up, my ultramarathon is on Saturday so I’ll be out of pocket for pretty much the entire weekend. I don’t know that we’ll be able to update the baseball series thread as the staff is pretty busy this weekend (Keith will be in Frisco for the Frisco Classic). Dan will take care of the post-game thoughts after the TCU game.
Texas Tech Track and Field
No slowing down. #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/NjGVTGPEVv
— Texas Tech T&F/XC (@TexasTechTF) February 27, 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
Texas Tech Softball
WE’RE FINALLY HOME AT THE ROCK! 🙌 See you Friday! https://t.co/hdQzOsNgsO
🔴#WreckEm⚫️
— Texas Tech Softball (@TexasTechSB) February 28, 2019
Texas Tech Baseball
Calling all DFW Red Raiders.
🔴#WreckEm⚫️ pic.twitter.com/aWTwkMSWd4
— Texas Tech Baseball (@TTU_Baseball) February 27, 2019
Texas Tech Basketball
Coach of the Year Candidate. Via NCAA, the Naismith Award released their 15 nominees for men’s basketball coach of the year, which includes Texas Tech head coach Chris Beard:
Rick Barnes
Chris Beard
John Beilein
Tony Bennett
Mark Few
Tom Izzo
Mike Krzyzewski
Chris Mack
Eric Musselman
Nate Oats
Matt Painter
Kelvin Sampson
Roy Williams
Steve Wojciechowski
Mike Young
Big 12 Coach of the Year Candidates. Rivals’ Eric Bossi considered the candidates for the Big 12 coach of the year and Bossi thinks it should be Chris Beard:
Bossi’s analysis: After making an Elite Eight run last season, Beard and the Red Raiders lost an awful lot and weren’t even picked to finish in the top half of the Big 12. Here they are near the end of the season with a chance to end Kansas’ 14-year streak atop the conference. Beard has helped develop sophomore Jarrett Culver into a potential All-American. Scott Drew also deserves praise for the job he’s done with a very short-handed Baylor team.
You all won’t like reading this, but I think Baylor’s Scott Drew should be considered too, his team was picked to finish 9th overall, they’re currently just 1 game behind Texas Tech and Kansas State in the Big 12 standings and had a pretty terrific comeback against Texas last night. Baylor has a very tough remaining schedule, at Kansas State and at Kansas, so they probably won’t finish just 1 game back, but you never know. Acknowledging that someone else has done a really good job of coaching doesn’t mean that I don’t think that Beard shouldn’t win it. And truthfully, I think that whoever wins the Big 12 should probably get it because if Bruce Weber wins the Big 12 then he should get it. If it’s Weber and Beard that do it, then they should probably share it as co-coaches of the year.
Texas Tech Football
Wells on Heartland College Sports. Texas Tech head coach Matt Wells joined Heartland College Sports’ Pete Mundo to discuss why he chose Texas Tech, quarterback Alan Bowman and much more.