On the Court

The Lady Raiders were at the Big 12 Media Day yesterday and lots of content to relay.

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— Lady Raider Basketball (@LadyRaiderWBB) October 22, 2024

Grant McCasland joined the Zone Star State podcast and this is 30 minutes of solid basketball talk.

On the Diamond

Texas Tech softball will be in action with NiJaree Canady on Thursday at Rocky Johnson field at 6:00 p.m. Canady saw her first action over the weekend going 7 innings, striking out 18 of 21 and also knocking in a couple of runs as well.

On the Course

Juliet Cherubet and Solomon Kipchoge were named the Big 12 Runners of the Week AND they were named the USTFCCCA National Athletes of the Week! Congrats!

On the Gridiron

Red Raider Sports’ Justin Apodaca writes about the defensive struggles:

For DeRuyter, this is already a vanilla scheme relative to what we have seen from his defensive units over the past two seasons, one that has been adjusted and trimmed down already this season, but it sounds as if Tech may be continuing to limit play calls to help the personnel play faster in coming weeks.

“We’ve got to do a much better job of number one affecting the quarterback. And we got to do that by pressuring him, giving him different looks, going back to playing fast,” DeRuyter said. “As a play caller, we’ve got some new guys in so I’m trying to keep things a little bit more vanilla than what I’d like to do. We’ve got to press it, and we’ve got to do things to affect these receivers, and we have to do some things to affect the quarterback.”