On the Court

Lady Raider basketball is back in action tonight, tip-off at 6:00 p.m., at the United Supermarkets Arena where they’ll host SFA. Game will be broadcast on ESPN+.

On the Gridiron

Dallas Morning News’ Tim Cowlishaw writes that Joey McGuire was right to call out the college football hypocrisy:

There’s something larger at play, too, and it’s the problem conference administrators never considered when they just kept adding teams in an effort to create four super conferences. The SEC, the Big 12 and the ACC all have 16 teams now and the bloated Big Ten has 18. Numbers and geography are utterly meaningless. Two of the conferences play nine conference games (Big Ten, Big 12) and the other two play eight. That means we are about to declare league champions that didn’t have to face about half the field during the regular season.

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The Longhorns won the SEC regular season by going 7-1, and congrats to them. There were two 6-2 teams. Texas played one of them (Georgia) and lost by 15. There were six 5-3 teams and Texas didn’t face any of them until they beat the Aggies by 10 on Saturday. No Alabama, no LSU, no Ole Miss, no South Carolina, no Mizzou for Texas. The Longhorns’ other six wins came against clubs with conference records that ran from 4-4 (Florida) to 0-8 (Mississippi State).

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal’s Don Williams on the 5 players that Texas Tech are targeting (i.e. not committed, but hopeful they earn a commit on National Signing Day). This list includes DE Tobi Haastrup from Katy, RB Brendan Haygood from Sachse, DE Lucien Holland from Inglewood, CA, DE Travis Moten from Louisville, KY, and WR Sean Robinson from Cibolo Steele. I’ll let you google all of these players.

Congrats to Tahj Brooks and Gino Garcia for being the Co-Offensive Player of the Week and Co-Special Teams Player of the Week for the Big 12!