On the Court

Huge congrats to the Lady Raider tennis team for winning the Big 12 Tournament. They had a share of the conference title, but the Big 12 Tournament title is all theirs.

Texas Tech is the undisputed Big 12 champions. After earning a three-way tie for first place in the Big 12 regular season with UCF and Oklahoma State, the Lady Raiders got an exciting 4-2 win over the Knights for the Big 12 Tournament trophy on Sunday afternoon at the Hurd Tennis Center. This is the team’s second tournament title and first since 2017. Junior Yekaterina Dmitrichenko was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament after going 3-0 in doubles and 2-0 in singles.

On the Diamond

On Saturday Texas Tech softball secured the series win over Arizona with a 5-2 victory. Texas Tech sits at 16-2 in the Big 12 standings with Arizona at 14-7 and they have Arizona State (13-8) at home this weekend and BYU (11-7) on the road after that to end conference play.

Texas Tech baseball secured a 9-2 win on Monday over Abilene Christian behind 6 strong innings from freshman Connor Mohan. and over the weekend they went 1-2 against Arizona State, salvaging the final game. They still have a ton of baseball yet to play with weekend series home against Arizona, on the road against West Virginia, at home against UCF, and on the road against BYU.

On the Hardwood

The Lady Raiders and Krista Gerlich announced two new coaches, Ketara Chapel and Jaida Williams:

Chapel enters her first season as an assistant coach with the Lady Raiders after spending the past four seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator with the Auburn Tigers (2021-25). While at Auburn, Chapel coached four All-SEC players and 15 SEC Academic Honor Roll selections.

Williams enters her first season as an assistant coach with the Lady Raiders after serving the 2024-25 season as the head coach of the Texas A&M International University Dustdevils. While at the helm of Texas A&M International, the Dustdevils ranked third in the Lone Star Conference with 18.25 turnovers forced per game and fourth in conference with 9.3 steals per game. Williams coached an All-LSC Honorable Mention selection in Josie Igherighe, who led the team with 12.8 points per game and 129 field goals made.

Fan Duel’s Jon Rothstein with his Top 45 and Texas Tech is at No. 7:

7. Texas Tech
Projected Starting 5:

G Christian Anderson
G Donovan Atwell
G LeJuan Watts
F Josiah Moseley
C JT Toppin

Projected Bench: Marial Akuentok, Jazz Henderson, Corbin Green, Leon Horner, Tyree Bryan
Key Newcomers: Marial Akuentok, Tyree Bryan (Santa Clara), LeJuan Watts (Washington State), Donovan Atwell (UNCG), Josiah Moseley (Villanova)
Key Losses: Elijah Hawkins, Kerwin Walton, Darrion Williams, Kevin Overton, Federiko Federiko

On the Gridiron

ESPN’s Max Olson on the current status of teams with the transfer portal:

Texas Tech: Coach Joey McGuire and GM James Blanchard have assembled an epic transfer portal class but are still looking for a difference-maker at slot receiver. Is that playmaker already in the portal — like Syracuse’s Trebor Pena — or will he become available ahead of the deadline? The Red Raiders are also looking for offensive line depth after losing two backups to the portal and haven’t ruled out the possibility of bringing former five-star freshman Micah Hudson back after his brief stint at Texas A&M.

CBS Sports with the Top 150 players and of all things Texas Tech has 5 players on the list: #40 DE David Bailey; #64 TE Terrance Carter; #95 WR Caleb Douglas; #133 LB Jacob Rodriguez; and #144 QB Behren Morton

Another episode of What’s Next with Robert Giovannetti and head coach Joey McGuire.