Tag: basketball

–BOX SCORE– Player of the Game | Zach Smith had a career-high 25 points going 8-10 from the field. He was perfect from downtown hitting 2-2, and went 7-9 from the charity stripe. He also added 8 rebounds and 2 assists to his statsheet. This is a game that Smith got to shine as he […]

One of the most wonderful things about basketball is the three point shot. If you caught the chat I had with Seth on the Tuesday post you can see where we believe the direction of the program is headed under Chris Beard. Actually, Seth brought up that basketball seems to be trending to the three-point […]

Searching for articles on the internet to find some insight to Chris Beard’s coaching style, I stumbled upon the website PickAndPop.net run by Army men’s basketball Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert. It is a great site with a lot of X’s & O’s breakdowns, articles, and it also has clinic notes. In his clinic notes section […]

“Protect This House” was the motto of the current Texas Tech athletics sponsor Under Armour for many years during the glory days of Red Raiders football. Well, maybe it’s time to bring back the slogan to Lubbock. Not for the gridiron warriors, but for our scrappy basketball squad. I think our basketball team is building […]

Heading into the game with Longwood tomorrow, Texas Tech is off to a mighty fine non-conference record of 10-1. While the overall record is very nice, the arguments against Tech basketball is that the one “good” team that we did play was a loss. I think at this point in the season people and experts […]

Although I could not fully tell from the television set, there seemed to be a nice sized basketball crowd out for the barnburner versus Rice on Saturday. It got noticeably louder in the USA than the other games I have watched this season. I chalked it up to the back-and-forth battle on the court that […]

It’s only two games into the season, but let’s breakdown some stats… Those first couple of games were completely different in terms of scoring mainly because of our shooting. In the first game the Red Raiders were red hot from the field hitting 61.1% of our shots (33-54). That is a great shooting night for […]

I was in Lubbock this past weekend, and had Sunday brunch with Michael_LSRR and Michael LaBarre. As we were fussing about the football game and chatting it up about sports it became clear that we all agreed on one thing. This Red Raiders basketball season has some high expectations, mainly because we all were excited […]