The past couple weeks have been bumpy for Texas Tech basketball. The 3 game losing skid was broken by a narrow home victory over Arkansas followed up by a knockout punch to TCU. We then had our tails kicked by Kansas on the road, and come back to Lubbock to absolutely demolish WVU. During this […]
Texas Tech Hoops – 8 Man Rotation
Guns way up Red Raiders, we are undefeated in Big 12 play through our early first 3 games! Watching the games against WVU, KSU, and OU we are starting to figure out the strategy that Coach Beard and staff will execute throughout conference play. From the zone switch to man-to-man on defense, to the adjusted […]
Texas Tech Hoops with Big Win in Morgantown 62-59
Click here for —>BOX SCORE Player of the Game | After not scoring a point and being in foul trouble in the first half Jarrett Culver put the team on his back and scored 18 much needed points in the second half to secure the victory. We all knew that Culver was the best player […]
Texas Tech Hoops – Q&A with Duke Hoops Insider Steve Wiseman
Steve Wiseman joins STP to help us get some better insights on the upcoming basketball mega-showdown with Duke. He is currently a sportswriter with The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC), as well as The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) covering ACC sports (mainly Duke). Embed from Getty Images DanSwany: Offensively, Duke will sometimes struggle from beyond the […]
Texas Tech Hoops – Dissecting the Slow Starts
Like all of you that are cheering on our basketball team, I am taking a lot of pride in witnessing this team fight to remain undefeated while moving up the Top 25 polls. Most recently against Memphis, you always get the feeling that every time the Red Raiders fall behind in a match all you […]
Texas Tech Hoops – Early Success & Respect
The Red Raiders are off to a hot start with a 6-0 early season record, with a nice quality win over a very good Nebraska squad. When the season first began, Texas Tech was under the radar as most of the national college basketball world wrote off our chances of high success this season. We […]
Texas Tech Hoops – Halftime Speech
As I was watching the game yesterday, in the first half I had a bad feeling about the product I was seeing out of the floor. Things were not flowing effortlessly and the team chemistry was not there. At times there were flashes of brilliance, yet I was hoping to see more energy from the […]
Texas Tech Hoops – 5 Bold Predictions
#1 The Red Raiders beat Duke in NYC On December 20th at the Madison Square Garden in NYC, Texas Tech will take down Duke basketball. Even with the Blue Devils superstar Zion Williamson and his crew, Coach K will be outdone by Coach Beard. We will have played teams like University of Southern Cal and […]
Texas Tech Hoops – New Faces & Reloading
The Big 12 preseason rankings did not show us the love that we all know we deserve. Texas Tech came in at #7 out of 10 in the recent voting. It is alright, we have been here before and will have to prove ourselves to the rest of the conference and college basketball nation that […]
Texas Tech Hoops – Chris Beard Basketball Contract (w/ Financial Agreements & Incentives)
As promised back in January, when I first posted about the Chris Beard contract situation. We are going back to reflect on how the season ended and get our final conclusions on how the contract with our glorious head basketball coach turned out. Let’s refresh our memory from the first time we did this during […]