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TV exposure a side benefit of playing in the NIT(0)

March 19, 2010

Just Texas Tech’s luck: the Red Raiders are scheduled for the only National Invitation Tournament second-round game that will not be broadcast on national television.
“I was hoping, but since neither one of us was the top seed I can see them not taking us,” Tech coach Pat Knight said Friday. “But I was disappointed. I [...]

TV exposure a side benefit of playing in the NIT

NIT-ology. Thank goodness for Google.

I admit it, I had no idea where to begin looking for information on Tech’s chances to make it into the NIT. So like any good modern American, I started with Google.
The result? A lot of people with a lot of very amateur looking blogs think the Red Raiders will be in. Their seed, however, [...]

Knight worried by Singletary’s shooting

If one odd illness has plagued Texas Tech basketball this season, it’s the random shooting slumps by the team’s best offensive players. Each of the team’s top scorers have gone scoreless in one game this season, and several times they’ve been held to just a field goal or two.
It happened again Tuesday night; this time [...]

Dunn sings his way to second in Tech talent show

Wally Dunn’s solo performance of Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” had a tough act to follow Monday night.
Participating in a Texas Tech athlete talent show, Dunn and his guitar took the stage after reserve quarterback Jacob Karam played the piano and sang his way to a first-place finish in the competition.
“As soon as he went up I [...]

ISU’s Staiger mess four years in the making

Lucca Staiger’s departure from Iowa State shocked the team on Tuesday.
By Wednesday night, though, the Cyclones seemed to be piecing together a less surprising version of why their starting off-guard jumped ship midseason.
Staiger, a two-year starter, skipped a Tuesday morning practice and instead asked to get breakfast with assistant coach Jeff Rutter. There the German [...]

Tech hopeful as it hits the road

Ask a random sampling of Texas Tech basketball players which arena is tougher to play in, and they’ll offer split opinions when the choices are New Mexico’s Pitt and Oklahoma State’s Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Coach Pat Knight hopes the Raiders loss last month at the former prepares them for Saturday’s game at the latter.
“It’s the closest we [...]

Tech hopeful as it hits the road

Ask a random sampling of Texas Tech basketball players which arena is tougher to play in, and they’ll offer split opinions when the choices are New Mexico’s Pitt and Oklahoma State’s Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Coach Pat Knight hopes the Raiders loss last month at the former prepares them for Saturday’s game at the latter.
“It’s the closest we [...]

In defense of Bob Knight

Anybody who’s talked college basketball with me for a minute will be shocked to read the following statement, but I mean it with exceptional sincerity:
Hiring Bob Knight was an excellent move for Texas Tech.
I say this now, almost a decade after Knight arrived in Lubbock, because there’s been a whole lot of ciritical comparison raised [...]


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