Can Texas Tech Provide a Template for Oklahoma State and Mike Boynton?

I’ve become enamored (fascinated?) with this 2019 Texas Tech basketball team. They have a likely lottery pick in Jarrett Culver, and third-year (!) coach Chris Beard has them in the Final Four and two games from a title. They shared the Big 12 title with Kansas State and have been transformed over the past few years under Beard into a mini powerhouse.

Bill Haisten even wrote recently — and somewhat humorously — comparing the Tech situation with Tulsa’s situation in the early 2000s (I’m sure Tech fans appreciated the mid-major comp and handled it with grace and understanding).

And because Beard and Mike Boynton are relative newbies to the Big 12 (and D1 college basketball coaching in general),…