Viva The Matadors · Mar 24, 2019
It’s time to admit it, Texas Tech is a basketball school now
Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty ImagesI used to joke with my friends that Texas Tech was a basketball school. Now, three years later, those words that were a joke are now a legitimate statement. At that point in 2015, everyone was still excited about Kliff Kingsbury and the dumpster fire he would lead. It was still a football school even though the program was in a slump. Little did I or anyone else know, someone would come along and shift the paradigm of Texas Tech sports.
Tubby Smith left. Going to Memphis, a job he proclaimed as a Top-25 job. I honestly thought a tournament loss in the first round would be the best performance that I would see in my years at Texas Tech.
I was wrong.