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Texas Tech basketball: Chris Beard talks about his 2020 signing class

Since the moment Chris Beard took the 2017-18 Texas Tech basketball team to the Elite Eight, the deepest NCAA Tournament run in school history at the time, Red Raider fans have been dreaming about what he might be able to accomplish with elite recruiting classes. We are about to find out.

That’s because, on Thursday, Beard and the Red Raiders welcomed the No. 5 ranked signing class in the nation and the top class in the Big 12 according to 247Sports. Trailing only Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee in the class rankings, the Red Raiders have landed the best signing class in program history for the second-straight season after bringing in the No.