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Texas Tech basketball classics: Revisiting Tech’s 2005 upset of Gonzaga

Back in the spring of 2005, basketball uniforms were at their all-time baggiest, sports were still broadcast in standard definition, and the NCAA Tournament was only broadcast on CBS meaning that fans didn’t get to see every game in its entirety. It was also that year that the Bob Knight era of Texas Tech basketball reached its crescendo when the legendary head coach took the Red Raiders to the Sweet 16, his 15th and final trip to the tournament’s second weekend.

While the head coach had been that deep in the tournament quite often, it was Tech’s first trip to the Sweet 16 since 1996 and just the second time the Red Raiders had advanced that far since the NCAA Tournament field was expanded to 64 teams in 1985.