Huge swings of emotion, a frenetic end to regulation, missed opportunities, an opposing player that just couldn’t seem to miss, an eventual overtime loss when you had the attention of the entire country. For certain, Saturday’s 76-74 gutwrenching OT loss to Kentucky felt eerily similar to the 2019 National Title game for Texas Tech basketball fans.
On one hand, it would be shortsighted of us to take for granted the fact that this program is competing at the level it is these days. Yes, these high-profile shortcomings may be taking years off of our lives but it sure beats the days, less than a decade ago, when Texas Tech basketball was as irrelevant on the national stage as any program from a major conference could be.