Chris Beard has done it again. For the third time in his four years as Texas Tech basketball head coach, he’s landed the highest-rated player in program history.
The latest addition to that list is 5-star guard Nimari Burnett, a 6-foot-3 prospect originally from Chicago, Illinois but playing his high school ball in California. Rated the No. 22 player in the nation by 247Sports.com, he surpasses 2019 signee Jahmi’us Ramsey as the highest-rated player to ever commit to Tech.
Ramsey was the No. 32 player in the 2019 signing class and he took the crown of the program’s highest-rated all-time signee away from Khavon Moore, the No.