Texas Tech basketball: Red Raiders offer high-scoring Division II forward

Parker Fox of Northern State takes a shot during his team's NSIC tournament win over Augustana on Saturday at the Pentagon. Thumbnail 1dx30502

The Texas Tech basketball team needs to beef up its offensive talent level this offseason. That’s no revelatory statement.

So to try to remedy the program’s biggest shortcoming, the Red Raiders are pursuing Parker Fox, a 6-foot-8 forward who played last year at Northern State, a Division II school. Now before you roll your eyes at the idea of recruiting a Division II athlete, know that he also holds offers from the likes of Creighton, Cal-Berkley, Clemson, Ohio State, Florida State, South Carolina, LSU, St. John’s, Xavier, Butler, Arkansas, Nebraska,…