The Texas Tech basketball team has needed help in the post all season. That was especially true against Kentucky on Saturday night as the Wildcats featured two athletic 6-foot-10 or taller forwards.
It isn’t that Tech doesn’t have a player of that size, it’s just that Chris Beard doesn’t seem to fully trust the big man he has on his bench. But in the five minutes of action 7-foot freshman Russell Tchewa played against Kentucky, we saw reason to believe that the Cameroon native can help this year’s team.
It wasn’t until the 2:46 mark of the first half that we got our first look at “Big Russ” as Techewa is affectionately known to his teammates.