The prevailing thought around the country is that this season’s Texas Tech basketball team will take a step back after losing six of its top eight scorers from last year’s Elite Eight run. Certainly, there will be more new faces than normal on the bench this year but that is nothing out of the ordinary for head coach Chris Beard.
After leaving Texas Tech (where he had been an assistant coach under Bob and Pat Knight) in 2011, Beard became somewhat of a basketball vagabond making four different head coaching stops in five seasons.
But while his unusual career path that led him through the American Basketball Association before climbing the ladder from Division II McMurray University to Division II Angelo St.