Thanks to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent cancellation of the Big 12 and NCAA Tournaments, the 2019-20 Texas Tech basketball season is going to leave all Red Raiders craving a closure that will never come. It’s one rare instance in which the world of sports doesn’t reward us with definitive answers.
That’s what we love about sports. There’s always a resolution and eventually, we find out who was victorious. In other aspects of life, such as politics, the outcomes are far more difficult to discern and the winners and losers are often left up to interpretation.
But now, because of a never before seen global crisis, we are left with nothing but speculation about how the fourth year of the Chris Beard era would have ended up.