Texas Tech sports notebook: Honors keep coming in for Mahomes

Texas Tech's Marguerite Grubb (4) celebrates a point against Baylor on Nov. 2. The senior setter received academic all-America honors.Patrick Mahomes II was named the Big 12 scholar-athlete of the year in a vote by the conference coaches on Thursday morning.

But, his accolades didn’t stop there. Mahomes was also named a finalist for the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award, which is presented annually to college football’s top offensive player from the state of Texas.

The junior quarterback, who is the first Red Raider in program history to be recognized as the scholar-athlete of the year, will travel to Tyler near his hometown of Whitehouse, for the Ear Campbell awards banquet which will be held…