Texas Tech Red Raiders Football, Basketball, Recruiting News

Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News — Determining whether your team is going to make the NCAA Tournament can be worrisome with so many prediction brackets on the Internet. In some brackets, your school is in. In others, your school is out. But finding a predictive bracket for the National Invitation Tournament is nearly impossible. After scouring the Internet, it seems Texas Tech is predicted to participate in the 32-team NIT as a No. 5 seed according to the Web sites nitology.com, bloggingthebracket.com and collegehoopsnet.com. In the NIT, the higher seeds host the tournament's games. As a No. 5 seed, Texas Tech would play all of...

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Leach met face-to-face with Craig James Saturday

Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News — Former Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach and ESPN college football analyst Craig James sat across from each other Saturday as James gave a sworn deposition for Leach's lawsuit against Texas Tech University, according to the Associated Press. James -- whose complaint got Leach suspended and then fired -- declined to comment as he walked into Texas Tech's administration Saturday morning, according to the Associated Press. On Friday, Leach said he would not be able to directly question James. James' son, Red Raider receiver Adam James, was to give a deposition later Saturday. Leach would not b...

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Ex-Tech coach Mike Leach: '10 incredible years'

Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News — Former Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach said farewell Friday after giving more than a five-hour deposition to his attorneys in his lawsuit against Texas Tech for breach of contract and defamation. "We've had 10 incredible years here, and had a really good day today," said Leach, voice cracking and eyes filled with tears, according to the Associated Press. "What can I say? It's 10 years." A member of Leach's legal team, Paul Dobrowski, told the AP that the legal team is anticipating that the case will go to trial. ESPN college football analyst Craig James and his son, Texas Tech receiver Ad...

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Red Raiders' baseball team falls to TCU

Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News — Texas Tech's baseball team lost the opener of a three-game series against No. 7 TCU, 8-7, on Friday night at Lupton Stadium in Fort Worth. Texas Tech had the tying run at third base with two outs in the ninth inning, but freshman right fielder Jamodrick McGruder was picked off by TCU catcher Bryan Haloday to end the game. Friday's loss was the Red Raider's second to TCU (10-2) this season. The Horned Frogs beat Texas Tech, 11-2, last week at Minute Maid Park in Houston in conjunction with the Houston College Classic. The teams play Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. at Lupton Stadium.

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Big 12: Texas A&M leads No. 1 Kansas, 38-35

Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News — So far, so good for Texas A&M; in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship semifinals against Kansas. The Aggies have prevented any outlandish Kansas runs in front of a partisan Jayhawk crowd at the Sprint Center and lead 38-35 at halftime. Donald Sloan has hit for 13 points, some with an impressive degree of difficulty, as A&M; is shooting 50 percent from the field. Kansas has made 56.5 percent of its shots but has 12 turnovers that have led to 11 A&M; points. A win puts A&M; in position for at least a third seed in the NCAA Tournament.

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Attorney: Mike Leach's case against Texas Tech stronger after depositions

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Pat Knight to return at Texas Tech

Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News — Pat Knight will return for his third full season as men's basketball coach at Texas Tech. Tech athletic spokesman Chris Cook confirmed that Knight will be back. The story was first reported today by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, quoting Tech athletic director Gerald Myers. In reality, there was little doubt that Knight would return, even after a seven-game losing streak late in the season. The Red Raiders are 17-15 and likely bound for the NIT after a first-round Phillips 66 Big 12 win over Nebraska Colorado. Tech loses just two seniors, Darko Cohadarevic and Trevor Cook. The Red Raiders have...

March 12, 2010

Texas' Rick Barnes hopes NCAA Tournament gets Longhorns going

Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News — After last night's 86-67 loss to Baylor, Rick Barnes tried to rally his troops for next week's NCAA Tournament. Texas will likely be seeded in the middle of the pack when the selections are announced Sunday. "I really hope our guys will get excited about the fact that we'll be a part of something every team in college basketball wants to be a part of," Barnes said. "You do not take that for granted. It's 12 years in a row now that we've been a part of the best sporting event in the country. And I hope we can do something with it. "I've had teams in the past [at Clemson] that were just where ...

March 12, 2010

Pat Knight to coach Texas Tech next season

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March 12, 2010

Video highlights: Kansas State 83, Oklahoma State 64

Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News — Our friends at Fox Sports Southwest offer these video highlights of Thursday's Kansas State-Oklahoma State men's basketball game for your viewing pleasure.

March 12, 2010