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Texas Tech embraces tough Big 12 stretch beginning Saturday against Kansas

Unranked Texas Tech will play No. 3 Kansas on Saturday and No. 6 Baylor on Monday in a pair of marquee home games for the Red Raiders at United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock, Texas.

“We’re going to try to schedule the (Boston) Celtics on Sunday to get a little bit more competition in that three-day span,” first-year Texas Tech coach Chris Beard said on Thursday’s Big 12 coaches teleconference.

All kidding aside …

“I think this is great. We couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to play two of the best teams in the country on our home floor in a three-day period.