After clinching the first Final Four berth in school history, before flying home to football country, members of the best-ever Texas Tech basketball team met with their families at the team hotel last week. Senior guard Matt Mooney requested his own space, so as to accommodate the 20 or so people in his party.
The numbers alone spoke to Mooney’s winding basketball path, from Notre Dame College Prep outside Chicago to the Air Force Academy to South Dakota to Texas Tech. So the assembled coaches and mentors and family members pulled their chairs into a circle in Anaheim, Calif.