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Texas Tech Isn't the First Final Four School With Complementary Approach to its Football Team

Before earning a trip to the Final Four for the first time in school history, Texas Tech's basketball team earned a visit from new Texas Tech football coach Matt Wells, who passed along some effusive praise from his staff to Red Raiders assistant coach and defensive specialist Mark Adams, according to SI's Greg Bishop. Wells's task this year is turning around a football program that has been defined by its all-offense, no-defense approach; his hoops counterpart Chris Beard has led the Red Raiders to Minneapolis by snapping his team out of an all-defense, no-offense stretch that nearly threatened its Big 12 title chances.