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How a preseason team-building retreat became a launch pad for Texas Tech's rise to the Final Four

MINNEAPOLIS - Unlike his decision to transfer to Texas Tech, guard Matt Mooney was unsure about where this journey would end.

In October, just before the start of basketball practice, coach Chris Beard had his team board a bus and head south from Lubbock to an unknown destination. After about a 103-mile drive, Tech arrived.

"I had no idea where we going," said Mooney said. "We went on a bus ride to some cabin in the middle of nowhere Texas."

Technically it was the Circle 6 Ranch in Stanton, a place normally used for church camps.