Before I start, I want to spend some time on the fact that the Texas Tech Red Raiders will be hosting a regional for a fourth consecutive year, making it the only team in the nation to accomplish that feat. When we heard Kirby Hocutt talk about being “elite” in athletics in December, this is what he was talking about. This is elite.
Tim Tadlock deserves a lot of credit for this, but these players deserve just as much. There are legit expectations in Lubbock now. Coming from a program that couldn’t finish better than 5th this decade before Tadlock was hired in 2013, the strides this program has made is historic.