No coach in Texas Tech basketball history has had the type of success to start their tenure that Chris Beard has in his first two-and-a-half seasons. With Saturday’s 63-57 win over Kansas State, Beard moved to 58-25 overall giving him a winning percentage of 69.8%, the best of any coach in program history.
And no team in the Big 12 has suffered Beard’s wrath more than Kansas State. Having won three-consecutive against the Cats, Beard is now 4-1 against KSU head coach Bruce Weber which has been important as the two programs have been in the same relative place in the Big 12 hierarchy in recent seasons.