After its improbable run to the NCAA Tournament’s final night, the Texas Tech basketball team has drawn more attention than ever before. And in one key way, Chris Beard’s program has had a profound impact on the future of college hoops.
After seeing the success that Tech had this season with graduate transfers Matt Mooney and Tariq Owens, virtually every program in the nation is now entertaining the idea of dabbling in the grad transfer market. Once considered a shortcut that lesser programs would have to use to help close the talent gap between themselves and blue-blue programs that boast rosters full of All-Americans, the grad transfer game is now viewed as a vital means of putting together a roster.