It’s odd to think about how similar of a place we’ve found each of the last two Texas Tech basketball teams when the Big 12/SEC Challenge has arrived. Here’s hoping the rest of this season mirrors what we saw from the Red Raiders after they beat Arkansas in this event a year ago.
While Red Raider fans are rather frustrated with Tech’s 11-point loss at TCU on Tuesday, the mood around Lubbock doesn’t even come close this year to reaching the level of fret that we saw at this time in 2019.
Remember that last January, Tech played its worst basketball of the year in a three-game losing streak that dropped the team to 4-3 in Big 12 play and put the breaks on the best start to a league season we’ve seen in the Big 12 era of the program.