Chris Beard’s fourth year as Texas Tech basketball head coach will be one we will forever remember. That’s because it will have the dubious distinction of being the season that was cut short by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, which robbed us of the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments.
It’s tough to believe that it has only been four seasons on the job for Beard given all that he’s accomplished. After all, he’s already taken the program to places that we thought it would take a coach a least half a decade to get close to.
It’s one thing to take over a blue-blood program and get it back to the heights of the sport but to find a way to get a mid-tier program like Texas Tech to the final night of the NCAA Tournament in just three seasons is nothing short of miraculous.