One question about the 2019-20 Texas Tech basketball team is whether or not the youth on the roster will mature in time for this year’s team to make another deep run in March. On Saturday, we saw some positive strides in that regard from redshirt freshman Kevin McCullar Jr.
The San Antonio product has had an interesting journey to this point. Don’t forget that he made the unusual decision to skip the final year of his high school career to enroll at Tech early.
But most of his first semester on campus was spent recovering from a lower-body injury that prevented him from being as active in the weight room and on the practice floor as he had intended on being when he arrived in January.