What makes the game of basketball so different than most other team sports is that with only ten players on the court at a time, the best player on a team can single-handedly take over games and carry his teams to victory. But Chris Beard and the Texas Tech basketball team has become adept at locking down the opposition’s best scorers.
Beard knows that in college basketball, teams usually have only one or two dynamic players capable of taking over a game whereas in the NBA, most teams feature a handful of players that can go off each night.