Unless something magical happens over the course of the next month, the everlasting theme of the 2019-20 Texas Tech basketball season is going to be a failure to close out one-score games in the final possessions. But that’s been something Chris Beard’s teams have struggled with for most of his tenure in Lubbock.
Of course, we can’t expect everything Beard touches to turn to gold and it’s likely that even the most legendary coaches in the game have experienced more than their share of losses in one-score games. But if there is one area where Beard’s program must improve, it is in closing out tight games.