No one expected the Texas Tech basketball team to already have seven losses on the season before the end of January. After all, Chris Beard and last year’s team didn’t lose for the seventh time until the National Title Game.
Naturally, this season’s losses have followed a number of different scripts. There were huge holes Tech had to climb out of against Iowa and Creighton, physical battles against Baylor and West Virginia were Tech was dominated on the glass, back-and-forth OT affairs against Kentucky and DePaul in which Tech couldn’t make the winning plays in crunch time, and a come-from-ahead double-digit loss at TCU defined by a lack of effort and fight.