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Texas Tech AD doesn’t shoot down UNLV’s Chris Beard as basketball coach candidate

The wait has begun to see if new UNLV basketball coach Chris Beard is a candidate for the suddenly open position at Texas Tech.

Red Raiders athletic director Kirby Hocutt was asked about Beard at a news conference Thursday morning in Lubbock, Texas.

“I’m not going to comment on candidates,” Hocutt said. “This is unexpected, and as soon as we finish here my focus 24/7 is going go to turn to this basketball coaching search, and we’ll look throughout the country.

”We’ll make sure, as I told this basketball team, that we bring the best man in to lead them going forward.