Texas Tech Volleyball
For the 3⃣rd straight week, we are receiving votes in the AVCA Coaches Poll and register at No. 3⃣2⃣ in this week’s NCAA RPI.
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— Texas Tech Volleyball (@TexasTechVB) October 8, 2018
Texas Tech Soccer
Friday’s goal from @_allygriffin had the sideline going crazy! 😆#WreckEm pic.twitter.com/2nqneqWC26
— Texas Tech Soccer (@TexasTechSoccer) October 8, 2018
Texas Tech Golf
Sofia Garcia sank plenty of 🐥’s today to sit only 2️⃣ strokes off the lead at the Illini Invitational.
Recap ➡️: https://t.co/JTnfAmqJO1
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— Texas Tech W Golf (@TexasTechWGolf) October 9, 2018
Texas Tech Basketball
Thanks to internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader @wyntonmarsalis for talking with us before practice today. #4To1 pic.twitter.com/AofhsTBuI2
— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) October 8, 2018
Get to know Matt Mooney.
SportingNews’ Jacob Janower has a Big 12 preview with predictions and the only mention of Texas Tech is to pick them 7th overall.
Texas Tech Football
Hey! A non-11:00 a.m. game for Kansas! I can’t remember the last time this happened.
Our Oct. 20 homecoming matchup with Kansas will kick off at 2:30 p.m., and will be televised on FS1.
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— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) October 8, 2018
A-J Media’s Don Williams writes about the location of the Baylor-Texas Tech game and Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt said that they are simply waiting on the 2019 schedule to make a determination as to whether to play the game in Arlington or move the game back to the respective campuses:
“We’re just waiting for the Big 12 Conference to give us our ’19 schedule,” Hocutt said, “and I think that will determine what we do with a neutral-site game with Baylor going forward. If it remains on Thanksgiving weekend, then we will look to continue to play in Arlington.
“If the Big 12 Conference gives us our ’19 schedule and Baylor is not in that Thanksgiving weekend window, I think we’d be looking at moving it back to campus.”
I get why the game is at Arlington during the Thanksgiving weekend for each institution, lack of attendance, but I’d love to see this game return to the respective campuses. I dislike going to Jerry World personally and haven’t gone since the first game. It’s about an hour drive for me and I still can’t get motivated to go because I dislike that place that much.
Also mentioned is that Hocutt said that Texas Tech has an exemption for the 2021 season as he has been unable to find a Power Five non-conference opponent. They’re still working on it, but right now they have an exemption.
A-J Media’s Don Williams writes about quarterback availability and we’ll get to this in Quote Board, but for now, it appears that Texas Tech is hoping to have all three quarterbacks available for the TCU game and TCU hopes to have Shawn Robinson available, although he may not start.
Miscellaneous . . . SB Nation’s Bill Connelly has a new way to look at strength of schedule and has Texas Tech with the 19th toughest schedule thus far . . . Heartland College Sports’ Pete Mundo has his Big 12 power rankings and has Texas Tech 6th overall, one spot behind 2-3 Iowa State because Iowa State beat Oklahoma State, which Texas Tech did earlier in the year . . .