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Baseball

• Winless in Arlington – Yikes!
  • Sat vs Arkansas – L 13-9
    • P Patrick Monteverde (4 IP, 1H, 0R, 2W, 5K)
    • Also saw Brandon Birdsell, Levi Wells, Ryan Sublette, Hayde Key, Andrew Divine, and Derek Bridges
      • Sublette and Divine STRUGGLED (2.2IP, 8H, 9R, 3W, 4K)
    • 11 total walks
    • Braxton Fulford hits team’s first homerun
  • Sun vs Ole Miss – L 5-4
    • P Micah Dallas started, (2.2IP, 3H, 5R/2ER, 2W, 2K)
      • Disaster 3rd inning – 5 runs; fly ball, hbp, ground ball out, 2-run HR, E8 (would come around to score), single, E5 (would come around to score), single, then Girton comes in to pitch
    • Brendan Girton 3.1IP, 2H, 0R, 1W, 4K
    • Rombach homered after Jace Jung walk in 2nd; Neuse homered in 6th
    • 9th inning: Rombach K, Fulford BB, Wilson K, Baker BB, Conley RBI single, Neuse walks to load the bases with 2 outs, Murrell flies out to deep left to end the game
  • Mon vs Miss St – L 11-5
    • Mason Montgomery start (4IP, 3H, 1R, 2W, 2K)
    • Chase Hampton 4 runs in 2 innings, Jamie Hitt 3 runs in 2.1 IP, Chase Webster 2R, 0.1IP, Derek Bridges 1R, 0.1IP
    • 6-5 headed into 9th; gave up 5 runs in the 9th
  • 5 errors; 21 total walks; 10 wild pitches
  • Opening Day Starters
    • C Braxton Fulford, 1B Cole Stillwell, 2B Jace Jung, SS Kurt Wilson, 3B Cal Conley, LF Dru Baker, CF Dylan Neuse, RF Easton Murrell, DH Braydon Runion
      • Kurt Wilson/Cal Conley experiment ended midway through 2nd game 
      • Rombach started a game at catcher, Marusak started a game in left, Parker Kelly started game 3 at 3B
• 2021 Schedule – 51 games
  • Something to consider: most SEC teams have baseball dedicated indoor facilities 
  • Early season pitching rotation could still be pitch count hindered
    https://twitter.com/RedRaiderDugout/status/1361715839184044040?s=20 

Football

• Oregon QB Tyler Shough Transfers to Texas Tech (STP)
• Who the Shough is Texas Tech’s New QB?
  • What does this mean for Behren Morton?

Basketball

• Big 12 Added 3 of Tech’s 4 missing games back in the schedule https://twitter.com/TexasTechMBB/status/1364343115448942595?s=19 
  • UT at TTU (11 a.m., Saturday, CBS)
  • TCU at TTU (6 p.m., March 2, ESPN+)
  • ISU at TTU (6 p.m., March 4, ESPN+)
  • TTU at BU (3 p.m., March 7, ESPN)
  • Will only play TCU once
  • Big 12 Release https://big12sports.com/news/2021/2/23/big-12-announces-mens-basketball-schedule-adjustments.aspx 
• Quick Game Recaps
  • 2020-2021 Schedule
  • Sat (2/20) – L – TTU 61 KU 67 – Stats
  • Mon (2/22) – L – TTU 69 OSU 74 OT – Stats
• AP Poll – #18 (#15 previously) – 2/23
• KenPom has TTU at #25 (previously #19) – 2/23
• Haslametrics has Tech at #20 (#19 previously) – 2/23
• ESPN’s BPI has Tech at #10 (#10 previously) – 2/23
• NCAA NET rankings has Tech at #17 (#14 previously) – 2/23
• Upcoming schedule
  • KenPom ratings (Tech Luck #322)

• Haslametrics projections
  • vs Kansas W 70.2 – 65.41 (L 58-57)
  • @ OU W 75.8 – 72.04 (W 69-67)
  • Vs Incarnate Word W 82.23 – 51.12 (W 79-51 – wow, very close)
  • Vs OkSt W 73.87 – 62.02 (L 77-82 – tied 68 at end of regulation)
  • Vs KSU W 70.47 – 55.28 (W 82-71)
  • At ISU W 69.4 – 60.99 (W 91-64)
  • At Texas L 67.08 – 68.8 (W *79-77)
  • Vs Baylor L 66.54 – 73.02 (L 60-68)
  • At WVU W 70.78 – 68.85 (L 87-88)
  • At LSU W 77.4 – 73 (W 76-71)
  • Vs OU W 71 – 68 (W 57-52)
  • At KSU W 73.61 – 57.37 (W 73-62)
  • Vs WVU W 74.50 – 69.99 (L 82-71)
  • At TCU W 73.32 – 65.41
  • At KU L 67.13 – 69.33 (L 61-67)
  • At OSU W 70.44 – 68.07 (L 69-74)
  • Vs Texas W 72.23 – 68.62

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What We Learned

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