Intro

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Basketball

• Roster Update
  • Recruiting
    • Adams looking to DII Players
      • Northern State forward Parker Fox (6-8) – committed to Minnesota
      • Dallas Baptist guard Chandler Jacobs (6-3) – committed to Tech Monday 4/19
        • Jacobs is coming off a stellar year at Dallas Baptist University, averaging 20.8 points, 7.4 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.5 steals; named Lone Star Conference defensive player of the year and Academic player of the year
          • 56% FG, 45% 3PT, 83% FT
      • Trinity Christian (Lubbock) Ethan Duncan committed, 5-11/160 SG; chose Tech over Texas
        • Averaged 27 points, seven assists, four rebounds and two-and-a-half steals per game; TAPPS District 1-4A MVP.
    • Jamarius Burton to Pitt
    • Telling that no former player followed Beard
      • Comments from Tedd Mitchell
• Coaching Update
  • Confirmed Sean Sutton will stay on as Advisor/Player Development
  • Corey Williams hired as second assistant, coming from Arkansas
    • Known more for defense than offense
    • Played with Sutton at Oklahoma State 
    • From STP:
      • As a coach, Williams was an assistant at Oral Roberts and Florida State as well as the head coach at Stetson (he didn’t have the best record, 58-133 in 6 seasons) and then hopped on at Arkansas starting in 2019 through the 2020-21 season.
  • One more assistant position left – Sutton said Adams will not rush this hire and has many qualified coaches reaching out wanting this job
  • Darby Rich expected to be announced soon as the strength and conditioning coach
  • Jae Crowder with some nice words about Adams during a recent interview

 

Baseball

• • 2021 Schedule 26-8, 7-5
  • Rankings update
    • D1 Baseball – #5
    • Baseball America – #10
    • NCBWA – #6
    • Collegiate Baseball – #10
    • AP Baseball Coaches Poll – #6
    • RPI – #15
  • Awards/recognitions 
    • Mason Montgomery Big 12 Pitcher of the Week; National College Baseball Hall of Fame National Pitcher of the Week
    • Patrick Monteverde Newcomer of the Week
      • Montgomery & Monteverde combined for 2-0, 4-for-45 (.089), 13.2IP, 4 H, 1 R, 19K, 4BB
        • Monteverde 7.0IP, 2H, 0R, 3BB, 7K
        • Montgomery 6.2IP, 2H, 1R, 1BB, 12K
    • Cal Conley National College Baseball Hall of Fame National Shortstop of the Week
  • Injury Update
    • Kurt Wilson broken hand/thumb
    • Dylan Neuse fractured vertebra
    • Dru Baker returned to the lineup vs WVU
  • Recent/Upcoming Games
    • Wed vs SFA W 7-5
    • Fri @ WVU W 7-2
    • Sat @ WVU L 5-6; walkoff 
    • Sun @ WVU W 10-1 

• • Tue vs OU – BREAKING: Postponed to May 4th due to weather
  • Upcoming home series vs Baylor (24-12; 5-7)
    • Lost series vs UTRGV, lost series vs UT, swept by TCU, won series vs WVU, won series vs KU
    • Midweek game vs New Mexico on Tue (4/27)
    • Stats

 

Tm O	Avg	OB%	Slg%	2B	3B	HR	Runs; R/gm	BB	SO	SB
TTU	.288 (5)	.413 (2)	.507 (1)	70 (4)	9 (2)	54 (1)	275 (2); 8.1	204 (3)	323 (9)	38 (5)
Baylor	.298 (1)	.383 (4)	.443 (6)	64 (5)	9 (2)	31 (7)	236 (4); 6.5	141 (8)	237 (1)	19 (9)

 

Tm D	ERA	bavg	H	R/ER	BB(bb/9)	SO (so/9)	HR	Fld%
TTU	4.02 (3)	.229 (2)	249 (1)	152/133; 4.5	132/3.99	320/9.7	24 (3)	.972 (6)
Baylor	3.53 (2)	.237 (3)	277 (4)	156/123; 4.3	143/4.1	293/8.4	26 (4)	.973 (5)

 

• Interesting Tech stats
  • Monteverde is 6th in Big12 @ 2.24, 0.88 WHIP; oppBA .199, 52IP, 1.6bb/9,: 10.2k/9; is 6-1
  • T8th in country in runs
  • 4th in country in walks earned; 8th in OB%
  • T7th in double plays turned
  • T3rd in HRs; Jace Jung T1 in country (15) after not hitting 1 in WV

Football

• Spring Game Takeaways
  • Only 1 half of full scrimmage; “second half” was 7-on-7 and 1-on-1
  • QBs, in order of appearance – Colombi, Shough, Smith, Morton
  • Colombi & Smith only QBs to lead scoring drives
  • JJ Sparkman looks good!
  • Chad(?) Townsend looks better
  • No/limited broken tackles
• Injuries
  • SaRodrick Thompson, Xavier White out, 
  • Erik Ezukanma
  • Travis Koontz

What We Learned

• Going Yard – Michael has an update
• Little League update
• If we’re going long, I’ll probably just pick one and keep the others for next week
  • Brisket results
  • Johnny G’s Salsa
  • Ted Lasso