On the Court
Texas Tech volleyball will be on the road to take on Duke tomorrow, Georgia on Thursday, and Alabama State on Friday, all in Athens for the Georgia Tournament. Additionally, Sierra Grizzle was the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week with 5.5 digs per set and two 20+ dig performances.
On the X/C Course
Titus Kimaru was named the Big 1 Men’s Cross Country Runner of the week, running a 5k in 13:52.
On the Hardwood
ESPN’s Jeff Borzello with the MVP for each team and the starting lineup:
JT Toppin: Outside of Cooper Flagg and then Walter Clayton Jr. in the NCAA tournament, there wasn’t a player performing better late last season than Toppin. He was named the Big 12 Player of the Year and a consensus second-team All-American after averaging 18.2 points and 9.4 rebounds, including double-doubles in all four NCAA tournament games, and stat lines such as 41 points and 15 rebounds, 32 and 12, 30 and 14.
ESPN’s Dick Vitale has his All-Rolls Royce 1st & 2nd teams and Toppin makes his 1st team.
On the Gridiron
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal’s Don Williams reports that Texas Tech will open the 2030 season against Arkansas in Las Vegas. Texas Tech was set to play Arkansas at home in 2030, but that game was moved to 2034 and they’ll add another home game in 2030, so that’s 7 home games.
Red Raider Sports’ Ava Hounshell recaps the media scrum with special teams coach Kenny Perry:
“It really starts from Joey (McGuire). He wants to be an aggressive special team and that’s my nature,” Perry said. “We’ve got different formations, and it depends on, you know, who we’re playing, kind of, what do they do in special teams and what does that coach do… from the aggressive standpoint, you know, I think it fits Texas Tech, you know, we want to score, we want to we want to get the ball back. We do really need to create more turnovers. That’s one thing I think we’re trying to focus on in practice, is getting more turnovers during the game.”
The next episode of What’s Next with Robert Giovannetti and Joey McGuire:
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal’s Don Williams on the relationship between Will Jados and Reggie Virgil:
More than just noticing the pageantry, Virgil was wowed.
“We get to talk about the little stuff,” Virgil said on Tuesday, Sept. 2, “like how we both come from lower-level places and we come to a bigger school, and we both still get the same opportunity of starting together. It’s real cool. And now it’s like full-circle. We play another MAC school, so it’s really cool.”
College Poll Tracker has your updated AP Poll and Texas Tech dropped a spot because Florida State jumped into the top 25 from #40 to #14.