At the Net
I simply don’t have time to cover all of the sports, but wanted to highlight that Hailey Murphy and Yekaterina Dmitrichenko are set to participate in the NCAA Doubles Championships today. They won the Central Sectional Championship to move onto the NCAA Championship. There’s a link where you can watch on ESPN+ live from Orlando.
On the Pitch
Texas Tech soccer will play North Carolina on Thursday as part of the NCAA Tournament. I’ll link back to this tomorrow as well.
On the Gridiron
Jacob Rodriguez and David Bailey are finalists for the Lombardi Award, Stone Harrington is semifinalist for the Groza Award, and Cameron Dickey is a semifinalist for the Doak Walker Award. Congrats to all!
Texas Tech football moved up one spot to No.5 in the CFP.
ESPN’s Heather Dinich takes a broader look at the CFP picture and Texas Tech would host Tulane before playing Georgia. On a national level, Texas fell to No. 17, but I would not count them out considering that I feel that sometimes people really look for reasons to put them in despite what you see on the field:
The Longhorns plummeted to No. 17 on Tuesday night in the College Football Playoff selection committee’s third of six rankings, indicating that even if they run the table and punctuate their résumé with a win against No. 3 Texas A&M, they might still be locked out.
Notre Dame, though, should buy some furniture and move in. At No. 9 — ahead of No. 10 Alabama — the selection committee continued to reward the two-loss Irish for how they’re playing — not who they’re beating. No. 10 Alabama has four wins against CFP top-25 opponents, including the committee’s No. 4 team Georgia, No. 14 Vanderbilt, No. 20 Tennessee and No. 22 Mizzou, which snuck back into the ranking this week. Notre Dame’s only win against a CFP-ranked team is against No. 15 USC.
While the changes at the top were minimal, No. 24 Tulane is now the flavor of the week in the Group of 5 race after Navy knocked South Florida out of the same spot.
With only three Saturdays remaining before Selection Day, there are still games that can change the picture entirely, which leaves hope for some teams hovering on the bubble (here’s lookin’ at you, Miami).
This is not Texas Tech related, but CBS Sports’ Chris Hummer on Arizona State QB Sam Leavitt, who is out for the rest of the year and is looking for a $3 million payday at his next stop. We’ve talked before about how Texas Tech may be in the market for a quarterback for the 2026 season, but I’m not too worried about that. I would imagine that the rumor mill will connect Leavitt and Texas Tech because it’s easy.