At the Net

Texas Tech women’s tennis received their 14th straight NCAA bid on Sunday heading to the Austin Regional. I can’t always recognize everything that happens for every program, but 14 straight years is a tremendous achievement.

On the Diamond

Texas Tech defeated Tarleton State, 12-2 with Kaitlyn Terry picking up her 20th win of the season with Terry, Mia Williams and Jasmyn Burns hitting 1 homer and Lauren Allred knocking 2 behind the fence. These ladies will host Baylor starting on Thursday.

On the Hardwood

The Lady Raiders have added to their portal class with the addition of Jalayah Ingram (5’9″) from UT-Rio Grande Valley. Ingram averaged 16.9 points, 7.1 boards, 4.2 assists, 1.5 steals, 3 turnovers, while making 40% of her shots (and only 15% of her 3’s!):

“Jalayah, aka Bunny, is a bucket,” Gerlich said. “She is a dynamic scoring point guard with great handles and court vision. Bunny plays with great tempo and change of pace, which allows her to be explosive to the rim and crafty off of ball screens. She is in the top one percent in the nation of drawing fouls and produces at an 80-percent rate from the line. Bunny has a great work ethic and brings a veteran leadership style to the floor general position. She is a fantastic addition to this portal class.”

Ingram spent her junior year with the UTRGV Vaqueros in 2025-26. While there, Ingram earned Southland Conference (SLC) Newcomer of the Year and All-Conference First Team accolades. Ingram aided the Vaqueros to a 21-14 record and a 16-6 record in the SLC to finish tied for third in league play. Earning a spot in the Southland Conference Basketball Championship semifinals and a second-round appearance in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT), Ingram helped lead UTRGV to a historic season after setting program records in overall wins, conference wins, road wins (11) and consecutive-road wins (8), while tying the program-best seven-game winning streak. The Vaqueros also picked up their first road postseason victory, and second postseason win in program history.

ESPN is ranking the portal players and just to give you an idea (there are write-ups as well).

Arriving:
51. Cruz Davis
81. Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn

Leaving:
42. Jaylen Petty
58. LeJuan Watts

We’ll have to see if it is a net loss overall, but in my opinion Petty’s ranking benefited greatly from Christian Anderson and JT Toppin. And Watts tried hard for sure, but don’t know that he’s the 58th best player.

Yahoo! Sports’ Ross Dellenger reports that the NCAA is expanding to 76 teams whether you like it or not:

Barring something unforeseen, “it will happen,” one high-placed source told Yahoo Sports. But nothing has changed on that front in the last 24-48 hours and no deal has been signed, according to sources.

The NCAA released a statement Tuesday night, saying in part: “Expanding the basketball tournaments would require approval from multiple NCAA committees, including the men’s and women’s basketball committees, and no final recommendations or decisions have been made at this time.”

According to a proposal socialized with members last year, eight games would be added to the current “First Four” played over Tuesday and Wednesday of the first week of the event. This new “opening round” — the verbiage used to describe it — would feature 24 teams playing in 12 games over the two days at two sites (Dayton and another). Those involved in the negotiations caution that plenty of this could change through the course of continuing talks with TV partners Warner Bros. Discovery and CBS.

On the Gridiron

I am glad I have had a bit more than 24 hours to think about things.

• And maybe the thing that I can’t exactly wrap my head around is how did all this leak and become public? ESPN’s Pete Thamel had it first and he’s always been pretty plugged in so that’s not a surprise. But how did the NCAA find out about thousands of bets?
• It feels like Brendan Sorsby was just operating in a way in which he would never get caught.
• And I think we can make the distinction between betting on your own team or program or betting on professional athletes.
• If you are an athlete you should be able to opt out of being bet on for prop bets.
• Regardless, the rules are the rules and it would be my guess that the athletic programs are talked to on an annual basis that you are not permitted to gamble on any sport. I don’t think that Sorsby can claim that he didn’t know he wasn’t supposed to gamble.
• And if that is true, there’s part of me that thinks that Sorby was addicted and couldn’t stop or come clean about his addiction and signed a $5 million deal regardless of whether or not he was not playing by the rules.
• It is tough for me to feel good about a person that maybe thinks that they are above the rules.