On the Hardwood
The Lady Raiders announced the signing of 6’4″ forward Martina Anyango and will be eligible this season:
A 6-foot-4 center from Kampala, Uganda, Anyango arrives in Lubbock after a standout career with the UCU Lady Canons where she established herself as one of the premier post players in East Africa. Most recently, Anyango helped lead the Lady Canons to the 2026 National Basketball League Championship and was named the league’s Playoffs Most Valuable Player after averaging a 16-point, 12-rebound double-double during the postseason.
And if you missed it on Friday, the Lady Raiders signed Auburn Guard Mya Petticord who averaged about 7 points a game last year.
Are you confused about where things stand with player eligibility? ESPN’s Jeff Borzello and Myron Medcalf do a really good job of talking through the court and eligibility situations.
On the Gridiron
Texas Tech football will kickoff against Arizona State at 2:30 p.m. at Galaxy Stadium on October 17th.
Will Karoll and Brice Pollock were named the Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week.
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal’s Don Williams has his Q&A and it is lots of questions about the offense, from the line to the receivers:
Q: Why do we continue to roll out [Will] Hammond when he is not good? If it isn’t a screen pass or something less than 7 yards, he can’t have better than a 25% passing percentage. The closest the ball gets to the receiver is 6 yards overthrown. — Tyler
DW: He’s the best option, and to get where he and the Red Raiders need him to be was going to require some patience after how the past 12 months unfolded. You can say that in August, but I think a lot of people don’t grasp how rough that can look until you see it play out. Or that Hammond’s working with, counting the tight ends, six new pass catchers in the rotation.
I don’t have Hammond’s completion percentage broken down by throws beyond, say, 10 yards, but he’s better than 68% for the season, which is about as normal as it gets for Tech quarterbacks this century.
Latest episode of The Ride.
The guy that owns Tyson, John Tyson, is an Arkansas alum had some fun with Cody Campbell, saying that oil money and chicken money are two different things. The supposed net worth of John Tyson is $2.7 billion and Cody Campbell is allegedly in the neighborhood of $4 billion. If John Tyson wanted to give Colorado $20 million, an obscene amount of money, that would be 0.74% of his net worth. Do I think that Tyson had any ill-intent? Absolutely not, it sounds like he’s joking. It also sounds as if Tyson doesn’t have enough money to give like Campbell does and that’s a tough pill to swallow if I’m an Arkansas fan.