4-star level guard projected to Pink Raiders

While most Pink Raiders are even now reveling in the football program’s 38-21 gain above Houston while gearing up for Saturday night’s property opener in opposition to Stephen F. Austin, it is worthy of maintaining a near eye on what Mark Adams and the Texas Tech basketball method is up to.  Which is simply because Adams and Co. are tough at operate on the recruiting path and they may perhaps be near to landing just one of the leading significant university prospects in the country.

This past weekend, point guard Richard “Pop” Isaacs was in Lubbock for an official go to.  And in the days given that, a few forecasters from Rivals.com have positioned Futurecast projections for the Purple Raiders in this recruiting fight.

That is undoubtedly cause for Texas Tech basketball admirers to be thrilled.  The 6-foot-1 merchandise of Henderson, Nevada who grew up in Los Angeles is rated

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5 Pink Raiders that could possibly surprise in 2021

LUBBOCK, TEXAS – NOVEMBER 16: Defensive conclude Nelson Mbanasor #91 of the Texas Tech Pink Raiders battles from left deal with Anthony McKinney #68 of the TCU Horned Frogs. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Illustrations or photos)

We are just weeks absent from the commence of the Texas Tech football season and as speak about realignment has cooled off in the previous couple months (thanks not to a decrease in fan desire but extra due to a deficiency of new facts on the subject matter) anticipation is starting up to ramp up for true video games.

When individuals game titles start off, the fan foundation will have a rather good strategy of what to be expecting from a substantial portion of the group offered that there could possibly be 8 returning starters on each facet of the football.  Consequently, we may possibly truly feel as if we have a

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Pink Raiders have 1 hope in meeting realignment

For most of the earlier 10 years, it has felt as if the Large 12 meeting was on ground so shaky that it would make the San Andreas fault seem steady.  So it is rather fitting that the Texas Tech football program’s most effective hope for sustainability in the midst of what seems to be impending convention realignment comes from the region of the region where the floor is recognised to rattle and roll from time to time.

To start with of all, let us be apparent.  This conference realignment chaos is a Texas Tech soccer issue previously mentioned all else.  It is soccer that is driving the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners to the SEC and it is football that generates the lion’s share of the profits for nearly each athletic section in the country.

Guaranteed, Tech is in wonderful shape in basketball and baseball but those people

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Transfer DE Robert Wooten joins Pink Raiders

Owning way too numerous good quality defensive finishes is hardly ever a trouble that any school soccer system will complain about.  And for decades, the Texas Tech football method has struggled to obtain sufficient gifted pass rushers to male that placement.  But that all could possibly be changing thanks to Matt Wells’ operate in the transfer portal.

By now with former Texas A&M transfer Tyree Wilson established to start his 2nd time with the Red Raiders immediately after he joined the method previous August, Wells dipped back again into the portal on Wednesday to include Virginia Tech transfer Robert Wooten to the combine.

The snag is that Wooten may perhaps not be suitable to participate in this yr staying as he did not enter the portal until eventually just after the July 1 cutoff for gamers to acquire a no-queries-requested just one-time quick eligibility waiver. But on the other hand,

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Haitian-born recruit chooses Pink Raiders

Bethany, Oklahoma, cornerback Jocelyn Malaska announced his commitment to Texas Tech on Friday. Malaska and his two brothers were born in Haiti and were adopted by a couple from Oklahoma.

Jocelyn Malaska announced an oral commitment on Friday to the Texas Tech soccer application, a prospect that the Haitian-born player and these close to him would not have envisioned till not too long ago.

Malaska, a 6-foot-1, 170-pound cornerback and broad receiver from Bethany, Oklahoma, declared his pledge on Instagram. The 5-moment movie details his daily life tale with interviews of him, his adoptive mom and dad and his substantial-school mentor. 

“When I began taking part in soccer in the seventh quality,” Malaska reported on the movie, “I under no circumstances dreamed that sometime I would be taking part in in school.”

As a junior last year for Bethany, Malaska caught 45 passes for 479 yards and a touchdown and was credited with 29 tackles, two tackles for decline, 3 interceptions and four passes defended.

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