Iwent on record last October that I felt like the Texas Tech basketball team would be able to compete for the Big 12 Conference title and would (at the very least) make the Sweet 16.

Each of these proved to be true. While Houston ran away with the league crown, the Red Raiders were the only team to knock off the Cougars during the regular season — on the road sans Grant McCasland and JT Toppin, no less. And Tech not only proved my March Madness prediction true, the team improved upon it. Were it not for some missed free throws and Walter Clayton Jr. going nuclear, the Red Raiders would've been in the Final Four.

Trying to pinpoint this year's team's potential is much trickier. The Red Raiders were picked to finish third in the Big 12 (second by the media), enter the year ranked Top

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