Texas Tech finally ended its 31-year wait for a Big 12 title. Even more impressively, they snapped a 70-year drought for an outright championship. Now sitting inside the top four of the playoff race, Tech’s players can’t help but think back to what Joey McGuire preached all offseason.

“The first thing the coach said when we got like, he brought all the transfers in, he was like, ‘Man, everything is going to be built in that locker room,'” LB Romelo Height said to Shannon Sharpe on the December 7 episode of NightCap . “‘Like the brotherhood y’all built, that’s what’s going to take y’all far.'”

The message resonated into a Big 12 Championship; talk about manifestation! The offseason in Lubbock centered on keeping the team unified. Coaches told the players to “strain and get after each ot

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