Nathan Giese
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Texas Tech men's basketball & football, high schools & features for @RaiderSports, @LoneStarVarsity and @lubbockonline. Tweets are my own.
Joined October 2012
You knew the case was about to be solved and everything was going to be OK when this guy showed up on SVU.
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Grant McCasland was asked about the Red Raiders owning their mistakes throughout the game, then got emotional saying how important Chance McMillian has been in all aspects. Here's the end of the answer.
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Texas Tech's defense the last 7 days:.* held Iowa State 20 points below its season average.* held Kansas to its season-low point total.* held Baylor 20 points below its season average.
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Grant McCasland, helping Krista Gerlich out, during tonight's Texas Tech basketball block party with Monterey's Aaliyah Chavez, No. 1 2025 recruit, in attendance:. "If you're really good at basketball, why wouldn't you want to be a Lady Raider, especially if you're from Lubbock?"
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Tortilla enthusiast @RobStoneONFOX spoke on the beauty of college towns like Lubbock and atmospheres like he expects from his first trip to Texas Tech.
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Marshall Lynch picks Texas Tech on College GameDay. Everybody else going with Arizona.
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Texas Tech's gameday environment has been getting praise from the opposition this year, even in losses. Cincinnati's Luke Kandra with some thoughts on The Jones.
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Texas Tech is the only team in the country to have beaten both of the teams that advanced to their respective conference's championship game.
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Texas Tech has 18 wins after today. Same number of wins the last two Tech teams have had the whole season.
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World Series champion Josh Jung out here supporting Texas Tech soccer.
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At least when Texas Tech fans throw stuff it's because Brock Cunningham tried to behead somebody on a basketball court.
Texas fans threw debris onto the field after an interception was called back due to pass interference. The refs reversed the call after further discussion.
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NiJaree Canady's fall ball debut with the Texas Tech softball team went a little something like this in 2 games against Odessa College. * 7 innings.* 18 Ks.* retired all 26 batters.* 4-for-6 batting.* 2 doubles.* 3 RBI
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The entire Texas Tech basketball team is outside United Supermarkets Arena giving out Raising Canes to the students camping out for tomorrow's Texas game.
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"It's ridiculous.".Grant McCasland's summation of Texas Tech's defensive showing in the loss to UCF.
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Asked what KyeRon Lindsay's status is with the team, this was Grant McCasland's response.
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Grant McCasland said JT Toppin wanted to play tonight, but they're being cautious, added he does think he'll play against Texas A&M on Sunday.
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Texas Tech's Jacob Rodriguez has been named the Chuck Bednarik Player of the Week, awarded to the most outstanding defensive player in the nation for the week.
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Plainview was the unwitting host to Texas' coup of Chris Beard, and Chris Del Conte has the AUDACITY to bad mouth my city afterwards. Not on my watch! MY COLUMN .
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Tuesday: Texas Tech holds Kansas State scoreless for the final 5:50 of the game. Saturday: Texas Tech holds Arizona scoreless for the final 5:16 of the game.
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Chance McMillian on Texas Tech head coach Grant McCasland getting emotional speaking about McMillian's leadership qualities for the Red Raiders.
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Texas Tech head coach Mark Adams is a big fan of Clarence Nadolny.
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Your Day 2 Micah Hudson highlight. That is Joey McGuire's voice you hear.
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From the pool report of the Tech locker room, in case somebody asks.
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Texas Tech's Elijah Hawkins had 9 assists and 0 turnovers today, putting him at 46 assists and 5 TOs during conference play, which is an insane 9.2-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio in Big 12 play.
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Jalin Conyers admits he was not at all confident he had the TD in Texas Tech's season-opening win until they went to the review.
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Tariq Owens is being the voice of reason to the students right now, urging them not to throw anything on the court or get any technicals.
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Some perspective. Texas Tech won its 3rd road game of the season for the first time since 2017. Guaranteed winning Big 12 record for 3rd straight year for first time since Mike Leach era (also the only 3 winning B12 seasons since Leach).
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Behren Morton said he's not trying to prove to anyone else that his shoulder is good to go. He's just trying to win.
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Pop Isaacs is here to say hi to former Tech assistant, current Trinity assistant Sean Sutton.
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Joey McGuire discusses the timeline for when to expect the new Texas Tech offensive coordinator to be announced.
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Darrion Williams just broke the record for most makes without a miss in Texas Tech history (if he doesn't shoot again. He's 12 for 12 from the field and has 30 points.
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What makes Texas Tech so special for Patrick Mahomes? Here's his answer.
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The banner that touted a 2019-20 NCAA Tournament "bid" no longer hangs in United Supermarkets Arena rafters.
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Robert Jennings, totally unprompted, shouts out the Texas Tech seniors after tonight's game.
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"We got screwed on that one." . Cincinnati coach Scott Satterfield provides his perspective of the targeting call that was wiped off, leading to a 10-second runoff.
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Red Raiders are now officially guaranteed to get a first-round bye in the Big 12 tournament. They're tied four fourth in the standings right now, ahead of Kansas because of the head-to-head win.
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"That wasn't going to happen again." ."We not having that this year."."The city of Lubbock deserved more.". Returning players clued in their new teammates on Texas Tech's disastrous campaign a year ago. Together, they made a pact to turn things around.
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Lubbock and Texas Tech will host the 2027 men's golf Division I regionals at The Rawls Course.
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Grant McCasland after the game: ."Just being blunt, JT Toppin's not feeling great. Not doing good today and he wasn't feeling in the Iowa State game in the second half either. He tried to gut it out and play but he wasn't 100%.".
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"Joey is pure class." . Deion Sanders speaks highly of Texas Tech HC Joey McGuire.
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Kerwin Walton on establishing a new career-high with 7 3-pointers.
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"No doubt in my mind.". Devan Cambridge doesn't want to start over. He's looking forward to putting on a Red Raider uniform again. For now, he's turned his focus to being the best teammate, best version of himself he can be.
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After a solid freshman season at Drake, what was Kevin Overton looking for in the transfer portal before winding up at Texas Tech?
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Texas (4) is the highest ranked team Texas Tech has beaten on the road EVER. Just the 11th road win over a ranked team in program history.
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The Texas Tech men's basketball team had a fan autograph signing at Market Street today. Some of the scenes.
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"They've all had my back." . Pop Isaacs on his last few weeks.
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Joey McGuire with the pregame pep talk for the student section.
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Darrion Williams: "I'm expecting to play. I'm still taking it day by day but I'm anticipating playing.".
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How does Texas Tech keep pulling off these comebacks? . Let Chance McMillian tell you.
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āCoach pulled us aside after he scored the school record and said, āDo you guys want him to keep going?ā and it was a unanimous yes because we love J.J. We just want him to succeed. All of us were on board.ā.
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Grant McCasland provides updates on Darrion Williams and Warren Washington.
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"Overall, no bueno.". Eric Morris sums up North Texas' day in Lubbock.
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Grant McCasland thinks tomorrow's @TexasTechFB player dunk contest at halftime should be a fun one. Also said Marcus Ramon-Edwards should be the favorite, calling him the 1A of the attempts he's seen.
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On his radio show, prompted by @GeoffHaxton talking about how fast things have gone since he was hired last spring, Grant McCasland said, "I pray to God that's the last introductory press conference I ever get to do.".
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Texas Tech is going to play an Arkansas team without its top 4 receivers and top 3 running backs from this season in the Liberty Bowl.
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With one week to go, the top 6 Big 12 tournament seeds as of today: . 1. Houston (13-3).2. Iowa State (12-4).3. Baylor (10-6).4. Texas Tech (9-7).5. BYU (9-7).6. Kansas (9-7). Tiebreaker: Kansas lost to both Texas Tech & BYU and Tech beat BYU.
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Field-level view inside the new south end zone at Jones AT&T Stadium.
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Grant McCasland, unprompted: "We're gonna beat Oregon on Saturday, by the way.".
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This would explain why Joey isn't courtside with Debbie and Garret this evening. He's 'cruitin.
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Will Hammond has been acting like a pro since the day he arrived on campus preparing for this moment. Now he'll put that work on display in his first start in Texas Tech's Liberty Bowl game against Arkansas.
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Kevin Obanor is in the house tonight and just received a nice ovation when shown on the big screen.
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DJ Burns Jr. tried to hide from the media when NC State's locker room opened up. It didn't work too well.
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Texas Tech is currently 1 of 8 power-conference teams in the country with 4 or more road wins so far this season. The only teams in the country still undefeated on the road:.Duke (5-0).Texas Tech, Oregon and Saint Mary's (4-0) .Houston and Michigan State (3-0).
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Grant McCasland shouts out Texas Tech trainer Mike Neal for the work he does with the team, including getting Darrion Williams ready for today's game.
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Texas Tech didn't just suddenly become bad and lose three in a row. It is the same team at 16-6 and it was at 16-3, as it would've been at 19-3. Opinions of the team shouldn't change because some close ones have gone the other way. Let me explain why.
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Time to revisit Joey McGuire's transfer portal wish list.ā
1 TE (Carter).ā
2-3 OL (Zambrano, Jados).ā
2-3 DTs/EDGE (Hunter, Gill-Howard).ā
1-2 CBs (Pollock, Balfour, Boyd-Matthews).ā
1 S (Wisniewski).EXTRAS .ā
1 QB (Griffis).ā
1 WR (Virgil).STILL MISSING.1 RB.1 K.
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Grant McCasland provides the latest mandatory Warren Washington update before Texas Tech takes on BYU tomorrow morning.
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Chance McMillian on where this win ranks in a season full of good ones for Texas Tech.
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Current student situation. Estimated about 2500-3000 waiting to get in.
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Grant McCasland asked about Pop Isaacs' civil lawsuit and the allegations against him.
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Per a Texas Texas spokesman, Jaylon Tyson has not yet entered the transfer portal.
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JT Toppin lives for games like Saturday's. Sold-out crowd, big-time opponent in town and an opportunity to give Texas Tech its first signature win of the season, Toppin rose to the occasion when the Red Raiders needed him the most.
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Texas Tech is ranked in the preseason coaches poll for the first time since 2008.
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Chance McMillian on Texas Tech's ability to clamp down on defense in the final minutes of games. Oklahoma State had just 5 points in the final 5:08 after making it a 3-point contest.
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Texas Tech is as close to full strength as it has been all year in the latest availability report.
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Grant McCasland on his radio show says he's not looking at what number of wins Texas Tech would need for an NCAA Tournament bid. "Let's not look at minimums. Let's look at maximums.".
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Feb. 13, 2023: Texas Tech gets its 14th win of the season and 3rd Big 12 win in the same game. Jan. 13, 2024: Texas Tech gets its 14th win of the season and 3rd Big 12 win in the same game.
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Air Force transfer Corbin Green will wear No. 22 for the Texas Tech basketball team this season.
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We've got scouts from the Chargers, Cowboys and Jets here at today's Texas Tech practice.
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Final trade details:.Texas Tech receives Cole Wisniewski from North Dakota State in exchange for Jalon Peoples. The deal is pending a physical and approval from the league office.
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Chance McMillian, when asked how Texas Tech was going to deal with DJ Burns inside, ". you're just going to have to see that tomorrow.".
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Texas Tech still has trips to Houston, Arizona and Kansas, but starting 4-0 on the road is a good sign with the other trips being TCU, Oklahoma State and Arizona State.
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This week's Texas Tech athletics schedule is madness. WBB home Monday and Thursday.MBB home Tuesday and Friday.VB home Wednesday.BSB red & black Wednesday & Friday.SB exhibition home Friday.FB home Saturday vs. Colorado w/ Big Noon Kickoff .
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Guess not EVERY Texas Tech team lost its last Big 12 game to Texas.
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Grant McCasland on the Texas Tech fans sticking with the team even in the rough first half.
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This entire sequence was a thing of beauty from Texas Tech. 7 passes in 16 seconds with at least three open 3s given up to get Joe's wide-open 3. Had UNI's defense scrambling so much that Pop's wide open on the other wing too.
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There's your edge rusher.
Georgia Tech transfer DE Romello Height has committed to Texas Tech, sources told ESPN. Red Raiders get a veteran edge rusher and another top-50 transfer as they chase a No. 1 ranked portal class. @mzenitz first.
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"It's unacceptable. It's not good enough in this building." . Grant McCasland after his first home loss as Texas Tech's head coach.
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