Preseason Coaching changes įollowing a 24–25 loss to Kansas State in the eighth week of the 2021 season, head coach Matt Wells was fired on October 25. The Red Raiders won the Liberty Bowl, 34–7, finishing the season with an overall record of 7–6 for the program's first winning season since 2015. The team was invited to the Liberty Bowl, playing against Mississippi State this was the program's first bowl game since the 2017 Birmingham Bowl. The 2021 team finished the regular season with an overall record of 6–6 and a Big 12 record of 3–6, finishing in ninth place in the conference.
Now you can’t say they aren’t trying in the transfer portal.Main article: 2021 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team Regardless on how good or bad this team is, Huggins and his staff worked tremendously hard to catch up with the new age of college basketball. “Been trying to say this! Special group,” Stevenson responded. “Love this team…,” Matthews wrote on Twitter. Toussaint and Mitchell will be able to breathe and relax as they both have two years of eligibility.Īs of this week, all 13 scholarship players are on campus and getting settled in with the new group. Matthews and Stevenson will be great leaders for the many young, developing players that are on the roster. All we know for now is that Huggins and his staff got their type of players. You’re bringing eight new players and mixing them with five returning players from last year’s team. There are some question marks about this team, and rightfully so. Between the four incoming transfers, they each at least have a year of high-level experience. Some may look at this list of players and ask what’s the difference between this group and last year’s transfers? The biggest difference is Power-5 experience. WVU’s INCOMING TRANSFERS FROM THE PORTAL:ĮMMITT MATTHEWS JR., F, 5th Year, WASHINGTONĮRIK STEVENSON, G, 5th Year, SOUTH CAROLINAĤ.3 PTS / 1.7 REB / 3.2 AST / 1.4 STL, 2.33 AST/TO RATIO With a couple of calls and connections, WVU’s coaching staff was able to retool their depleted roster into a competitive team next season. 4 incoming transfer portal class in the country. Texas Tech has done great in the transfer portal once again this offseason but who has kept up with them? Huggins and his staff have.Īccording to EvanMiya, college basketball statistician and data scientist, West Virginia has the No. After former head coach Chris Beard ditched the Red Raiders for his alma mater in Austin, Adams and his staff added four impactful transfers and picked back right up where Beard left the program, appearing in the Sweet 16. Huggins said this to the media after falling to Texas Tech on the road, who took advantage of the transfer portal the most in the Big 12 Conference since the hiring of Mark Adams. “Honestly, we probably didn’t do a good job in the portal ,” Huggins said after a third-consecutive loss back in January. This is the new way of winning in college basketball. Kentucky got their first unanimous National Player of the Year in WVU transfer Oscar Tshiebwe.
North Carolina reached the title game against the Jayhawks with help by Oklahoma transfer Brady Manek. Kansas added Remy Martin last offseason, who ended up being a needed piece off the bench during their run to the second National Championship under Bill Self. Even the blue bloods like Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina dipped their toes into the portal picking up valuable pieces. The transfer portal is still fairly new but many programs around the country started using the resource to retool their rosters every offseason. The Hall of Fame coach and his staff went months listening to the crowd that wanted them to get with the times in regards to the new world of college basketball.
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