This is a cute story from the Associated Press via ESPN.com.
But it makes you wonder if Pat Knight is slowly taking the Bob Knight route to silliness and unusual stunts to motivate his team.
LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech Red Raiders coach Pat Knight grew tired of watching his team miss shots that even a child could make. So he found one to illustrate his frustration.
While the Red Raiders (10-4) were busy botching about 15 layups against Stephen F. Austin on Thursday, Knight scoured the stands and invited a youngster to join the team huddle.
Knight asked the boy whether he …read more

I’m sure the 2K Sports Classic people didn’t expect the Michigan Wolverines to, dare I say, dominate the UCLA Bruins when setting up the brackets for this tourney.
Yeah I said it, DOMINATE.
– 17 UCLA turnovers mostly caused by Michigan’s feisty 1-3-1 zone defense
– DeShawn Sims abused the UCLA bigs all game long (by the way, keep Sims coming off the bench Beilein, it’s working)
– 8th grader Stu Douglass had his coming out party with 10 points and 5 feeds
– Darren Collison and Josh Shipp combined for 10 turnovers and only 1 three pointer
– Nikola Dragovic felt compelled to launch shots …read more

Maybe Texas Tech was trying to give its second-ranked football team some motivation for its game against Oklahoma this weekend.
The Red Raiders basketball team had ten players score in double figures as it defeated East Central (who?!) 167-116 tonight at the Legends Classic in Lubbock, Texas.
Ok. I just looked them up and East Central is a college east Oklahoma (Ada to be exact) and plays in Division II.