According to insider Jon Rothstein, the Texas Tech Red Raiders are extending current men’s basketball head coach Grant McCasland. Per the report, the new contract would run through the 2029-30 season.
McCasland is coming off his first season in Lubbock where he led the team to a 23-11 overall record and 11-7 in Big 12, good enough for third in the basketball-heavy conference.
Despite the Red Raiders getting bounced in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the school is committed to McCasland. There was a time when some believed that the head coach would leave after one season when Scott Drew to Kentucky rumors started to circulate. However, according to McCasland, he was never going to leave Lubbock.
“The honest part is I just didn’t see any way, shape or form there would be a way we would leave Texas Tech,” McCasland said, “and I don’t think it would have mattered what the school was in the world.”
His loyalty seems to be rewarded. The 2024-25 college basketball season tips off in less than a month when Texas Tech hosts Bethune-Cookman at United Supermarkets Arena on Nov. 5. The first Power Five matchup features the renewing of an old conference rivalry when Tech hosts the Texas A&M Aggies on Dec. 8.