Former Georgia basketball guard, four-star recruit enters the transfer portal after spending one season at Texas Tech
Former Georgia basketball guard KyeRon Lindsay is entering the NCAA transfer portal again. Lindsay played a portion of the 2022-2023 season with Georgia before transferring to Texas Tech.
The 6-foot-7, 210-pound forward averaged just six minutes per game in his sophomore season with the Red Raiders, averaging 2.7 points per game. Lindsay appeared in nine games for Texas Tech.
Lindsay was a larger contributor for Georgia. Lindsay played 20 minutes per game for the Bulldogs. Lindsay, who is from Denton, Texas, averaged 6.2 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game with Georgia. Lindsay joins former Georgia guard KD Johnson in the transfer portal for a second time this offseason.
Lindsay is a former four-star recruit. Lindsay played in 10 of Georgia’s first 11 games back in 2022-2023.
During the 2023-2024 season, Texas Tech made the NCAA Tournament before falling to NC State in March Madness. Georgia basketball has advanced to the National Invitational Tournament semifinals.
On Saturday night, Mac McClung won the Slam Dunk competition as part of the NBA All-Star weekend. It marks his second straight win in the event.
But those who know…well, they know. And what they know is that McClung has been producing highlights for years, dating back to high school.
McClung was electric, producing jaw-dropping plays and showing off some impressive hops. But despite being one of the nation’s top scorers, the 6-foot-1 guard didn’t register a ton of big-time recruiting interest.
Sure, he had some offers like Boston College, Rutgers and Seton Hall, but McClung’s output on the court was not matched by any interest from college basketball’s blue bloods.
Ranked a three-star and the No. 49 point guard (by Rivals) in the nation out of Gate City (Gate City, Virginia), McClung had originally committed to Rutgers basketball in early August 2017. Three months later, he had de-committed from the Big Ten program just before his senior season.
By mid-October, he had veraballed to Patrick Ewing at Georgetown.
Watch this highlight film and it is hard to figure out why he didn’t have many other big-time offers. His athleticism alone should have made him a matter of intrigue for bigger programs.
Combine that with his scoring ability and McClung should have been a four-star recruit, easily.
Here are his highlights from his senior season at Gate City. The flair he showed on Saturday night in the NBA Slam Dunk competition was certainly not in short supply as a high school senior:
Currently, McClung is in the G League with the Osceola Magic where he is still looking to fully break through to the NBA. He has played in four NBA games, averaging 8.3 points per game.
Texas Tech stuns Texas on the court defeating the Longhorns by double digits.
It’s basketball season in Austin. The Texas Longhorns opened Big 12 conference play with a 78-67 loss to Texas Tech.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders ran away with the game behind a high scoring performance from Pop Isaacs. The Texas Tech guard put up 21 points behind a 3-for-5 three-point shooting night and 7-for-15 performance from the field.
Texas is facing the harsh reality of a poor transfer portal haul following the exit of several key players in the offseason. We were critical of the lack of movement by the team in the way of portal additions, and the lack of contributing Longhorns proved evident on Saturday. 54 of the team’s 67 points came from Texas guards Tyrese Hunter and Max Abmas and forward Dillon Mitchell.
The loss drops Texas to 11-3. The team certainly could have gotten off to a worse start, but has lost to perhaps every quality opponent it has faced this season. It isn’t the start we would have hoped to see from the team through 14 games.
Texas Tech, who went an abysmal 16-16 last season, proved to be the better team by a wide margin on Texas’ home floor. Longhorns head coach Rodney Terry has plenty to work on if this team is to make another NCAA Tournament run.
Texas resumes play on the road against Cincinnati on Tuesday night.
Remembering the legendary head coach and his time at Texas Tech.
On Wednesday night I heard the news about the legendary basketball coach Bob Knight and his passing, there were some emotions I didn’t really expect. As a fan of the Texas Rangers, I was trying to enjoy the moment of their first World Series championship. Once the game ended I thought about Knight’s time at Texas Tech.
As a teenager in Lubbock, Texas, I enjoyed the early 2000s as a fan of Texas Tech athletics. Two very polarizing head coaches were on campus at the time with Mike Leach running the football program and Bob Knight putting his stamp on the basketball program. For someone who never had the opportunity to sit down with Coach Leach or Coach Knight, their passings still had quite an impact on me. Leach gave me a love for Air Raid offenses and Knight gave me a love for passionate basketball.
Bob Knight wasn’t always easy to get along with from what I have heard from others in the industry, but for those of us who attended games at the United Supermarkets Arena, we were mostly fond of him. He after all led us to four NCAA Tournament appearances during his time and one of his assistants, Chris Beard, came close to bringing the first national championship to Lubbock in men’s basketball.
Despite all that he did on the basketball court, my favorite memory of Bob Knight didn’t come on the hardwood. On the night of his passing, I remembered a moment that was 15 years prior to the day. It was on the morning before the Texas vs Texas Tech football game when Michael Crabtree gave Red Raider fans a moment we still cherish.
That morning on College Gameday, Knight was the guest picker and I couldn’t help but laugh and cheer along with all those Red Raider fans who gathered to see Tech finally get to host the weekly event.
Rest in peace coach. As we remember the legendary coach, here are several photos from his time on the Plains of West Texas.
Controversial basketball legend Bob Knight has died at 83.
Bob Knight, the legendary Indiana basketball coach and firebrand courtside personality, died at the age of 83 on Wednesday, his family confirmed in a statement.
After joining the Hoosiers in 1971 following a stint at Army, his Indiana teams were some of the most ferocious of the 1970s and 1980s, and he entrenched himself in Bloomington as the most notable sports figure in Indiana history.
He played college ball at Ohio State and coached at Texas Tech after he was fired from Indiana in 2000. He led the Red Raiders from 2001 until 2008, where he would win his 900th game and eventually retire. His son Pat coached at Texas Tech for three seasons after his father’s exit.
After his coaching days, Knight worked as a broadcaster at ESPN until 2015. He finally returned to Indiana in 2020, roughly two decades after his firing, for a basketball game.
Many in the sports world offered condolences for Knight’s passing, remembering his coaching and his short fuse.
Bob Knight has passed away at the age of 83.
1x NCAA Champion (player) 3x NCAA Champion (coach) 5x Final Four 11x Big Ten Champion 3x AP Coach of the Year 1x Naismith Coach of the Year 1991 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee
Texas has exciting matchups in basketball heading into the upcoming season.
The Texas basketball season is under a month away. The Longhorns will look to match last season’s terrific results after reaching the regional finals of their bracket.
This team is going to look different. While Dylan Disu, Dillon Mitchell, Tyrese Hunter and Brock Cunningham are among last season’s contributors, more than half of the team’s most integral players from last season are gone.
Oral Roberts guard Max Abmas and Virginia forward Kadin Shedrick stand as the big headliners from the Longhorns’ portal class. After averaging over 21 points and four assists last season, expect Abmas to be a major part of this year’s team.
The Longhorns are going to face several big matchups in the 2023-24 season. Here’s a look at some of the team’s biggest games.
Kansas created a situation which should keep at least one bubble team out of the NCAA Tournament, possibly two. We have details.
The Big 12 bubble landscape is becoming more favorable for USC as the calendar moves into March.
Texas Tech, which lost last Saturday to TCU, lost again to Kansas on Tuesday night. USC is gaining a little more separation from Texas Tech on the bubble, but there’s more to the story than a simple comparison of the Trojans and the Red Raiders.
Notable is the fact that Oklahoma State and Texas Tech play each other this Saturday. Had the Cowboys and Red Raiders both won their most recent games, this upcoming contest would be a “winner in” bubble game in which the loser is still in the hunt for the NCAA Tournament. However, because of the recent losses by both teams, this game will be more of a “loser out” bubble game in which the loser will have to win the Big 12 Tournament just to make the NCAA Tournament.
If Oklahoma State beats Tech on the road, the Cowboys’ NCAA odds probably will rise above 50-50. If Tech beats Oklahoma State, the Red Raiders and Cowboys would both be near the cut line and would need at least one win at the Big 12 Tournament to feel moderately good about their position.
Ultimately, it’s very unlikely that both teams can get into the NCAA Tournament, which is great for USC. That’s at least one bubble spot the Big 12 won’t claim. The hope for USC is that both Texas Tech and Oklahoma State will miss the field. A Tech win on Saturday, followed by losses for both teams in the first game of the Big 12 Tournament, could bring about that result.
The Trojans continue to get help from other sources on the bubble. Texas Tech suffers a huge 83-82 loss and is now on the ropes.
The pattern of USC getting help on the NCAA Tournament bubble continues.
Texas Tech was making a charge on the bubble. The Red Raiders struggled in the first three months of the season but caught fire the past few weeks to move into serious bubble consideration. With a win over TCU on Saturday, the Red Raiders might have moved into the “Last Four In” category on the bubble, joining USC and making life a lot more complicated for the Trojans.
Instead, TCU beat Texas Tech 83-82 on two free throws in the final five seconds. TCU had a 12-point second-half lead, lost it, but recovered at the end to escape Lubbock with a one-point win.
Texas Tech falls to 16-13 overall, 5-11 in the Big 12. There is no rule saying a team can’t be accepted into the NCAA Tournament if it is six games under .500 in its conference, so the Red Raiders aren’t dead. However, they next play at Kansas against a Jayhawk team which is in the hunt for a No. 1 seed. If the Red Raiders can win that game on the road, they still have a pretty good chance of getting in, believe it or not … but if they lose, they’re unlikely to get in.
So, Kansas could pretty much eliminate a bubble competitor for USC next week. That’s a scenario Trojan fans should feel confident about.
As an aside, Kansas plays bubble-hugging West Virginia later on Saturday. Get your Jayhawk pom-poms out, Trojan fans.
Texas looks to lock down a Top 2 seed in Waco against Baylor.
The Road to the Final Four ramps up in the coming weeks as seeding solidifies in college basketball. The Texas Longhorns were ranked as the No. 5 overall team and top No. 2 seed in the bracket reveal ahead of last Saturday’s games.
Given the resume it already has and how the tournament committee views Texas, a win over Baylor could go a long way toward tournament seeding. The Longhorns face one of their top three road tests of the season in facing the Baylor Bears.
Scott Drew’s team has owned Texas in recent history. Earlier this season, Texas narrowly defeated Baylor at home to snap the Bears’ run of dominance. They will likely bring their best basketball to defeat the most well-known team in Texas.
Here are a few things to keep an eye on for Texas as the regular season closes.
