Texas Tech Win Gives Knight Record

After a tough loss to UNLV (13-2) on December 28th, Bob Knight's Texas Tech Red Raiders (11-4) got the job done at home, giving Knight his historical 880th career win as a coach, surpassing Dean Smith's Record.

The Red Raiders got off to a fast start, quickly building a 20 point lead, but New Mexico (11-4) was far from out of it. Texas Tech saw its lead drop to 13 at the half and continuously decrease over the course of the second half. About 10 minuets into the second half, the Lobos took the lead and kept it until just over 2 minutes to play. With 2:10 remaining, Jarrius Jackson hit a 3-point basket which would prove to be the difference in a 70-68 game.

After the game, Knight still seemed focused on the game and the fact that his team could have blown a game in which they led by 20 points, if a J.R. Giddens 3-pointer with 11 ticks remaining had gone in. "This really, as I've said all along, has absolutely nothing to do with this record," Knight claimed after the buzzer had sounded, "I'm very, very disappointed with how we played in the second half.... If anything I'm glad this is over with." With a career scarred by negative publicity, it is nice for once to have something to congratulate Coach Knight about, we can only expect for the new record to grow as Texas Tech enters Big 12 play.