The 2023–24 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team represented
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public university, public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the flagship instit ...
in the
2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2023. The regular season ended on March 17, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 19 and ending with th ...
as a member of the
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida ...
. The Red Raiders were led by first-year coach
Grant McCasland
Grant McCasland (born October 14, 1976) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head men's basketball coach at Texas Tech University. McCasland previously coached at North Texas from 2017 to 2023, where he guided the Mean Gre ...
. They played their home games at the
United Supermarkets Arena
United Supermarkets Arena (previously the United Spirit Arena) is a multipurpose arena on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The 15,098-seat arena opened in 1999 and is home to the Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball, Texas Tec ...
in
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock ( )
is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 272,086 in 2024, Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the ...
. The Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball team drew an average home attendance of 12,926 in 17 games in 2023-24.
Previous season
The
Red Raiders finished the
2022–23 season 16–16, 5–13 in
Big 12 play to finish in a tie for last place. As the No. 9 seed the
Big 12 tournament, they lost to
West Virginia
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in the first round.
The day after the Red Raiders' final regular season game, Mark Adams was suspended for what the school called an "inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive comment" that he had made the previous week. On March 8, 2023, Adams resigned. On March 31, the school named
North Texas
North Texas is a term used primarily by residents of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex to refer to a geographic area of Texas, generally considered to include the area south of Oklahoma, east of Abilene, Texas, Abilene, west of Paris, Texas, Par ...
head coach
Grant McCasland
Grant McCasland (born October 14, 1976) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head men's basketball coach at Texas Tech University. McCasland previously coached at North Texas from 2017 to 2023, where he guided the Mean Gre ...
the team's new head coach.
Offseason
Recruiting classes
2023 recruiting class
Roster
Schedule and results
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Big 12 regular season
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Big 12 tournament
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NCAA tournament
Source
Rankings
References
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2023-24 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team
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