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LUBBOCK, Texas – The Texas Tech Red Raiders unveiled their eight-game home non-conference schedule for the 2026/27 college basketball season Thursday morning.
The team is fresh off an appearance in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and is coming off a third straight 20+ win season under head coach Grant McCasland. The Red Raiders are looking to extend the second-longest non-conference home winning streak through the team’s first eight home games of the season.
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The schedule is headlined by hosting the likes of Illinois, Jackson State, and Bethune-Cookman, among others. Here is a way to early deep dive into Tech’s upcoming home non-conference opponents before tip-off at United Supermarkets Arena.
Jackson State
Trey Johnson and Ashley Robinson, director of athletics, look at the audience during a press conference introducing the new Jackson State men’s basketball head coach at Lee E. Williams Athletics and Assembly Center in Jackson, Miss., on Monday, May 4, 2026. Johnson was announced as head coach on April 15 after the departure of Mo Williams. | USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect
Texas Tech opponents up the season on Monday, November 2nd, hosting the Jackson State Tigers. The Tigers are coming off a 12-21 record with a 10-8 in the SWAC last season, which was the worst mark in former Head Coach Mo Williams’ four-year tenure.
The Tigers allowed the most points per game in the conference at 83.8 a night and had the second-worst point differential in the conference. In March, Williams stepped down to become an assistant at Kentucky. The program elevated longtime Associate Head Coach and the program’s single-season all-time leader in scoring, Trey Williams, to Head Coach.
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In his four seasons as an associate head coach, Williams was pivotal in developing talent for the Tigers, with four players receiving player of the year honors across his tenure with the program. Jackson State lost guard Daeshun Ruffin, who led the team in scoring a year ago, but…
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