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The Texas Tech University Red raiders basketball team competes in the highly competitive Big 12 Conference along side perennial powerhouse programs such as the University of Kansas and the University of Texas. As the Big 12 is predominately known round the country as a football conference the grouping of 12 teams from seven states (Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas) consistently sends 5 or 6 teams to the NCAA Tournament every March. In many respects the success the Big 12 has in football (having appeared in 7 of the last 10 national championship games) overshadows the accomplishments on the hardwood where every season teams like the Texas Tech Red Raiders step-up and produce a significant affect the faculty basketball landscape.

Situated in the West Texas city of Lubbock the Texas Tech Red Raiders and their 30, 000 students (24, 000 undergraduate and 6, 000 graduate) are generally related to their football program notwithstanding the truth that the basketball has had a similar degree of success. Through the years the process have won 5 conference tournaments and 6 regular season championships during their amount of time in the now defunct Southwest Conference (dissolved in May, 1996). The Texas Tech program posseses an impressive 14 NCAA Tournament appearances to its credit and contains had the distinction of sending of a dozen players to play professional excellence in the NBA.