Lady Raiders announce foreign trip to Greece
The Texas Tech women's basketball team will embark on a 10-day, two-city Greek tour this August that will feature games against European select/all-star teams.
Scheduled to leave from Lubbock on Aug. 6, the Lady Raiders will arrive in Athens on Aug. 7. In addition to spending time in Athens, the Lady Raiders will also visit the island of Crete.
Allowed to embark one trip every four years by the NCAA, the Lady Raiders last went on a foreign tour in 2016, traveling to Spain and Portugal. Other previous foreign tours include trips to Canada (2010), Australia (2005) and France/Switzerland (2001).
In addition to exhibition games, Texas Tech will also be allowed to conduct an additional 10 practices before leaving for Greece. Those practices begin on July 26 and run through Aug. 6.
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Men's golf
Texas Tech junior Ludvig Aberg has earned All-Big 12 men's golf honors for the second straight season to add to his long list of accolades based on achievement.
A Sweden native, Aberg was named the Ben Hogan Award winner along with securing PING All-America honors the past couple of weeks. He is the first Tech player to win the Ben Hogan Award and becomes the fifth Red Raider to earn All-Big 12 honors multiple times. He finished his third season at No. 3 in the Golfstat collegiate ranking and No. 4 by Golfweek ratings.
The All-Big 12 Team was selected by using the top-10 players according to the Golfweek rankings following the Big 12 Championship. Aberg won the 2022 Big 12 Championship at 8-under-par to continue a streak of six straight top-10 showings.
Aberg is also currently at No. 3 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking after a collegiate season where he won the 2022 Big 12 Championship and The Prestige. He secured eight top-10 finishes and earned All-America honors by finishing 11th during NCAA Championship stroke play last week in Scottsdale, Arizona.
He joins Andrew Dresser, Oscar Floren, Chris Ward and Nils Floren as the only Red Raiders to have been named to the All-Big 12 Team twice. Nils Floren is currently the only three-time selection with Aberg set to return for his senior season with the opportunity to match him.
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Volleyball
Coming off the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2001, the Red Raiders announced their fall schedule which features 13 non-conference matches and 16 contests against Big 12 opponents. Tech will play 15 matches against NCAA Tournament teams from the 2021 season.
The Big 12 schedule will return to its normal format, last used in the 2019 season, where teams will play once at home and once away from September to November. The past two seasons the conference slate featured back-to-back games against the same opponent either home or away.
Tech will start with a pair of scrimmages at home, first hosting North Texas at 4 p.m. Aug. 18 at United Supermarkets Arena and again at 6 p.m. Aug. 20 for the annual Red and Black intrasquad scrimmage.
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The Red Raiders open the 2022 regular season slate on the road at a tournament in South Bend, Indiana (Aug. 26-27) as they face Notre Dame and Milwaukee.
Tech will host Tarleton State in a midweek match for the home opener Aug. 30 at United Supermarkets Arena.
The Red Raiders will hit the road for back-to-back weeks, first stopping in Athens, Georgia (Sept. 2-3) for a tournament against College of Charleston, Charlotte and UGA. The Red Raiders will stay in the Lone Star State for a tournament at Rice in Houston (Sept. 9-11). The tournament will feature three NCAA Tournament teams from 2021: Texas A&M- Corpus Christi, Brown and Rice.
Tech returns to Lubbock for the Red Raider Classic Sept. 15-17 where Tech will host SMU, UTRGV, Arizona State and Oral Roberts. The tournament will serve as the non-conference finale as the Red Raiders will open Big 12 play the following week.
The Red Raiders will jumpstart Big 12 play on the road at West Virginia (Sept. 24) before returning to Lubbock to host Kansas State (Sept. 28) and Texas (Oct. 1).
Tech makes a quick trip to Fort Worth for a match against TCU (Oct. 8) then back home to host Oklahoma (Oct. 12) before heading to Kansas (Oct. 15) and Baylor (Oct. 19).
The Red Raiders will welcome Iowa State to the United Supermarkets Arena on Oct. 21, Baylor on Nov. 2 and TCU on Nov. 9 with a stop in Austin in between to face the Longhorns (Oct. 26).
Tech travels north to Norman to take on Oklahoma (Nov. 9) then moves on to Ames to face Iowa State (Nov. 12). Tech hits the road one last time Nov. 23 in Manhattan when they meet Kansas State.
The Red Raiders' final home matches will take place Nov. 19 against West Virginia and Nov. 25 against Kansas in the regular season finale.