Texas Tech males’s basketball coach Grant McCasland has agreed on a brand new six-year contract extension that goes by the 2030-31 season, the varsity introduced Monday. The college didn’t launch monetary phrases of the contract.
Texas Tech Has Gone 51-20 Underneath Grant McCasland
By means of two seasons, McCasland has led Texas Tech to a 51-20 total document, together with going 26-12 in Large 12 video games, 30-5 at residence, and back-to-back appearances within the NCAA Event.
“Coach McCasland instantly constructed upon our males’s basketball program’s established success and continues working to boost and ship on excessive expectations,” athletic director Kirby Hocutt mentioned.
Formally ✍️@CoachGrantMac has signed a contract extension by the 2030-31 season! pic.twitter.com/5XAv0yMhXW
— Texas Tech Basketball (@TexasTechMBB) Might 19, 2025
McCasland is the nineteenth head coach in program historical past and owns the very best document for a head coach by his first two seasons. He initially obtained a six-year deal when he was employed two years in the past after going 135-65 in six seasons as head coach at North Texas.
He was additionally named to the Werner Ladder Naismith Males’s School Coach of the 12 months Watch Checklist final season and is now 262-109 by 11 seasons as an NCAA head coach and 206-97 main NCAA Division I packages.
Crimson Raiders Reached The NCAA Elite Eight Final Season
The Crimson Raiders have been 28-9 total (15-5 in Large 12 play) this previous season and made the NCAA Elite Eight earlier than shedding to the eventual nationwide champion Florida.
Texas Tech completed second within the Large 12 standings behind nationwide runner-up Houston, and the Crimson Raiders have been the one workforce to beat the Cougars in convention play. Tech was eighth within the ultimate Related Press ballot.
In McCasland’s first season, the Crimson Raiders completed 23-11 total (11–7 in Large 12 play) and in a tie for third place within the 2023-24 marketing campaign. Because the No. 4 seed within the Large 12 Event, Tech defeated BYU within the quarterfinals, earlier than shedding to Houston within the semifinals.
The Crimson Raiders obtained an at-large bid to the NCAA Event because the No. 6 seed within the South Area, the place they have been defeated by NC State within the first spherical.
McCasland is now set to enter his third season at Tech and can signify this system and nation this summer season as an assistant coach for the USA U19 Nationwide Group on the 2025 FIBA U19 World Cup in Lausanne, Switzerland, from June 28 to July 6.
