Basketball
Texas Tech hires North Texas' Grant McCasland as next head coach, UNT expected to promote
Grant McCasland takes over at Texas Tech after six seasons at North Texas, UNT associate head coach Ross Hodge is expected to be promoted
Texas Tech announced the official hiring of North Texas’ Grant McCasland to be its new men’s basketball coach Friday afternoon.
The announcement came less than 24 hours after UNT won the NIT Championship over UAB for the program’s first-ever NIT title. McCasland was the head man in Denton sine 2017 after coming over from Arkansas State. He finished with a 135-65 record at North Texas and led the team to a Conference-USA Tournament Championship in 2020-21 where they eventually upset Purdue in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
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