Texas Tech basketball: Senior night provided unforgettable moments

Andrew Sorrells nails 3-pointer on his last collegiate shot

One of the more special moments from senior night came from a player who isn’t technically a senior but who was honored for playing his last collegiate game.  Junior walk-on Andrew Sorrells is graduating and hanging up his sneakers to attend grad school and he made his last shot as a college basketball player rather memorable.

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With Tech leading 67-49 in the final minute of the game, Sorrells rose up and let fly a 3-pointer as soon as he touched the ball despite having a defender in his face.  And because it was one of those nights, he banked the shot home drawing a standing ovation from the home faithful.

However, it wasn’t the first time season that the North Richland Hills native brought the U.S.A. crowd to its feet in garbage time.  But unlike when he threw an alley-oop to fellow walk-on Avery Benson against Chris Beard’s wishes with Tech up big on Baylor, no one could fault him for pulling the trigger one last time against the Longhorns.

It was just the 15th game for Sorrells to see action this year.  He’s scored nine points total and his bucket Monday night was just his second career 3-pointer and first career points in a Big 12 game.

We often do not get to see what walk-on players mean to their teams as most of their contributions come on the practice court.  That’s why it was special to get to see a player that had sacrificed so much for the program have a final moment of glory in front of his friends and family in Lubbock in his last collegiate game.