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Texas Tech basketball All-Decade Team: The shooting guards

By Matthew Conner

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - APRIL 08: Head coach Chris Beard of the Texas Tech Red Raiders speaks with Matt Mooney #13 and Davide Moretti #25 against the Virginia Cavaliers in the first half during the 2019 NCAA men's Final Four National Championship game at U.S. Bank Stadium on April 08, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - APRIL 08: Head coach Chris Beard of the Texas Tech Red Raiders speaks with Matt Mooney #13 and Davide Moretti #25 against the Virginia Cavaliers in the first half during the 2019 NCAA men's Final Four National Championship game at U.S. Bank Stadium on April 08, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) /
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Toddrick Gotcher #20 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders  (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)
Toddrick Gotcher #20 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders  (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) /

Third team: Toddrick Gotcher

Our third-team selection is one of my favorite players in my time as a Texas Tech basketball fan, Toddrick Gotcher.  Averaging 7.0 p.p.g., the stats do not paint the full picture of one of the best leaders this program has seen in the last two decades.

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Keep in mind that from 2011-16, the Garland, Texas native played for three different head coaches, Billie Gillespie, Chris Walker, and Tubby Smith.  How many players would have left a program in the midst of such chaos?

But the 6-foot-4 shooting guard stuck around to provide his team some stability on the floor.  When he arrived as a true freshman, he was raw when it came to shooting the ball.  In fact, he was just a 15% shooter from 3-point range in 2012-13, his first full season as a Red Raider after he took a medical redshirt in 2011-12.

However, by the time he left the program, he was a 39.2% shooter from deep during his senior year as he put up a career-high 10.9 points per contest.  Making a career-high 62 3-pointers that year, he often came up clutch as he helped get his team to the NCAA Tournament.

We also can’t forget how rugged of a defender he was.  Built like a football player and playing with that type of mentality, he is a guy who would be a dream for Chris Beard because he could guard four spots on the court.  In fact, defensively he was ahead of his time at Tech because, though we didn’t know it at the time, players that guard the way Gotcher did were soon to become the hallmark of Red Raider hoops.

Sometimes, I have to remind myself that Toddrick Gotcher was not a Chris Beard disciple.  He left just a year prior to Beard’s arrival.  But he was cut from the mold of the type of player that Beard covets and that tells us all we need to know about how tough Gotcher was.

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