Texas Tech basketball all-decade team: The power forwards

3rd team: Mike Singletary

One of the top scorers in Tech history, Mike Singletary played only 1.5 seasons for Tech in this decade but they were solid campaigns.  In 2009-10, he averaged a career-high 15 points per game while grabbing 6.8 rebounds.  A year later, he scored 12.7 p.p.g. and pulled in 5.8 boards.

Ending his career with 1,536 points, he is 15th in program history.   But his crowning moment in Scarlet and Black was at the end of the 2009 season.

In the Big 12 Tournament, he scored 43 points (a record for the event) including 29 straight for his team in the second half to help Tech rally from a 21-point deficit to top Texas A&M.  That game remains one of the most memorable in program history.

At just 6-foot-6, 235-pounds the Humble, Texas native was a power forward stuck in a small forward’s body.   His team asked him to play in the post quite a bit given the presence of small forward D’Walyn Roberts and he was able to hold up against larger players.

One reason was that he was a new-age forward who was a bit ahead of his time.  Quick and athletic, he was able to draw bigger players away from the rim and do damage facing the bucket.

He would be a huge weapon in Beard’s system these days because his game was almost as positionless as any we’ve seen.  But because he was at times this program’s only inside presences of any note, he winds up as our third-team power forward rather than on the small forward list.