Texas Tech basketball: The Bob Knight era all-time team

The reserve guards

Martin Zeno

Alan Voskuil

Curtis Marshall

Any team that could bring the program’s No. 5 all-time leading scorer off the bench is in great shape.  And while Martin Zeno and his 1,913 career points might seem like an obvious choice for the starting lineup, this team would need his scoring off the bench as well as likely wanting Powell’s size to begin games.

Zeno was a lefty from Louisiana who was as versatile and athletic as any player in the Knight era.  He averaged 14.7 points and 4.8 rebounds per game from 2004-08 while putting up at least 16 p.p.g. in each of his final two seasons.  The 6-foot-5 wing had a game similar to Emmett’s and would be a perfect option to help carry the scoring burden when Emmett was off the court.

Of course, playing both together would put plenty of stress on the opposition should Zeno slide over to the off guard position.  What’s more, Zeno was a very good defensive player who would likely be this team’s best on-ball stopper, an area where Emmett was known to have considerable lapses.

Helping to give Tech more firepower from deep would be guard Alan Voskuil, who averaged 8.7 points per game as a Red Raider.  Playing three years for Knight, he scored 13.1 points as a junior in the season that Knight stepped aside for his son Pat.  Where he would be the most valuable to the all-time Knight team would be as a deep threat as he was a career 44.1% shooter from behind the arc.

Giving this team a touch more depth at the guard spot would be Curtis Marshall.  The 6-foot-5 JUCO transfer who averaged 5.4 points and 2.1 assists per game from 2003-05.

As we’ve seen in recent years with Chris Beard, college teams can get by with just a pair of guards to take the primary bench minutes and Zeno and Voskuil would be more than capable of handling that.  But the question on this team would be whether the reserve big men would be able to hold up their end of the bargain.