Texas Tech basketball: The all-time James Dickey era team

The reserve guards

Lance Hughes

Koy Smith

Stan Bonewitz

Coming off of Dickey’s bench would be a fantastic trio of guards who would all be perfect compliments to each other.  That would allow the head coach to seamlessly keep the up-tempo pace that he liked to have his teams play even when he had to turn to his reserves.

We begin with the ultra-athletic Lance Hughes.  Winner of the 1995 college slam dunk contest, the Georgetown, Texas native is 8th in program history in scoring with 1,762 career points.

Scoring in double digits all four years from 1991-92 to 1994-95, he averaged 17.6 in his final two seasons.  Not known as an outside shooter when he arrived, he stepped up in that area as well, draining 76 shots from deep as a senior while shooting over 38% from behind the arc that year.

Speaking of shooters, there’s no team in Tech history, regardless of era, that would not want a shooter the likes of Stan Bonewitz on the roster.  A career 43% shooter from behind the arc, he could be Tech’s best outside shooter in the three-point era of the game.

For his career, the 6-foot-3 native of San Antonio averaged 9.9 points and four assists per game.  He also sits third in program history with 241 career baskets from 3-point range.

At backup point guard, any team would be happy to have Koy Smith.  The 6-foot-5 legend from Hale Center was the piston that drove the engine of the 1995-96 team.

From 1992-93 to 1995-95, he averaged 10.9 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game and in three of his four seasons, he averaged at least 11.4 points and 3.4 assists.  After earning SWC All-Freshman honors, he turned into one of the more steady components of Dickey’s program over the first half of the 90s.  A stout defender with the size to guard multiple positions on the floor, he was also capable of making teams pay from three-point range as a career 37.1% shooter from deep for his career.