There's no denying that the point guard position is massively important in college basketball. The Texas Tech basketball program is well aware of that fact. That's why the pursuit of the next difference maker at that spot is always ongoing.
While head coach Grant McCasland and his team are currently trying to find their 2025-26 floor general, they are also looking to land a point guard who can be the future of the program. One candidate is 4-star Virginia native Darius Bivins.
Rated by 247Sports.com's composite rankings as the No. 102 overall player and No. 13 point guard in the class of 2026, Bivins is the No. 5 overall player in Virginia. Now, it appears that he has an interest in the Red Raiders.
According to Joe Tipton of On3Sports, Bivins is working to set up a visit to Texas Tech this summer. However, he has plans to see other programs as well.
4⭐️ Darius Bivens, a 6-foot point guard in the 2026 class, tells me he is currently in the process of scheduling official visits to Texas Tech, Rutgers, and Seton Hall. He remains open to others. https://t.co/5GxOP2yCWk pic.twitter.com/0zCOJgAnZO
— Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) May 27, 2025
Tipon posts on X that Bivins is also planning to visit Rutgers and Seton Hall in the coming weeks. What's more, Bivins has offers from other power-conference programs.
Schools such as Maryland, Arizona State, BYU, Oklahoma State, Stanford, and a host of quality mid-major programs have extended scholarship offers to Bivins.
The 6-foot, 160-pounder is impressing on the AAU circuit this year. Playing for the Washington Warriors Adidas AAU program, he recently had an assist/turnover ratio of 60:9 and three games with 10 or more assists over the course of eight summer games.
What's interesting is that Bivins seems to take pride in being a pure point guard, rather than a shoot-first player.
“People want to actually play with me as to where some point guards are shooting like 26 shots a game,” Bivins told Sam Lance of ZagsBlog.com earlier this month. “Whereas me, I’m looking to get you the ball. So I feel like it means a lot because I’ve had people be like, ‘Yeah, I really want to play with you.'”
Of course, Texas Tech had great success in 2024-25 with a pass-first point guard, Elijah Hawkins, who is also a bit undersized, just like Bivins. Helping the Red Raiders get to the Elite Eight, Hawkins led all Big 12 players with 226 assists (6.5 per game) this past season.
While he also scored 9.1 points and 3.5 rebounds per game, he was primarily a distributor and facilitator for the Red Raiders. He was also a fantastic defender despite being only 5-foot-10. Hawkins averaged 1.5 steals per game for the Red Raiders this past season and was Tech's primary on-ball defender by the end of the season.
McCasland has had success with small point guards in his career. In addition to Hawkins, he has had Joe Toussaint, who averaged 12.2 points, 2.6 rebounds, and 4.3 assists per game for Tech in 2024-24 despite being listed as only 6-feet tall. At North Texas, McCasland saw 5-foot-11 Tylor Perry average 15.6 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 3.0 assists per game over the course of two seasons while helping the Mean Green win the 2023 NIT.
Now, Tech appears to be confident that Bivins could be the next diminutive point guard who could be a contributor in McCasland's system. It also appears that he is interested in finding out what the Red Raiders have to offer.