{"id":118001,"date":"2026-01-10T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118001\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:04:25","slug":"what-concerns-dr-evan-miyakawa-the-most-about-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118001\/","title":{"rendered":"What concerns Dr. Evan Miyakawa the most about Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With college hoops rolling into conference play, Ari Temkin and James Westling of the Big 12 Today Podcast sat down with analytics insider <a href=\"https:\/\/evanmiya.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Evan Miyakawa<\/a> to discuss where the Big 12 and Texas Tech stand.<\/p>\n<p>Regular Season Success Translating to the Postseason <\/p>\n<p>Miyakawa was asked what indicates post season success in the regular season, and he was quick to bring up Texas Tech\u2019s Elite 8 Run. Can the Red Raiders match that consistency?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, last year, Texas Tech was one of the most interesting teams in tournament. They almost made a Final Four, but they only won three games. That\u2019s only half of the way there.<\/p>\n<p>I think when it comes to title contenders, one of the things I think is one of the very, very crucial is consistency on a night in and night out basis. Are your performances consistently elite? Because if you\u2019re a one or two or three seed, and you\u2019re at risk of having some nights when you\u2019re awesome, great, but then you also really struggle, that means it\u2019s going to be much harder for you to win six games.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech has a \u201cVolatile\u201d emoji?<\/p>\n<p>Talking emojis, Westling and Temkin noticed the Red Raiders have a \u201cvolatile\u201d emoji so they asked Miyakawa to walk them through that conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when I look at teams in the Big 12, when it comes to that, one of the things you can see on my website, if you go to the team ratings page, is I have these little emojis next to some teams that indicate certain things about their style, and I have a little lock icon next to Arizona, which basically means they\u2019re one of the most consistent teams in the country from night to night. Their performances are always about the same, and that same level is awesome. They rarely wilt under pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Join the conversation with other Red Raiders on the\u00a0Inside The Double T\u00a0forum.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe today\u00a0to get the most in-depth Texas Tech sports and recruiting coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on X:\u00a0@RedRaiderSports<\/p>\n<p>Like and follow us on Instagram\u00a0@rrs_rivals\u00a0&amp; like us on\u00a0Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With college hoops rolling into conference play, Ari Temkin and James Westling of the Big 12 Today Podcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-118001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}