LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Tech guard Christian Anderson is keeping his name in the NBA draft after two standout seasons with the Red Raiders.<\/p>\n
The school said Tuesday that Anderson has officially declared for the next month’s draft. The announcement came a day before the deadline for underclassmen to withdraw from the draft and maintain their NCAA eligibility.<\/p>\n
Anderson was the Big 12 leader with 7.4 assists and 38.4 minutes played per game as a sophomore this past season, when he also averaged 18.5 points. His 244 assists were a single-season school record and he was a third-team pick on the AP All-America team.<\/p>\n
In 68 games (40 starts) over his two seasons with the Red Raiders, he averaged 14.5 points and 4.7 assists per game. They were an NCAA Elite Eight team in 2024-25 and lost in the second round of this year’s NCAA Tournament to Alabama and finished 21st in the final AP poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Tech guard Christian Anderson is keeping his name in the NBA draft after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19642,112032,168,170,169,202,196,942,27],"class_list":["post-310725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-christian-anderson","tag-christian-anderson-texas-tech-nba-draft","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310725","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=310725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}