Bevo’s Daily Roundup: With Chris Beard at Texas, two Texas Tech players hit portal

The college basketball world shook a little beneath our feet last week when the Texas Longhorns announced the hiring of Chris Beard as the program’s new basketball coach.

Beard replaces Shaka Smart. He also leaves behind a somewhat talented team in the Texas Tech Red Raiders. That is, it was a talented team. Now, at least two Tech players have hit the transfer portal since the announcement of Beard’s big move to Austin, 247Sports reports.

From 247Sports: “Micah Peavy and Marcus Santos-Silva are each weighing their future options following Beard’s decision to leave Lubbock for the Texas job. [Both] played pivotal roles for Texas Tech’s run to the NCAA Tournament’s Round of 32 last month. Santos-Silva, a senior forward who previously transferred from VCU, averaged 8.3 points and a team-leading 6.4 rebounds for the Red Raiders on the year. Peavy, a former four-star recruit in the 2020 class from Duncanville, Texas, put up 5.7 points and 3.1 rebounds per game as a freshman.”

WHAT THE WISE MEN ARE SAYING ABOUT THE LONGHORNS

Austin American-Statesman: Spieth moves into betting favorites at Masters

Austin American-Statesman: 2019 loss at NCAA Tournament fuels Horns

Austin American-Statesman: Golden: Culture change is coming to Texas under Beard

Dallas Morning News: A way-too-early look at Texas’ 2021 schedule, including a renewed Southwest Conference rivalry

Dallas Morning News: How Texas’ collegiate baseball teams fared this week: TCU, DBU remain undefeated in conference play

247Sports: Texas Raw: ‘To be the top dog, you’ve gotta beat the top dog’

Inside Texas: Burton: Scott Drew, practices, and Nevada

Inside Texas: The investment

Inside Texas: Beard throws down the Monday night gauntlet in his introductory press conference

ICYMI IN BURNT ORANGE NATION

The Longhorn Republic dives in on the new coach

Texas Tech’s hire of Mark Adams leaves Chris Beard without his defensive guru

Report: UTEP’s Rodney Terry returning to Texas as an assistant

RECRUITING ROUNDUP

247Sports: Mike at Night: New visitors and moving timelines

247Sports: Texas still working to flip OU commit Jordan Hudson

Inside Texas: First edition of the 2022 basketball prospect rankings

Inside Texas: Just In Time Evening News: Hale, Scarlett, Shanahan Jr

Inside Texas: Hoops team/recruiting nuggets

BIG 12 BREAKDOWN

Our Daily Bears: The Unstoppable Title Path: How Baylor basketball slayed Gonzaga to win the national title

Viva the Matadors: There’s a new face of Texas Tech basketball

Viva the Matadors: Kyler Edwards decides to remain a Red Raider

Frogs O’ War: TCU athletes rack up Big 12 honors

The Smoking Musket: Deuce McBride declares for NBA Draft and West Virginia adds rim-defending transfer from FIU

Bring On The Cats: Kansas State Basketball: Introducing Markquis Nowell

WHAT WE’RE READING

SB Nation: NBA mock draft 2021: Who is rising and falling after NCAA tournament?

SB Nation: Sam Darnold finally has a chance to prove he isn’t a bust

SB Nation: Gonzaga isn’t the only team to have a perfect season and lose at the end

NEWS ACROSS THE FORTY ACRES AND BEYOND

• Texas baseball takes on the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders tonight.

• Texas men’s basketball associate head coach KT Turner is joining the Oklahoma Sooners.

• Here’s a dose of spring practice highlights.

• Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball head coach Bill Self received a lifetime coaching contract. What that is, exactly, is a bit unclear at the moment. It does, however, mean he’s there to stay in Lawrence for as long as his days allow. Or at least it seems that way.