1954–55 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team

Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball
1954–55 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball
Border Conference regular season co-champion
Conference	Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1954–55 record	18–7 (9–3 Border)
Head coach	Polk Robison (8th season)
	Seasons ← 1953–54 1955–56 →

Last updated March 02, 2019

The 1954–55 Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball team represented Texas Tech University in the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1954–55 NCAA men's basketball season. The head coach was Polk Robison, his 8th year with the team.^[1]

Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the flagship institution of the four-institution Texas Tech University System. The university's student enrollment is the seventh-largest in Texas as of the Fall 2017 semester. The university shares its campus with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, making it the only campus in Texas to house an undergraduate university, law school, and medical school.

Polk Robison was an American collegiate basketball and football coach and college athletics administrator who served as the head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team from 1942 to 1946 and again from 1947 to 1961. He served as the university's athletic director from 1961 to 1969.

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1972–73 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team

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1964–65 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team

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1961–62 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team

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References

↑ "2009–10 Texas Tech Red Raiders Basketball Media Guide" (PDF). Texas Tech University. Retrieved 2010-01-04. ^{[ dead link ]}

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