You'll have to make up your own mind about whether Texas Tech coach Bob Knight explicitly or implicitly ordered a scorched-earth assault on hapless Louisiana Tech last night. If you missed the results, the Red Raiders of Lubbock humiliated the Bulldogs by 55 points, 86-31, and at one point went on a 42-1 run.

Some might feel what happened last night is an extreme reaction to Texas Tech being humiliated  last Saturday by little Centenary, but the evidence isn't conclusive. Bob Knight was on the bench coaching last night after falling ill in the Centenary game and his son, Pat Knight, was the designated head coach. And when you look at that incredible run by Texas Tech, you have to also note that Louisiana Tech missed 27 shots -- which is on the Bulldogs, not the Red Raiders.

"From our standpoint, great game for us," Pat Knight said. "We needed it. Last few days have been really tough from a staff standpoint, team standpoint, just because of what happened down in Centenary. For these kids to bounce back like this and play this well, I think, speaks a lot for them."

An interesting sidelight is that a kid on Texas Tech who scored, Tyler Hoffmeister, was the survivor in the ESPN reality show, Knight School, where a bunch of kids tried to make Knight's team as walk-ons before last season. Hoffmeister was the successful tryout and played a handful of minutes last season. Last night, he scored against Louisiana Tech and the quote from Pat Knight was interesting as it relates to ESPN.

"I think it's great too because it kind of sticks it to ESPN a little bit," Pat Knight said. "They did not think we were going to keep Tyler, and then especially didn't think we'd keep him for a second year." 

See the story we linked to above for the full quote, which does praise the player at length, but the remark makes you wonder whether everyone with whom the Knights have had the slightest disagreement are on some sort of payback list.