SAN FRANCISCO — Grant McCasland has only been a power-conference coach for the past two seasons, but the leader of the Texas Tech basketball team continues to see his coaching tree grow.

LUBBOCK, Texas— Like most Division I athletic programs ... s hire of Jeff Linder as his new assistant coach, replacing Dave Smart. Linder and McCasland go way back; Linder was McCasland ...

This marks the second-straight year one of Grant McCasland's assistants at Texas Tech has been named a head coach since his arrival in Lubbock. Last year it was Dave Smart, who turned a year of ...