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A West Texas local and Texas Tech graduate who has procured 554 successes as a lead trainer, Mark Adams has been named the eighteenth men's b-ball lead trainer in program history Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt reported on April 6, 2021.

An aide and partner lead trainer inside the program in the course of the last five seasons, Adams has succeeded at each level where he has recorded a 554-244 vocation record over his 23 seasons as a lead trainer. His rundown of achievements in the course of recent years incorporates helping the program to 112 successes, making three straight NCAA Tournaments without precedent for history, winning the 2019 Big 12 ordinary season title and progressing to the 2018 Elite 8 and 2019 NCAA National Championship last.

"It's an incredible open door that I've anticipated for what seems like forever," Adams said. "To lead this program is an amazing privilege. I simply need to have an effect and make everybody pleased. We will do all that we can to win large and contend each day. To be the lead trainer of this program has been a fantasy of mine as long as I can remember."

A 1979 alumni of Texas Tech and Brownfield, Texas local who drove Howard College to the 2010 NJCAA National Championship, Adams has broad head instructing experience on his resume. His head instructing achievement incorporates Clarendon College (1981-82), Wayland Baptist (1983-87), West Texas A&M (1987-92), Texas Pan-American now Texas Rio Grande Valley (1992-97) and Howard College (2004-13). He was enlisted into the Wayland Baptist Hall of Honor in September 2017 and to the NJCAA Men's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020. He spent the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons as Tech's Director of Basketball Operations prior to returning for the 2016-17 season as the lead right hand and being elevated to relate lead trainer in 2019.

"It is a thrilling day for Texas Tech University, our b-ball program and the Red Raider Nation," Hocutt said. "Mentor Adams' experience, pride and obligation to this program and college make him the best chief to proceed with our excursion to return to Monday evening of the NCAA Tournament Championship."

Broadly viewed as one of the most amazing cautious mentors at any degree of b-ball, Adams drove Tech to the country's top guarded proficiency rating during the rush to the 2019 NCAA National Championship Final and driving the Big 12 by restricting adversaries to just 63.2 focuses per game last season. The Red Raiders, who won the 2019 Big 12 Conference customary season title interestingly program history, were second in the country by holding groups to 37.0 percent shooting, third by restricting the resistance to 59.5 focuses per game and drove the Big 12 with adversaries just shooting 29.8 percent on 3-pointers during the rush to the Final Four and the National Runner-Up finish. Tech was falling off a standard season in 2017-18 on edge end where it restricted their adversaries to 64.8 focuses per game and a 40.1 shooting rate to pace the Big 12 meeting in 2017-18. The two imprints were positioned inside the NCAA's Top 20, and it denoted the first run through in program history that Texas Tech finished the season as the Big 12 innovator in both cautious classes.

The Red Raiders have held the resistance to 60 or less focuses on 59 events in the course of the last five seasons with Adams as an associate mentor. Tech held four adversaries in the 2019 NCAA Tournament to under 60 focuses, including acquiring a 63-44 success over Michigan in the Sweet 16 and afterward a 61-51 success over Michigan State in the Final Four. The 2020-21 group restricted 13 adversaries under 60 and completed at No. 20 in changed guarded productivity, including getting a 65-53 success over Utah State in the NCAA Tournament initially round. As an aide, Adams is presently 9-3 in the NCAA Tournament at Tech and 10-4 generally.

The Red Raiders completed the 2017-18 season with a 27-10 record, the program's first NCAA Elite Eight appearance and a program-best No. 6 last positioning in the USA Today/Coaches Top 25 survey. Texas Tech likewise caught a program-greatest runner up finish in the Big 12 ordinary season and set a program single season mark with 11 Big 12 triumphs before it was bankrupt the following season.

Adams filled in as an associate mentor on Chris Beard's Little Rock staff during the 2015-16 season. The Trojans began a notable mission with 10 straight successes and got done with a 30-5 imprint. Little Rock asserted the Sun Belt ordinary season and competition titles, and the Trojans knocked off No. 12-positioned and fifth-cultivated Purdue by a 85-83 edge in twofold extra time at the NCAA Tournament. The 15-game improvement for Little Rock was tied for the NCAA's best position in 2015-16.

The Trojans were one of the country's top protective units and paced the Sun Belt meeting in focuses per game (60.8), field objective rate guard (39.5) and three-point field objective rate safeguard (30.1). Each of the three imprints were among the NCAA's Top 30 energized by 60.8 focuses per game which was fourth.

Adams drove Howard College situated in Big Spring, Texas to the 2010 NJCAA National Championship and was named the NJCAA's National Coach of the Year. The group was driven by current Utah Jazz forward and NJCAA Player of the Year Jae Crowder who arrived at the midpoint of 18.9 focuses, 9.0 bounce back, 2.5 helps and 2.4 takes under Adams in 2009-10. Crowder posted a vocation high 14.2 focuses per game with the Boston Celtics in 2015-16.

Adams recorded 233 triumphs with the Hawks from 2004-13 and progressed to the NJCAA Regional Tournament in nine sequential seasons. The 2006 group piled up a program single-season record 36 successes, and Charles Burgess concealed the NJCAA Player of the Year grant. Adams drove his groups to three meeting titles and six excursions to the provincial finals over his nine-year run.

Generally, Adams directed his groups to 14 postseason appearances and a .700 postseason winning rate as a lead trainer and arrived at the public competition of each school's separate arrangement multiple times (three NJCAA, two NCAA Division II and three NAIA). Wayland Baptist got a spot in the 1985 NAIA National Final.

"Adams has procured 15 Coach of the Year respects during his residency as a lead trainer. He additionally has caught six area, gathering or locale Coach of the Year respects over his vocation."

He and his significant other, Jennifer, are the guardians of two youngsters: Luke and Abbie. Luke was a four-year letterwinner in Tech's b-ball group from 2012-15 and is the men's b-ball lead trainer at New Mexico Junior College. His little girl Abbie likewise is a Texas Tech graduate and is filling in as a discourse language pathologist.