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Texas Tech men's basketball coach Pat Knight has signed two junior college players to national letters of intent, the school announced Monday. Nick Okorie, a 6-1, 180-pound guard at South Plains College, and Darko Cohadarevic, a 6-9, 245-pound forward from Seward County Community College, will be juniors at Tech in the fall. Okorie, who is from Houston, averaged 17.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists as a sophomore at South Plains last season. Cohadarevic, who is from Belgrade, Serbia, averaged 15.4 points and eight rebounds per game as a sophomore last season at Seward County.

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April 29, 2008  09:43 AM ET
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Like father, like son I guess. At Texas Tech you kind of have to go JUCO. It's not exactly a preferred destination for hot-shot recruits.

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April 29, 2008  06:55 PM ET
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I guess it's easier than going out, finding talent, recruiting the, and then developing them to fitting into your program and philsophy!

April 29, 2008  09:00 PM ET
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Like a lot of new head coaches winning brings recruits and you do that fastest with JUCO players....look at the great rebuilding job done at Baylor....on a foundation of JUCO players...

 
April 29, 2008  09:53 PM ET
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As long as O'Reilley's is still on the sweater vest , then everything is cool.

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