Duncanville (TX) senior forward Micah Peavy has been set to visit Texas Tech this fall for sometime, but now he’s moved it up a week and is expected to take an official to Raiderland this weekend. Peavy, who has already taken official visits to LSU and Michigan, is also expected to take two more to Florida and Texas in September.
Peavy’s visit lines up perfectly with Texas Tech’s football season opener Saturday afternoon at Jones AT&T Stadium, which head basketball coach Chris Beard has already stated publicly several times he’ll be attending.
The Red Raiders are considered favorites to land the four-star recruit with 75 percent of the 247Sports Crystal Ball predictions–six votes–in favor of Texas Tech. The two most recent votes are in TCU’s favor.
“I really like Tech,” Peavy told 247Sports earlier this summer. “It’s a good school. They just made it far, so that’s a good look. I mean, I keep looking at other schools and stuff.”
The 6-foot-5 forward is rated as the No. 44 prospect in the country, the No. 12 small forward in the nation and the No. 2 overall recruit in Texas for the 2020 class according to 247Sports Composite rankings, an average of the major recruiting services.
Texas Tech has a strong relationship with Peavy for several factors. For one, head coach Chris Beard has known Peavy’s father and head coach at Duncanville, David Peavy, for a long time going back as far as when Beard served as a graduate assistant for Incarnate Word when the older Peavy played there. Secondly, Texas Tech true freshman Jahmius Ramsey and Peavy teamed up to lead Duncanville to the Texas Class 6A state title last season. It’s also worth mentioning this isn’t Peavy’s first visit to Tech as he took an unofficial last fall.
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Tech has already landed one of the top forwards in the country for the 2020 class in 6-foot-7 Chibuzo Agbo, from San Diego, California. Agbo is rated as a four-star forward ranked No. 69 overall in the country, the No. 19 small forward in the nation and the No. 12 overall player in California according to 247Sports. Agbo’s commitment currently has the Red Raiders’ class sitting No. 42 nationally and No. 5 in the Big 12.
Hypothetically, using the 247Sports Class Calculator, if Peavy were to commit to Texas Tech the Red Raiders’ 2020 class would soar to No. 15 in the country and second in the Big 12 with just those two recruits on the list.
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The Red Raiders have been stacking one great class after another under coach Chris Beard. His 2017 group included NBA first round draft picks each of the past two years in Zhaire Smith and Jarrett Culver, not to mention All-Big 12 performer Davide Moretti. The 2018 class was rated No. 33 in the country and at the time was the highest rated Tech class of this century. The most recent class finished ranked 16th in the country, second in the Big 12 and is considered the best recruiting class in Red Raider basketball history.
“Recruiting here is not hard. We’ve got one of the best universities in the country,” said Beard when asked by Inside the Red Raiders about his staff’s success on the recruiting trail. “I kind of laugh when people talk about location. Location’s what makes Lubbock in my opinion one of the all-time great college towns in our country. We’ve got a great academic institution, we have caring fans, we have great facilities. I mean this is what we should be doing. We should be involved with some of the best recruits in the country and that’s what we’re striving to do.”