Texas Tech junior Jared Thornhill was the Big 12 conference runner-up in the pole vault with a jump of 17’-00” (5.18m) in the pole vault at the conference championships at the University of Nebraska.
As a team, the Texas Tech men finished in fifth.
Texas Tech will take some of its competitors to Ames, Iowa next weekend for the Iowa State Last Chance before the team competes at the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 12-13 in Fayetteville, Ark.