Texas Tech All-American JT Toppin shares why he didn't test the NBA this offseason
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Listen up. |
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| 0:27.8 | Please gamble responsibly. |
| 0:28.8 | 8 plus gambler J.T. Toppin joins us here on I on College basketball. |
| 0:49.3 | It's been a media whirlwind. How ready are you for actual games that count? |
| 0:55.0 | I'm so ready. I'm really just excited for the season. It's been a long off season, |
| 0:58.5 | so I'm just ready to get out there and play. You're ready, man. Just, you know, |
| 1:01.8 | all that's talking season, projecting, forecasting. In the locker room, you know, you guys are |
| 1:08.0 | projected top 15 team, obviously good enough to compete to win the big 12 |
| 1:11.9 | make a push we'll get to the end celebrity tournament last year but does that stuff come up a lot |
| 1:16.9 | just you know casual conversation um i think i heard you say earlier like listen our goal here is |
| 1:22.4 | is to win it all so just take us inside your locker room and how much the big picture goals in |
| 1:26.0 | march actually are discussed on a day to day or week or week-to-week basis. Really, we just take it one day at a time because that's all you could do. But really just practicing like we are the best team in the country and just doing everything, like preparing ourselves, like we're out of the best team in the country. So really just taking it day by day, being humble, keeping the work ethic, |
| 1:45.1 | because you got to work for it, and yeah, just letting the work speak for itself. |
| 1:48.4 | When you say work ethic, who taught you that or have you always had it, when did it |
| 1:53.9 | it change for you in terms of having that kind of, was it after you got to college, was it put |
| 1:58.4 | into you when you were 10 years old? Where does that stand from? I think just like going into high school and seeing all the people that was better than me, I feel like that really instilled it. Like I had to see it from myself and had to like play freshman team, play JV, like I had to work my way up. So really just high school, going to a good high school and seeing all the people that was better than me made me just hungry. Okay. When did you know, maybe it was high school, maybe it was after you got to college, but when did you know you could be as good as you are now? How old? Probably 17. Okay. Yeah, going to my senior year, I could be pretty good at at this Yeah? What's your best skill on the court? |
| 2:36.0 | I feel like my touch |
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