Kellen Buffington

Biography

Kellen Buffington is in his third season as the Texas Tech men's basketball General Manager. Buffington has helped the Red Raiders to a 51-20 record and two trips to the NCAA Tournament, including reaching the 2025 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight. One of the most respected grassroots basketball organizers in the country, Buffington arrived at Tech after founding and operating TheTB5Reports in Dallas and helped the Red Raiders advance to the 2024 NCAA Tournament in his first season. A Compton, California native, Buffington attended Paul Quin College where he earned a bachelor's in criminal justice before earning a master's degree from Concordia University in education administration. He worked as a Texas educator for 14 years within the Dallas Independent School District, Cedar Hill ISD, and Irving ISD. While operating The TB5Reports, Buffington helped identify and scout highly successful players like Mike Miles, Cade Cunningham, Anthony Black, Cason Wallace, Keyonte George and Jordan Walsh among others for NBA front offices and collegiate programs throughout the country. He also founded The Blueprint5 in 2013 which is a basketball program for young men in inner-city neighborhoods and was a juvenile detention officer for three years within the Dallas Juvenile Justice department.