The Texas Tech men’s and women’s basketball teams will eventually have a place to call their own.

After sharing courts space with each other and the volleyball program, or needing to practice elsewhere the Red Raiders and Lady Raiders will have a singular building to conduct practices, hold team meetings and other hoops business.

On Wednesday, Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt announced a $10 million lead gift from the Dusty and Leisha Womble family to The Campaign for Fearless Champions that will go toward a $23 million standalone practice facility.

"I’ve followed Tech for, you know, 40 years probably now," Dusty Womble said of what impressed him about Texas Tech head coach Chris Beard two years ago. "And he, by far, has the most talented roster that they’ve ever had. That includes (James) Dickey’s 30-2 team. And the teams that coach (Bob) Knight had. He’s gonna build a winner here. All you have to do is give him the resources he needs and some time. And he’ll make it happen."

The building, which is expected to house the men’s and women’s basketball teams, will be called the Dustin R. Womble Basketball Practice Facility and constructed west of United Supermarkets Arena.

"Dusty and Leisha are special individuals," Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt said. "Dusty and Leisha have been there through the high moments and the low moments. But never once have they wavered with their support and their commitment to generosity and wanting to provide Texas Tech athletics with the very best."

The project is part of Texas Tech’s Campaign for Fearless Champions, a fundraising campaign launched three years ago with the goal of raising $185 million. Hocutt said $12 million of the total $23 million have been raised so far.

"When you have somebody step forward with a leadership commitment like Dusty and Leisha Womble have, it provides so much momentum," Hocutt said of the lead gift Wednesday. "It encourages others to be a part of something special and the vision that we have for these basketball programs. Definitely a momentum booster and allows us to accelerate conversations that we’re having with other individuals."

The Dustin R. Womble Basketball Practice Facility is scheduled to comprise two practice courts, a strength and conditioning weight room, men’s and women’s basketball coaches’ offices as well as sports medicine and nutrition areas.

"I speak for everyone in our program in thanking Dusty Womble and his family for this generous gift to Texas Tech University and to Red Raider basketball," Beard said in a Tech news release. "This facility is a difference maker in our program and for the future of Texas Tech basketball. It will be a tremendous asset for our current and future players. The facility will be a huge asset in both recruiting and in player development. I also want to thank all our past players and our coaches for their investment in our program. We all appreciate Dusty Womble and his vision for the future of Texas Tech basketball."

Hocutt said about $140 million has been raised in the first three years when asked back in October following the ribbon cutting of the Sports Performance Center, which houses an 80-yard football practice field on the east side along with a red-banked track arena on the west separated by a 150-foot wide, 35-foot tall motor-operated airplane hangar door.

The building also houses a 7,700-square-foot strength and conditioning room on the north side along with a sports medicine center. Hocutt mentioned it back in October as being a "hub for all of our others athletic teams— from strength and conditioning workouts to sports medicine to nutritional center. The majority of our student-athletes, this will be the hub for all of their training and support needs."

In an Aug. 10 story in the Avalanche-Journal, Hocutt said the standalone basketball practice facility, south end zone building at Jones AT&T Stadium and an athletic dining hall were his highest priorities.

"We are engaged in facility design with Populous architectural firm out of Kansas City, who has extensive experience in basketball facilities," Hocutt said in August. "So we continue to work on design and layout, continue to work on fundraising. We have some exciting announcements in probably the next six to eight weeks related to that, but still significant work to do from a design standpoint and a fundraising standpoint."