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FWST: TCU plans to lean on double-double machine Williams one more time

BY JIMMY BURCH
jburch@star-telegram.com

NEW YORK – TCU men’s basketball coach Jamie Dixon has employed a simple but effective strategy to deal with the absence of freshman point guard Jaylen Fisher during the team’s three-game surge to Thursday’s NIT championship game: more Kenrich.

The Horned Frogs’ first-year coach plans to play the Kenrich Williams card one more time, in a big way, when TCU (23-15) meets Georgia Tech (21-15) to decide the NIT championship at 7 p.m. at Madison Square Garden. Thus far, Williams has been TCU’s postseason ace.

Williams, the Horned Frogs’ 6-foot-7 guard and double-double machine, has delivered in ways Dixon could not have imagined when the season began in November. The junior from Waco, who missed last season because of a knee surgery, also sat out the Frogs’ first two contests this year before returning to the floor after 618 days between games.

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