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ESPN: TCU takes big step with upset of Kansas
By Andy Katz
Trent Johnson saw the Saturday Kansas loss to Oklahoma State on tape.
He saw his TCU team every day in practice.
He wasn't about to predict a Horned Frogs upset of No. 5 Kansas prior to Wednesday's game in Fort Worth, Texas. He knew better. There may not be a coach in the country with a more transparent view of his own team than Johnson, regardless of his previous stops at Nevada, Stanford or LSU.
He knew what he had and that was a team riddled with injuries, low on talent and beaten down with eight straight Big 12 losses, all but one by double figures. Stats showed TCU was ranked in the bottom third in Division I in scoring, assists, field-goal percentage and rebounds.
"They haven't shown signs or talked about quitting," Johnson said by phone from Fort Worth late Wednesday night. "I told them that the easy thing for players to do is to blame somebody, cry to their mom and dad. We live in an environment of the quick fix. But look at our statistics coming into the game. We were god-awful. They had the opportunity to quit." ...
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/blog/_/name/katz_andy/id/8924696/tcu-horned-frogs-take-big-step-upset-kansas-jayhawks-college-basketball
By Andy Katz
Trent Johnson saw the Saturday Kansas loss to Oklahoma State on tape.
He saw his TCU team every day in practice.
He wasn't about to predict a Horned Frogs upset of No. 5 Kansas prior to Wednesday's game in Fort Worth, Texas. He knew better. There may not be a coach in the country with a more transparent view of his own team than Johnson, regardless of his previous stops at Nevada, Stanford or LSU.
He knew what he had and that was a team riddled with injuries, low on talent and beaten down with eight straight Big 12 losses, all but one by double figures. Stats showed TCU was ranked in the bottom third in Division I in scoring, assists, field-goal percentage and rebounds.
"They haven't shown signs or talked about quitting," Johnson said by phone from Fort Worth late Wednesday night. "I told them that the easy thing for players to do is to blame somebody, cry to their mom and dad. We live in an environment of the quick fix. But look at our statistics coming into the game. We were god-awful. They had the opportunity to quit." ...
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/blog/_/name/katz_andy/id/8924696/tcu-horned-frogs-take-big-step-upset-kansas-jayhawks-college-basketball
