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Topeka Capital-Journal: KU picks up another wart in upset loss to Frogs
By Austin Meek
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
FORT WORTH, Texas — Years from now, people will tell their friends about a game between Kansas and TCU in February 2013, and no one will believe it.
Roughly 7,000 people were there to see it happen, to bear witness as the Horned Frogs pulled off the biggest upset in Big 12 history. A newspaper account now exists, which might be the only way to prove this score — TCU 62, No. 5 KU 55 — was real.
What happened Wednesday at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum defied all logical explanation. It was bizarro world, like KU stepped off the bus and into some kind of alternate dimension. Facing a TCU team that had barely held a lead in its first eight games as a Big 12 member, the Jayhawks (19-3, 7-2) simply couldn’t make a shot. The 3-pointers clanked, the floaters sailed and the free throws fell short. It was a level of offensive futility that hearkened back to the days when KU played teams like the Ottumwa YMCA, and it happened to a team that one week ago was ranked No. 1 in a major poll.
"It was the worst team that Kansas has ever put on the floor since Dr. Naismith was there," KU coach Bill Self said. ...
http://cjonline.com/sports/2013-02-06/ku-picks-another-wart-upset-loss-frogs
By Austin Meek
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
FORT WORTH, Texas — Years from now, people will tell their friends about a game between Kansas and TCU in February 2013, and no one will believe it.
Roughly 7,000 people were there to see it happen, to bear witness as the Horned Frogs pulled off the biggest upset in Big 12 history. A newspaper account now exists, which might be the only way to prove this score — TCU 62, No. 5 KU 55 — was real.
What happened Wednesday at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum defied all logical explanation. It was bizarro world, like KU stepped off the bus and into some kind of alternate dimension. Facing a TCU team that had barely held a lead in its first eight games as a Big 12 member, the Jayhawks (19-3, 7-2) simply couldn’t make a shot. The 3-pointers clanked, the floaters sailed and the free throws fell short. It was a level of offensive futility that hearkened back to the days when KU played teams like the Ottumwa YMCA, and it happened to a team that one week ago was ranked No. 1 in a major poll.
"It was the worst team that Kansas has ever put on the floor since Dr. Naismith was there," KU coach Bill Self said. ...
http://cjonline.com/sports/2013-02-06/ku-picks-another-wart-upset-loss-frogs
